Lierse
- Alias
- Lierse Kempenzonen
- Leagues Played
- Belgia - First Division B 205 Belgia - First Amateur Division 43 Belgia - First Division A 41 Belgia - Cup 23 Belgia - UEFA Europa League - Playoff 19 Belgia - First Division B - Playoff 7
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- Wikipedia
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- Lierse Kempenzonen reserver Lierse Kempenzonen U21
Wikipedia - Lierse Kempenzonen
Lierse Kempenzonen is a Belgian association football club located in Lier, in the province of Antwerp. The club, founded in 1943 as Oosterzonen in Oosterwijk, was relocated to Lier following the bankruptcy of Lierse in 2018. They compete in the Belgian First Division B, the second tier of Belgian football.
History
The club was founded in 1943 as FC Oosterzonen from a commune within Westerlo. It started in the Belgian provincial leagues where it hovered between the various levels, most of the times playing at the 6th or 7th level of the Belgian football pyramid. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, the club won the title three seasons in a row to promote for the first time in its history to the national levels of football. In the Belgian Fourth Division, the club avoided relegation for a few seasons, before managing another promotion in the 2012–13 season into the Belgian Third Division. Following the reform of Belgian football in 2016, the team started playing in the Belgian First Amateur Division.
In May 2018, it was announced that the club would relocate to Lier, as it merged with the old board of Lierse (a club which had gone bankrupt just a few weeks before) to form a new club called Lierse Kempenzonen. The new team continued with the old logo of Lierse and started playing in the Herman Vanderpoortenstadion in Lier.
Lierse har vunne den belgiske serien fire gonger, i 1932, 1942, 1960 og 1997. Dei har òg vunne den belgiske cupen to gonger, i 1969 og 1999.
Laget spelar for tida i den belgiske tredje divisjonen, etter at dei rykte ned frå den andre divisjonen i 2022.
Kjende spelarar som har spelt for Lierse inkluderer Jan Ceulemans, Nico Claesen og Lorenzo Staelens.