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YB SK Beveren is a Belgian association football team that plays in the Belgian Provincial Leagues. The club was established by supporters of former Belgian champion K.S.K. Beveren, after the unofficial merger of their team with Red Star Waasland in May 2010. It is the first and currently the only Belgian team that is completely fan-owned and applies the principals of Supporters Direct. ==History== After a long period of financial struggle and a very likely relegation from the Belgian Second Division, the board members of K.S.K. Beveren decided in May 2010 to terminate all male senior footballing activities for the next season. This decision came after political pressure at community level and was the result of expensive investments in the club's Freethiel Stadion. It then was decided that instead of K.S.K. Beveren, the local neighbours of K.F.C. Red Star Waasland (a small but financially healthy club) would start the 2010–2011 season at the Freethiel Stadion. As a concession to the Beveren supporters, the club changed its name to Waasland-Beveren, its colours to yellow-blue-red and its badge into a newly created one. However, the majority of the board members, the manager and the players of Red Star Waasland moved to Beveren and the club took on the football association's number of Waasland (4068).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Licht op groen voor fusie tussen Beveren en Waasland )〕 For many supporters this concession wasn't enough. While hundreds of fans simply stayed away from the new club Waasland-Beveren, a fraction of them started a new project. On August 4, 2010, a new website was launched, (www.eskabee.be ), in order to commemorate the rich past of K.S.K. Beveren and to restart a new team in the lower Belgian divisions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 In a couple of weeks the new site received over 500 registrees and caused attention from several national newspapers, who reported the "Resurrection of KSK Beveren from its ashes". One of the figureheads of the new project was former Dutch international Wim Hofkens, who played for K.S.K. Beveren between 1976 and 1980.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 On January 12, 2011, the official website reported that the VZW Eskabee 1935 was formed and that the statutes were written.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 On January 21, 2011, these statutes were signed by the ten founding members of the VZW, including chairman Andre Bolsens, a local doctor who was the only board member of K.S.K. Beveren that voted against the merger of May 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 The new club also announced their cooperation with Supporters Direct and their clear ambition to restart footballing activities in the lowest Belgian division. On March 23, 2011, the club played its first unofficial friendly game against the Under 19s team of local club HRS Haasdonk. The match served as a testing training in order to form a team for the 2011–2012 season under the management of Wim Hofkens. Beveren won the game by 2–0 in front of a crowd of nearly 350 spectators.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 Shortly after the match, the club officially sent a request to the Royal Belgian Football Association to register their team for the upcoming season under the name 'Supporterskring Beveren'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 On April 5, 2011, the Municipality of Beveren announced that there was no place for the new club in their town, despite earlier agreements with the Schepen of Sports and several talks with Waasland-Beveren about the use of the training fields surrounding the Freethiel Stadion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 Despite this major setback, the club played a second testing match against the KSK Kallo reserve team the following evening and won again, this time with 2–5 in front of 300 spectators.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 During the first General Assembly of the VZW on April 25, 2011, it was decided that the club would start playing its first season in the neighboring city of Sint-Niklaas, specifically at a training field of former 2nd Division club Sportkring Sint-Niklaas. Instead of 'Supporterskring Beveren', which was denied by the Royal Belgian Football Association, the name 'Yellow Blue Beveren' was chosen, referring to the club colours and taking Yellow Red K.V. Mechelen as an example in that regard.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 The club received registration number 9577 from the Royal Belgian Football Association,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 but has always maintained the ambition of recovering the number 2300 from K.S.K. Beveren in the future as a rightful heir of its legacy.〔http://www.eskabee.be/images/articles/svmdebasiseskabee.pdf〕 On May 30, 2011 both the agreement with Sportkring Sint-Niklaas and the registration with the Royal Belgian Football Association were settled, so YB SK Beveren was finally able to start playing football in the 2011–2012 season.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 On July 24, 2011, YB SK Beveren played its first official pre-season friendly and lost against Belgica Edegem.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 On September 4, 2011 started the competition with a 2–2 draw in an away game against Hardy Waasmunster, with striker Bjorn Van Der Stighelen scoring the first official goal for the club in front of over 300 fans.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 The following week YB SK Beveren won its first home game against VK Tielrode with 1–0 in front of 450 fans,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 again causing significant media attention from several national football websites.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nieuw YB SK Beveren wint eerste thuismatch )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nieuw YB SK Beveren wint eerste thuismatch )〕 After a promising start the club failed to confirm, resulting in a bad streak and the resignation of Wim Hofkens as a manager.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 His successor Luc Piessens debuted in the worst imaginable way losing 9–1 away to Haasdonk B, which is to date the worst defeat ever of YB SK Beveren.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 On January 5, 2012 founding board member Wim Hofkens left the club definitively after his earlier resignation as a manager.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 Despite the relatively poor results 270 fans visited the away game against SK Belsele. In an atmospheric game played in Red Star Waasland's former home, the Puyenbekestadion, Beveren won with 0–2.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 Early March, active player Margino De Kerf took over as manager for the reminder of the season.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=eskabee.be )〕 Since the beginning of the year 2012 several meetings between the club and the Municipality of Beveren took place, in which the possibility of returning to home town Beveren was discussed. Early March, Major Marc Van De Vijver declared in local media that there was a very big chance that the club was yet again welcome in his village, since the fans of the club had proved during the first season that there were no significant security risks during their matches.〔http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/hd3msg1s〕 Early April, the General Assembly of the club voted in favour of a return to Beveren, despite the good relationship with Sportkring Sint-Niklaas.〔http://www.eskabee.be/news/article/581〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「YB SK Beveren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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