Lierse SK
The Lierse SK ( Koninklijke Lierse Sportkring ) is a Belgian football club based in the province of Antwerp, which was founded on March 6, 1906. The club colors of the club are yellow and black. The club plays its home games at the Herman Vanderpoortenstadion in Lier from. The stadium has a capacity of 15,500 seats ( 10,200 seats, 5,300 standing).
The club won the Belgian championship four times, in 1940 and 1941, was also in an unofficial Master Lap.
The club was purchased and its debts from the Egyptian businessman Maged Samy, who also owns the Wadi Degla Sporting Club in Egypt.
The fans, as well as the inhabitants of the town of Lier, as Schapen Koppen (sheep heads) called. This goes back to a legend from the 15th century, in consequence of which the town got a stack of law for livestock.
History
Achievements
- Belgian champion ( 4) 1 1932, 1942, 1960, 1997
- Belgian Cup winners ( 2) 1969 1999
- Belgian Supercup winner ( 2) 1997, 1999
1 also twice unofficial champion in 1940 and 1941
Famous people
- Iceland Árni Arason Gautur
- Honduras Victor Bernardez
- Belgium January Ceulemans
- Filip Daems of Belgium
- Belgium Laurent Delorge
- Austria Ralph Hasenhüttl
- Belgium Carl Hoefkens
- Belgium Stein Huysegems
- Norway Mini Jakobsen
- Ivory Coast Arouna Koné
- Netherlands Stanley Menzo
- Serbia Dragan Mrđa
- Belgium Jean -Marie Pfaff
- Canada Tomasz Radziński
- Germany Uwe Rapolder
- Norway Kjetil Rekdal
- Poland Andrzej Rudy
- Belgium Axel Smeets
- Australia Archie Thompson
- France Tony Vairelles
- Belgium Erwin Vandenbergh
- Belgium Nico Van Kerckhoven
- Belgium Eric Van Meir
- Belgium Gert Verheyen
- Belgium Bernard Voorhoof
- Croatia Ognjen Vukojević
- Poland Thomas Zdebel
Women
- Ibtissam Bouharat, Moroccan national team
- Niki de Cock, Belgian national team
- Lien Mermans, Belgian national team
- Karin Stevens, Dutch national team