KV Mechelen

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

18,500

Chairman

Johan Timmermans

Manager

Yannick Ferrera

League

Belgian First Division A

2016–17

Belgian First Division A, 4th

Website

Club website

Home colours

Away colours

Yellow Red Koninklijke Voetbalclub Mechelen^[1] (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɛloː ˈrɛt ˈkoːnɪŋkləkə ˈvudbɑlˌklɵp 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 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. They were thus 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 Racing 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 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. Despite Janković's inability to lead the club to Play-off 1, Janković left for topclub Standard Liège and Mechelen had to appoint a new manager. The club ended up choosing Yannick Ferrera for the vacant job, who had just been fired as manager of Standard Liège.

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

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	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 19 July 2017 ^[2]

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

No.	Position	Player
2	DF	Laurens Paulussen
3	MF	Ahmed El Messaoudi
4	DF	Seth De Witte
5	DF	Uroš Vitas
6	MF	Rob Schoofs
7	MF	Tim Matthys
8	MF	Randall Leal
9	FW	Nicklas Pedersen
10	MF	Yohan Croizet
11	MF	Mats Rits
15	DF	Edin Cocalić
16	DF	Aleksandar Bjelica
17	MF	Dimitris Kolovos

No.	Position	Player
21	MF	Sotiris Ninis
22	DF	Elias Cobbaut
26	GK	Colin Coosemans
27	FW	Boureima Bandé
28	GK	Anthony Swolfs
29	DF	Jules Van Cleemput
34	MF	Mohamed Zeroual
47	FW	Andy Kawaya
49	GK	Anthony Moris
55	MF	Željko Filipović
63	DF	Faycal Rherras
77	MF	Glenn Claes
99	FW	Stefan Dražić

For recent transfers, see List of Belgian football transfers summer 2016.

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		MF	Ljuban Crepulja (at Shakhtyor Soligorsk)
27		DF	Cedric Mingiedi (at Vigor Hamme)

Managers

Désiré Bourgeois (1947–53), (1954–55)
Albert De Cleyn (1955–57)
Émile Stijnen (1959–61)
Oliver Gaspar (1960–64)
András Dolgos (1965–68)
Piet Teughels (1968–69)
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 – Sep 6, 2016)
Yannick Ferrera (Sep 12, 2016 – present)

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

External links

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Belgian First Division A

Seasons

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 (2008–2016)	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
Belgian First Division A (2016–present)	2016–17 2017–18

Clubs

2017–18 teams

Former

Active

Defunct

Statistics and awards

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winners

Winners

UEFA Super Cup winners

UCL vs. CWC

UCL vs. UEL

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