Gent

"MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> K.A.A. Gent is a Belgian football, athletics and hockey club, based in the Belgian city of Ghent . It was one of the founders of the Belgian Football Association. It has been in the top flight Jupiler League since 1989-90. The hockey and athletics division were founded in 1864 (football followed in 1900), making it one of the oldest sporting clubs in Belgium . The club was then known under its French name La Gantoise . It changed it's name to the present Dutch version in 1971. In spite of it's long history the club has never been champions of Belgium. The nickname of the club is De Buffalo's, "The Buffaloes" in English, a term coined after a visit of the original Buffalo Bill and his Wild West circus to the city in the early 1900s.