Kapellen is a municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality lies in the Campine in the northern part of the province.
The Belgian Pro League is the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium. Contested by 18 clubs since the 2020–21 season and reduced to 16 teams from the 2023–24 season onwards, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Challenger Pro League.
Koninklijke Beerschot Antwerpen Club, simply known as Beerschot AC, was a Belgian football club based in southern Antwerp. Beerschot played in the Belgian Pro League from 1999–2000 until 2012–13, when they were relegated not only through their league position, but also lost their professional licence through financial issues, being officially declared bankrupt on 21 May 2013 – one week after the season had ended.
Lior Refaelov is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or as a winger for Belgian First Division A club Anderlecht.
Sport in Belgium plays a prominent role in the society. As of 2010, Belgium counted around 17,000 sport clubs with approximately 1.35 million members, or about 13% of the Belgian population. Popular sports in Belgium are, among others: football, cycling, tennis, table tennis, athletics, swimming, basketball, badminton, judo, hockey, rowing, motocross, auto racing, volleyball, and running. Belgium has organized the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp as well as the 1972 UEFA European Championship and the 2000 UEFA European Championship along with the Netherlands. The Belgium national football team's best result was a 3rd place at the 2018 FIFA World Cup and a second place of the 1980 UEFA European Championship. Belgian football clubs have won 3 times the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and twice the UEFA Cup, plus 3 times the UEFA Supercup.
Royal Cappellen Football Club is a Belgian football club from the town of Kapellen, near Antwerp. Cappellen has matricule number 43 and has yellow and red as main team colours. The club has a long history in the higher divisions of Belgian football. In the latter part of the 1960s the club dropped for a long time into the provincial leagues, however in the early 1990s it managed to climb back into Promotion. As of 2019–20 they are playing in the Belgian Second Amateur Division.
Antwerp Giants, named Telenet Giants Antwerp for sponsorship reasons, is a Belgian professional basketball club based in Antwerp. Their home arena is Lotto Arena. The club plays in the BNXT League, the highest tier of Belgian basketball. The club was created from the merger of Sobabee and Racing Mechelen. Then named Racing Basket Antwerpen, it was renamed Antwerp Giants in 2005.
Francisco Alberto Abreu López is a male volleyball and beach volleyball player from Dominican Republic, who won the gold medal with his national team at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games.
Volley De Haan is a women's volleyball team based in De Haan, Belgium. The club was founded in 1968.
VDK Gent Damesvolleybalteam is a volleyball team from Ghent, Belgium.
The Division of Honour is the highest level of women's volleyball in Belgium.
Volley Group d'Arté Averbode are a former Belgian volleyball club based in Averbode.
Volleybalclub Aquacare Halen is a volleyball club based in Halen, Belgium.
VC Argex Duvel Puurs is a Belgian volleyball club from Puurs, Belgium.
The Euro Millions Volley League is the top flight in men's volleyball in Belgium. The league is organized by the Royal Belgian Volleyball Federation. Noliko Maaseik is the most successful club of the Volleyliga with 15 national titles since 1991. The first Volleyliga was played in 1944–45 and won by Léopold Club.
VC Oudegem is a women's volleyball team based in Oudegem, a town in the municipality of Dendermonde, Belgium. The club was founded in 1978.
Antwerp is the largest city in Belgium by area at 204.51 km2 (78.96 sq mi) and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 530,504, it is the most populous municipality in Belgium, and with a metropolitan population of around 1,200,000 people, it is the second-largest metropolitan region in Belgium, second only to Brussels.
Gijs Jorna is a Dutch male volleyball player. He is part of the Netherlands men's national volleyball team. He was voted best libero at the 2012 Men's European Volleyball League. On club level he played for Topvolley Precura Antwerpen in Belgium. He participated at the 2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship.
Thomas Koelewijn is a Dutch volleyball player, a member of Netherlands men's national volleyball team and French club Montpellier UC.
Hans Vanwijn is a Belgian professional basketball player for Nanterre 92 of the LNB Pro A.
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