K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen

Lokeren

Full name

Koninklijke Sporting Club
Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen

Nickname(s)

Tricolores

Founded

22 January 1923
(creation)
1 July 2003 (last merge)

Ground

Daknamstadion,
Lokeren

Capacity

9,560

Chairman

Roger Lambrecht

Manager

Georges Leekens

League

Belgian Pro League

2014–15

8th

Home colours

Away colours

Koninklijke Sporting Club Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkoːnɪŋkləkə ˈspɔrtɪŋ ˌklʏp ˈloːkərə(n) ˌoːstˈflaːndərə(n)];^[1] often simply called Sporting Lokeren or Lokeren) is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Lokeren, in the province of East Flanders. Lokeren plays in the Belgian Pro League. The club was founded in 1923 and it first reached the first division in 1974–75. Since then, it had a short spell in the Second Division between 1993–94 and 1995–96. Lokeren had its most successful period in the 1980s, achieving second place in the league in 1980–81 as well as a Belgian Cup final the same year. Its best European result was reaching the quarter-final of the 1980-81 UEFA Cup.

In the year 2000, the club merged with K Sint-Niklase SKE They are registered to the Royal Belgian Football Association with the matricule number 282. Lokeren's colours are white, black and yellow. They play their home games at the Daknamstadion.

In 2012, Sporting Lokeren won their first prize, after beating KV Kortrijk in the Cup Final. They won their 2nd Cup in 2014 after beating Zulte Waregem with 0–1.

History

The matricule n°282 was given in 1920 to a club named Football Club Racing Club Lokeren (nicknamed Racing FC), but the team stopped its activity the next year. In 22 January 1923 Racing Club Lokeren was founded. Between 1945 and 1951, it had a slight name change (to Racing Athletiek- en Football Club Lokeren) and the new name since 1951 was Koninklijke Racing Club Lokeren. Due to financial problems, the fusion with the other team from the town (Koninklijke Standaard F.C. Lokeren) became necessary in 1970. The new club was then named Koninklijke Sporting Club Lokeren. In 2000, the club merged with Koninklijke Sint-Niklaas S.K.E. to form Sporting Lokeren Sint-Niklaas Waasland. A last name change was made in 2003.

Honours

Belgian First Division:
- Runners-up (1): 1980–81
Belgian Second Division:
- Winners (1): 1995–96
Belgian Cup:
- Winners (2): 2011–12, 2013–14
- Runners-up (1): 1980–81
Belgian Super Cup:
- Runners-up (2): 2012, 2014

European record

As of 21 August 2014.

Competition	A	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League	7	29	12	9	8	40	30
UEFA Intertoto Cup	4	18	7	2	9	25	28

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away
1976–77	UEFA Cup	1R	Red Boys Differdange	3–1	3–0
		2R	Barcelona	2–1	0–2
1980–81	UEFA Cup	1R	Dynamo Moscow	1–1	1–0
		2R	Dundee United	0–0	1–1
		3R	Real Sociedad	1–0	2–2
		QF	AZ 67 Alkmaar	1–0	0–2
1981–82	UEFA Cup	1R	Nantes	4–2	1–1
		2R	Aris Thessaloniki	4–0	1–1
		3R	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1–0	1–4
1982–83	UEFA Cup	1R	Stal Mielec	0–0	1–1
		2R	Benfica	1–2	0–2
1987–88	UEFA Cup	1R	Honvéd Budapest	0–0	0–1
1999	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2R	IA Akranes	3–1	3–1
		3R	Metz	1–2	1–0
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	B68 Toftir	0–0	4–2
		2R	Zagłębie Lubin	2–1	2–2
		3R	Newcastle United	0–4	0–1
2002	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	WIT Georgia	3–1	2–3
		2R	VfB Stuttgart	0–1	0–2
2003–04	UEFA Cup	QUAL	Dinamo Tirana	3–1	4–0
		1R	Manchester City	0–1	2–3
2005	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Narva Trans	0–1	2–0
		2R	BSC Young Boys	1–4	1–2
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	PO	Viktoria Plzeň	2–1	0–1
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	PO	Hull City	1–0	1–2
		Group	Legia Warsaw	1–0	0–1
		Group	Metalist Kharkiv	1–0	1–0
		Group	Trabzonspor	1–1	0–2

Current squad

As of 23 January 2016.

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	Copa Barry
13	GK	Davino Verhulst
16	GK	Dieter Creemers
39	GK	Bo Geens

2	DF	Joey Dujardin
3	DF	Denis Odoi
5	DF	Mijat Marić
6	DF	Arthur Henrique
15	DF	Sverrir Ingason
19	DF	Mario Tičinović
22	DF	Dario Melnjak
24	DF	Ridwan Gyselinck
25	DF	Branislav Niňaj
30	DF	João Carlos
	DF	Georgios Galitsios

No.	Position	Player
7	MF	Killian Overmeire (Captain)
8	MF	Koen Persoons
14	MF	Medhi Terki
20	MF	Joher Rassoul
21	MF	Marko Mirić
26	MF	Tjorven Melens
27	MF	Tars Notteboom
28	MF	Evariste Ngolok
50	MF	Serhiy Bolbat (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk)

9	FW	Hamdi Harbaoui
10	FW	Ayanda Patosi
17	FW	Cyriel Dessers
18	FW	Besart Abdurahimi
29	FW	Lewis Enoh
70	FW	Jajá Coelho

Managers

Guy Thys (1 July 1958 – 30 June 1959)
Frans De Bruyne (1970–71)
Armand Jurion (1971–74)
Ladislav Novák (1974–77)
Han Grijzenhout (1977–78)
Leon Nollet (1978)
Urbain Braems (1978–79)
Urbain Haesaert & Jozef Vacenovsky (1979–81)
Robert Waseige (1 July 1981–83)
Dimitri Davidovic (1 July 1983 – 30 June 1985)
Aimé Anthuenis (1985–87)
Wim Jansen & Włodzimierz Lubański (1 July 1987–88)
Aimé Anthuenis (1 July 1988–92)
Aimé Anthuenis & Jozef Vacenovsky (1992 – Jan 93)
Chris Van Puyvelde (1993–94)
Fi Van Hoof (1995 – Aug 97)
Willy Reynders (1997 – Aug 99)

R. Cossey & R. Van Geneugden (int.) (Aug 1999)
Georges Leekens (Sept 10, 1999–30 June 2001)
Paul Put (1 July 2001 – 27 Oct 2003)
Franky Van der Elst (27 Oct 2003 – 20 Dec 2004)
Slavoljub Muslin (24 May 2005 – 31 Dec 2005)
Aimé Anthuenis (1 Jan 2006 – 26 Feb 2006)
Rudi Cossey (26 Feb 2006 – 30 June 2006)
Ariël Jacobs (1 July 2006 – 29 Oct 2006)
Rudi Cossey (interim) (Nov 2006)
Slavoljub Muslin (26 Nov 2006 – 30 June 2007)
Georges Leekens (1 July 2007 – 31 March 2009)
Freddy Heirman (interim) (1 April 2009 – 7 April 2009)
Aleksandar Janković (7 April 2009 – 25 Oct 2009)
Jacky Mathijssen (25 Oct 2009 – 25 Jan 2010)
Emilio Ferrera (28 Jan 2010 – 30 June 2010)
Peter Maes (1 July 2010 –30 June 2015)
Bob Peeters (1 July 2015 – 25 October 2015)
Georges Leekens (25 Oct 2015 - )

References

↑ Vlaanderen in isolation: [ˈvlaːndərə(n)].

External links

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Official website (Dutch) / (French) / (English)
Lokeren at UEFA.COM
Lokeren at EUFO.DE
Lokeren at Weltfussball.de
Lokeren at Football Squads.co.uk
Lokeren at National Football Teams.com
Lokeren at Football-Lineups.com

First League/Pro League

2015–16 teams	Anderlecht Charleroi Club Brugge Genk Gent Kortrijk Leuven Lokeren Mechelen Mouscron-Péruwelz Oostende Sint-Truiden Standard Liège Waasland-Beveren Westerlo Zulte Waregem

Competition	Teams (winners) Top scorers Current managers Belgian Golden Shoe

Championship Cup (1895–1904)	1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04

First Division (1904–1926)	1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26

Division of Honour (1926–1952)	1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52

First Division (1952–1993)	1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93

Belgian League (1993–2008)	1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08

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

Football in Belgium

Royal Belgian Football Association

National teams

League system

Men	Pro League Second division Third division (A, B) Fourth Division (A, B, C, D) Belgian Provincial leagues

Women	Super League Vrouwenvoetbal First Division Second Division Third Division BeNe League (2012-2015, with the Netherlands)

Domestic cups

Men	Belgian Cup Belgian Super Cup Belgian League Cup (defunct)

Women	Belgian Women's Cup BeNe Super Cup (2012-2015, with the Netherlands)

Awards

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