AS Oostende

{{short description|Former Belgian football club}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox football club | | clubname=AS Oostende | image= File:AS Oostende logo.svg | fullname=Athletische Sportvereniging Oostende Koninklijke Maatschappij | nickname= | founded=1911 (as Association Sportive Ostendaise) | dissolved =1 July 1981 (merger with VGO Oostende to form [[K.V. Oostende]]) | ground=[[Diaz Arena|Albertpark]] | capacity= 10,709 | chairman= | mgrtitle= | manager= | season = {{plainlist| *Final season *1980–81}} | position = <br />[[Belgian Third Division]], 8th of 16 | website = | pattern_la1 = | pattern_b1 =_redsides2 | pattern_ra1 = | pattern_sh1 = | pattern_so1 =_greenhorizontal | leftarm1 = 008000 | body1 = 008000 | rightarm1 = 008000 | shorts1 = ff0000 | socks1=ff0000 }} '''Athletische Sportvereniging Oostende [[Koninklijk]]e Maatschappij''' was a Belgian [[football club]] from the city of [[Ostend]], [[West Flanders]] until its merger with VGO Oostende to form [[K.V. Oostende]] in 1981.

==History== The club was founded in 1911 as Association Sportive Ostendaise (in [[French language|French]]) with the [[Football in Belgium#Matricule numbers|matricule]] n°63. Eleven years later it competed in the [[Belgian Second Division|second division]] for the first time as part of league expansion, though only remained there until 1926 when organisers decided to reduce the number of sections from two to one – Oostende had finished 9th of 14 teams in its section that season, while only the top seven were admitted to the new second tier. In 1931 the two-section setup was restored and the club regained its position, staying there for most of the next four decades aside from three short spells at the level below; at the end of the [[Second World War]], it was renamed as A.S.V. Oostende K.M., and survived the next reduction of the second tier to one section in 1952 with a 3rd place in the table.

Promotion to the [[Belgian First Division A|first division]] was achieved for the first time in 1969 by winning the second division. They went straight back down, and at the end of another terrible season in 1971 dropped down further to the [[Belgian Third Division|third division]]; however, this was soon followed by two successive promotions in 1973 and 1974 to return to the top level. The highest position reached by the club was 12th in 1976, but they were relegated again the following year. In 1981, having fallen into the third division, the club disappeared following a merger with VGO Oostende, the new entity [[K.V. Oostende]] retaining the older matricule (n°31) of VGO.

==References== * [http://users.skynet.be/pluto/Textbelgium/Teams.html Belgian football clubs history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151101183421/http://users.skynet.be/pluto/Textbelgium/Teams.html |date=1 November 2015 }} * [https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/belghist.html RSSSF Archive] – 1st and 2nd division final tables

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