KFC Herentals
The Koninklijke Football club Herentals was a Belgian football club from the Flemish city of Herentals . The team played a total of 21 seasons in the second class until its dissolution in 1999.
history
The club was founded in 1917 under the name Herentalschen Sport Kring and joined the Belgian Football Association in 1920 . From 1931 the team entered the nationally organized third division , in 1939 they rose to the second Belgian division . Due to the war, the game operation was delayed, which was resumed under the name FC Herentals from 1941 after a merger with the Netha Football Club Herentals , founded in 1924 and also at times in third class . Since 1951 he has been allowed to bear the royal title as Societé Royale , in the same year the club fell victim to a league reform - the second division was grouped into one season - and was one of 16 relegated teams.
In 1955 the KFC Herentals managed to return to the second highest division, but the season 1955/56 ended the club bottom of the table. After three runners-up in a row in the third division, 1961 succeeded as a season winner again in the second division. This time the club stayed in the league until 1969, after which the team - apart from a flying visit to the fourth division in the 1976/77 season - established itself in the third division. After relegated to fourth level in 1986, the club temporarily slipped into the regional amateur area, but returned in 1989 to fourth and 1993 to third division. In 1998 the club rose again to the second division, but struggled with financial problems. Although the club ended the 1998/99 season in eleventh place in the table, after the end of the season, however, it broke up. In this context, the KFC Verbroedering Geel took over part of the staff and the youth teams.
In 2000, the Voetbalclub Herentals was founded as a successor club, which also took over the Sint-Janneke Stadium as its home.