K. Waterschei S.V. Thor Genk was a Belgian

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 football club from the city of Genk

Genk

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, Limburg (Belgium)

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It was created in 1919 as Waterschei's Sport Vereeniging Thor with Thor being the acronym of Tot Herstel Onzer Rechten ("To recover our rights"). It registered to the FA

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 only in 1925 and received the matricule n°533. The club enjoyed a spell in the first division in the late 1950s to the early 1960s and again from 1978 to 1986. After two seasons in the second division

Belgian Second Division

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, K. Waterschei S.V. Thor Genk merged with K.F.C. Winterslag to form K.R.C. Genk

K.R.C. Genk

Koninklijke Racing Club Genk , usually referred to as Racing Genk or simply Genk, is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Genk in Belgian Limburg. Racing Genk plays in the Belgian Pro League and they have won 3 Belgian champion titles in 1998–99, in 2001–02 and in 2010–11 as...

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During the season 1982/83, the match Standard Liège

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-Waterschei had been bribed and the Standard eventually won the championship. Waterschei won the Belgian Cup

Belgian Cup

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 twice (1980 and 1982).

Quite remarkably, the latter victory led to Waterschei reaching the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners Cup

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 in the season 1982-83. After defeating PSG

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 in the quarter-finals, Waterschei lost the first leg of the semi-final 5-1 at Pittodrie, home of the eventual winners, Aberdeen

Aberdeen F.C.

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. A 1-0 victory in Genk, courtesy of Eddy Voordeckers

Eddy Voordeckers

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, could not reverse the position.