Sportkring Beveren is a professional
Belgian
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association football club located in the municipality of
Beveren
Beveren () is a municipality in the Belgian province of East Flanders which comprises the towns of Beveren, Doel, Haasdonk, Kallo, Kieldrecht, Melsele, Verrebroek and Vrasene.
The port of the Waasland (Dutch: ''Waaslandhaven'') is in Beveren, ...
,
East Flanders
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. They play in the
Belgian First Division B
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.
History
The club was founded in 1936 as Red Star and registered to an amateur football association. In 1944, they joined the
Royal Belgian Football Association
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and started playing in the lowest
provincial league
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of West Flanders. Red Star Haasdonk first reached national football in
2000–01, and they finished first of the series in
Promotion
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. They also reached the
2000–01 Belgian Cup
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Final rounds
The final phase started in the round of 32 when all clubs from the first division entered the competitio ...
round of 32, losing to first division club
Gent
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. After their first season in the
third division, they moved to the bigger stadium of defunct club Sint-Niklase SKE, the Puyenbekestadion, changing their name to KV Red Star Waasland.
In
2003–04, they finished first in their series of the third division and promoted for the first time to the
second division
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. In their first season at the second-highest level of football, Red Star Waasland finished 5th and qualified for the
final round
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. The next season, they finished 4th, their best result as of 2010 but did not qualify for the final round. They reached again the round of 32 of the
2005–06 Belgian Cup
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, losing to neighbours KSK Beveren. In the
2007–08 Belgian Cup, Red Star Waasland reached the round of 16, their best cup result, by eliminating
Lokeren
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. They lost to
Anderlecht
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in the round of 16. The following season, they finished 4th again in the second division. In the summer of 2010 Red Star Waasland changed its name to Waasland-Beveren and moved to the bigger stadium of Beveren, the
Freethiel Stadion
Freethiel Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Beveren, Belgium. The Freethiel Stadium, also known as the Freethiel for short, is the football stadium where the Belgian football club SK Beveren (formerly known as Waasland-Beveren) plays its home gam ...
.
In
2019–20 Belgian First Division A
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due to the virus epidemic the league was forced to shut down its competition. At the time of the shut down Waasland Beveren was in 16th position and was expected to relegate having their last game scheduled against KAA Gent. After months of confusion the league decided to close the season the way it left off with one game remaining, without Waasland Beveren having a chance to save themselves competitively from relegation. Unfairly enough the first division B finalists were allowed to play their playoff games for promotion to the First Division A despite the league shutdown. Having seen the hypocrisy, Waasland Beveren decided to take legal action for unfair use of power. The court battle lasted for many weeks and finally justice was awarded in Waasland Beveren favour to remain in First Division. The league was forced to make reforms and change the way the league operated and thus the league comprised 18 teams instead of 16 which included Waasland Beveren and the two finalists from First Division B, both K Beerschot VA ( official champions) and OH Leuven.
On 13 September 2020, it was announced that Waasland-Beveren would be taken over by American sports investment group,
Bolt Football Holdings now having a 97% share in the club.
On 7 June 2022, the club announced it had come to an agreement with
K.S.K. Beveren to share the identity of the former club under that name, allowing Waasland-Beveren to be renamed and use the similar name ''SK Beveren'' from 1 July 2022.
Players
Current squad
Club staff
Managers
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Dirk Geeraerd
Dirk Geeraerd (born 2 December 1963) is a Belgian football manager and former player.
Career
Geeraerd was dismissed as Roeselare manager in October 2008.
In November 2012 he was sacked as a manager of Waasland-Beveren
Sportkring Beveren i ...
(2005–2006)
*
Regi Van Acker (2006–2007)
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Dirk Geeraerd
Dirk Geeraerd (born 2 December 1963) is a Belgian football manager and former player.
Career
Geeraerd was dismissed as Roeselare manager in October 2008.
In November 2012 he was sacked as a manager of Waasland-Beveren
Sportkring Beveren i ...
(1 July 2010 – 18 November 2012)
*
Glen De Boeck
Glen De Boeck (; born 22 August 1971) is a Belgian football manager and former player who most recently managed Lokeren in the Belgian First Division B. During his career he played as central defender, mostly on the books of Anderlecht.
Clu ...
(19 November 2012 – 29 October 2013)
*
Bob Peeters (5 November 2013 – 23 May 2014)
*
Ronny Van Geneugden
Ronny Van Geneugden (; born 17 August 1968) is a Belgian football (soccer), football coach and former player, currently technical director at MVV Maastricht.
As a manager, Van Geneugden had most of his successes with Oud-Heverlee Leuven, leadin ...
(28 May 2014 – 30 December 2014)
*
Guido Brepoels
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(2015)
*
Stijn Vreven
Stijn Vreven (born 18 July 1973) is a Belgian former professional football and a former manager of AS Trenčín in the Fortuna Liga.
Career
Vreven's career began when he signed a professional contract with Y.R. K.V. Mechelen, making his first fi ...
(2015–2016)
*
Čedomir Janevski
Čedomir "Čede" Janevski ( mk, Чедомир "Чеде" Јаневски, born 3 July 1961) is a Macedonian professional football manager and former player who was the manager of Cypriot club Olympiakos Nicosia. He played internationally for b ...
(2017)
*
Philippe Clement
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(2017)
*
Sven Vermant
Sven Vermant (born 4 April 1973) is a Belgian former professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is best known for his spells at Club Brugge and FC Schalke 04.
Club career
Born in Lier, Vermant started his ca ...
(2018)
*
Yannick Ferrera
Yannick Ferrera y Caro (born 24 September 1980) is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of Cypriot club Omonia.
Club career
In his early twenties, Ferrera enjoyed a brief career as a professional ...
(2018)
*
Adnan Čustović (17 November 2018 – 26 August 2019)
*
Arnauld Mercier
Arnauld Mercier (born 4 June 1972) is a French football manager and a former player.
He spent most of his career playing in the French Ligue 2 and Championnat National, but had a spell in Italy where he played three seasons in Serie B. After ...
(30 August 2019 – 2 March 2020)
*
Nicky Hayen
Nicky Hayen (born 16 August 1980) is a Belgian football manager and former professional footballer who is currently head coach at Challenger Pro League club Club NXT.
Career
From 1999 on, Hayen played nine seasons at the highest level of Belgian ...
(4 May 2020 – 30 June 2021)
*
Marc Schneider (1 July 2021 – 27 Feb 2022)
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Jordi Condom (28 Feb 2022 – present)
References
External links
Official website
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Association football clubs established in 1936
Football clubs in Belgium
1936 establishments in Belgium
Organisations based in Belgium with royal patronage
Belgian First Division A clubs
Beveren
Sport in East Flanders
Sint-Niklaas
Sports team relocations