AS Verbroedering Geel is a Belgian association football club based in

Geel Geel () is a city located in the Belgian province of Antwerp, which acquired city status in the 1980s. It comprises Central-Geel which is constituted of 4 old parishes a/o towns: Sint-Amand, Sint-Dimpna, Holven and Elsum. Further on around the cen ...

, province of Antwerp. Currently, they play in the Belgian Provincial Leagues.

History

Founded in 1926 as Meerhout Sport, the club received the

matricule Association football is the most popular sport in Belgium, which has been played since the end of the 19th century. The national association was founded in 1895 with the intention of bringing some order and organization to the sport. The firs ...

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 The Belgian Fourth Division was the lowest nationwide division in Belgian football. The division was split into four separate leagues, A, B, C and D. The team with the most points in the four leagues together was declared the overall winner ...

. 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 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 Association football, football stadium in Geel, in the Belgium, Belgian province of Antwerp (province), Antwerp. It has a capacity of 8,000

stadium, which was not used anymore, and added the name of the city Geel to their name. In 2013, the team changed their name to Allemaal Samen Verbroedering Geel (English: All Together Fraternization Geel), short AS Verbroedering Geel. On 22 January 2020, due to financial difficulties, Geel announced that during the 2019–20 transfer window all players and technical staff had been released without any transfer fee, to avoid bankrupting the club. Youth players would play the remaining matches and management will devise a plan for the coming seasons. Eventually, Geel did not receive a license for both the Second and Third Amateur divisions and was relegated to the Belgian Provincial Leagues. Geel appealed the decision to not being awarded a license.

References

External links

Official website
Football clubs in Belgium Association football clubs established in 1926 1926 establishments in Belgium Sport in Geel {{Belgium-footyclub-stub