Koninklijke Voetbal Vereniging Crossing Elewijt is a Belgian association football

Football in Belgium

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 club from the village of Elewijt

Elewijt

Elewijt is a village in the municipality of Zemst, Flemish Brabant, Belgium.Elewijt contains the castle of Het Steen, which was owned by Pieter Paul Rubens from 1635 to his death in 1640, and featured in some of his paintings....

 in the municipality of Zemst

Zemst

Zemst is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the villages of Elewijt, Eppegem, Hofstade, Weerde, Laar and Zemst proper. On January 1, 2006 Zemst had a total population of 21,327...

, Vlaams Brabant. It plays at the very last level in the Belgian football league system

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, i.e. in the 4th division of the regional league

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 of Brabant.

History

The club was founded in Ganshoren

Ganshoren

Ganshoren is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. On January 1, 2006 the municipality had a total population of 20,970. The total area is 2.46 km² which gives a population density of 8,541 inhabitants per km².-Pronunciation:* French: * Dutch:...

 (North-West of Brussels

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) as Crossing F.C. Ganshoren in 1913 and was given the matricule n°55 by the Belgian Football Association

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. R. Crossing F.C. Ganshoren changed its name in 1959 to become R. Crossing Club Molenbeek as it moved to Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussels.

Two years later the club qualified for the second division

Belgian Second Division

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 and finished 5th. It then reached the third place in 1967 and the second two seasons after to qualify for the first division. Before the beginning of the first season of the matricule n°55 at the highest level, the Crossing merged with R.C.S. Schaarbeek to become the famous R. Crossing Club Schaarbeek located in Schaarbeek

Schaarbeek

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. The spell in the first division only lasted for 4 seasons and then the club decayed.

In 1991 it merged with V.V. Elewijt to become the K.V.V. Crossing Elewijt.