KFC Verbroedering Geel
The Koninklijke Football Club Verbroedering Geel or KFC Verbroedering Geel for short was a Belgian football club from the Flemish city of Geel .
history
The KFC Verbroedering Geel was founded in 1912. Twelve years later, the club joined the Belgian Football Association and was given matriculation number 395 in 1926. The Société Royale gave the club - like any long-term club - the addition of Koninklijke in 1960 . In 1999 the association merged with the KFC Herentals , but kept the matriculation number and continued to operate under the same name. Since the bankruptcy in 2008, the Verbroedering Geel-Meerhout has been a symbolic, but not official, successor to the association.
The club colors were blue and white. The home games were played in the Leunenstadion , which has a capacity of 10,000 spectators.
League affiliation and achievements
The club's footballers played exclusively in lower regional leagues until the early 1940s. In 1942 they rose to the second division for the first time and missed a renewed promotion to second place behind KVV Lyra . After relegation from the second division in 1950, the club was active again at the regional level until 1985. The club was then in the second division for fourteen seasons and was promoted to the first division for the first time in the 1999/2000 season . The club was represented for one season in Belgium's top division and was relegated directly with just 28 points. After that, the club was in the second division until 2006, but then rose to the third. From there, the direct resurgence and it followed after a last season in professional football 2008 bankruptcy.
Trainer
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Paul Put (1998-2000) -
Stéphane Demol (2001-2002)
player
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Bart Goor (1986–1992), youth, (1992–1996) player,
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Filip Daems (1989–1995) youth, (1995–1998) player,