K. Sint-Truidense V.V.

Football club infobox
clubname = Sint-Truidense

| fullname = Koninklijke Sint-Truidense
Voetbalvereniging
nickname = "De Kanaries" (The Canaries)
founded = February 23, 1924 (creation)
June 13, 1924 (registration)
ground = Staaienveld, Sint-Truiden
capacity = 12,491
chairman = flagicon|BEL Roland Duchâtelet
manager = flagicon|BEL Guido Brepoels
league = Belgian Second Division
season = 2007-08
position = Jupiler League, 17th
"(relegated)"
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K. Sint-Truidense V.V. is a Belgian football club located in the city of Sint-Truiden, Limburg (Belgium). Its matricule is the number 373. Its most capped player for the Belgium national football team is Odilon Polleunis (20 caps between 1968 and 1971, all when he was at Sint-Truiden). The club has been in the Jupiler League since the 1994-95 season.

History

The club was created in 1924 following the merger between F.C. Union and F.C. Goldstar, two clubs from Sint-Truiden. The colors of the club were chosen to be yellow and blue, the colors of the city, and it was named Sint-Truidense Voetbal Vereeniging. The first game of the team, against Cercle Tongeren, was played in front of 9 attendees. In the late 1930s, Léopold Appeltans was the leading player of Sint-Truidense. He became on November 21, 1948 the first capped player for Belgium while playing at this club. In the late 1940s it qualified for the second division. It also changed its name to Sint-Truidense Voetbalvereniging in 1947 and it made a final addition to it in 1952. Five years later it finished second of the second division and thus played the next season in the first division. The then few known manager Raymond Goethals arrived at Sint-Truiden in 1959. Under his management, the team finished second of the top division in 1966.

The former Sint-Truidense goalkeeper Jacky Mathijssen became the manager of the club in 2001 and remained at the helm for three seasons after which he left for Charleroi. He was replaced by Marc Wilmots, soon fired. The team finished the season under the coaching of the trio Guy Mangelschots, Eddy Raymaekers and Peter Voets. At the end of the 2004-05 season the board of directors hired Oostende manager Herman Vermeulen but he was fired on February 9, 2006 as the club pointed at the seventeenth position in the ranking.

In 2008 the women's team of FCL Rapide Wezemaal joined STVV.

Current squad

Transfers 2008/2009

"In:"

"Out:"

Noted players

*1960s: Odilon Polleunis, Eddy Lievens
*1970s: Alfred Riedl (1972)
*1980s: Jong-Wong Park, Wilfried Van Moer
*1990s: Marc Wilmots, Anders Nielsen, Gunther Verjans, Peter Van Houdt, Patrick Goots, Gaëtan Englebert, Mladen Rudonja, Peter Delorge
*2000s: Danny Boffin, Désiré Mbonabucya, Michaël Goossens

Noted managers

*1950s: Raymond Goethals (1959)
*1980s: Wilfried Van Moer
*1990s: Barry Hulshoff
*2000s: Jacky Matthijssen, Marc Wilmots

Honours

*Belgian First Division:
**Runners-up (1): 1965-66
*Belgian Second Division:
**Winners (2): 1986-87, 1993-94
**Runners-up (1): 1956-57
*Belgian Cup:
**Runners-up (2): 1970-71, 2002-03
*Belgian League Cup:
**Winners (1): 1997-98

European record

:"As of March 5, 2006:"

References

*nl icon [http://www.stvv.com Official website]
*en icon [http://www.uefa.com/footballEurope/Club=52883/domestic.html UEFA page]