Adnan Čustović
Who coached the team K.V. Oostende from Mar 2020 to Mar 2021?
K.V . Oostende Koninklijke Voetbalclub Oostende , also called KV Oostende ( or ) or KVO , is a Belgian football club from the city of Ostend , West Flanders in Belgium . The team was founded in 1904 as VG Oostende and has the matricule No . 31 . History . In 1911 , another club was created , AS Oostende , which would soon become the best club of the city , playing regularly in the second division in the 1930s . In the mid 1970s , AS reached the first division while VG was playing at the second level . The two clubs merged in 1981 to become KV Oostende . The new club played in the third division for eleven years , before finally promoting . In its first season on the second level , Oostende immediately promoted again , to the first division , where it would achieve its best result in the club history : a seventh place , in 1993–94 . From 1995 to 2013 , Oostende has been playing in the second division , except in 1998–99 and 2004–05 , when it was at the higher level again , and in 2001–02 and 2002–03 , when it played in the third division . In 1982 , one year after the merger , VG Oostende had been re-founded at the lowest level of the Belgian football competition . The club first used the Armenonville stadium , which was the original ground of VG . In 2001 , the stadium was declared unsafe , so the club had to groundshare with KV Oostende in the Albertparkstadion , until 2010 . In 2013 , the new VG Oostende also disappeared , after a financial breakdown . In August 2013 , shortly after a new promotion to the highest level , it was announced that chairman and majority shareholder Yves Lejaeghere would be succeeded by a new chairman , businessman Marc Coucke . In the spring of 2016 , the main tribune of the Albertparkstadion was rebuilt and the stadium was renamed the Versluys Arena with the capacity increased to 8,432 . Thanks to its success in the previous campaign , Oostende played in the third qualifying round of the Europa League in the 2017/18 season . The team drew Olympique de Marseille , a club with an important place in the history of French and European football . Oostende was unable to go any further in the competition after losing 4-2 in Marseille on July 17 , 2017 and only securing a goalless draw at home on August 3rd , 2017 . While Oostende were clear underdogs , the KVO supporters filled the visitor section of the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille , proud of the teams qualification after having only been promoted to Belgiums first division a few years ago . Olympique de Marseille would go on to reach the finals in the Europa league that season , falling short to Atlético Madrid . After a disappointing beginning to the 2017/18 season , manager Yves Vanderhaeghe was set free of his obligations , with the assistant manager , Adnan Čustović , being asked to take over . In December 2017 Marc Coucke announced that he would be leaving , after recently purchasing R.S.C . Anderlecht . It was then announced on 8 February 2018 that Peter Callant would replace Coucke as chairman . Coucke confirmed his continued interest in the club and that he remained a fan and would stay on as a minority shareholder . In May 2020 an investment group acquired KV Oostende Football Club and the new investors include Pacific Media Group , Chien Lee , Partners Path Capital and Krishen Sud . Honours . - Belgian Cup : - Runners-up : 2016–17 - Belgian Second Division : - Winners ( 2 ) : 1997–98 , 2012–13 - Belgian Second Division Final Round : - Winners ( 2 ) : 1992–93 , 2003–04 Managers . - Han Grijzenhout ( 1981–82 ) - Nedeljko Bulatović ( 1982–84 ) - Luc Sanders ( 1986–87 ) - Dennis van Wijk ( 30 September 1996 – 30 June 1998 ) - Jean-Marie Pfaff ( 1 October 1998 – 4 February 1999 ) - Leo Van der Elst ( 1999–00 ) - Kenneth Brylle ( 1 July 2001 – 30 June 2003 ) - Gilbert Bodart ( 17 May 2003 – 10 January 2005 ) - Mohsen Akhondi ( 13 January 2005 – 30 June 2005 ) - Willy Wellens ( 1 July 2006–07 ) - Dennis van Wijk ( 20 November 2007 – 10 December 2007 ) - Kurt Bataille ( interim ) ( 11 December 2007 – 30 June 2008 ) - Jean-Pierre Vande Velde ( 1 July 2008 – 4 March 2009 ) - Thierry Pister ( 3 March 2009 – 14 February 2011 ) - Frederik Vanderbiest ( 16 February 2011–15 ) - Yves Vanderhaeghe ( 2015–2017 ) - Adnan Čustović ( interim ) ( 17 September 2017 –17 October 2017 ) - Adnan Čustović ( 17 October 2017 – 30 June 2018 ) - Gert Verheyen ( 2018–2019 ) - Kåre Ingebrigtsen ( 2019 ) - Dennis van Wijk ( 31 December 2019 – 2 March 2020 ) - Adnan Čustović ( 4 March 2020 – 7 June 2020 ) - Alexander Blessin ( 7 June 2020 – present )