AFAS Stadion (Achter de Kazerne) - KV Mechelen - The World Stadium Tour

The AFAS Stadion is a football stadium in Mechelen, Belgium.
It is used for football matches and is the home ground of KV Mechelen.
Currently, the ground has a capacity of 16,672.
The stadium is called Achter de Kazerne, which means "Behind the Army Barracks".
It is called this because the stadium was once located behind an army base.
In the past it was called Scarletstadion (2003–2006) after the stadium's sponsor Scarlet.
It was the first commercialised stadium name in Belgium.
After this, Veolia took over the deal (2006–2009) followed by Argos Oil until May 2015.
AFAS Software started with a sponsorship deal and is currently the name-holder of Achter de Kazerne.
A major reconstruction of the stadium started in 2015 and finished in 2020.
Yellow Red Koninklijke Voetbalclub Mechelen, often simply called KV Mechelen or KVM, or by their former French name FC Malinois, is a Belgian professional football club based in Mechelen in the Antwerp province.
KV Mechelen plays in the Belgian Pro League.
They have won four Belgian championships and twice the Belgian Cup, as well as the 1987–88 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 1988 European Super Cup.
They collected most of their honours in the 1940s and in the 1980s.
KV Mechelen was founded in 1904 and, in 1921–22, promoted to the first division.
The club's outfits are a striped yellow and red shirt with black shorts and socks.
KV Mechelen's most traditional rival is Racing Mechelen.
Traditionally KV Mechelen was the club of the catholic elite in the city while Racing was set up by the secular, liberal classes, with nationalist sympathies.
KV Mechelen also have a rivalry with football clubs from the neighbouring town of Lier (mainly Lierse SK and its successors).
They additionally have a rivalry with Beerschot Antwerp, which was heightened during the Match fixing scandal of 2017-2019, due to Mechelen's promotion instead of Beerschot despite being found guilty of match fixing in the previous season.
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