KFC Beringen

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The Koninklijke Beringen Football Club , often abbreviated to K. Beringen FC or in German-speaking countries KFC Beringen , was a Belgian football club from the municipality of Beringen . The club, which existed until 2002, played a total of 25 first-rate seasons and 18 second-rate seasons.

history

The club was founded in 1924 under the name Cercle Sportif Kleine Heide , and in June 1925 the club officially registered with the Belgian Football Association under the name Beeringen Football Club . In 1936 the club rose for the first time in the supra-regional area and from then on played in third class . There, the club was in 1944 champion, because of war-related interruption of the club only played in the first post-war season 1945/46 in the periods League . In the season 1948/49 still in group A runner-up behind Stade Löwen succeeded in the following season in group B before Lierse SK the relay victory associated with the promotion to the first division.

In the following years, the KFC Beringen was an elevator team between the top division and second division, until the renewed promotion to the first division in 1962, the club was represented a maximum of two seasons in the respective division. The club then established itself temporarily in the highest league, in the 1963/64 season it was runner-up behind RSC Anderlecht . The team could not confirm the success and played against relegation towards the end of the 1960s, at the end of the season 1969/70 they finally occupied a relegation zone together with AS Ostend KM . In 1972 the club rose again as second behind Berchem Sport , but in the following ten years the relegation battle was again in the foreground. The renewed relegation in 1982 was followed by direct promotion, but as bottom of the table, the team again missed relegation.

The KFC Beringen also played in the second division against relegation, from 1988 the club was only third and from 1996 only fourth. In 2002, the financially troubled club merged with the local rival Koninklijke Voetbal Vereniging Vigor Beringen, founded in 1913 and also playing fourth class at the time, to become Koninklijke Voetbal Kring Beringen , who was relegated to regional football in the following years.