KVV Lyra
| KVV Lyra | |
| Full name | Koninklijke Voetbal Vereniging Lyra |
| place | Lier , Belgium |
| Founded | 1909 |
| Dissolved | 1972 |
| Club colors | |
| Stadion | Lyra Stadium |
| Top league | 1st division |
| successes | Champion of the season 1931/32 in the 2nd division , final of the Belgian Cup 1934, champion of the season 1942/43 in the 2nd division |
The Koninklijke Voetbal Vereniging Lyra , often abbreviated to KVV Lyra or K Lyra , was a Belgian football club from the Flemish city of Lier . The team played twelve seasons first and 28 seasons second.
history
The club was founded in 1909 under the name Turn en sport Vereniging Lyra and joined the Belgian Football Association the following year . The team quickly established itself in regular game operations and played second-rate from 1913 , but in the 1913/14 season they only escaped relegation through a 1-0 win over Excelsior FC Hasselt from direct relegation. As a result, the club became a fixture in the second division, in the seasons 1927/28 and seasons 1928/29 , he just missed promotion to the first division as third in the table .
As champions of the 1931/32 season , TSV Lyra was promoted to the Division d'Honneur and was sixth and seventh in the table in the early years. Since 1934 he has been allowed to bear the royal title as Societé Royale , after which the club changed its name to Koninklijke Maatschappij Lyra . The following year, the team reached the final of the Belgian Cup , but this was lost to the Daring Club de Bruxelles with 2: 3. After only six wins this season, the team rose to the second division at the end of the 1937/38 season . After the game business came to a standstill due to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the club entered the unofficial championship 1940/41 under the name K Lyra, among other things. After rising again in 1943, the team missed relegation in the 1943/44 season. When playing again in 1945, the club was offered to play again in the Division d'Honneur, but the club waived and continued to play in the second division. Here the team won their season in front of the KRC Mechelen and thus rose again to the first class, from which the club relegated after four seasons. 1953 succeeded again the rise, the season 1953/54 ended the climber, however, in the last place in the table.
In 1961 KVV Lyra was relegated to the third division , as runner-up behind Sint-Niklase SKE , the team just missed the return to the second division in the 1963/64 season. In 1971 the soccer team split off as KVV Lyra from the rest of the club, after relegation to fourth division at the end of the following season, it merged with Lierse SK to Lierse SV, which renamed itself Lierse SK in 1982. Opponents of the merger founded the Lyra Turnen Sportvereniging in May 1972 , which continues to use the KVV stadium with the Lyra Stadium and from 2000 played at times in third class.