Founded in 1926 as Meerhout Sport, the club received the
matricule
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number 893. In 1966, Meerhout Sport merged with the other club from the city named Hand in Hand, with matricule 2169. The new club took the name F.C. Verbroedering Meerhout. At the end of the season, the club reached the
Belgian Promotion
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. They were relegated to the provincial level in 1987. Ten years later, the club was back at the 4th national level, and even managed to reach the
third division
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Association football
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in 2006, where they stayed only one season. In 2008 the neighbour club of
K.F.C. Verbroedering Geel
K.F.C. Verbroedering Geel was a Belgian association football club from the city of Geel in Antwerp (province).
History
The club was born in 1921 as a merger of Flandria and Geel Sport, becoming Flandria Geel Sport, and registered in 1924 to the ...
went into liquidation, so F.C. Verbroedering Meerhout moved to
De Leunen
De Leunen is a football stadium in Geel, in the Belgian province of Antwerp. It has a capacity of 8,000 Belgian Provincial Leagues. Geel appealed the decision to not being awarded a license.