KV Mechelen

KV Mechelen

Full name	Yellow Red Koninklijke Voetbalclub Mechelen
Nickname(s)	The Yellow Reds, Malinois, Malinwa, De Kakkers
Founded	1904
Ground	Argosstadion Achter de Kazerne (Capacity: 13,213)
Chairman	Johan Timmermans
Manager	Marc Brys
League	Belgian Pro League
2010–11	Belgian Pro League, 7th Group A Europa League Playoff, 3rd
Home colours Away colours

Yellow Red Koninklijke Voetbalclub Mechelen^[1] (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɛ.loː ˈrɛt ˈkoː.nɪŋk.lə.kə ˈvud.bɑl.ˌklʏp ˈmɛ.xə.lə(n)]) (often simply called KV Mechelen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkaː ˈveː ˈmɛxələ(n)]) or KV (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkaː ˈveː]), or by their former French naming FC Malinois), is a Belgian professional football club based in Mechelen in the Antwerp province. KV Mechelen plays in the Belgian Pro League. They have won 4 Belgian championships and 1 Belgian Cups, as well as the 1987-88 European Cup Winners' Cup. They collected all of their honours in the 1940s and in the 1980s.

KV Mechelen was founded in 1904 and, in 1921–22, promoted to the first division. After two successive relegation and promotion, they were back for good between 1928–29 and 1955–56. In the 1960s and 1970s, the club had several promotions and relegations between the first and second division. From 1983–84 to 1996–97, they had a successful first division spell, with a title and several 2nd and 3rd place finishes. During that period, they also won a European Cup Winners' Cup and they reached the same competition semi-finals as well as the European Cup quarter finals. KV Mechelen eventually declined in the late 1990s, though they had two more spells at the highest level from 1999–2000 to 2000–01 and in 2002–03. At the end of that season, the club did not receive their Belgian professional football license, and so they were relegated to the third division with a 9-point penalty. After two consecutive promotions in 2004–05 and in 2006–07, KV Mechelen has come back to the first division.

The club outfits are a striped yellow and red shirt with black shorts and socks. They play their home matches at the Argosstadion Achter de Kazerne, where Argos is their stadium sponsor and Achter de Kazerne means 'Behind the Barracks'. The stadium has been named so because there used to be barracks next to stadium. KV Mechelen fans have a long-standing rivalry with KRC Mechelen.

History

The club was founded in 1904, a few months after the birth of city rival KRC Mechelen. The club had a first successful period in the 1940s. During World War II, in 1943, the club won their first domestic title. The second title came a few years later, in 1946, and in 1948 the club was successful again. After that, the club fell back. In 1954, they managed to finish third, only one point behind champions RSC Anderlecht, but that was their last good season. Two years later, Mechelen was relegated to second division. During the 60s and the 70s, Mechelen went up and down between the first and second division. The club enjoyed a brief spell of both domestic and European success in the period of 1987–1990. They are now today still the last Belgian team that won a European cup. KV Mechelen seemed to be on its way to becoming one of the top clubs in Belgium, but quickly declined when their chairman Cordier (who owned the rights to most of their players) was forced to sell many players due to his company's bad results. On June 10, 2007, the team achieved promotion to the Belgian First Division. Two years later in 2009, KV Mechelen played the finale of the Belgian Cup, losing it 2–0 to KRC Genk. One year after that, they stranded in the semi finale with a 2–2 draw and a 1–0 loss against KAA Gent. After a successful 2010 and four seasons for the yellow reds, coach Peter Maes decided to leave Malinwa and signed a four year contract with Sporting Lokeren. Malinwa made a deal with Marc Brys to take over from Maes. Marc Brys was coach of FC Den Bosch, a second division team in the Netherlands.

Honours

• Belgian First Division:
  • Winners (4): 1942–43, 1945–46, 1947–48, 1988–89
• Belgian Second Division:
  • Winners (6): 1925–26, 1927–28, 1962–63, 1982–83, 1998–99, 2001–02
• Belgian Second Division Final Round:
  • Winners (2): 1981, 2007
• Belgian Third Division:
  • Winners (1): 2004–05
• Belgian Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1986–87
• European Cup Winners Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1987–88
• European Super Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1988
• Joan Gamper Trophy:
  • Winners (1): 1989

European record

As of December, 2008.

Competition	Apps	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA
UEFA Champions League	1	6	2	3	1	9	3
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	2	17	13	3	1	26	8
UEFA Cup	4	14	3	5	6	14	15
UEFA Super Cup	1	2	1	0	1	3	1

Matches

• R = round
• Group = group stage / Group 1 = first group stage / Groep 2 = second group stage
• 1/8 = eighth finals / 1/4 = quarter-finals / 1/2 = semi-finals
• F = final

Season	Competition	Round		Club	Home	Away	Neutral
1987–88	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		Dinamo Bucureşti	1–0	2–0
		2R		St. Mirren	0–0	2–0
		QF		Dinamo Minsk	1–0	1–1
		SF		Atalanta	2–1	2–1
		F		Ajax			1–0
1988	UEFA Super Cup	F		PSV	3–0	1–0
1988–89	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		Avenir Beggen	5–0	3–1
		2R		Anderlecht	1–0	2–0
		QF		Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	0–0
		SF		Sampdoria	2–1	0–3
1989–90	UEFA Champions League	1R		Rosenborg	5–0	0–0
		2R		Malmö FF	4–1	0–0
		QF		Milan	0–0	0–2 (AET)
1990–91	UEFA Cup	1R		Sporting CP	2–2	0–1
1991–92	UEFA Cup	1R		PAOK	0–1	1–1
1992–93	UEFA Cup	1R		Örebro	2–1	0–0
		2R		Vitesse	0–1	0–1
1993–94	UEFA Cup	1R		IFK Norrköping	1–1 (AET)	1–0
		2R		MTK Hungária	5–0	1–1
		3R		Cagliari	1–3	0–2

Summary of best results

European Cup/UEFA Champions League:

- quarter-finalists in 1990

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:

- winners in 1988

- semi-finalists in 1989

UEFA Super Cup:

- winners in 1988

Current squad

As of 11 September, 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 1 GK Clint Alliet 3 DF Boris Pandža 4 MF Seth de Witte 5 DF Kenny van Hoevelen 6 MF Bjarni Viðarsson 7 MF Boubacar Dialiba 8 DF Xavier Chen 9 MF Jonathan Wilmet 10 MF Abdul-Yakuni Iddi 11 FW Kevin Vandenbergh 12 FW Jaime Alfonso Ruiz 14 MF Liroy Zhairi 15 MF Julien Gorius

No. Position Player 16 MF Kevin Geudens 17 FW Denis Alibec (on loan from Internazionale) 18 MF David Destorme 19 MF Maxime Biset 20 GK Wouter Biebauw 21 DF Anthony Van Loo 22 MF Robin Henkens 23 GK Olivier Renard 25 FW Pan Pierre Koulibaly 26 DF Antonio Ghomsi 27 MF Jonas Laureys 29 MF Alessandro Cordaro 30 MF Sérgio Oliveira (on loan from FC Porto)

For recent transfers, see List of Belgian football transfers summer 2011.

Out on loan

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 1 GK Yannick Thoelen (at Lommel) 2 DF Jérémy Huyghebaert (at Roeselare) 13 MF Tom Pietermaat (at Rupel Boom) 22 DF Romeo van Dessel (at Antwerp)

Notable players

Argentina Rubén Marcelo Gómez Australia Zlatko Arambašić Hayden Foxe Austria Gerhard Breitenberger Ralph Hasenhüttl Marko Vujić Belgium Philippe Albert Mathieu Boots Tom Caluwé Daniel Camus Issame Charaï Thomas Chatelle Lei Clijsters Alexandre Czerniatynski Alain de Nil Glen De Boeck Paul de Mesmaeker Eddy Dierickx Marc Emmers Patrick Goots Wouter Goris Dimitri Habran Yvan Hoste Dirk Huysmans Kristof Imschoot Kevin Kempeneer Víctor Lemberechts Guy Léonard Walter Meeuws Kenny Moras Marvin Ogunjimi Tom Peeters Michel Preud'homme Steven Ribus Koenraad Sanders Francis Severeyns Rudi Smidts Paul Theunis Joos Valgaeren Wesley Vanbelle Birger Van de Ven Yves Van Der Straeten Ivo van Herp Joris Van Hout Julien van Puymbroeck Sven Vermant Bruno Versavel Patrick Versavel Mike Verstraeten Bjorn Vleminckx Jos Volders Stijn Vreven Olivier Werner Marc Wilmots Bosnia Marijo Dodik Burundi Juma Mossi Canada Garret Kusch Cameroon Jean-Jacques Missé-Missé Patrice Noukeu Côte d'Ivoire Patrice Kobenan Tano Congo Jean-Paul Boeka-Lisasi

Czech Republic Roman Vonášek Denmark Søren Hermansen Johnny Mølby Birger Pedersen Democratic Republic of Congo Patrick Kanene Jean-Paul Kielo-Lezi Christian Landu-Tubi Roger Lukaku Antoine Nlandu-Masunda Muscal Mvuezolo Egypt Mohamed El Yamani England Johnny Parke John Talbut Georgia Revaz Arveladze Germany Wilhelm Reisinger Toni Schumacher Ghana Theophilus Amuzu Nana Asare Emmanuel Bansah Young George Blay Francis Engmann Daniel Okyere Greece Christos Moucas Guinea Ousmane N'Gom Camara Louceny Doumbouya Drissa Diallo Hungary Denes Eszenyi Florian Urban Israel Eli Ohana Italy Antonio Caramazza Japan Masahiro Endo Macedonia Aleksandar Bajevski Antonio Filevski Vančo Micevski Morocco Nacer Abdellah Netherlands Milan Berck Beelenkamp John Bosman Dave de Jong Piet den Boer René Eijkelkamp Wim Hofkens Erwin Koeman Graeme Rutjes Job Sueters Martijn van Galen Eric Viscaal Nigeria Tosin Dosunmu Peru José del Solar Luis Guadalupe

Poland Łukasz Kubik Waldemar Prusik Romania Lucian Ilie Rwanda João Elias Fritz Emeran Saïd Makasi Désiré Mbonabucya Benoit Mukoko Jimmy Mulisa Hamad Ndikumana Serbia Miloš Adamović Ersin Mehmedović Spain Augustin Lopez-Ruiz Swaziland Dennis Masina Sweden Kennet Andersson Klas Ingesson Togo Kossi Lambrechts Tunisia Anis Boussaidi Turkey Semih Osman Serbest Jordan Abdullah Deeb

References

1. ^ INFO EN CONTACT (Dutch)

External links

• (Dutch) Official website
• (Dutch) Fanclub website
• KV Mechelen at UEFA.COM
• KV Mechelen at EUFO.DE
• KV Mechelen at Weltfussball.de
• KV Mechelen at Playerhistory.com
• KV Mechelen at Transfermarkt.de
• KV Mechelen at Football Squads.co.uk
• KV Mechelen at National Football Teams.com
• KV Mechelen at Football-Lineups.com