BELGIUM: KFC Bonanza Sint-Martens-Lierde

Tempel, Sint-Martens-Lierde = Lierde-Saint-Martin (KFC Bonanza Sint-Martens-Lierde)

Belgium, province: East Flanders

30 VII 2022 / KFC Bonanza Sint-Martens-Lierde - KVK Ninove B 0-2 / Pre-season friendly

Timeline

• 1963 / Foundation of Football Club (FC) Bonanza Sint-Martens-Lierde. The club draws its unusual name from the then-popular American Western series Bonanza which also attracted large European television audiences. Upon joining Belgium's FA that same year, the club receives matricule 6625. The club plays its football at Tempel from the foundation onwards.
• 2008 / After alternating spells in East Flanders' Provincial Leagues 3 and 4, FC Bonanza wins promotion to Provincial League 2 for the first time in its history. This first taste of P2 football lasts for two seasons.
• 2013 / Winning the title in Provincial League 3D, FC Bonanza begins another spell in Provincial League 2 - with a respectable 9th position in 2013-14 being the best result in club history - but relegation following in 2015.
• ±2013 / Upon its fiftieth anniversary in 2013 - or shortly after - the club must have acquired the royal epithet, thus becoming Koninklijke Football Club (KFC) Bonanza Sint-Martens-Lierde.
• 2020 / KFC Bonanza absorbs SK Zandbergen (matricule 9433) - at a useful moment, as Bonanza had a bad season and were condemned to relegation to Provincial League 4, while Zandbergen, in its last season before ceasing activities, finished a respectable fifth in P3; and thanks to this clever move, KFC Bonanza (there was no name change involved, although there were initial plans to name the merger club Bonanza-Zandbergen) stayed in Provincial League 3. All activities moved to Bonanza's ground at Tempel - a formal way of describing that SK Zandbergen simply ceased to exist; Zandbergen's pitch at Zandbergenplein was abandoned. 
• 2022 / Suffering relegation to Provincial League 4, KFC Bonanza is back at the lowest tier of East Flanders' league pyramid since winning the title in P4C in 2004.
• 2023 / Finishing 3rd in P4C, KFC Bonanza qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which it is eliminated in R1 by FC Sint-Niklaas (4-1). 

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