RFC Union Kelmis

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RFCU Kelmis
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Basic data
Surname Royal Football Club Union La Calamine
Seat Kelmis , Belgium
founding 1923
Colours Green white
president Vincent Hubert
Website rfcu.be
First soccer team
Head coach Alexandre Di Gregorio
Venue Prince Philippe Stadium
Places 4,000
league Provincial class 1
2018/19 15th place (relegation)
(3rd Division B)
home
Away

The Royal Football Club Union La Calamine , RFCU Kelmis for short, is a Belgian football club from Kelmis . He currently plays in the sixth class provincial class 1 and for many years was the second most successful football club in the German-speaking community of Belgium after KAS Eupen .

history

Since its inception in 1923, the RFCU Kelmis has spent most of its time in the provincial classes of Liège amateur football. It was not until the 1960s that the promotion to promotion (fourth Belgian league and lowest league at national level) was achieved for the first time. After having even slipped back into the 2nd provincial class (7th division) in the meantime, greater success was only to be achieved after the Kelmis entrepreneur Egide Sebastian took over the presidency in the early 1990s. In the 2003/04 season, the club was promoted to the 3rd Division B for the first time and was able to hold out there for five seasons before it went back to promotion for two years. Since the 2011/12 season, the club was even third-rate. After relegation, you will only play in the fifth-class 3rd Division B in the 2018/19 season, from which you will be ranked 15th in the summer of 2019. had to enter the Liège provincial class.

Track record

In 2004 and 2011, the club was champion in Promotion D (4th Belgian league) and thus rose to the 3rd division. At the end of the 2005/06 season they could celebrate the best placement in the club's history with 3rd place in 3rd Division B. Including the 2017/18 season, the RFCU has so far spent a total of 26 seasons in national leagues (eight in the 3rd division B and fourteen in the promotions A, C and D).

Seasons and placements at national level

number season Division Final placement Remarks
1 1966/67 PhD A 7/16
2 1967/68 Doctorate D 12./16
3 1968/69 Doctorate D 16./16 descent
Provincial class
4th 1975/76 PhD C 10./16
5 1976/77 PhD C 16./16 descent
Provincial class
6th 1995/96 PhD C 8/16
7th 1996/97 PhD C 10./16
8th 1997/98 Doctorate D 5th / 16th
9 1998/99 PhD C 16./16 descent
Provincial class
10 2000/01 PhD C 16./16 descent
Provincial class
11 2002/03 Doctorate D 9./16
12 2003/04 Doctorate D 1./16 Championship & promotion
13 2004/05 3rd Division B 11./16
14th 2005/06 3rd Division B 3rd / 16th Despite qualifying, the club is not allowed to take part in the promotion round because it has not submitted a license application for the 2nd division.
15th 2006/07 3rd Division B 13./16
16 2007/08 3rd Division B 14./15 Relegation secured only through participation in the play-off
17th 2008/09 3rd Division B 16./16 descent
18th 2009/10 PhD C 10./16
19th 2010/11 Doctorate D 1./16 Championship & promotion
20th 2011/12 3rd Division B 10./18
21st 2012/13 3rd Division B 7/19
22nd 2013/14 3rd Division B 8/18
23 2014/15 3rd Division B 10./18
24 2015/16 3rd Division B 15./19 Relegation because of the new league reform
25th 2016/17 Division 2 amateur 9./16
26th 2017/18 Division 2 amateur 15./16 descent
27 2018/18 Division 3 amateur x./16

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information about the association ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ FuPa: table 2018/2019. In: FuPa. FuPa, June 30, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019 .