Lommel SK

Geschiedenis

Lommel SK is a Belgian association football club based in the city of Lommel, Limburg.HistoryThe roots of the club date back to the 1920s when the club Vlug & Vrij Overpelt-Usines was founded, registering as an official club with the Royal Belgian Football Association in 1927 to receive matricule 1064. The club dissolved in 1933 only to be re-established in 1937 as Vlug & Vrij Overpelt with matricule 2554 and played at stadium De Leukens in Overpelt. It was commonly known as Overpelt Fabriek, named after the Overpelt district in which the zinc factory was situated and was a club for the local factory workers. In 1954 the club reached the national football levels, that time at the fourth level of the Belgian football pyramid, and continued to the Belgian Third Division in 1957. Near the end of the 1950s, the name was changed again, now to Vlug en Vrij Overpelt-Fabriek . In 1982 the club promoted to the Belgian Second Division where it remained for three seasons before relegating again and starting an up and down movement between the second and fourth division. In 1987 the club obtain the royal designation, thus changing the name in 1988 to Koninklijke Vlug en Vrij Overpelt-Fabriek . Midway the 1990s the club played three more seasons in the second division but promotion to the highest level would never be obtained.