K.V.C. Westerlo

K.V.C. Westerlo was founded in the city of Westerlo by students in 1917, and it was named Sportkring De Bist Westerlo. After five years of existence, the club retired. The club Bist Sport was created in 1931 and it changed its name to Sportkring Westerlo two years later. At that time. some players left the club to found Westerlo Sport, the ancestor of K.V.C. Westerlo. In 1939, the club won its league for the first time. Five years later, Sportkring Westerlo and dissident Westerlo Sport decided to merge in spite of the rivalry between the teams, and the new club was called V.C. Westerlo.

It became champion of the Antwerp second division in 1960. Eight years later it played its first season at the national level in Promotion and it won its league to play the third division in 1969. At the end of the season, Westerlo missed a third title in a row, finishing second behind Eupen. The next year, the club was relegated after the playoff and it stayed in the Promotion for ten seasons. The club then underwent two relegations in a row and thus played in the Antwerp second division in 1982–83. Westerlo was then promoted for three consecutive years to qualify for the third division once again. In 1993, the club promoted to the second division and then to the first division in 1997. In 1996, the club added the prefix Koninklijke (meaning "Royal" in Dutch) to its name.

Westerlo plays its home matches at Het Kuipje, which is Dutch for "The Small Tank". It is believed to be reference to the Feijenoord Stadion that is nicknamed De Kuip ("The Tank"). Its capacity is 8,035 [2].

• Belgian Second Division
  • Winners (1): 2013–14
  • Runners-up (1): 1996–97
• Belgian Second Division Final Round
  • Winners (1): 1997
• Belgian Cup:
  • Winners (1): 2000–01
  • Runners-up (1): 2010–11
• Belgian Supercup
  • Runners-up (1): 2001

As of 16 September, 2019[3]

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 Kristof Van Hout 2 DF Maxime Biset 3 DF Gilles Dewaele 5 MF Fabien Antunes 6 DF Kel Ofori 7 MF Lukas Van Eenoo 8 MF Guillaume De Schryver 9 FW Sava Petrov 10 FW Ambroise Gboho 11 FW Recep Gül (on loan from Galatasaray) 12 DF Christoffer Remmer 14 FW Stephen Buyl 16 FW Kyan Vaesen 17 MF Yannick Mols 18 DF Bryan Van Den Bogaert

No. Position Player 19 MF Kader Keïta 20 DF Noël Soumah 22 MF Christian Brüls 23 DF Souleymane Kone 24 MF Barış Alıcı (on loan from Fenerbahçe) 25 FW Igor Vetokele 26 GK Pieter Caubergh 28 MF Simon Paulet 30 GK Koen Van Langendonck 32 DF Christophe Janssens 34 FW Kurt Abrahams 35 GK Berke Özer (on loan from Fenerbahçe) 75 MF Nader Ghandri — DF Basilio Ndong — FW Yunusa Muritala

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 — GK Yannick Verbist (at K.S.K. Heist until 30 June 2020) — FW Cédric Mateso-Liongola (at K.S.K. Heist until 30 June 2020) — DF Wouter Corstjens (at Patro Eisden until 30 June 2020)

No. Position Player — DF Yentl Van Genechten (at Thes Sport until 30 June 2020) — DF Simon Bammens (at Thes Sport until 30 June 2020)

• (in Dutch) Official Website
• (in English) KVC Westerlo at UEFA.COM
• KVC Westerlo at EUFO.DE
• KVC Westerlo at Weltfussball.de
• KVC Westerlo at Football Squads.co.uk
• KVC Westerlo at national Football Teams.com
• KVC Westerlo at Football-Lineups.com