Ground Capacity 2,500 Manager Hugo Vandenheede League Belgian Second Division Ground Koksijde | President Raf Dejonckheere Founded 1934 Location Koksijde, Belgium | |
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Full name Koninklijke Voetbalvereniging Coxyde 2014–15 Belgian Third Division A, 1st (promoted) | ||
Koninklijke Voetbalvereniging Coxyde is a Belgian football club based in Koksijde, West Flanders.
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History
The club was founded in 1934 and it registered a few months later with the Belgian FA, coincidentally receiving the matricule number 1934. It spent the first 74 years playing in the provincial divisions, until it won promotion to the Belgian Fourth Division in 2008 and to the Third Division next year via winning their group, despite the sudden passing of their coach Jan Merlevede while in the middle of their first season in the national leagues.
The club's first season in the third tier was an impressive one, finishing 6th out of 19. In 2010 they finished 4th out of 18 but declined to apply for a professional football license and so were excluded from the promotion playoffs. In 2012 the club, despite finishing 7th, was deducted 20 points for fielding an unregistered player, sending them down to 16th place; it had to contest test matches. which by winning the third round it won a spot for next season. Another three seasons had passed and the club won their division of the third tier in 2015, earning them their first ever promotion to the second division.
Honours
Current squad
As of 3 January 2016
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