K Kontich FC

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K Kontich FC
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Basic data
Surname Koninklijke Kontich Football Club
Seat Kontich , Belgium
founding 1941 (as Kontich AC)
1942 (merger with Groeninghe Sport to form Kontich FC)
Colours Red Yellow
president Wim Claes
Website kkontichfc.be
First soccer team
Head coach Peter Schrauwen
Venue Sports complex De Nachtegaal
Places 2500
league P1 Anvers (first provincial league)
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The Koninklijke Kontich Football Club or K Kontich FC or KFC Kontich for short is a football club from the Belgian city ​​of Kontich . The club officially founded in 1942 with registration number 3029 was created through the merger of the two teams Groeninghe Sport and Kontich Boys and plays its home games in the football stadium of the De Nachtegaal sports complex in Kontich.

history

The beginnings of the club

At the end of the 1930s, the city of Kontich, which belongs to the greater Antwerp area, had two well-known football teams: Groeninghe Sport and the Kontich Boys . Both were organized in the Antwerps Liefhebbersverbond , an amateur association, and often met in derbies. With the beginning of the western campaign during the Second World War , Belgium was also massively attacked by the German Reich . In order to escape the misery of the war and the prisoner-of-war camps, gaming operations, which had been shut down in the meantime, were resumed and a new club was founded in June and July 1941 with the Kontich AC . From the Royal Belgian Football Association , the new club subsequently received the registration number 3029. A year later, the Konticher Mayor Albert Apers joined the initiative (1870-1942), the still existing football team Groeninghe Sport the club and merged with this for Kontich Football Club , in short Kontich FC . July 1, 1942 is given as the official founding date. During the Second World War, the team then appeared in the third provincial league and made promotion to the second provincial league in the 1943/44 season.

First promotion to a national league

After eight seasons in this league, the team managed a renewed promotion as undefeated champions in 1952/53 and moved into the first provincial league. This meant that the team was only one step away from a national league. As early as 1946 and 1947, after the game had been suspended for a longer period towards the end of the war, Kontich FC was just about to rise. Just one season later (1953/54) Kontich managed direct promotion to the national leagues; At a game in Heist-op-den-Berg , the promotion to the next higher division was fixed in front of around 4,000 spectators. After that, the club completed seven seasons in the fourth highest soccer league in the country before winning the championship title in the 1960/61 season and celebrating promotion to the third highest soccer league in Belgium. The team competed against clubs such as K Boom FC , KVC Willebroek-Meerhof , KRC Mechelen , KVV Lyra and K Tubantia Borgerhout VK .

Soon return to the province and decades of journey between provincial leagues 1 and 3

Even in the years of fourth division, Kontich FC was always at the top of the table and had barely missed promotion to the third division in 1956/57. In the third division, however, the team was not represented for long; after only one season was relegated to the fourth division; In 1965, Kontich FC, accompanied by sporting and financial difficulties, fell back to the provincial ranks. Subsequently, the men's team of the club played for decades between the first and third provincial leagues and failed to penetrate a national football league. In 1967/68 the men's team was relegated to the second provincial league and was one of the leading teams there until 1973/74, although they did not make it back to the first provincial league. Also in 1973/74 Kontich FC was able to secure the Antwerp Provincial Cup; a modest ray of hope in the club's turbulent history in recent years. At the end of the 1975/76 season, relegation to the third provincial league marked another low point in the history of the football club founded in the 1940s.

After a renewed rise, the club had to struggle again with financial problems, which was made even worse by the resignation of the entire club management. In order to save the club, which was about to collapse, Mayor Marus Kempenaers appointed a new board of directors and subsequently acted as the club's president and chairman of the board. It was mainly thanks to the sponsors that the club could still be kept alive. With the sporting situation, the financial situation also improved; In 1981 Kontich FC managed to return to the second provincial league and was back in the first provincial league in 1983. The successes remained largely in the following seasons, however, so that the club from Kontich was still in the 1980s on the second provincial league to the third provincial league (1988/89).

50 years of Kontich FC and return to a national league

On April 26, 1992 - according to other sources already on July 10, 1991 - the club was awarded the honorary title Koninklijke ( English : Royal ) by the Belgian Football Association due to its 50th anniversary , which the club was allowed to use before its club name ( Koninklijke Kontich Football Club ). In the same year, another club from Kontich was incorporated into K Kontich FC with the amateur club Kontich Sport . Already in the season after the integration of the other club, they were promoted to the second provincial league. Only a few years later, in the 1995/96 season, he returned to the highest provincial league. It was not until the turn of the millennium that the club from the province of Antwerp found its way back into a national league after 35 years. With the way to the higher divisions, they tried to professionalize the club as much as possible, but this led to financial problems in the long run and in 2005/06 to return to the provincial leagues. Until then, the men's team was mostly represented in the middle of the table of the fourth highest soccer league in the country and even ranked first in the table in the first round of the 2005/06 season, making the team a potential candidate for promotion. The second round of the season turned out to be a complete failure; As the 14th of 16 teams, K Kontich FC had slipped to a relegation zone and had to return to the province after six years at the national level.

Between provincial league 1 and 2

Another three years later, the club had to make their way to the second provincial league in the 2008/09 season. Until the 2016/17 season, when the club found its way back to the highest provincial league, the team played sometimes quite mixed seasons in the second highest provincial league. Since the promotion in the 2016/17 season, the men's team is now represented in the first provincial league of Antwerp (as of January 2, 2020).

Second men's team and youth

In addition to the men's team of K Kontich FC playing in the first provincial league, the latter also has a second team competing in the third provincial league (as of January 2, 2020).

Furthermore, all junior teams are trained by the club. In the 2019/20 season these are: (As of January 2, 2020)

  • U6
  • U7 Geel
  • U7 Rood
  • U8 Geel
  • U8 Rood
  • U9 Geel
  • U9 Rood
  • U10
  • U11 Rood
  • U12
  • U13 Geel
  • U13 Rood
  • Ladies U13a
  • Dames U13b
  • U15 Geel
  • U15 Rood
  • U17 Geel
  • U17 Rood
  • U21

Women's soccer

K Kontich FC has had a women's soccer team since 1967, which has undergone numerous name changes and various joint ventures and mergers in the course of its existence, especially since the 2010s . With the commissioning of a women's football league by the Belgian Football Association in the 1971/72 season, Kontich FC started playing with its team in that same season.

Since 2014, the team has appeared again under the name K Kontich FC or Kontich FC and has its game operations in the Belgian second division (as of January 2, 2020).

In addition, there are also a second and a third women's team with play in the first and third provincial leagues, as well as the aforementioned girls' youth teams (as of January 2, 2020).

Venue

The football stadium belonging to the De Nachtegaal sports complex , which seats around 2500 spectators, serves as the venue for K Kontich FC and its entire teams . Before the opening of the sports complex, the club appeared on a separate square.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sportcomplex De Nachtegaal on europlan-online.de, accessed on January 2, 2020

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