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Roderick Duchâtelet

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ23908063 ↗
Source-derived summary

Roderick Duchâtelet (born 1972) is a Belgian businessman, the previous president of Újpest FC. His father, Roland Duchâtelet, is the seventh richest man in Belgium.

Business activities

On 19 October 2011, Roderick purchased the 95% of stakes of the Hungarian association football club Újpest FC. Roderick was the director and stakeholder of Germinal Beerschot until 2010.

Family

Duchâtelet's wife, Anna Duchatelet, His father, Roland Duchâtelet was the stakeholder of Standard de Liège.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 2011, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Roderick, Duchâtelet and Open-knowledge can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Roderick Duchâtelet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.