KAA Gent

KAA Gent
Basic data
Surname	Koninklijke Atletiek Associatie Gent
Seat	Ghent
founding	1864 (football from 1900)
Colours	blue White
president	Ivan De Witte
Website	kaagent.be
First soccer team
Head coach	László Bölöni
Venue	Ghelamco Arena
Places	20,000
league	Division 1A
2019/20	2nd place - end of the season
home Away

The KAA Gent ( Koninklijke Atletiek Associatie Gent ) is a professional football club from Ghent, Belgium . The club was founded on January 1, 1898 and currently plays in Division 1A . The coat of arms of the stylized Sioux chief came about because around the turn of the century Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody) traveled through Europe with his western circus and also stopped in Ghent. There he kicked off a wave of enthusiasm.

The club became Belgian champions for the first time in 2015. The club won the Belgian Cup three times.

history

The KAA Gent played until the end of the 2012/13 season in the Jules Ottenstadion , which opened in 1920 and has 12,919 seats. Originally, a new stadium for the club was supposed to be completed in 2006. However, due to a delay in the issuing of the building permit, construction could not begin until March 2008. After further delays, the opening of the Ghelamco Arena was celebrated on July 17, 2013. The new home has space for 19,999 spectators. The jerseys of the club, which is also called "Buffalos", are blue and white.

From the 2008/09 season , the former Belgian world goalkeeper Michel Preud'homme coached the KAA and became the successor of the Norwegian Trond Sollied . With Preud'homme, the team won the Belgian Cup in 2010 and came third in the championship. After Michel Preud'homme announced his move to the Dutch champions FC Twente Enschede in the summer of 2010 , Franky Dury became the new coach of the KAA Gent. But after just one season he was replaced by Trond Sollied, who had coached Ghent twice in recent years.

With third place in the 2009/10 season , KAA Gent played in the 2010/11 season in qualifying for the UEFA Champions League . In the third qualifying round, the team was eliminated against the favorites Dynamo Kiev . Gent played in the play-offs for the UEFA Europa League . There was a surprise there when Feyenoord Rotterdam was switched off. KAA Gent was back in the European Cup for the first time in ten years. The team also reached the group stage of a UEFA competition for the first time .

The KAA Gent achieved the greatest success in the club's history on May 21, 2015, when they won the Belgian championship for the first time with a 2-0 win over Standard Liège . As a result, Gent was also automatically qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League the following season. As a club with the third lowest club coefficient , they were placed in pot 4 and were drawn into a group with Russian champions Zenit Saint Petersburg , FC Valencia and French runner-up Olympique Lyon . The first Champions League encounter in the club's history took place on September 16, 2015 in the home game against Lyon and ended in a 1-1 draw. After two 1: 2 defeats in Saint Petersburg and Valencia, the remaining three games of the preliminary round were won (1: 0 against Valencia, 2: 1 in Lyon, 2: 1 against Saint Petersburg), making the group stage behind Zenit in second place graduated and became the first Belgian team to enter the knockout round. There Gent was eliminated in the round of 16 against the German cup winner VfL Wolfsburg .

In the 2015/16 season they finished second in the regular round, but slipped to third place in the championship play-offs, so that the club only qualified for the third qualifying round of the 2016/17 Europa League . The group stage was reached through victories over Cork City and KF Shkëndija . Gent finished second in the group. In the Round of was Tottenham Hotspur defeated. In the round of 16 there was a purely Belgian duel against KRC Genk , where Ghent was eliminated with a total of 3: 6.

Also in the next season , the club finished the championship play-offs in third place. However, it failed in the third qualifying round for the Europa League 2017/17 at the Austrian club SCR Altach . In the 2017/18 season , the club was only able to achieve fourth place at the end of the championship play-offs. Since Standard Liège was second in the final table as a cup winner this year, fourth place was enough to reach the third qualifying round for the 2018/19 Europa League . This round was won against the Polish club Jagiellonia Białystok . In the play-off games they were eliminated against Girondins Bordeaux .

The 2018/19 season ended in fifth place in the championship play-off. After the Belgian court of arbitration ruled on 17 July 2019 for sport as a court of appeal, KV Mechelen was excluded from the first division due to the manipulation of the game KV Mechelen against Waasland-Beveren on 11 March 2018 in the 2017/18 season, among other things from the Europa League , this exclusion was confirmed by UEFA on July 18, 2019. All Belgian clubs move up for a qualification place. The last place that became vacant was taken over by the KAA Gent as the first non-qualified club, so that Gent qualified for the Europa League and played there as the first game in the second qualifying round against FC Viitorul Constanța . Gent received official approval for the Europa League a week before the first game.

Over the other qualifying rounds, the club finally reached the group stage, where it won Group I with three wins and three draws. Gent takes part in the round of 32.

After Ghent lost the first two games in the new 2020/21 season , Jess Thorup was dismissed as coach on August 20, 2020 . László Bölöni was hired as the new coach on the same day with a contract with a term of two years .

Club names

• 1864 = Société Gymnastique 1864 La Gantoise
• 1891 = Association Athlétique La Gantoise
• 1914 = Association Royale Athlétique La Gantoise
• 1971 = Koninklijke Atletiek Associatie Gent

successes

• Belgian champion (1)
  • 2015
• Belgian Cup Winner (3)
  • 1964, 1984, 2010
• Belgian Supercup (1)
  • 2015
• Belgian second division champions (2)
  • 1968, 1980

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1963/64	Exhibition cities cup	1 round	1. FC Cologne	2: 4	1: 3 (A)	1: 1 (H)
1964/65	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Preliminary round	West Ham United	1: 2	0: 1 (H)	1: 1 (A)
1966/67	Exhibition cities cup	2nd round	Girondins Bordeaux	1-0	1: 0 (H)	0: 0 (A)
		3rd round	FC Kilmarnock	1: 3	0: 1 (A)	1: 2 a.d. (H)
1970/71	Exhibition cities cup	1 round	Hamburger SV	1: 8	0: 1 (H)	1: 7 (A)
1982/83	Uefa cup	1 round	SBV Haarlem	4: 5	1: 2 (A)	3: 3 (H)
1983/84	Uefa cup	1 round	RC Lens	2: 3	1: 1 (H)	1: 2 a.d. (A)
1984/85	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Celtic Glasgow	1: 3	1: 0 (H)	0: 3 (A)
1986/87	Uefa cup	1 round	Jeunesse Esch	3: 2	2: 1 (A)	1: 1 (H)
		2nd round	Sportul Studențesc	4: 1	3: 0 (A)	1: 1 (H)
		Round of 16	IFK Gothenburg	0: 5	0: 1 (H)	0: 4 (A)
1991/92	Uefa cup	1 round	FC Lausanne Sports	1: 1 (4: 1  i.E. )	0: 1 (H)	1: 0 a.d. (A)
		2nd round	Eintracht Frankfurt	1-0	0: 0 (H)	1: 0 (A)
		Round of 16	FK Dynamo Moscow	2-0	2: 0 (H)	0: 0 (A)
		Quarter finals	Ajax Amsterdam	0: 3	0: 0 (H)	0: 3 (A)
2000/01	Uefa cup	qualification	ÍA Akranes	6: 2	3: 0 (A)	3: 2 (H)
		1 round	Ajax Amsterdam	0: 9	0: 6 (H)	0: 3 (A)
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2nd round	NK Čelik Zenica	2: 1	0: 1 (A)	2: 0 (H)
		3rd round	Werder Bremen	( a ) 3: 3(a)	3: 2 (A)	0: 1 (H)
		Semifinals	Paris Saint-Germain	1: 7	0: 0 (H)	1: 7 (A)
2002	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2nd round	St Patrick's Athletic	( a ) 3: 3(a)	2: 0 (H)	1: 3 (A)
		3rd round	Málaga CF	1: 4	0: 3 (A)	1: 1 (H)
2004	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 round	Fylkir Reykjavík	3: 2	2: 1 (A)	1: 0 (H)
		2nd round	Vardar Skopje	1: 1 (3: 4 on  account )	0: 1 (A)	1: 0 a.d. (H)
2005	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 round	Bohemians Dublin	3: 2	0: 1 (A)	3: 1 (H)
		2nd round	FC Tescoma Zlín	1-0	1: 0 (H)	0: 0 (A)
		3rd round	Valencia CF	0: 2	0: 0 (H)	0: 2 (A)
2006	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3rd round	Grasshopper Club Zurich	2: 3	1: 2 (A)	1: 1 (H)
2007	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2nd round	Cliftonville FC	6-0	2: 0 (H)	4: 0 (A)
		3rd round	Aalborg BK	2: 3	1: 1 (H)	1: 2 (A)
2008/09	Uefa cup	2nd qualifying round	Kalmar FF	2: 5	2: 1 (H)	0: 4 (A)
2009/10	UEFA Europa League	2nd qualifying round	Naftan Navapolatsk	( a ) 2: 2(a)	1: 2 (A)	1: 0 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	AS Roma	02:10	1: 3 (A)	1: 7 (H)
2010/11	UEFA Champions League	3rd qualifying round	Dynamo Kiev	1: 6	0: 3 (A)	1: 3 (H)
2010/11	UEFA Europa League	Play-offs	Feyenoord Rotterdam	2: 1	0: 1 (A)	2: 0 (H)
		Group stage	Levski Sofia	3: 3	2: 3 (A)	1: 0 (H)
			Lille OSC	1: 4	1: 1 (H)	0: 3 (A)
			Sporting Lisbon	4: 6	1: 5 (A)	3: 1 (H)
2012/13	UEFA Europa League	2nd qualifying round	FC Differdange 03	4: 2	1: 0 (A)	3: 2 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	Videoton FC	0: 4	0: 1 (A)	0: 3 (H)
2015/16	UEFA Champions League	Group stage	Olympique Lyon	3: 2	1: 1 (H)	2: 1 (A)
			Zenit Saint Petersburg	3: 3	1: 2 (A)	2: 1 (H)
			Valencia CF	2: 2	1: 2 (A)	1: 0 (H)
		Round of 16	VfL Wolfsburg	2: 4	2: 3 (H)	0: 1 (A)
2016/17	UEFA Europa League	3rd qualifying round	FC Viitorul Constanța	5-0	5: 0 (H)	0: 0 (A)
		Play-offs	KF Shkëndija	6: 1	2: 1 (H)	4: 0 (A)
		Group stage	Sporting Braga	3: 3	1: 1 (A)	2: 2 (H)
			Konyaspor	3-0	2: 0 (H)	1: 0 (A)
			Shakhtar Donetsk	03:10	0: 5 (A)	3: 5 (H)
		Round of 16	Tottenham Hotspur	3: 2	1: 0 (H)	2: 2 (A)
		Round of 16	KRC Genk	3: 6	2: 5 (H)	1: 1 (A)
2017/18	UEFA Europa League	3rd qualifying round	SCR Altach	2: 4	1: 1 (H)	1: 3 (A)
2018/19	UEFA Europa League	3rd qualifying round	Jagiellonia Białystok	4: 1	1: 0 (A)	3: 1 (H)
		Play-offs	Girondins Bordeaux	0: 2	0: 0 (H)	0: 2 (A)
2019/20	UEFA Europa League	2nd qualifying round	FC Viitorul Constanța	7: 5	6: 3 (H)	2: 1 (A)
		3rd qualifying round	AEK Larnaka	4: 1	1: 1 (A)	3: 0 (H)
		Play-offs	HNK Rijeka	3: 2	2: 1 (H)	1: 1 (A)
		Group stage	AS Saint-Etienne	3: 2	3: 2 (H)	0; 0 (A)
			FK Oleksandrija	3: 2	1: 1 (A)	2: 1 (H)
			VfL Wolfsburg	5: 3	2: 2 (H)	3: 1 (A)
		Round of 16	AS Roma	1: 2	0: 1 (A)	1: 1 (H)

Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record: 122 games, 43 wins, 31 draws, 48 ​​defeats, 147: 209 goals (goal difference −62)

Squad of the 2020/21 season

(As of July 27, 2020)

No. position Surname 1 TW Thomas Kaminski 5 FROM Michael Ngadeu 6th MF Elisha Owusu 7th ST Roman Yaremchuk 8th MF Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe 9 MF Roman Besus 10 MF Giorgi Chakvetadze 11 ST Anderson Niangbo 13 ST Giorgi Kwilitaia 14th FROM Alessio Castro-Montes 15th FROM Milad Mohammadi 17th FROM Ibrahima Cissé 18th ST Dylan Mbayo 19th MF Brecht Dejaegere 20th TW Jari de Busser 21st FROM Nana Asare 22nd MF Sulayman Marreh

No. position Surname 23 FROM Mikael Funny 24 MF Sven Kums 25th FROM Reuben Yem 26th TW Coolin Coosemans 29 ST Laurent Depoitre 30th MF Niklas Dorsch 31 FROM Bruno Godeau 32 FROM Igor Plastun FROM Deiver Machado FROM Dino Arslanagic FROM Núrio Fortuna TW Davy Roef MF Glenn Diedhiou MF Alexandre De Bruyn FROM Jordan Botaka MF Mathéo Parmentier ST Tim Kleindienst

Trainer

Term of office	Nat.	Trainer
.001989- .001993		René Vandereycken
-	-	-
.001997- .001998		Johan Boskamp
-	-	-
.002008- .002010		Michel Preud'homme
-	-	-
10.2017-10.2018		Yves Vanderhaege
10.2018- 08.2020		Jess Thorup
08.2020–		László Bölöni

Web links

• kaagent.be: Official website of the association (Dutch)
• thebelgianwaffle.co.uk: Club portrait from 2011 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Patrice Sintzen: Officiel: La Gantoise sur la scène européenne. In: sport.be. Jupiler League, July 18, 2019, accessed July 22, 2019 (French). 
2. ↑ Ainde samenwerking KAA Gent en Jess Thorup. KAA Gent, August 20, 2020, accessed on August 20, 2020 (Dutch). 
3. ^ László Bölöni nieuwe coach KAA Gent. KAA Gent, August 20, 2020, accessed on August 20, 2020 (Dutch). 
4. ↑ Squad. KAA Gent, accessed on July 27, 2020 (Dutch). 
5. ^ KAA Gent neemt afscheid van Yves Vanderhaeghe. KAA Gent, October 8, 2018, accessed on October 12, 2018 (Dutch). 
6. ↑ Jess Thorup nieuwe coach KAA Gent. KAA Gent, October 10, 2018, accessed on October 12, 2018 (Dutch).