K.V. Oostende
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Full name
Koninklijke Voetbalclub
Oostende
Nicknames
De Kustboys
Founded
1981
Ground
Albertparkstadion,
Ostend
Capacity
8,000
Chairman
Marc Coucke
Manager
Yves Vanderhaeghe
League
Belgian Pro League
2014-15
Belgian Pro League, 10th
K.V. Oostende is a Belgian association football club, from the municipality of Ostend, West Flanders.
The team was founded in 1904 as V.G. Oostende and it has the matricule n°31.
HISTORY
In 1911 another club was created, AS Oostende, which would soon become the best club of the city, playing regularly in the second division in the 1930s.
In the mid 1970s, the AS reached the first division while the VG was playing at the second level.
The two clubs merged in 1981 to become K.V. Oostende.
Twelve years after, the new club reached the first division.
It has then been playing in the second division since 1995 except in 1998-99 and 2004-05 when it played at the higher level again.
VG Oostende was re-founded at the lowest level of the Belgian football one year after the merger.
The club originally used the name Oostendse VG until the name VG Oostende could be used again ten years after the merger.
VG Oostende originally used the Armenonville stadium again, which was the original VG Oostende's ground.
Since the ground has been declared unsafe, VG Oostende groundshares with KV Oostende in the Albertparkstadion.
In August 2007, Oostende established a working partnership with Scottish giants Celtic.
Under the deal, each season Celtic will send up to three reserve and youth team players on loan to Oostende.
These working partnerships are not unique to Belgian football, as Royal Antwerp have been in partnership with Manchester United since 1998.
On 23 August 2013, shortly after the start of a new season in the Jupiler Pro League, it was announced that chairman and majority shareholder Yves Lejaeghere would be succeeded by a new chairman businessman Marc Coucke with Lejaeghere remaining as president-mana.
Players
Tanzania international striker Mbwana Samatta has signed for Belgian side Genk .
Uganda striker Farouq Miya is set to sign for Belgian giants Standard Liege.
Nigeria and Mali reach U-17s World Cup final.
Yaya Toure is on the 23-man Ballon d'Or shortlist.
Four nations will represent Africa at the Fifa Under-17 World Cup finals in Chile.
Beveren was the partner of the Abidjan-based academy of Jean Marc Guillou.
William Troost-Ekong has joined Belgian champions Gent.
Ivory Coast have leapt up the latest Fifa world rankings.
QUARTER-FINALS
5th July 2014
Argentina vs Belgium 1:0
“The United States came out to win the match rather than avoid defeat. We were then able to take advantage of the extra space,” confirmed Kevin De Bruyne, who opened the scoring in the third minute of extra time and put in a fine all-round performance, linking well with Eden Hazard in particular. “It was a real pleasure to play such free-flowing football,” he added.
