SVV Red Star Gent

SVV Red Star Gent (318592)
managed by Lunacharsky
Full Name	Socialistische Voetbal Vereniging Red Star Gent
Abbrevation	RSG
Slogan	Nixor, Concordia, Socialisma
Team Colors	Red, Beige, Yellow
Founded	18-08-2009
Country	België
Region	Oost-Vlaanderen
Ranking	6 532
Stadium	Leon Trotski Arena
Capacity	12 000 seats
Fan club	Revolutionair Socialisten
Coach	Eddy Carpels
League	VI.580
Kits	HomeAway

SVV Red Star Gent (full name: Socialistische Voetbalvereniging Red Star Gent, abbrevation RSG) is a football team in Belgium. The team currently plays in league VI.580 of the Belgian Competition. Since 2013, they have a second team in Suriname, Rode Ster Paramaribo. The current team number was received in September 2016, after a restart when the former team was stopped on Hattrick earlier that year.

History

      Main article: Red Star Gent/History

Foundation

SVV Red Star Gent started in Hattrick on 18-08-2009. The team was founded by a group of socialists in the city of Ghent, who wanted to combine their political activity with their passion for football. Lunacharsky was elected as manager for the team. The team was first officialy named SVV Red Star Gent.

First Games

      Main article: Red Star Brussels/Season 39

When RSG was founded (as Rode Ster Gent, the team played only the last round of Global Season 39 in competition IX.1432. The match against SKDH United ended in a 2-2 draw, placing RSB fifth in the competition.

First Full season

      Main article: Red Star Brussels/Season 40

SVV Red Star Gent (then: Red Star Gent started her first full season on September 13th 2009 against United KV. RSG won easily 3-0, and immediatly showed their claims on the title for the season. However, because of two defeats against human competitor SKDH United on the second and before last matchday, RSG remained on the second position through the whole competition. Joël Crahay became topscorer with 13 goals.

The climb to the top - move to Brussels

Red Star Brussels played in division VIII.255 starting from Season 41. They performed rather well, and where able to take the first position in the competition after the seventh matchday. The team promoted to Division VII. By the end of the season, it became clear that a majority of the new supporters came from Brussels and the Walloon area, and that the team's political profile attracted large layers of foreign supporters. Therefore, the team decided to move to the Brussels town of Elsene by the end of the Season. The team started in Division VII.578, starting from Season 42. Again, they immediatly promoted that season by again winning the competition. They arrived in competition VI.449 in Season 43, and suprisingly reached the second position in the classement after an excellent season, where RSB dominated the league for most of the season. The second season in League VI.449, RSB stayed in the half of the classement, and ended fourth. The team would still stay in VI.449 for three more seasons, after it promoted to the fifth division, playing in Division V.189.

Fifth or sixth division

In League V.189, it became soon clear that the fifth division of the Belgian championship was much more difficult then the sixth division, and that the team didn't have the strenght to guarantee the maintain in this competition. Despite some good results earlier in Season 47, the team was condemned to a degradation playoff later in the season, in which it lost 1-3 against Pickass United!. The team fell back to division six. The team would remain in sixth division for another 3 seasons, although winning the league in the last two occasions. The first time, they - consciountly - didn't promote back to fifth division, the second time, in Season 50, they overclassed their competition so much, that they automatically promoted, and ended up in League V.231. This time, the promotion was much more stable, and in the very first year in 5th, a third place in the league was obtained.

Closing and reopening of the team

Early 2016, then SVV Red Star Brussels was closed, after a period of inactivity from manager User:Lunacharsky. On September 18th 2016, the team was refounded as SVV Red Star Gent, and started Season 63.

Name & Slogan

Team Name

The current name "Red Star Gent" was introduced on September 18th 2016, when the team was recreated in Gent. The name was adopted originally on September 15th 2009, when a poll amongst supporters decided to adopt "SVV Red Star Gent" as the official name of the team. Other possibilities where "Rode Ster Gent" or "Red Star Ghent". The supporters decided to take an international stand by choosing Red Star in the name of team, thus making the meaning of this part of name understandable for international supporters. They also choose to take up the official local name of the city where the team was founded: Gent (instead of Ghent in English).

Before that day, the team was first called "Rode Ster Gent". Because the Belgian Season 27 had already started, the new official name came into effect during the midseason between Season 27 and Season 28. Later, from April 2010 to early 2016, the team was called "SVV Red Star Brussels".

Slogan

The official slogan of the team is "Nixor, Concordia, Socialisma", or "Struggle, Solidarity, Socialism". It is also the slogan of the trotskyist party LSP, of which most supporters are members. The slogan expresses the sportive rivalry and competition between football teams, while on the same time stressing on the class unity between all workers of different teams, or like President Jan Verhamme of the supporters' association put it: "Football rivalry is for one evening, class solidarity is forever"

Team colours, logo and kit

Team colours

The basic team color of Red Star Brussels is red. Yellow and beige are used as secondary colors. The exact offical colours can be found in this overview:

Use	Color Name	Ex.
Primary Color	Dark Red
Red Star	Red
Secundary Color	Beige
Secundary Color	Yellow
Secundary Color	Creamy White

Logo

The Red Star Gent logo is a red shield, showing a red star in the middle, and surrounded by the rose in the fist of socialism. The shield is surrouned with banners citing the name of the team and the slogan. It replaces the old logo of a red star on a beige shield, surrounded by text banners citing the name of the team and the slogan.

The original logo was developed by fumiasty, a Polish player who used to manage Niezatapialne Pasikoniki (1825862). The logo was adapted to the new name Red Star Brussels by Canadian player Oshawa, who manages Oshawa Ogre (107171), during the period the team played in Brussels. Staff, players and supporters of Red Star Brussels are eternally grateful for the professional logo.

Shirts

      Main article: Red Star Gent/Kits

Red Star Gent' current kits are red and yellow striped, and sponsored by Ecover. The away shirts are beige with red and yellow accents.

HomeHome AwayAway

A history of the Red Star Gent kits can be found at this page.

Supporters and official fan club

Revolutionair Socialisten

Red Star Gent fans during the first ever official competition match at home against United KV on September 13th, 2009.

The official fan club of Red Star Gent is called "Revolutionair Socialisten" (or "Revolutionary Socialists" in English). Most of the members come from working-class neighbourhoods in Ghent, Brussels or the rest of Belgium, and some of them are marxist students from Ghent University. The fanclub currently has about 500 members. Red Star Brussels has an increasing number of international supporters.

RSGent supporters are well known socialists, many are members of political parties like the trotskyist LSP. They often fraternise with fanclubs from other socialist teams, like Trotskijs Kämpar in Sweden or Leninska Zvezda in Bulgaria. The "Revolutionair Socialisten" are known for their militant antiracist, antisexist and antidiscrimination attitude.

Supporters

Red Star Gent currently has 4 Hattrick Users as an official supporter.

Name	Team	Country	Since
Escafeld	Wincobank Ironopolis		28-06-2011
Jeffie	De Kleinekes		26-08-2011
Munon	Muñon Ballans		06-12-2013
GerdChaweng	Rockin St.Pauli		05-11-2013

International Friendlies

Visited

SVV Red Star Brussels has visited the following countries for friendly matches (as of 31/08/2013)

Visitors

Teams from the following countries have visited SVV Red Star Brussels for friendlies (as of 31/08/2013)

Records, Achievements and Hall of Fame

Records

Note: only official matches are considered.

Record	Date	Name	Competition	Result
Biggest Home Win	09-10-2011	SVV Red Star Brussels - wortelsoep	VI.449	12 - 0
Biggest Away Win	29-06-2011	FC Hoblogins - SVV Red Star Brussels	VI.449	0 - 11
Biggest Home Loss	28-04-2010	SVV Red Star Brussels - Shaggy2	Cup	0 - 5
Biggest Away Loss	16-11-2011	Arsenaal 2009 - SVV Red Star Brussels	Cup	6 - 0
Most goals in a match (by RSB)	09-10-2011	SVV Red Star Brussels - wortelsoep	VI.449	12 - 0
Most goals in a match (total)	09-10-2011	SVV Red Star Brussels - wortelsoep	VI.449	12 - 0
Largest home attendance	26-06-2013	Red Star Brussels - RSC Tifosi	Cup	53 000
Lowest home attendance	27-09-2009	Rode Ster Gent - tillicollapse	IX.1432	3 149
Largest transfer in	24-04-2011	Frédric Morisse	VI.449	3 500 000 €
Largest transfer out	21-04-2011	Hendrik Cosse	VI.449	6 137 000 €
Highest ranked end of season	Season 52	League V.231	League VI	2nd
Lowest ranked end of season	Season 39	League IX.1432	League IX	5th
Highest ranking overall	14-11-2011	Global Ranking Belgium	League V.189	826
Lowest ranking overall	21-09-2009	Global Ranking Belgium	League IX.1432	28 523
Longest time unbeaten	04-04-2010	Season 40 Week 14 - Season 42 Week 1	League IX.1432	17
Longest run of victories	30-01-2013	Season 50 Week 3 - Season 51 Week 2	VI.673/V.231	15
Topscorer in one Season	nvt	Leonardo Rubén Tasca	League VII.578	18
Topscorer overall	nvt	Joël Crahay	nvt	118

Achievements

League Standings

5	2	1	1	2	4	3	1	6	4	1	1	3	2	3	1	1	6	2	1	1	7	4
39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	63
Div. IX		Div. VIII		Div. VII		Div. VI		Div. V		Div. IV		Div. III

Prize Shelf

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Hall of Fame

as of 17/07/2013

Most Games Played for RSG rk Player Seasons # 1 Joël Crahay 39 - 52 169 2 Marcel Wiercigroch 42 - 153 3 Alan Noblecilla 45 - 103 4 Leonardo Rubén Tasca 41 - 51 86 5 Mario Garripoli 46 - 51 61

Most Goals for RSG rk Player Seasons # 1 Joël Crahay 39 - 52 118 2 Leonardo Rubén Tasca 41 - 51 83 3 Cas Hond 45 - 53 53 4 Mario Garripoli 46 - 51 34 5 Alan Noblecilla 45 - 53 24 6 David De Loose 51 - 53 16 7 Albertico Ferrero 40 - 43 12 8 Bernd Bruylandt 40 - 51 12 9 Nikola Simić 40 - 46 12 10 Patrice Beyer 63 - 7

Most Times Player of the Season Player Seasons # Marcel Wiercigroch 42 - 53 1 David De Loose 51 - 53 1

Largest Outgoing Transfers

Player	Date	Amount
1. Hendrik Cosse	21-04-2011	6 137 000€
2. Janick Vermeersch	28-06-2013	2 989 001€
3. Johannes Castiau	10-11-2010	2 671 000€
4. Kostas Gourounidis	23-03-2011	2 352 000€
5. Alexander Tzonov	29-05-2013	2 118 000€
6. Garmt Claude	13-07-2012	1 887 000€
7. Remmel Roumieux	08-07-2012	1 833 000€
8. Łukasz Kwietniewski	16-02-2013	1 719 720€
9. Vedat Oran	30-07-2011	1 200 000€
10. Sébastien Bonnet	22-07-2011	1 200 000€

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Player of the Season

Starting from Season 51, Red Star Gent elected every year a player of the season. Hereunder an overview of the winners of this honory prize.

Player of the Season

Season	Player	Position
Season 51	Marcel Wiercigroch	GK
Season 52	David De Loose	FW

Current Squad

Trainer: Eddy Carpels

No. Position Player 1 GK Janklaas Vanhoutteghem 2 CD Herbert Van Dam 3 CD Bertrand Clijmans 4 CD Finn Gillet 5 CM Lennart Witvrouwen 6 CM Sieciesław Kulewski 7 CM Han Baoyang 8 W Robbin Lieutenant 9 CF Joske Oyaert 10 CF Helmuth Marcussen 11 CF Lode Heirman

No. Position Player 12 GK Sven Saive 13 CD Jurgen Geluykens 14 CM Marc Drexler 15 CM Amitai Amrani 16 W Daifilo De Vree 17 FW Daniel Vissering 18 FW Patrice Beyer 19 FW Olaf Greiveldinger 20 CV Walter Vercruysse 21 CV Jean-Ignace Van Der Ween

Former players: see: Red Star Gent/Former Players

Red Star Gent
Seasons: 39 - 40 - 41 - 42 - 43 - 44 - 45 - 46 - 47 - 48 - 49 - 50 - 51 - 52 - 53 - 63 - ...
See Also
Red Star Gent - Lunacharsky - Rode Ster Paramaribo