After our succesful Champions League campaign and the current Europa League campaign, we strive to always compete in European football. Therefore, we completely redesigned our website, making it clearer and easier to use for our fans. The English version of our website has been available for a while and as of now, the French version is too.
Coach Hein Vanhaezebrouck has left KAA Gent in mutual agreement after the poor results of the last weeks.
KAA Gent want to thank the coach for his work at our club: with him we won our first title ever, we played a great Champions League and Europa League campaign, and the football was often a joy to watch.
We wish Hein all success in his future career!
Watch the press conference below:
On Thursday the 13th of July KAA Gent will host French club OGC Nice in it's yearly curtain raiser. As always this game is free for season ticket holders.
Yesterday, 65 years ago, on the 1st of June 1952, our club La Gantoise lived one the saddest day in its history. That day, 34 supporters and their busdriver lost their lives in Gravelines (North of France). They were members of the supporters club “De Kleine Dokvrienden”(Stapelplein in Ghent).
On that ill-fated day they had organized a day trip to Cassel, Cap Gris Nez and Calais in the North of France. It was meant to be a compensation for a formerly abandoned matchday trip and it was offered by the buscompany “Flying Car”.
On the return journey the bus missed a corner just before it had to drive over a bridge and ran down into the water. The balance: 35 people had drowned after a terrible death struggle and only 15 passengers miraculously survived.
It was a shock for the city and the club. The funeral took place on the 7th of June. More than 60 000 fellow citizens and several delegations from football clubs and other cities came to pay their last respects and attended the funeral. The victims were buried on the Westerbegraafplaats after an impressive funeral march. Today we remember the victims of this terrible disaster and we think about the sorrow for the city and the club.
KAA Gent will never forget the Kleine Dokvrienden. The names of the victims were the first ones to be placed on our Remembrance Wall in the Ghelamco Arena and they will be eternally remembered.
May they rest in peace.
