Koninklijke Sport Vereniging Roeselare, abbreviated to KSV Roeselare (), also known in French as KSV Roulers, was a Belgian

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club from the city of

Roeselare Roeselare (; ; ) is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Roeselare proper and the towns of Beveren, Oekene and Rumbeke. The name of the city is derived from two ...

West Flanders West Flanders is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium. It is the only coastal Belgian province, facing the North Sea to the northwest. It has land borders with the Dutch province of Zeeland to the northeast, the Flemis ...

. Its matricule was 134. It last played at the highest level of Belgian football from 2005–06 until 2009–10, but finally folded in 2020 after having relegated to the third level and going bankrupt.

History

The first club of the city was founded in

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15 ...

by some students and named De Verenigde Vrienden (

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for The United Friends) but that name changed early to Red Star Roeselare. In

1902 Events January * January 1 ** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's ...

, the club is known as Union Sportive Roulers (in French) but it will retire from the

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for financial problems in

1909 Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escapes death by fleeing across ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * Janu ...

. The next year, two new clubs are founded – Sportvereniging Roeselare (the Catholics) and F.C. Roeselare (the non-Catholics) – but not for long as the former club activity stopped in

1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as the First World War, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip ...

due to

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. The birth of S.K. Roeselare arose seven years later. it received the matricule n° 134. F.C. Roeselare with the matricule n° 286. However, this matricule does not exist anymore as K.S.K. Roeselare and K.F.C. Roeselare merged in 1999 to form K.S.V. and kept the n° 134. The first time a team from Roeselare achieved promotion to the

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was in 2005 when K.S.V. won the second division playoff.

Honours

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: **''Runners-up (1):'' 2004–05 *

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: **Winners (1): 2005 *

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**''Runners-up (1):'' 2016–17

European record

:''As of December, 2008.'' ''Uefa Cup 2006 – 2007'' *''1st qualifier:'' ** FK Vardar Skopje – KSV Roeselare 1 – 2 **KSV Roeselare – FK Vardar Skopje 5 – 1 *''2nd qualifier:'' **KSV Roeselare – FC Ethnikos Achnas 2 – 1 ** FC Ethnikos Achnas – KSV Roeselare 5 – 0

Former players

Nikita Rukavytsya Nikita Vadymovych Rukavytsya ( ; ; born 22 June 1987) is a retired professional soccer player. Born in Ukraine, he played for the Australia national team. Early and personal life Rukavytsya was born in Mykolayiv, in the then Ukrainian SSR of ...

Ivan Perišić Ivan Perišić (; born 2 February 1989) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Eredivisie club PSV Eindhoven and the Croatia national team. Usually deployed as a left winger, he has also featured as a left wing-back, ...

Hólmar Örn Eyjólfsson Hólmar Örn Eyjólfsson (born 6 August 1990) is an Icelandic association football, footballer who plays as a centre-back for Úrvalsdeild karla (football), Úrvalsdeild karla club Valur (men's football), Valur and the Iceland national football ...

* Abdessalam Benjelloun *

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* Sami Allagui * Florin Frunză

History

Honours

European record

Former players

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