# Stade Leuven

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Belgian football club

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Football club

Stade Leuven Full name Koninklijke Stade Leuven Founded 12 November 1903; 122 years ago (1903-11-12) as "R. Stade Louvaniste" Dissolved 2002; 24 years ago (2002) (merged into OH Leuven) League Belgian third division, group B 2001 6th Home colours Away colours

**Koninklijke Stade Leuven** was a Belgian [football](/source/Association_football) club from the city of [Leuven](/source/Leuven), [Flemish Brabant](/source/Flemish_Brabant) that existed between 1903 and 2002.

## History

The club was founded as Stade Louvaniste and wore the [matricule](/source/Matricule) n°18. It was admitted to the first season ever of the [second division](/source/Belgian_Second_Division) in 1910–11. It left the second division in 1949 to play in the [first division](/source/Belgian_First_Division_A) for one season. The club was eventually relegated to the [third division](/source/Belgian_Third_Division) in 1953. It played in the second division again from 1981 to 1983 and from 1988 to 1991. In 2002 K. Stade Leuven as it was named since 1967 merged with [F.C. Zwarte Duivels Oud-Heverlee](/source/F.C._Zwarte_Duivels_Oud-Heverlee) (*Zwarte Duivels* means Black Devils) and [Daring Club Leuven](/source/Daring_Club_Leuven) to become [Oud-Heverlee Leuven](/source/Oud-Heverlee_Leuven) with the matricule n°6142 of the "Black Devils" Players 1982-1985: Van Outvelt,Mertens, Dallo, Arabat, Plessers, Van Minsel P.Van Groenvelt, Jonckers, Desmet, Decocker.

[Belgium national team](/source/Belgium_national_football_team) player [Dries Mertens](/source/Dries_Mertens), who is from Leuven, started his career at Stade Leuven as a boy.[1]

## References

**Cited sources**

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Dries Mertens over zijn leven als voetballer"](https://web.archive.org/web/20171013172132/http://www.mijnleuven.be/artikel/dries-mertens-over-zijn-leven-als-voetballer). Archived from [the original](http://www.mijnleuven.be/artikel/dries-mertens-over-zijn-leven-als-voetballer) on 13 October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.

**Further reading**

- [Belgian football clubs history](http://users.skynet.be/pluto/Textbelgium/Teams.html)

- [RSSSF Archive](https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/belghist.html) – 1st and 2nd division final tables

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