KV Kortrijk

Reasons To Adopt

KV Kortrijk are not a spare club. They are Belgium Pro League, Guldensporenstadion, Kortrijk, and 125 years of people deciding this was theirs, pick them and the season has a second spine.

• The calendar you inherit

  Belgium Pro League is cold-weather football: mud in February, breath visible under the lights, and a fixture list that rewards anyone who sticks it out. Belgium does not do easy neutrals.

• Old enough to matter

  1901 is the founding date, old enough that the club has survived a war, a rebuild and at least one financial scare, young enough that the good years are still in living memory.

• Something to defend

  The cabinet is not empty: Belgian Cup and Belgian Second Division. Small enough to recite from memory, big enough to argue about in a pub.

• Close to the pitch

  Guldensporenstadion, Kortrijk holds about 9,399. You can hear the defenders shouting at each other, which is the single best argument for lower-capacity football.