K.A.A. Gent

Gent
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Full name	Koninklijke Atletiek; Associatie Gent (Royal Athletics Association Ghent)
Nickname(s)	De Buffalos (The Buffalos)
Founded	1864, joined Belgian FA November 1, 1900
Ground	Jules Ottenstadion, ; Ghent
Capacity	12,919
Chairman	Ivan de Witte
Manager	Michel Preud'homme
League	Jupiler League
2008-09	Jupiler League, 4th
Home colours	Away colours

K.A.A. Gent is a Belgian football, athletics and hockey club, based in the Belgian city of Ghent. It was one of the founders of the Belgian Football Association. It has been in the top flight Jupiler League since 1989-90. The hockey and athletics division were founded in 1864, making it one of the oldest sporting clubs in Belgium. The club was then known under its French name La Gantoise. It changed its name to the present Dutch version in 1971. In spite of its long history the club has never been champions of Belgium.

The nickname of the club is De Buffalo's, "The Buffaloes" in English, a term coined after a visit of the original Buffalo Bill and his Wild West circus to the city in the early 1900s.

Honours

Belgian First Division:
- Runners-up (1): 1954-55
Belgian Second Division:
- Winners (4): 1912-13, 1935-36, 1967-68, 1979-80
Belgian Second Division Final Round:
- Winners (1): 1988-89
- Runners-up (1): 1978-79
Belgian Cup:
- Winners (2): 1963-64, 1983-84
- Runners-up (1): 2007-08
Belgian Supercup:
- Runners-up (1): 1983-84
UEFA Intertoto Cup:
- Runners-up (2): 2006, 2007

European record

As of December, 2008.

Competition	A	P	W	D	L	GF	GA
Cup Winners' Cup	2	4	1	1	2	2	5
UEFA Cup	6	24	8	7	9	25	36
Intertoto Cup	6	26	10	6	10	28	30

A = appearances, P = matches played, W = won, D = drawn, L = lost, GF = goals for, GA = goals against.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away
1963-64	UEFA Cup	1R	FC Köln	1-1	1-3
1964-65	Cup Winners' Cup	1R	West Ham United	0-1	1-1
1966-67	UEFA Cup	2R	Girondins Bordeaux	1-0	0-0
		3R	Kilmarnock FC	1-2 (AET)	0-1
1970-71	UEFA Cup	1R	Hamburger SV	0-1	1-7
1982-83	UEFA Cup	1R	HFC Haarlem	3-3	1-2
1983-84	UEFA Cup	1R	RC Lens	1-1	1-2 (AET)
1984-85	Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Celtic Glasgow	1-0	0-3
1986-87	UEFA Cup	1R	Jeunesse Esch	1-1	2-1
		2R	Sportul Studentesc	1-1	3-0
		3R	IFK Göteborg	0-1	0-4
1991-92	UEFA Cup	1R	Lausanne Sports	0-1	4-1 (PEN)
		2R	Eintracht Frankfurt	0-0	1-0
		3R	FC Dynamo Moscow	2-0	0-0
		QF	AFC Ajax	0-0	0-3
2000-01	UEFA Cup	QUAL	IA Akranes	3-2	3-0
		1R	AFC Ajax	0-6	0-3
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2R	Celik Zenica	2-0	0-1
		3R	Werder Bremen	0-1	3-2
		SF	Paris St. Germain	0-0	1-7
2002	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2R	St. Patrick's Athletic	2-0	1-3
		3R	Málaga CF	1-1	0-3
2004	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Fylkir Reykjavik	2-1	1-0
		2R	Vardar Skopje	3-4 (PEN)	0-1
2005	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Bohemian FC	3-1	0-1
		2R	Tescoma Zlin	1-0	0-0
		3R	Valencia CF	0-0	0-2
2006	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3R	Grasshoppers Zürich	1-1	1-2
2007	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2R	Cliftonville FC	2-0	4-0
		3R	Aalborg BK	1-1	1-2
2008-09	UEFA Cup	2QR	Kalmar FF	2-1	0-4
2009-10	UEFA Europa League	2QR	Naftan Novopolotsk	1-0	1-2
		3QR	AS Roma	1-7	1-3

Current squad

As of August, 2009. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	BEL	Frank Boeckx
3	DF	SVN	Marko Šuler
4	DF	CRC	Roy Myrie
5	DF	NOR	Erlend Hanstveit
6	MF	BEL	Stef Wils
7	FW	BEL	Tim Smolders
8	MF	BEL	Bernd Thijs (captain)
9	FW	SEN	Mbaye Leye
10	MF	CRC	Randall Azofeifa
11	MF	MAR	Yassine El Ghanassy
12	MF	BEL	Kenny Thompson
13	DF	BRA	Adriano Duarte
14	FW	BIH	Adnan Čustović
15	FW	TOG	Adékambi Olufadé


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
16	FW	SEN	Elimane Coulibaly
17	DF	VEN	Roberto Rosales
18	DF	MLI	Kassim Doumbia
19	FW	BEL	Stijn De Smet
23	GK	BEL	Luka Lazitch
24	GK	BEL	Kenneth Ots
25	MF	SEN	Mamoutou N'Diaye
26	MF	BEL	Christophe Lepoint
28	MF	SRB	Miloš Marić
29	GK	SRB	Bojan Jorgacević
30	FW	SVN	Zlatan Ljubijankič
31	MF	FRA	Christophe Grondin