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Football Club Verbroedering Dender Eendracht Hekelgem, also simply known as Dender or Verbroedering Dender, is a Belgian association football club based in Denderleeuw. From the 2022–23 season, the club will be playing in the Challenger Pro League after winning Belgian National Division 1.[2]

FCV Dender EH

Full name	Football Club Verbroedering Dender Eendracht Hekelgem
Founded	1935
Ground	Florent Beeckmanstadion, Denderleeuw
Capacity	6,429[1]
Chairman	André Van Roy
Manager	Regi Van Acker
League	Challenger Pro League
2021–22	1st (promoted from Belgian National Division 1)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

The club is named after former clubs KFC Denderleeuw Eendracht Hekelgem and Verbroedering Denderhoutem, which merged at the end of the 2004–05 season, and after the river Dender, which crosses the town of Denderleeuw. The home stadium of the club is Florent Beeckmanstadion, located in Denderleeuw. Their best league ranking was the 15th place in the first division (in 2007–08 and 2008–09). The club colours are blue and black.

History

Early history

Verbroedering Denderhoutem was founded in 1935[3] and registered to the Royal Belgian Football Association in 1943. They first reached the Promotion (4th-highest level in Belgian football) in the 1980s.[4] After several relegations and promotions in the provincial leagues and Promotion, the club finally reached the third division in 1998–99. They remained at that level except for one season in 2003–04 when they played in the Promotion. After one season back at the third level, Denderhoutem merged with fellow club KFC Denderleeuw EH from the third division.

Rise to the top tier

Verbroedering Dender won consecutively the third division A title (in 2005–06) and the second division title (in 2006–07), to reach the first division in 2007–08 for the first time in their history. They achieved promotion after beating Dessel 0–2 on the second division's 33rd match day on 13 May 2007. They finished at the 15th place in 2007–08 and again in 2008–09, though the club was relegated at the end of the 2008–09 season because the number of clubs in the first division was reduced from 18 to 16.

Post–top division history

The club was relegated from the Second Division in the 2011–12 season after finishing second bottom.

In the 2015–16 season, Dender qualified for the newly formed Belgian third tier named Belgian First Amateur Division. In the 2020–21 season, the division was renamed Belgian National Division 1 but the season was cancelled after one game due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium.

They won promotion back to the second tier, now renamed the Challenger Pro League, in the 2021–22 season. The promotion was not without controversy. On the penultimate game of the promotion play-offs against RFC Liège on 22 May 2022, Dender lost 1–0 which saw them move into second place and Liège move to first place. The following day, it was announced that Liège would receive a three-point deduction and a €1000 fine after failing to field enough U21 players in their 3–0 win against Dender back in March 2022.[5] As a result, Dender were awarded a 5–0 win and moved back to the top of the table. Liège released a statement to say that they would be appealing the decision.[6] However, the points deduction would turn out to be irrelevant. This is because Liège lost on the final game of the season against Knokke, while Dender won 1–0 against Dessel Sport.[7]

Honours

• Belgian Second Division Final Round:
  • Runners-up (1): 1997–98
• Belgian Third Division A:
  • Winners (1): 2005–06
• Belgian Second Division:
  • Winners (1): 2006–07
• Belgian National Division 1
  • Winners (1): 2021–22

Players

Current squad

Updated 19 September 2022.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BEL Xavier Gies 2 DF  BEL Mike Smet 3 DF  BEL Wesley Vanbelle 4 DF  BEL Kjetil Borry 5 DF  BEL Dylan Ragolle 6 MF  ENG Jonny Rowell 7 FW  BEL Ridwane M'Barki 8 MF  BEL Jasper Van Oudenhove 9 FW  BEL Michaël Lallemand 10 MF  BEL Lennard Hens 11 FW  SVN Nicolas Rajsel 12 DF  BEL Jarno Jourquin 13 GK  BEL Stan VDH

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 FW  BEL Olivier Myny 15 MF  BEL Danny Fofana 17 FW  BEL Zakaria Atteri 18 MF  BEL Nathan Rodes 19 FW  TUR Tiago Cukur 19 MF  BEL Antoine De Bodt 21 DF  BEL Kobe Cools 22 DF  BEL Remko De Backer 23 DF  UKR Valeriy Dubko 24 FW  BEL Joachim Ngongo 25 MF  BEL Kenneth Houdret 26 GK  BEL Brent Gabriël 28 DF  BEL Stefano Marzo

References

External links

• FCV Dender at UEFA.COM
• FCV Dender at EUFO.DE
• FCV Dender at Weltfussball.de
• FCV Dender at Football Squads.co.uk
• FCV Dender at National Football Teams.com
• FCV Dender at Football Lineups.com
• Official twitter

На других языках

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- [en] F.C.V. Dender E.H.

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[ru] Дендер (футбольный клуб)

«Дендер» (нидерл. F.C. Verbroedering Dender E.H.) — бельгийский футбольный клуб из города Дендерлеув, выступающий в третьем дивизионе Бельгии. Основан в 1943 году. Домашние матчи проводит на стадионе «Флоран Бекман», вмещающем 8 157 зрителей.

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