History Series / FCDeKampioenen

* EarWorm: The series's intro song.

The huge popularity of the show turned it into a CashCowFranchise, which spawned musical records, toys, a comic book series and even a feature film in 2013, a second one in 2015 and a third one in 2017. The comic strip remains a best seller, even now that the series have ended, because older episodes are still repeated and available by viewer demand on TV.

* TheScrappy: The character of BTW recieved generally bad reception of the audience, mostly because he had to [[ReplacementScrappy take the place]] of the immensely popular DDT. The criticism became the reason why the character lasted only for two seasons.

* TheScrappy: The character of BTW recieved generally bad reception of the audience, mostly because he had to {{ReplacementScrappy take the place}} of the immensely popular DDT. The criticism became the reason why the character lasted only for two seasons.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Xavier and Carmen.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There were plans to bring Oscar back in the final season for a guest appearance. In the end, they didn't go through with it. He did make his comeback in the second movie.

The huge popularity of the show turned it into a CashCowFranchise, which spawned musical records, toys, a comic book series and even a feature film in 2013, a second one in 2015 and a third one on the way in 2017. The comic strip remains a best seller, even now that the series have ended, because older episodes are still repeated and available by viewer demand on TV.

* DistanFinale: The third and final movie ends with an epilogue set decades after the rest of the movie, which shows how the (at this point ''very'' aged) team has stepped down and have become supporters of a new, young team of Kampioenen, trained by Ronald. Bieke and Marc's daughter holds open the bar, DDT and Fernand are living out their autumn years in prison, and Oscar is HappilyMarried in Africa. Seeing how the show started in 1990 and time passes at the same time as real life, this means the franchise's final scene can easily take place as much as ''half a century'' after the opening scene.

* {{Expy}}: A recurring character in the comics is an inspector named [[HerculePoirot Inspector Porei]].

* BreakoutCharacter: Mark Vertongen was simply meant to be a recurring radio reporter who did reports on the matches. In his early incarnation he was a pretty straight side character, but after a while {{Flanderisation}} set in and he was transformed into an infantile imbecile who provided comic relief for the children in the audience. He became a main character of the show and married the character Bieke.

* FriendlyEnemy: On their better days DDT and Fernand, despite their hate for the soccer team, also had an underlying friendship with them. Fernand, in one episode, ''insists'' on getting invited to the marriage of Mark and Bieke, and DDT was always fairly kind to Doortje, and on multiple occasions tried to be friendly with the team. Fernand even sells his shop to Bieke at a lower price in exchange for getting invited to Pascale's wedding during the series second-to-last episode, because he insists on saying goodbye to them. During the final episode, he even sheers on them during their soccer game.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Nero, the dog, was named after ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'', because Carmen just happened to see a newspaper with ''Nero'' in it when she was thinking how to name him.

** Pico, who cheated on and divorced with Doortje in between seasons 4 and 5, as the actor that portrayed him was getting increasingly difficult to work with due to drinking troubles.
** Oscar left at the end of season 4 and was revealed to have joined the Hare Krishna in Nepal in the pilot of season 5.
** DDT was arrested and sentenced to prison for fiscal fraud. He was written out after season 8 because his actor left the channel on which the show aired.

** Markske always does something stupid or wrong.

* StagParty: The guys ''tried'' to have an all-out Bachelor party the night before the wedding between Markske and Bieke in season 15, behind the backs of their wives and girlfriends. The women, however, found out and secretly rearranged their stripper and food services for themselves, sending the police after the men (for jokes). Unfortunately, this resulted in the men spending the night in jail. It gets turned around in the second-to-last episode of the series, where the men after some initial struggles end up having a fun time despite not being allowed to drink alcohol, while the women spend the entire evening bickering and having fights.

** Oscar returned in the second post-series movie as well, having been gone for a full ''twenty-one'' years both in real-life and InUniverse. He finds out that he has a granddaughter and that Pascale got remarried.

* TooDumbToLive: Markske.

* BrokenStreak: The Kampioenen have a legendary losing streak, but whenever the plot demands it they will win a (bunch of) soccer games. During the period Pol played on the team, they actually had mixed results rather than being outright losers. [[StatusQuoIsGod Which is why Pol got a leg injury that kept him from continuing to play after a few seasons.]]

* ArchEnemy: DDT, then BTW and then Fernand. They really hate having the titular "Kampioenen" as neighbours. Each of them has experienced bother from their soccer matches, and has a personal vendetta with at least one of the team members. It's really closer to SitcomArchNemesis most of the time, but DDT, after escaping/getting released from prison, has genuinely proven to hate the Kampioenen on a level the other two can't match.

** Balthazar Boma's mother (called Oma Boma by everyone else, meaning Grandma Boma)

** Balthazar the dog (Yes, the characters are aware that the dog has the same name as one of them.)
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Even though he did technically got PutOnABus, BTW was never heard from again after he sold his restaurant despite being Xavier's cousin. He was only briefly mentioned once by Fernand and it is completely unknown what has become of him.

** Pico, who cheated on and divorced with Doortje in between seasons 4 and 5, as the actor that portrayed him was gettingincreasingly difficult to work with due to drinking troubles.

** During the final season of the show, however, they spent virtually the entire season winning.

** Balthazar the dog (Yes,the characters are aware that the dog has the same name as one of them.)

* EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt: Balthazar Boma is a sausage salesman, but apart from him nobody thinks these sausages taste good. It's so bad not even dogs will eat it, and when a group of hippies [[ItMakesSenseInCOntext that had camped out on the soccer field]] ''didn't'' experience any negative effects from eating the sausage, the team was at it's wits end on how to get rid of them.

** The original seasons mixed drama with comedy, but after a while the show evolved into a slapstick parade centering around Marc, while the characters were reduced to having personalities not deeper than comic book characters. There still was the odd exception, increasingly so in the last few seasons.

** Oscar left at the end of season 4 and was revealed to have joined the Hare Krishna in Nepal in the pilot of season 5. He returned in the second post-series movie, a full ''twenty-one'' years both in real-life and InUniverse.
** DDT was arrested and sentenced to prison for fiscal fraud. He was written out after season 8 because his actor left the channel on which the show aired. Being the shows at the time most popular character, he made two returning appearances in the 20th season finale and the second post-series movie as the BigBad.
** His replacement, BTW, only lasted two seasons on account of not being very popular with the viewing audience.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Xavier and Carmen.

* ArchEnemy: DDT, then BTW and then Fernand. They really hate having the titular "Kampioenen" as neighbours.
* TheAlcoholic: Xavier, who really enjoys drinking beer.

* ButtMonkey: Usually DDT, BTW or Fernand.

** Balthazar the dog (yes the characters are aware that the dog has the same name as one of them)

** Everyone calls him "barkeep"

* CulturalTranslation: This series is really a local phenomenon and despite [[ForeignRemake some attempts to make a foreign version]] never caught on elsewhere.
* EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt: Balthazar Boma is a sausage salesman, but apart from him nobody thinks these sausages taste good.
* EveryEpisodeEnding: A lot of episodes end with characters giving a round to everyone in the bar.

* HenpeckedHusband: Xavier by Carmen and Oscar by Pascale.
* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: Especially of the sexual kind...

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Despite the title many episodes revolve less about soccer matches and more about the private lives of the characters.
* PutOnABus: Several actors and their characters have been written out from the series.

** DDT's windows are kicked in by soccer balls, to which he always shouts: "Zal 't gaan, ja?"
** Balthasar Boma's sausages are considered to be tasteless by everyone.

** The same can be said about the replacements for the show's villain, DDT. Both BTW and Fernand were introduced in the show and immediately, without any real reason at all, became the new mortal enemies of the soccer team.

** The original seasons mixed drama with comedy, but after a while the show evolved into a slapstick parade centering around Marc, while the characters were reduced to having personalities not deeper than comic book characters.

The huge popularity of the show turned it into a CashCowFranchise, which spawned musical records, toys, a comic book series and even a feature film in 2013. The comic strip remains a best seller, even now that the series have ended, because older episodes are still repeated and available by viewer demand on TV.

* ShoutOut: ComicStrip/DeKiekeboes: A special comic strip in which Fanny interviews characters from other comic strips, ''Bij Fanny Op Schoot'' has her talking to ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'', Cordelia, ''ComicBook/{{Natacha}}'', ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'', Cowboy Henk, [[ComicBook/{{Agent 327}} IJzerbroot and Olga Lawina]], ''ComicBook/DeRodeRidder'', ''FC De Kampioenen'' and ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'', among others.

* ShoutOut: ComicStrip/DeKiekeboes: A special comic strip in which Fanny interviews characters from other comic strips, ''Bij Fanny Op Schoot'' has her talking to ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'', Cordelia, ''ComicBook/{{Natacha}}'', ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'', Cowboy Henk, [[ComicBook/{{Agent 327}} IJzerbroot and Olga Lawina]], ''ComicBook/DeRodeRidder'', ''FC De Kampioenen'' and ''ComicStrip/{{Urbanus}}'', among others.

** After Pico (played by Walter Michiels) was written out of the series his wife Bieke was hooked up with a new character, Pol (played by Ben Rottiers), who shared many of the same character traits as his predecessor.

* Expy: A recurring character in the comics is an inspector named [[HerculePoirot Inspector Porei]].

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''F.C. De Kampioenen'' was a hugely popular [[UsefulNotes{{Belgium}} Flemish]] TV sitcom about the (mis)adventures of a local amateur soccer (in Dutch the word "voetbal", which actually translate to "football") club and their members. The series aired in 1990 and ended almost two decades later, in 2011. The show remains one of the most popular TV shows in Flanders and was mostly considered to be a family show, appreciated by children just as much as adults. The stories took place on the soccer field, but also in the local bar and the respective homes of the main characters.

''F.C. De Kampioenen'' ("FC" stands for "fan club") was a hugely popular Flemish TV sitcom about the (mis)adventures of a local amateur soccer (in Dutch the word "voetbal", which actually translate to "football") club and their members. The series aired in 1990 and ended almost two decades later, in 2011. The show remains one of the most popular TV shows in Flanders and was mostly considered to be a family show, appreciated by children just as much as adults. The stories took place on the soccer field, but also in the local bar and the respective homes of the main characters.

The huge popularity of the show turned it into a CashCowFranchise, which spawned musical records, toys, a comic book series and even a feature film in 2013. These comics were completely different than the show, having the ability to have the characters do or go where they wanted to, something the TV series were unable too. In fact the comics are completely separate from the show; even when the TV series ended, new comics are, as of 2012, still produced; eventually outliving the original source.

!!This TV series provides examples of the following tropes:

* FamilyRivalry: There's rivalry between the couples, but in the end they all remain good friends.

"F.C. De Kampioenen" ("FC" stands for "fan club") was a hugely popular Flemish TV sitcom about the (mis)adventures of a local amateur soccer (in Dutch the word "voetbal", which actually translate to "football") club and their members. The series aired in 1990 and ended almost two decades later, in 2011. The show remains one of the most popular TV shows in Flanders and was mostly considered to be a family show, appreciated by children just as much as adults. The stories took place on the soccer field, but also in the local bar and the respective homes of the main characters.

* ShoutOut: ComicStrip/DeKiekeboes: A special comic strip in which Fanny interviews characters from other comic strips, ''Bij Fanny Op Schoot'' has her talking to ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'', Cordelia, ''ComicBook/{{Natacha}}'', ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'', Cowboy Henk, [[ComicBook/{{Agent 327}} IJzerbroot and Olga Lawina]], ''ComicBook/DeRodeRidder'', FC De Kampioenen and ''ComicStrip/{{Urbanus}}'', among others.

* ShoutOut: ComicStrip/DeKiekeboes: A special comic strip in which Fanny interviews characters from other comic strips, ''Bij Fanny Op Schoot'' has her talking to [[ComicStrip/{{Nero}} Nero]], Cordelia, [[ComicBook/{{Natacha}} Natacha]], ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske, Cowboy Henk, [[ComicBook/{{Agent 327}} IJzerbroot and Olga Lawina]], ComicBook/DeRodeRidder, FCDeKampioenen and ComicStrip/{{Urbanus}}, among others.