KFC Diest
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| Surname | Koninklijke Football Club Diest |
| Seat | This |
| founding | 1909 |
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The Koninklijke Football Club Diest is a Belgian football club from the Flemish city of Diest . The team played nine seasons first-rate and 29 seasons second-rate, but is currently only active in regional amateur football.
history
The club was founded in 1909 under the name Hooger Op Diest Football Club and joined the Belgian Football Association in the same year . Initially, the team played on the regional Limburg level, in 1931 they rose for the first time in the nationally organized third division . In the meantime only active in the regional area again, the club rose again in 1944. Because of the Second World War , however, football was suspended, so that the team only played third-rate from 1945. As a result of a league reform in which the participating teams were reduced, the club rose again in 1947. In 1948 the club merged with local rivals Standaard Athletiek Diest to form Football Club Diest , and since 1953 it has been allowed to bear the royal title as Societé Royale .
1956 began the rise of the club, which rose after the fourth division championship in the following year as a third division champion for the first time in the second Belgian division . In the first year only the goal quotient saved from direct relegation, but already in the 1960/61 season the team dominated the series with 93 goals this season and rose three points ahead of second RCS Bruges in the first Belgian league . There the club was placed in the middle of the table at times, but at the end of the 1964/65 season he rose from bottom of the table together with promoted Royale Union Saint-Gilloise again. After five years in the second division, he repeated the second division championship in the 1969/70 season and remained first class for the next five years. At that time, Miroslav Pavlović also played a participant in the 1974 World Cup finals at the club. Subsequently, the team established itself as a second division, only in the season 1987/88 was it third class for one season.
In 1988 KFC Diest merged with FC Assent to form the Koninklijke Tesamen Hogerop Diest . At the end of the 1995/96 season , the club said goodbye to the bottom of the table again from the second division, followed in 2002 by the fall in the fourth and 2005 in the fifth division. In 2006, the club returned to the name KFC Diest after being downgraded in the league pyramid associated with bankruptcy .