Stade lions
Royal Stade Löwen was a Belgian football club from the Flemish city of Leuven . The team, which rose in 2002 after financial problems at Oud-Heverlee Löwen, played one season first and 33 seasons second.
history
The club was founded in 1903 and based on the naming of a football team of the same name that had previously existed for a short time. In November of that year, he joined the Belgian Football Association . From 1909, the team, which appeared in the club colors green and white, took part in the organized game operations and entered the second highest division . In the 1920s and 1930s only playing third-rate at times, the club was permanently in the second division from 1935 and only narrowly missed the rise in the first class in the 1943/44 season as runner-up in Group B behind the RFC Liège . After another runner-up in the 1946/47 season behind Sporting Charleroi , the club rose at the end of the 1948/49 season as a season winner in front of the KFC Beringen in the first division . Here the team had no chance in the 1949/50 season with only four wins of the season and four away points and rose again as bottom of the table together with KVV Lyra .
In 1953 Stade Löwen was relegated to the third class and in 1958 to the fourth class. There she played for a while to get promoted before the club was passed through to regional amateur football in the 1970s. At the end of the decade, an upswing followed, which led the club back to the second division for the 1981/82 season and there to sixth place in the table. After relegation in 1983, the team played second class again between 1988 and 1991, then they commuted between third and fourth division. At the beginning of the 2000s, the club discussed a merger with local rival Daring Club Löwen, who was also plagued by financial problems, at the urging of the city of Leuven. The up-and-coming local rival Football Club Zwarte Duivels Oud-Heverlee , who had recently been promoted to the third division, got involved. Ultimately, the strengths were pooled there, so Stade Löwen dissolved in the summer and dissolved in the new club, which was henceforth called Oud-Heverlee Löwen and whose coat of arms is reminiscent of the three merger clubs: the black of the Zwarte Duivels Oud-Heverlee, the red of the Daring Club and the green of Stade.