KAS Eupen

The Royal abbreviated General Sports Association Eupen, often with KAS Eupen (formerly AS Eupen ) is a Belgian football club from Eupen. He plays mainly in the Belgian Second Division and is the most successful football club in the German-speaking Community of Belgium. In the 2010/2011 season the team played in the First Division.

Team name

The "AS" in the club name stand in the establishment in 1945 of the French name Alliance Sportive ( Sports Association ). In the postwar years, the German-speaking Belgians a French designation of the association seemed appropriate. When they later a German abbreviation sought ( as Eupen is German ), were found General Sports Association fittest. We did not want to change the initials. After the AS 1995 was royal, the club name was changed to "Royal General Sports Association Eupen " (KAS Eupen ).

The mascot of the KAS Eupen is a panda bear.

History

1945-1970

The club was founded on 9 July 1945 as AS Eupen and was born from the fusion of youth and the Eupen Eupen FC 1920. The roots of the club extend over its predecessor clubs thus to the beginning of the 20th century. The club started in the 1945/1946 season from the province class out and was able to after some initial difficulties constantly struggling upwards. In the season 1969/1970 promotion to the second division Belgian succeeded.

1970-2000

1973/1974 managed the club Eupen it in the promotion round for the First Division, but had to back off after controversial refereeing decisions and remain in the second division. In the following season the AS Eupen rose from the third division. It was soon followed by a resurgence and a subsequent descent.

In 1979 the former Bundesliga player and coach Horst Witzler was appointed coach of the club. Witzler was a former Bundesliga coach and had Erstdivisionserfahrung with Sint Truiden. He secured the relegation of the club.

For the 80/81 season Claudy Chauveheid was committed as a player. As a coach or assistant coach René Lenaers and Robert Foguenne came to the club. After precipitation of two goalies, the team ended at the end of 16th place in the league. There were other coaching change: Edy Lemaire, in the season 82/83 Claude Semianov coach and as an assistant Pierrot Schmitz. On December 12, 1985, she was replaced by Horst Witzler, who once again saved the club from relegation.

Witzler should remain coach, but it was not agreed and so did Guy Raskin and increased with the AS 87/88 from the promotion. Peter Haag started training in 88/89, but resigned after four weeks, his assistant Georges Pirnay took over the fortunes and was replaced on 22 October 1988 the Yugoslavs Jovan Ćurčić. The remained until April 6, 1989, four weeks before the end of championship. Then Hubert Vandormael jumped in and saved himself the AS in the penultimate round. 1989/1990 led Patrice Broeders the team.

The season 90/91 gave the Team Andre Heymann as a trainer and Hubert Vandormael as his advisor. After 19 games, the first team was 14 points to the relegation zone, so that a new coach was sought. The choice fell on January 28, 1991 to Frank Neumann. At the end of the AS reached number 12 with 27 points. As assistant von Neumann came in 1992/93 Manfred Theissen. 94/95 took the helm as coach Toni Fagot and led the black and whites in the 3rd Division.

Since 2000

After a further decline of the club achieved in the year 2002 finally again the rise in Belgium's second highest league. The following year he was again able to play the rise, but was beaten almost. Also in the 2009/2010 season, the AS Eupen was still in the second division. It was the first time in club history that the club could take a seventh consecutive season in the second division in attack. Eupen finished the season in fourth place and qualified for the final for promotion to the first division. On 23 May 2010, in the penultimate game of the promotion round, the KAS Eupen secured with a 2-1 victory against RAEC Mons promotion to the First Division. This Eupen was the first club in the German- Belgium, which was represented in the top division.

In the first season in the First Division, the KAS Eupen started disastrously, they lost nine of the first ten games and could only get a point. On October 16, 2010, the first win was in the first division, the VV St. Truiden was defeated in the newly converted Kehrwegstadion 6-0. At the end of the season the club finished with 23 points out of thirty games the last place in the league table and thus had to make the play-offs against the bottom club Sporting Charleroi. In the next to a maximum of five games series, Eupen sat after two wins and a draw by a defeat in four games and took thus, together with the second - to fourth- placed teams from the second division in the final round of qualifying for the first division. There, the KAS Eupen remained no points in six games, an increase after only one year from the second division.

End of the 2010/11 season was Danny East coach of the KAS Eupen. This had led the club to the end of the 2009-2010 season in the premier league. Because of poor results, however, the end of August 2010, East replaced for a game by Italian Ezio Capuano and from 25 September, 2010 by the Frenchman Albert Cartier. On 3 April 2011, the club's management was surprising and well-known amid the play-off 3- phase termination of Cartier and the reinstatement of the East for the remainder of the current season. Coach of the KAS Eupen was from 2011 until his death in 2013, Wolfgang Frank.

In June 2012, it was announced that the Aspire Zone Foundation Qatar KAS Eupen has bought.

Stadium

For decades, the KAS Eupen plays in Kehrwegstadion, the largest stadium in East Belgium. It summarizes that was renovated for the first Belgian league in 2010 8.363 spectators.

Squad of the 2013/14 season

Former Players

2009–10 Belgian Second Division Sports league Angola SC Eendracht Aalst Beerschot AC Boussu Dour Borinage KFC Dessel Sport KSV Roeselare AFC Tubize R.E. Virton KVC Westerlo
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