Topvolley Antwerpen Explained

Clubname:Topvolley Antwerpen
Chairman: Jean Marie Vankerkhove
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Website:http://www.topvolleyantwerpen.be

Topvolley Precura Schelde-Natie Antwerpen is a volleyball club from Antwerp, Belgium.

Antwerpen plays in the Liga, the highest level of Belgian men's volleyball. The club has been present at this level since 2008. They ended 5th after the regular competition of the 2008-09 season, but still had to participate in the playdowns after they lost a double confrontation against 8th placed PNV Waasland.

The club came into existence in 1995, after a merger between VC Zorgvliet Hoboken and First Antwerp Volley Team. Two years later, VC Zorgvliet Antwerpen promoted for the first time to the Liga. After some quite successful seasons and a participation in the 1998 CEV Cup, the club relegated in 2003. After five seasons at the second level, Antwerpen returned to the highest division.

The team merged with VBC Scheld-Natie Kapellen after the 2010-11 season. Kapellen were also playing in the Liga at that moment.

In 2014, the club secured the victory in the Belgian cup.[1]

Squad

Coach

Kris Tanghe

Nat.NamePositionBirthdayHeight
1Dennis DeroeyLibero14/08/87191
2Niels HuysegomsMiddleblocker11/04/93201
4Jente de VriesOpposite04/07/94200
6Jens AhremarkMiddleblocker22/04/94197
8Elviss KrastinsOutside hitter15/09/94192
10Jolan CoxOpposite12/07/91194
11Simon PeetersOutside hitter28/04/97192
12Stef van HeysteSetter04/03/96191
14Sauli SinkkonenMiddleblocker14/09/89201
16AUSThomas PowellOutside hitter16/09/92194

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.cev.lu/News.aspx?NewsID=16665&TagType=0&TagContent=0&ID=0&Paging=0&Sd=1/1/1900&Ed=1/1/1900 Asterix KIELDRECHT and Precura ANTWERPEN claim Belgium’s national cups.