F.C. Verbroedering Dender Eendracht Hekelgem

FCV Dender EH

Full name	Football Club Verbroedering Dender Eendracht Hekelgem
Founded	1935
Ground	Florent Beeckmanstadion, Denderleeuw (Capacity: 8,157)
Chairman	Patrick De Doncker
Head Coach	Vital Borkelmans
League	Belgian Second Division
2009–10	13th
Home colours Away colours

Football Club Verbroedering Dender Eendracht Hekelgem, also simply known as Dender or Verbroedering Dender, is a Belgian association football club based in Denderleeuw. The club is named after former clubs KFC Denderleeuw Eendracht Hekelgem and Verbroedering Denderhoutem, which merged at the end of the 2004–05 season, and after the river Dender, which crosses the town of Denderleeuw. The home stadium of the club is Florent Beeckmanstadion in Denderleeuw. Their best league ranking was the 15th place in the first division (in 2007–08 and 2008–09). The club colours are red, blue and black.

History

Verbroedering Denderhoutem was founded in 1935^[1] and registered to the Royal Belgian Football Association in 1943. They first reached the Promotion (4th-highest level in Belgian football) in the 1980s.^[2] After several relegations and promotions in the provincial leagues and Promotion, the club finally reached the third division in 1998–99. They remained at that level except for one season in 2003–04 when they played in the Promotion. After one season back at the third level, Denderhoutem merged with fellow club KFC Denderleeuw EH from the third division.

Verbroedering Dender won consecutively the third division A title (in 2005–06) and the second division title (in 2006–07), to reach the first division in 2007–08 for the first time in their history. They achieved promotion after beating Dessel 0–2 on the second division's 33rd match day on 13 May 2007. They finished at the 15th place in 2007–08 and again in 2008–09, though the club was relegated at the end of the 2008–09 season because the number of clubs in the first division was reduced from 18 to 16.

Honours

• Belgian Second Division:
  • Winners (1): 2006–07
• Belgian Second Division Final Round:
  • Runners-up (1): 1997–98
• Belgian Third Division A:
  • Winners (1): 2005–06

Players

Current squad

As of 28 August 2011

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Maxim Aerts GK Aron De Raes GK Thomas Goossens GK Tom Vandenbossche DF Wouter Artz DF Niels De Loof DF Bram De Ly DF Cor Gillis DF Fouad Moucheron DF Osman Serbest DF Dwight Wille MF Enzo Bellia MF Mohammed Bengali MF Jens De Paepe

No. Position Player MF Sam Devinck MF Joren Dom MF Jonas Droessaert MF Philippe Janssens MF Jens Muylaert MF Tanguy Poncé MF Mickaël Tirpan MF Daan Vaesen FW Janis Coppin FW Gunter Thiebaut FW Laurens Vandenheede FW Dylan Voets FW Jorgo Waeghe

Notable former players

• Dieter Wittesaele
• Sulejman Smajić

References

1. ^ "Belgian football clubs history". http://users.skynet.be/pluto/Textbelgium/Teams.html. Retrieved January 30, 2011. 
2. ^ "Dender history". fcvdendereh.be. http://www.fcvdendereh.be/page/6/De_geschiedenis_van_FCV_Dender_EH/. Retrieved January 30, 2011. 

External links

• (Dutch) Official Website
• FCV Dender at UEFA.COM
• FCV Dender at EUFO.DE
• FCV Dender at Weltfussball.de
• FCV Dender at Playerhistory.com
• FCV Dender at Transfermarkt.de
• FCV Dender at Football Squads.co.uk
• FCV Dender at National Football Teams.com
• FCV Dender at Football Lineups.com