Mechelen
Cup Winners' Cup holders who also reached a European Cup quarter-final.
KV Mechelen is a Belgian club with four league titles and two Belgian Cups, and the winner of the 1987-88 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 1988 European Super Cup.
Quick Facts
- Club
- KV Mechelen
- Full name
- Yellow Red Koninklijke; Voetbalclub Mechelen
- Nickname
- De Kakkers
- Malinois
- Malinwa
- Geel-rood
- Founded
- 1904
- Ground
- Achter de Kazerne
- Capacity
- 16,672
- Chairman
- Luc Leemans
- Manager
- Frederik Vanderbiest
Lore & Background
In its strongest period in the late 1980s Mechelen won the Cup Winners' Cup, reached that competition's semi-finals the following season and also made the quarter-finals of the European Cup. In the 1988 Super Cup it beat the reigning European champions PSV 3-1 on aggregate.
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