KFC Verbroedering Geel

The Koninklijke Football Club Verbroedering Geel or shortly KFC Verbroedering Geel was a Belgian football club from the Flemish city of Geel.

History

The KFC Verbroedering Geel was founded in 1912. Twelve years later, the club joined the Belgian Football Association and received the 1926 student number 395 Société Royale gave the club - like any long-term existing club - 1960 the additional name Royal. In 1999 the club merged with KFC Herentals, but retained the student number in and also changed its name to continue under the same name. Since 2008, the bankruptcy Verbroedering Geel -Meerhout regarded as symbolic, but not official successor of the association.

The club colors were blue and white. The home games were played in Leunenstadion, which has a capacity of 10,000 spectators.

League membership and achievements

The footballers of the club played until the early 1940s, only in the lower regional leagues. In 1942, she went first to the second division and missed there in second place behind the KVV Lyra a renewed rise. After relegation from the second division in 1950 the club was active again until 1985 at the regional level. Fourteen seasons the club was then in the second division and rose to the 1999/2000 season for the first time in the first division. In Belgium's top flight, the club was represented a season and increased with only 28 points directly off again. After that, the club was in the second division until 2006, but then increased from the third. From there, tried and failed to re- climb and it was followed by a final season in professional football, 2008, the bankruptcy.

Well-known former players and coaches

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