KV Mechelen

KV Mechelen
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Full name	Yellow Red Koninklijke; Voetbalclub Mechelen
Nickname(s)	The Yellow Reds,; Malinois, Malinwa, De Kakkers
Founded	1904
Ground	AFAS-stadion Achter de Kazerne
Capacity	13,213
Chairman	Johan Timmermans
Manager	Aleksandar Janković
League	Belgian Pro League
2014–15	Belgian Pro League, 9th
Home colours	Away colours

Yellow Red Koninklijke Voetbalclub Mechelen^[1] (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɛloː ˈrɛt ˈkoːnɪŋkləkə ˈvudbɑlˌklʏp ˈmɛxələ(n)]) (often simply called KV Mechelen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkaː ˈveː ˈmɛxələ(n)]) or KVM, 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 four Belgian championships and one Belgian Cup, as well as the 1987-88 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 1988 European Super 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 1999–00 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 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 Anderlecht, but that was their last good season. Two years later, Mechelen was relegated to second division. During the 1960s and the 1970s, Mechelen went up and down between the first and second division.

The club enjoyed a spell of both domestic and European success in the period of 1987–92. During these 5 seasons, Mechelen won one Belgian championship and one Belgian cup title. They also finished 2nd in the Belgian league twice and lost the Belgian cup final twice. After winning the domestic cup title in 1987, and hence qualifying for the European Cup Winners' Cup, they completed the extraordinary achievement of winning this tournament in 1988. Mechelen are the last Belgian team that has won a European trophy.

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 10 June 2007, the team achieved promotion to the Belgian First Division. Two years later in 2009, KV Mechelen played the final of the Belgian Cup, losing it 2–0 to KRC Genk. One year after that, they stranded in the semi-finals 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. After two seasons he was sacked and Harm Van Veldhoven was appointed for the 2012–13 season. Van Veldhoven also could not lead KV Mechelen to Play-off 1, the clubs' recent unspoken ambition. He was fired in December 2013. At the end of the 2013–14 season KV Mechelen appointed Aleksandar Janković as head coach.

Honours

Domestic

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

International

European Cup Winners Cup:
- Winners (1): 1987–88
European Super Cup:
- Winners (1): 1988
Joan Gamper Trophy:
- Winners (1): 1989
Amsterdam Tournament:
- Winners (1): 1989

European record

As of December, 2008.

Competition	A	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
European Cup / UEFA Champions League	1	6	2	3	1	9	3
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	2	17	13	3	1	26	8
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League	4	14	3	5	6	14	15
UEFA Super Cup	1	2	1	0	1	3	1

A = appearances, GP = games played, W = won, D = drawn, L = lost, GF = goals for, GA = goals against.

Matches

Q = qualification round
PO = play-off
R = round
Group = group stage / Group 1 = first group stage / Group 2 = second group stage
1/8 = eighth finals / 1/4 = quarter-finals / 1/2 = semi-finals
F = final

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Score
1987–88	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Dinamo Bucureşti	1–0, 2–0
		2R	St. Mirren	0–0, 2–0
		1/4	Dinamo Minsk	1–0, 1–1
		1/2	Atalanta	2–1, 2–1
		F	Ajax	1–0
1988	UEFA Super Cup	F	PSV	3–0, 0–1
1988–89	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Avenir Beggen	5–0, 3–1
		2R	Anderlecht	1–0, 2–0
		1/4	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0, 0–0
		1/2	Sampdoria	2–1, 0–3
1989–90	European Cup	1R	Rosenborg	5–0, 0–0
		2R	Malmö FF	4–1, 0–0
		1/4	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

(2 cups)

European Cup/UEFA Champions League:

- Quarter-finalists in 1990

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1):

- Winners in 1988

- Semi-finalists in 1989

UEFA Super Cup (1):

- Winners in 1988

Current squad

As of 27 August 2015

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

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Jean-François Gillet
2	DF	Laurens Paulussen
3	DF	Vladimir Volkov
4	DF	Seth de Witte
5	DF	Mourad Satli
7	MF	Tim Matthys
8	MF	Randall Leal
9	FW	Dalibor Veselinović
10	MF	Rafał Wolski
11	MF	Mats Rits
12	MF	Steven De Petter
15	DF	Edin Cocalić
17	FW	Jens Naessens
18	DF	Alexander Corryn
19	MF	Cedric Mingiedi

No.	Position	Player
20	MF	Joachim Van Damme
27	FW	Jordy Peffer
28	GK	Anthony Swolfs
30	FW	Jordi Vanlerberghe
31	DF	Yan De Maeyer
32	GK	Colin Coosemans
34	MF	Mohamed Zeroual
44	MF	Ibrahima Cissé
49	GK	Anthony Moris
77	MF	Glenn Claes
94	MF	Sofiane Hanni
99	FW	Nicolas Verdier
--	DF	Xavier Chen
--	DF	Aleksandar Bjelica

For recent transfers, see List of Belgian football transfers summer 2013.

Out on loan

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

No.		Position	Player
6		DF	Sheldon Bateau (at Krylia Sovetov)

Managers

Oliver Gaspar (1960–64)
András Dolgos (1965–68)
Piet Teughels (1968–70)
Keith Spurgeon (1969–70)
Staf Van den Bergh (1970–75)
André Bollen (1975–77)
John Talbut (1977–78)
Piet Teughels (1979)
Nedeljko Bulatović (1979–81)
Kamiel Van Damme (1981–82)
Leo Canjels (1982–85)
Ernst Künnecke, Aad De Mos (1985–86)
Aad De Mos (Feb 1, 1986 – June 30, 1989)
Ruud Krol, Fi Van Hoof (July 1, 1989 – Jan 14, 1990)
Fi Van Hoof (1990–91)
Georges Leekens (July 1, 1991 – June 30, 1992)
Fi Van Hoof (1992–94)

Walter Meeuws (July 1, 1994 – Aug 1, 1995)
Walter Meeuws, Willy Reynders (1995–96)
Willy Reynders, Georges Heylens (1996–97)
Franky Vercauteren (1997 – June 30, 1998)
Rudy Verkempinck, Gunther Jacob & Valère Billen (1998–99)
Gunther Jacob (1999–00)
L. Clijsters, V. Billen & B. Hulshoff (July 1, 2000 – June 30, 2001)
Barry Hulshoff, Fi Van Hoof (2001–02)
Stéphane Demol, Alex Czerniatynski (Nov 30, 2002 – June 30, 2003)
Alex Czerniatynski (2003–04)
Rik Vande Velde, Živica Kanački (July 1, 2004 – Jan 25, 2005)
André Wetzel, Živica Kanački (2005 – June 30, 2006)
Peter Maes (July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2010)
Marc Brys (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2012)
Harm van Veldhoven (July 1, 2012 – Dec 30, 2013)
Frank Vercauteren (Jan 5, 2014 – May 5, 2014)
Aleksandar Janković (May 8, 2014–)

Chairmen history

Date	Name
1904–06	Théophile Delvaulx
1906–51	Francis Dessain
1951–77	Patrick Dessain
1977–82	Herman Candries
1982–92	John Cordier

Date	Name
1992–94	Willy Dussart
1994–97	Jef De Graef
1997–02	Willy Van den Wijngaert
2003	Mark Uytterhoeven
2003–	Johan Timmermans

References

↑ INFO EN CONTACT (Dutch)

External links

[1] INFO EN CONTACT (Dutch)

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Belgian Pro League (2008–present)	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

KV Mechelen

Contents

History

Honours

Domestic

International

European record

Matches

Summary of best results

Current squad

Out on loan

Managers

Chairmen history

References

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