Sporting Lokeren
Full nameKoninklijke Sporting Club
Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen
Nickname(s)Tricolores
Founded22 January 1923 (22 January 1923)
Dissolved20 April 2020 (20 April 2020)
GroundDaknamstadion, Lokeren
Capacity12,136[1]

Koninklijke Sporting Club Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkoːnɪŋkləkə ˈspɔrtɪŋ ˌklʏp ˈloːkərə(n) ˌoːstˈflaːndərə(n)];[2] often simply called Sporting Lokeren or Lokeren) was a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Lokeren, in the province of East Flanders. The club was founded in 1923 but ceased to exist in 2020 after going bankrupt.[3] A few days after the bankruptcy, the club announced that rather than dissolving entirely, it would merge with KSV Temse to form Lokeren-Temse, starting in the Belgian Second Amateur Division (fourth level).[4]

Lokeren first reached the first division in 1974–75. Since then, it had a short spell in the Second Division between 1993–94 and 1995–96. Lokeren had its most successful period in the 1980s, achieving second place in the league in 1980–81 as well as a Belgian Cup final the same year. Its best European result was reaching the quarter-final of the 1980–81 UEFA Cup. In the year 2000, the club merged with K Sint-Niklase SKE. They were registered to the Royal Belgian Football Association with the matricule number 282. Lokeren's colours were white, black and yellow. They played their home games at the Daknamstadion.

In 2012, Sporting Lokeren won the Belgian Cup, the club's first-ever honours, after beating KV Kortrijk in the Cup Final. They won their second Cup just two years later, after beating Zulte Waregem 1–0.

History

The matricule No. 282 was given in 1920 to a club named Football Club Racing Club Lokeren (nicknamed Racing FC), but the team stopped its activity the next year. On 22 January 1923 Racing Club Lokeren was founded. Between 1945 and 1951, it had a slight name change (to Racing Athletiek- en Football Club Lokeren) and the new name since 1951 was Koninklijke Racing Club Lokeren. Due to financial problems, the fusion with the other team from the town (Koninklijke Standaard FC Lokeren) became necessary in 1970. The new club was then named Koninklijke Sporting Club Lokeren.

In 2000, the club merged with Koninklijke Sint-Niklaas SKE to form Sporting Lokeren Sint-Niklaas Waasland. The latest name change occurred in 2003, with the province name added to the club name.

In 2018, Sporting Lokeren were relegated to the First Division B, the second tier of Belgian football.[5] In 2019, the club was taken over by a group led by Louis de Vries and Alexander Janssen, taking the positions of president and CEO respectively.

On 20 April 2020, the club was declared bankrupt during the 2019–20 season.[3] Lokeren had outstanding debts of €5 million and was not able to pay its staff and players anymore.

On 22 April 2020, Lokeren agreed to merge with KSV Temse to form a new club in K.S.C. Lokeren-Temse and to start in the Second Amateur Division, the national fourth level.[6]

Honours

European record

Competition A GP W D L GF GA
UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League8381610124637
UEFA Intertoto Cup41872 92528
Season Competition Round Club Home Away
1976–77 UEFA Cup 1R Luxembourg Red Boys Differdange 3–1 3–0
2R Spain Barcelona 2–1 0–2
1980–81 UEFA Cup 1R Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow 1–1 1–0
2R Scotland Dundee United 0–0 1–1
3R Spain Real Sociedad 1–0 2–2
QF Netherlands AZ 67 Alkmaar 1–0 0–2
1981–82 UEFA Cup 1R France Nantes 4–2 1–1
2R Greece Aris Thessaloniki 4–0 1–1
3R Germany 1. FC Kaiserslautern 1–0 1–4
1982–83 UEFA Cup 1R Poland Stal Mielec 0–0 1–1
2R Portugal Benfica 1–2 0–2
1987–88 UEFA Cup 1R Hungary Honvéd Budapest 0–0 0–1
1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup 2R Iceland IA Akranes 3–1 3–1
3R France Metz 1–2 1–0
2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1R Faroe Islands B68 Toftir 0–0 4–2
2R Poland Zagłębie Lubin 2–1 2–2
3R England Newcastle United 0–4 0–1
2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1R Georgia (country) WIT Georgia 3–1 2–3
2R Germany VfB Stuttgart 0–1 0–2
2003–04 UEFA Cup QUAL Albania Dinamo Tirana 3–1 4–0
1R England Manchester City 0–1 2–3
2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1R Estonia Narva Trans 0–1 2–0
2R Switzerland BSC Young Boys 1–4 1–2
2012–13 UEFA Europa League PO Czech Republic Viktoria Plzeň 2–1 0–1
2014–15 UEFA Europa League PO England Hull City 1–0 1–2
Group Poland Legia Warsaw 1–0 0–1
Group Ukraine Metalist Kharkiv 1–0 1–0
Group Turkey Trabzonspor 1–1 0–2

Final squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF Belgium BEL Stefano Marzo
3 DF Japan JPN Ryuta Koike
5 MF Mali MLI Abdoulaye Diaby (on loan from Antwerp)
6 MF Ivory Coast CIV Lamine N'dao
7 MF Belgium BEL Killian Overmeire (captain)
8 MF Senegal SEN Abdou Diakhaté (on loan from Parma)
9 FW Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Anel Hajrić
14 MF Japan JPN Jun Amano
15 FW Georgia (country) GEO Giorgi Beridze (on loan from Gent)
17 MF Netherlands NED Guus Hupperts
19 MF Romania ROU Vlad Mitrea
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 DF Belgium BEL Jimmy De Jonghe
22 FW Italy ITA Said Ahmed Said (on loan from Rio Ave)
26 DF Belgium BEL Arno Monsecour
28 MF Belgium BEL Amine Benchaib
29 MF Belgium BEL Bob Straetman
30 GK Belgium BEL Robin Mantel
33 GK Belgium BEL Théo Defourny
35 DF Belgium BEL Tracy Mpati
37 DF Belgium BEL Jelle Van Damme
41 DF Republic of the Congo CGO Francis N'Ganga
44 MF Belgium BEL Seth De Witte

Notable players

The following is a provisional list of notable players who played for Lokeren, sorted by nationality.

Managers

References

  1. ↑ technische fiche sporting, sporting.be (last check 30 March 2018)
  2. ↑ Vlaanderen in isolation: [ˈvlaːndərə(n)].
  3. 1 2 Sporting Lokeren failliet verklaard – rechtbank stelt curatoren aan hln.be, Yannick De Spiegeleir, 20 April 2020 (in Dutch).
  4. ↑ Sporting Lokeren wordt na fusie met Temse KSC Lokeren-Temse sporza.be, 22 April 2020 (in Dutch)
  5. ↑ "Anderlecht back in the Top 6, Lokeren relegated". vrt.be. 4 March 2019.
  6. ↑ "Failliet verklaard Sporting Lokeren gaat fusie aan met amateurclub KSV Temse". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). 22 April 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
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