Club Brugge KV (the full name of the Royal Football Society Club Brugge) is a Belgian professional football club from the city of the same name. It was founded in 1891 and is one of the most titled clubs in its country. They play their home games at Jan Breydel stadium with a capacity of 29000 seats.

The development of football was facilitated by the significant presence of the British in the city, therefore, already in 1890, graduates of local schools created a team called Brugge, and a year later they officially registered the club. However, as a result of the split, a number of members left the club in 1894 and created Brugeois. In 1897, both clubs merged and continued to exist under the name Brugeois.

In 1920, after the first championship, the club was given the status of a royal, but then it was not the best time in the history of Brugge, the team was demoted several times in the class, faced financial difficulties and only starting from 1959 it was registered in the elite division, it is no longer leaving. The club acquired its current Flemish name in 1972, literally immediately celebrating this event by winning the long-awaited championship.

In the early years of the club, Brugge favored uniform light blue colors with a dark blue diagonal stripe from the left hip to the right shoulder, and acquired its current basic black and blue coloring in 1909. There is no background for such a choice.

The main rival of Brugge in the domestic arena is Anderlecht, but the confrontation with the capital is hardly a derby, which cannot be said about more than a century of rivalry with neighbors from Cercle Brugge. On the days of their face-to-face matches, the city is divided into two fan camps, which passionately support their favorites, and earlier such a confrontation in the stands often ended in fights. By the way, these clubs also have one stadium for two.

If we talk about the statistics of personal meetings between Brugge and Cercle Brugge, then the unconditional advantage is on the side of the black-blue, which two-thirds of the head-to-head fights, and there are already more than one hundred and fifty of them, finished in their favor, while the “greens” have only 31 victory.

In terms of the number of trophies won at home, Brugge is second only to Anderlecht, with 16 championship victories, 11 Belgian Cups won and 15 triumphs in the Belgian Super Cup matches. However, unlike the Brussels, Brugge cannot boast of victories in European club tournaments.

The club museum of the Belgian club does not yet have a single European trophy, although Brugge is a regular at continental tournaments of various levels. True, twice black and blue were very close to becoming the triumphant of the European Cup, but the real evil genius of the Flemings was Liverpool, who defeated the representative of Belgium in the European Cup and UEFA Cup finals.

Two years later, the paths of these teams crossed in the European Cup final, and again the Belgian champion had to overcome a difficult road to the decisive match. If the Finnish KuPS did not cause problems for the Flemings, then for the final victories over Panathinaikos, Atletico Madrid and Juventus, they had to sweat a lot, but everything was canceled out by the only goal scored in the final of the legendary Liverpool striker Kenny Dalglish.

The legendary Austrian specialist Ernst Happel left a noticeable mark in the history of the club and is rightfully considered the most successful coach of Brugge, because it is with this specialist that the golden period of the second half of the 70s is associated. It was he who managed to pick up the champion generation of players who took gold medals of the championship for three seasons in a row (seasons 1975/1976, 1976/1977, 1977/1978), won the Belgian Cup in the 1976/1977 season, and also made a lot of noise in European competitions, reaching the Cup final 1975/1976 UEFA and 1977/1978 European Cup.

Striker Raoul Lambert devoted his entire playing career to Brugge, being a pupil of the club and its true legend. Raul has played for the black and blue in a total of almost five hundred matches and hammered 270 goals into the gates of the opponents of Brugge.