Royal Antwerp FC

Football club infobox
clubname = Royal Antwerp


fullname = Royal Antwerp
Football Club
nickname = Great Old
founded = 1880
ground = Bosuilstadion, Antwerp
capacity = 16,649
chairman = flagicon|Belgium Eddy Wauters
manager = flagicon|Serbia Dimitri Davidović
league = Belgian Second Division
season = 2006-07
position = Belgian Second Division, 4th
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Royal Antwerp FC is a Belgian football club, from the city of Antwerp in Antwerp (province). Antwerp became the first football club to register to the Belgian Football Association and it received consequently the matricule number one. In 1900, most of the players left the club for the new Beerschot A.C. It is also the last Belgian team to play in a European cup final (namely the Cup Winners' Cup) in 1993, losing 3-1 to Parma A.C. at Wembley Stadium.

Royal Antwerp also have a long-term partnership with the English club Manchester United F.C., often taking their young players on loan so that their development can be aided with first team football, and young players who require European work-permits can benefit from Belgium's more relaxed laws - an example is Dong Fangzhuo, who was unable to play for Manchester United at once due to work permit problems and was loaned to allow him to gain first team experience.

Current squad

Fs player|no=8|nat=Sweden|name=Darko Lukanovic|pos=FW "(on loan from KVK Tienen)"Fs player|no=23|nat=Italy|name=Francesco Carratta|pos=MF "(on loan from St. Truidense)"

Former Players

* John Aloisi
* Nana Akwasi Asare
* Csaba Bernáth
* Aluspah Brewah
* Gábor Bukrán
* Mohamed Cisse
* Simon Colosimo
* Bobsam Elejiko
* Stavros Glouftsis
* Abdul Nafiu Idrissu
* Andrzej Kubica
* Arkadiusz Kubik
* Robert Neagoe
* Igor Nikolovski
* Luciano Olguín
* Jordan Opoku
* Alen Orman
* Seol Ki-Hyeon
* Sergei Ostapenko
* Dave Simpson
* Asanda Sishuba
* Sergei Shtanyuk
* Goran Stankovski
* Frank Talia
* Jochem Tanghe
* Gennady Tumilovich
* Peter Utaka
* Jan Van Steenberghe
* Ibrahim Yattara
* Naby Yattara
* Alex Yi
* Maksim Zhalmagambetov
* Noureddine Ziyati

Manchester United F.C. Players (who were loaned)

* Hussain Yasser Abdulrahman
* Damien Allen
* Phil Bardsley
* Craig Cathcart
* Fraizer Campbell
* Luke Chadwick
* Jimmy Davis
* Richie De Laet
* Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
* Adam Eckersley
* Jonny Evans
* Dong Fangzhuo
* David Fox
* Sean Doherty
* Darron Gibson
* Tom Heaton
* Danny Higginbotham
* Eddie Johnson
* Ritchie Jones
* Michael Lea
* Arthur Gomez
* David Gray
* Kirk Hilton
* Souleymane Mamam
* Lee Robert Martin
* Henry McStay
* John O'Shea
* Richie Ryan
* Ryan Shawcross
* Danny Simpson
* Michael Stewart
* Alan Tate
* Mads Timm
* Ronnie Wallwork
* Neil Wood

References

* [http://www.rafc.be/ Official website]