S.V. Zulte Waregem

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Zulte Waregem
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Full name Sportvereniging
Zulte Waregem
Nickname(s) Essevee
Founded 1950 (creation)
July 1, 2001 (merge)
Ground Regenboogstadion,
Waregem
Capacity 8,500
Chairman Willy Naessens
Manager Francky Dury
League Jupiler League
2005-06 Jupiler League, 6th
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S.V. Zulte Waregem is a Belgian football club based in Waregem, West Flanders. The club is a product of the 2001 fusion between Zultse V.V. and K.S.V. Waregem, a former first division regular. They won the 2004-05 second division, gaining promotion to the Jupiler League.

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[edit] History

Zulte Sportief was founded in 1950 and directly became a member of the national association (matricule n° 5381). The club Zultse V.V. (with the same matricule) was started after the 1976 merger between Zulte Sportief and S.K. Zulte. In 2001, the team merged with K.S.V. Waregem, who had played in the first division for many years. No team from Zulte ever achieved promotion to the second division before S.V. Zulte Waregem in 2002. Zultse V.V., though, gained access to the third division in 1995. The club finished 14th out of 16 for two seasons and was relegated the second time after the playoff.

In 1999, the season in which it came back, Zultse finished 4th in this division. Two years later, the new club became champion of the 3rd division A. The registered office of Zulte Waregem lies in Zulte but the club is based in the stadium of K.S.V. Waregem in Waregem and the red and white colours of K.S.V. Waregem prevail!

The club got a chance to shine on the European stage during the 2006/07 season, reaching the Round of 32 of the UEFA Cup, facing off against English club Newcastle United, although they lost 4-1 on aggregate.

[edit] Stadium

Zulte Waregem plays its home matches at the Regenboogstadion, which means Rainbow Stadium in Dutch. The stadium used to be the home of K.S.V. Waregem until the withdrawal of the club. It has 6,800 seats, with a full capacity of 8,500. The field is surrounded by a track. The Regenboogstadion does not meet UEFA's requirements for hosting UEFA Cup games, so Zulte Waregem's home games in the 2006-07 competition are being played at the home of K.A.A. Gent. [1]

[edit] Current squad

As of January, 2007:

No. Position Player
1 Flag of Belgium GK Pieter Merlier
2 Flag of Belgium DF Stijn Minne
4 Flag of Belgium DF Stefan Leleu (captain)
5 Flag of France DF Loris Reina
6 Flag of Belgium MF Ludwin Van Nieuwenhuyze
7 Flag of Belgium FW Tim Matthys
8 Flag of Belgium MF Tony Sergeant
9 Flag of France MF Matthieu Verschuere
10 Flag of Belgium MF Stijn Meert
12 Flag of Belgium DF Tjörven De Brul
13 Flag of Belgium DF Bart Buysse
No. Position Player
15 Flag of Belgium DF Nathan D'Haemers
16 Flag of Belgium MF Wouter Vandendriessche
17 Flag of Belgium MF Lander Van Steenbrugghe
18 Flag of Nigeria FW Tosin Dosunmu (on loan from AS Nancy)
19 Flag of Belgium MF Jonas Vandermarliere
20 Flag of Cameroon MF Sébastien Siani (on loan from RSC Anderlecht)
21 Flag of Belgium GK Geert De Vlieger
22 Flag of France DF Frédéric Dindeleux
24 Flag of Belgium DF Karel D'Haene
25 Flag of Belgium GK Sammy Bossut

[edit] Players out on loan

No. Position Player
-- Flag of Belgium FW Gunther Thiebaut (at Dender EH)

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UEFA Cup 2006-07
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Quarter-Finals
Flag of Netherlands AZ | Flag of Germany Bayer Leverkusen | Flag of Portugal SL Benfica | Flag of Spain Espanyol | Flag of Spain Osasuna | Flag of Spain Sevilla |
Flag of England Tottenham Hotspur | Flag of Germany Werder Bremen

Eliminated in Round of 16
Braga | Celta Vigo | Lens | Maccabi Haifa | Newcastle United | Paris Saint-Germain | Rangers | Shakhtar Donetsk |

Eliminated in Round of 32
AEK | Ajax | Blackburn Rovers | Bordeaux | CSKA Moscow | Dinamo Bucharest | Fenerbahçe 
Feyenoord (expelled) | Hapoel Tel Aviv | Livorno | Nancy | Panathinaikos | Parma | Spartak Moscow | Steaua | Zulte-Waregem
Eliminated in Group Stage
Austria Wien | Auxerre | Basel | Beşiktaş | Club Brugge | Eintracht Frankfurt | Grasshoppers | Heerenveen | Liberec | Mladá Boleslav | Odense | Palermo | Partizan | Rapid Bucureşti | Sparta Prague | Wisła
Eliminated in First Round
Achna | Artmedia | Atromitos | Åtvidaberg | Brøndby | Chievo | Chornomorets | CSKA Sofia | Derry City | Dinamo Zagreb | Groningen | Hearts | Hertha Berlin | Iraklis | Kayserispor | Legia | Levadia | Litex | Lokomotiv Moscow | Lokomotiv Sofia | Marseille | Molde | Nacional da Madeira | Pasching | Rabotnički | Randers | Red Star | Rubin | Ružomberok | Salzburg | Schalke | Sion | Slavia Prague | Standard Liège | Start | Trabzonspor | Vitória Setúbal | West Ham United | Xanthi | Zaporizhzhya
Jupiler League, 2006/07

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Football in Belgium, 2006-07
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