The Belgium men's national football team, nicknamed the Red Devils, played its first official match against France in Brussels, a 3–3 draw. The Royal Belgian Football Association had been founded nine years earlier. Belgium won the Olympic football tournament on home soil in Antwerp in 1920, in a final that ended when Czechoslovakia left the pitch in protest. The team reached the semifinals of the 1986 World Cup, finished runner-up at the 1980 European Championship, and achieved its best World Cup result in 2018, taking third place. A so-called golden generation including Eden Hazard, Kevin De Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku helped Belgium to reach the top of the FIFA ranking from 2015 to 2018.
Before and after
- 1904Founding of Bayer 04 Leverkusen
- c. 1904Birth of Umm Kulthum
- 1904Construction of Hungarian Parliament Building
- 1904Rise of Fauvism
- 1904Founding of Belgium men's national football team
- 1904Herero and Nama genocide
- 1904Rise of Young Bosnia
- 1904Origins of Thelema
- 1904Origins of Enduro
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