Royal Antwerp

This article is about the football club Royal Antwerp. For the hockey club, see Royal Antwerp (hockey club) .

Royal Antwerp
Basic data
Surname	Royal Antwerp Football Club vzw
Seat	Antwerp , Belgium
founding	September 1, 1880
Colours	Red White
president	Paul Gheysens
Website	royalantwerpfc.be
First soccer team
Head coach	Ivan Leko
Venue	Bosuil Stadium
Places	15,402
league	Division 1A
2019/20	4th place - end of the season
home Away Alternatively

The Royal Antwerp Football Club vzw , commonly known in the German-speaking countries as Royal Antwerp , more rarely FC Antwerp , is a football club from the Belgian city ​​of Antwerp .

history

The club was founded on September 1, 1880, making it the oldest football club in Belgium, which earned it the nickname "The Great Old". 1993 Royal Antwerp reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup . However , the Antwerp team lost the final played in London's Wembley Stadium 3-1 against Italian representatives AC Parma . This makes Royal Antwerp the last Belgian club to reach a final in a European competition.

Royal Antwerp has been working with Manchester United since 1998 . Young, mostly non-European talents often first gain match experience at Royal Antwerp.

Royal Antwerp has played in the Bosuil Stadium since 1923, which currently has 16,144 seats. This was built in place of the Broodstraat stadium , where the club had played its games since 1908.

In recent years the RAFC has been represented in the second division . The four-time Belgian champion has been back in Division 1A since 2017 . For this, László Bölöni was hired as the new coach for two years. At the end of the regular round, Antwerp finished 8th. In the following play-off round you could not qualify for a European competition.

Due to this placement, the contract with Bölöni was extended until summer 2020. In the following season , Antwerp finished in 6th place at the end of the regular round, but was able to improve to 4th place within the championship play-off. As a result, the club played in the Europa League play-off final against the winner of the play-off 2B Sporting Charleroi .

After a 3-2 win in this game, Antwerp was athletically eligible for the 2nd qualifying round for the Europa League . After the Belgian court of arbitration ruled on 17 July 2019 for sport as a court of appeal, KV Mechelen was excluded from the first division due to the manipulation of the game KV Mechelen against Waasland-Beveren on 11 March 2018 in the 2017/18 season, among other things from the Europa League , this exclusion was confirmed by UEFA on July 18, 2019. All Belgian clubs moved up to a qualifying place. Antwerp thus had a starting place in the third qualifying round of the Europa League.

In mid-May 2020, the association decided not to extend the expiring contract with Bölöni. A few days later, Ivan Leko was signed as coach until the end of the 2021/22 season.

Squad of the 2020/21 season

(As of August 16, 2020)

No. position Surname 1 TW Alireza Beiranvand 2 FROM Ritchie De Laet 3 FROM Matheus Borges 4th FROM Abdoulaye Seck 5 MF Birger Verstraete 6th FROM Simen Juklerød 7th MF Didier Lamkel Ze 8th MF Pieter Gerkens 8th MF Ivo Rodrigues 11 MF Lior Refaelov 12 FROM Moustafa Luete Ava Dongo 14th MF Nill De Pauw 15th MF Frank Boya 17th FROM Seal Quirynen 18th FROM Martin Hongla 19th MF Kōji Miyoshi 20th MF Sander Coopman

No. position Surname 21st FROM Dylan Batubinsika 22nd MF Bruny Nsimba 25th MF Alexis De Sart 28 ST Benson Manuel 29 MF Egor Nazaryna 30th FROM Aurélio Buta 33 MF Louis Verstraete 38 MF Faris Haroun 40 FROM Júnior Pius 46 TW Jean Butez 49 ST Ruben Geeraerts 61 TW Bill Lathouwers 64 FROM Dragan Lausberg 70 ST Dieumerci Mbokani 71 TW Before that, Matijas 99 ST Jonathan Bolingi MF Nill De Pauw

successes

• Belgian champion (4)
  • 1929 , 1931 , 1944 , 1957
• Belgian Cup Winner (3)
  • 1955, 1992, 2020
• Finalist of the European Cup Winners' Cup (1)
  • 1993

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1957/58	European Champions Cup	1 round	real Madrid	1: 8	1: 2 (H)	0: 6 (A)
1964/65	Exhibition cities cup	1 round	Hertha BSC	3: 2	1: 2 (A)	2: 0 (H)
		2nd round	Athletic Bilbao	0: 3	0: 2 (A)	0: 1 (H)
1965/66	Exhibition cities cup	1 round	Glentoran FC	4: 3	1: 0 (H)	3: 3 (A)
		2nd round	CF Barcelona	2: 3	2: 1 (H)	0: 2 (A)
1966/67	Exhibition cities cup	1 round	Union Luxembourg	2-0	1: 0 (A)	1: 0 (H)
		2nd round	FC Kilmarnock	2: 8	0: 1 (H)	2: 7 (A)
1967/68	Exhibition cities cup	1 round	Goztepe Izmir	1: 2	1: 2 (H)	0: 0 (A)
1974/75	Uefa cup	1 round	SK Sturm Graz	( a ) 2: 2(a)	1: 2 (A)	1: 0 (H)
		2nd round	Ajax Amsterdam	(a)2: 2 ( a )	0: 1 (A)	1: 2 (H)
1975/76	Uefa cup	1 round	Aston Villa	5: 1	4: 1 (H)	1: 0 (A)
		2nd round	Śląsk Wrocław	2: 3	1: 1 (A)	1: 2 (H)
1983/84	Uefa cup	1 round	FC Zurich	8: 3	4: 1 (A)	4: 2 (H)
		2nd round	RC Lens	4: 5	2: 2 (A)	2: 3 (H)
1988/89	Uefa cup	1 round	1. FC Cologne	3: 6	2: 4 (H)	1: 2 (A)
1989/90	Uefa cup	1 round	Levski Sofia	4: 3	0: 0 (A)	4: 3 (H)
		2nd round	Dundee United	6: 3	4: 0 (H)	2: 3 (A)
		3rd round	VfB Stuttgart	2: 1	1: 0 (H)	1: 1 (A)
		Quarter finals	1. FC Cologne	0: 2	0: 2 (A)	0: 0 (H)
1990/91	Uefa cup	1 round	Ferencváros Budapest	1: 3	0: 0 (H)	1: 3 a.d. (A)
1992/93	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Glenavon FC	1: 1 (3: 1  i.E. )	1: 1 (A)	1: 1 a.d. (H)
		2nd round	FC Admira / Wacker	7: 6	4: 2 (A)	3: 4 a.d. (H)
		Quarter finals	Steaua Bucharest	( a ) 1: 1(a)	0: 0 (H)	1: 1 (A)
		Semifinals	Spartak Moscow	3: 2	0: 1 (A)	3: 1 (H)
		final	AC Parma	0: 1	0: 1 in London
1993/94	Uefa cup	1 round	Marítimo Funchal	4: 2	2: 0 (H)	2: 2 (A)
		2nd round	SV Austria Salzburg	0: 2	0: 1 (A)	0: 1 (H)
1994/95	Uefa cup	1 round	Newcastle United	2:10	0: 5 (H)	2: 5 (A)
2019/20	UEFA Europa League	3rd qualifying round	Viktoria Plzen	( a ) 2: 2(a)	1: 0 (H)	1: 2 a.d. (A)
		Play-offs	AZ Alkmaar	2: 5	1: 1 (A)	1: 4 a.d. (H)

Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record : 59 games, 18 wins, 14 draws, 27 defeats, 75:94 goals (goal difference −19)

player

Vic Mees (1939–1945) youth, (1945–1964) player, Karl Kodat (1971–1977) Louis Pilot (1972-1975) Alexandre Czerniatynski (1981–1982, 1989–1993)

Hans-Peter Lehnhoff (1987–1994) Ralf Geilenkirchen (1988–1990) Nico Claesen (1988-1992, 1994-1996)

Trainer

A chronological overview of the club's coaches since 1973:

Term of office	Nat.	Trainer
.001973- .001976		Guy Thys
-	-	-
.001984- .001985		Arie Haan
-	-	-
.001995- .001996		László Fazekas
.001996- .001998		Georg Keßler
-	-	-
.002004		Marc Grosjean
-	-	-
.002013– .002014		Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
07 0/ 2014– 6/2015		Richard Stricker
07 0/ 2015– 6/2016		David Gevaert
07.2016-11.2016		Fred Vanderbiest
10.2016-11-2016		David Gevaert
11.2016– 06.2017		Win de Decker
07.2017- 06.2020		László Bölöni
07.2020–		Ivan Leko

Web links

• royalantwerpfc.be: Official website (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ soccerlens.com: Manchester United's Royal Antwerp Success Story
2. ↑ royalantwerpfc.be: stadium capacity (Dutch)
3. ↑ Laszlo Boloni nieuw aan het roer als hoofdtrainer. Royal Antwerp, June 16, 2017, retrieved on May 26, 2019 (Dutch). 
4. ↑ contractverlenging voor coach Boloni. Royal Antwerp, August 31, 2018, accessed May 26, 2019 (Dutch). 
5. ↑ Patrice Sintzen: Officiel: La Gantoise sur la scène européenne. In: sport.be. Jupiler League, July 18, 2019, accessed July 22, 2019 (French). 
6. ↑ Laszlo Boloni Verlaat na 3 seizoenen the great old. Royal Antwerp, May 14, 2020, accessed May 15, 2020 (Dutch). 
7. ↑ Ivan Leko coming 2 senior trainers from RAFC. Royal Antwerp, May 20, 2020, accessed May 21, 2020 (Dutch). 
8. ^ Royal Antwerp - First Team Squad
9. ↑ L'Antwerp confirme Wim De Decker comme T1. RTBF, November 21, 2016, accessed on October 14, 2019 (French).