Original title
F.C. De Kampioenen
Released
10/6/1990
Origin country
BE
Genre
Comedy, Soap
Production companies
Eén, VRT
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
21
Number of episodes
273
F.C. De Kampioenen, was a long-running Flemish sitcom chronicling the adventures of a fictional local football team. It aired on the Belgian-Flemish channel één between 1990 and 2011, for 21 seasons with 273 half-hour long episodes, making it one of the most successful comedy programs ever on Belgian television. In 2009 a film had been planned, but has since been cancelled following complaints by the actors about the script. In 2012 the crew announced a new script was written and a movie will be produced. The movie is to be released in December 2013. The series relies heavily on stereotypical characters and farce for its humour. The story is mainly set around a few members of the football club who regularly visit the club canteen before or after a soccer training or match. The canteen is run by Pascale, who is in a relationship with Maurice. The football club is sponsored by the owner of a sausage factory, Balthazar Boma. Next to the field is an antiques shop, owned by the fraudulent Fernand. Most of the episodes are based on misunderstandings or dirty tricks from Fernand.
De Kampioenen have an important match to play, but the new shirts Boma promised haven't arrived yet.
Pascale bought an antique cupboard without telling it to Oscar. With the same money, Oscar got himself a new camcorder.
Doortje is angry because Pico is always busy in soccer. Meanwhile, Carmen gets furious when Xavier fails once again for his promotion examination.
Pico is going to try to break a cycling endurance record in order to collect money for De Kampioenen.
Doortje gets tired of being a housewife. Carmen and Pascale suggest her to go work for DDT, who is searching for a secretary.
Boma wants to sell Pico to an important soccer-team. Oscar is against the transfer: de Kampioenen will get much worse without Pico.
Pascale reads Bieke's mail and finds out she's selected to appear and sing in a music program.
On local radio Boma announces he'll fire Oscar if De Kampioenen lose the next match.
Since Pascale's gone and he's no longer coach of De Kampioenen, Oscar is rather depressed.
De Kampioenen find out Boma wants to sell the soccer field.
Pico doesn't agree with the fact that Boma is chairman: there have to be elections.
When the women find out that DDT is involved in a bribe scandal with the Kampioenen, they think they now have enough money to buy many many clothes. But the story isn't as simple as it looks.
Xavier sees an advertisement in the newspaper and notes that this comes from DDT who is looking for a woman. With DDT just finished a joke with Xavier, Xavier wants to takeback on DDT
Boma hands out a cup for the best player of the team. Pico is convinced that he will win until an old football player joins the Kampioenen who has played in 2nd class.
Bieke can leave for America for 1 year with her training in tourism. This is totally against the will of Pascal and Oscar and above it's that this costs 180,000 francs.
Xavier comes from the army and tells that there is a ball from the army. Carmen is going to buy huge expensive clothes to walk around as the chic lady and she obviously shows that. But on arrival they notice that the ball is only for the high boys. Because of this, Carmen is furious and he has to become Sergeant in the army.
Now that Xavier has risen higher in the army, it goes above Carmen's head. She now feels that she is the big lady and certainly Xavier has to play football with the team of the army where all the important people are.
The Kampioenen need money and they want to do a play. For this they are going to play a story where a young beautiful woman cheats her husband. For this someone has to be found and then at that moment Sabine, the young niece of Pascal comes.
Boma has a new girlfriend who is completely out for his money. Chantal, the new girlfriend twist all the men around her finger, which will lead into alot of arguments.
Bieke has to find a job and Oscar does this behind her back. Thanks to Oscar, Bieke can start working as a secretary at Boma. But she does not want this she has found a job herself. She can start working at Publitime. For this job she needs a car.
Xavier has to leave for a couple day's with the army and because of this Carmen must pay attention to his parakeets. Carmen hates these parakeets and would prefer to turn them into soup.
Doortje argues with Pico because Pico does not really like fatherhood. He does not want to hear anything about becoming a father yet. The next day Doortje hears that she is pregnant and does not dare to tell him.
Bieke has a new friend, this turns out to be a man with a lot of money that makes Pascal dream. Boma gets a visit of the tax inspector and later the other Kampioenen en DDT.
On training Xavier kicks the ball in a pool of mud where DDT is working. DDT shoos the ball back with revenge to Xavier and this hits him right on his head.
Boma is looking for a new striker. This turns out to be Bieke's new love that spoils her with beautiful words and fake rings. However, he turns out to be a huge macho who cheats Bieke with every woman he comes across.
Oscar, Doortje, Xavier and Boma have stains on their skin. They think they are flea bites and Carmen's dog Nero gets the blame.
Pascale gets attacked and, jumping to conclusions as often, Carmen soon thinks DDT tried to assault Pascale.
When he was still in school, Oscar once squealed on classmate Gentil De Schepper for stealing exam questions. Now, after all these years, Gentil is out for revenge.
Bieke wants to move out and ends up staying at Carmen's place.
Marc Vertongen from Radio Hallo hears that Bieke is single again. He wants to grab his chance, but that isn't as easy as he thought.
Oscar gets a visit from his father: a happy man who is always busy with magic. When Oscar's father meets DDT's mother, the two seem to like each other. Oscar and DDT start to fear they will soon become family.
Now Oscar has left, Boma proclaims himself trainer of De Kampioenen. DDT gets a visit of Pol, his cousin who just returned from Africa.
In intention to make their lovers jealous, Boma en Doortje fake they have a relationship. Their plan seems to work, however Pol doesn't want to believe it.
While De Kampioenen are planning a surprise for Dimitri, he thinks they want to kill him.
Two talent scouts tell DDT they want to buy the soccer ace of De Kampioenen and DDT is all to happy to help them.
DDT gets charged with fraud. Boma and Bieke are both interested in the building. Meanwhile Xavier gets an unexpected visit of his cousin Bernard.
BTW can no longer pay his debts and tries to convince Boma to invest in his restaurant, but Boma refuses. When Fernand fools BTW that "Bij Mij" will get demolished, BTW sells him the restaurant for a song.
Bieke organizes the annual ball. Carmen leaves Xavier after she overheard him badmouth her.
Mark hears Pol and Doortje talk about a dying child and thinks they're talking about Billie. Unaware they're rehearsing a play, Mark informs De Kampioenen.
Carmen wants to start a friterie. Billie considers Doortje to strict and old-fashioned and ends up living with Bieke and Mark.
After Marc got attacked by a customer who got ill of eating Bomasausage, Xavier and Marc try to find a way to make them edible. Meanwhile, Pascale's living gets redecorated. Boma has hired a certain Maurice to finish the job.
Because she fell through a step of Fernand's stairs Pascale is in a wheelchair and unable to keep the café open herself. She lets Kaat take care of business and Kaat changes the style of the café stringent. Meanwhile Bieke is sick and tired of having Pascale staying at her place.
Boma takes Pascale to Spain hoping this way she'll forget about Maurice and will fall for Boma. Meanwhile, Carmen has a film audition.
De Kampioenen have to get injected against brain hemorrhage. Pascale however is rather afraid of getting the injection and Fernand, who's about to get an inheritance, misunderstands and think they're trying to kill him.
Boma, in thinking it's a sexually tinted weekend, has arranged a survival weekend for De Kampioenen. Meanwhile, Maurice has a secret he won't tell Pascale.
Boma hears from Pascale that she is going hunting with Maurice. Boma feels that hunting is more for him than for Maurice. He tries all kinds of things to join. Pascale puts in a good word with Maurice. Mark's twin brother Bart is coming to stay. Fernand does not know this and thinks he will go crazy when confronted with the two.
To win the heart of Pascale (and a prize of 10,000 euro) Boma organizes a charity event.
Boma is out of cleaner as Carman cancels after their row resulted in her receiving the friend snacks stand. Barbara, a Polish beaty, gets hired to replace Carmen. If she is competent remains to be seen. Pascale looks forward to spending Valentines Day with Maurice. She is dissapointed when she finds out Maurice has nothing planned.
Pol tries to sabotage the relationship between Pascale and Maurice because a drunk Boma said he'll otherwise end the team. Mark has lost his wedding ring.
Still on the cruise ship, Bieke is unhappy with Mark who has to work on board, Pascal wants to bring the two together, Olivier (who works on the ship) tries to sweet talk Bieke, Pol works out and Maurice films everything all the time.
Billy has to do a business project with Tiffany, a nerdy girl who likes him, in order not to fail a subject at school.
Bieke is pregnant and Pascale finds out Maman (who has died) owned a castle.
The local middle classes union is looking for someone to play Santa Clause. He who gets the job, gets subsidy for his club. Meanwhile, Doortje wants to move.
To win 5,000 Euro, Carmen, Pol (helped by Xavier) and Fernand want to pilfer from Marc what the sound is that has to be guessed in his radio show.
Pol has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: He can go to a top match in Spain for only 750 euros. But Doortje won't let him buy it from their savings.
Boma says he'll stop sponsoring the team. To everybody's surprise, Fernand offers to be the new sponsor.
When she reads that one third of the men whose wife is pregnant is unfaithful, Carmen decides to expose Mark.
Boma wants to conquer Japan and launches a new creation: the Boma Sushi sausage.
Pascale and Maurice want to close the café one more day every week. De Kampioenen aren't happy with this. Meanwhile Xavier is looking for an extra job.
Marc starts out as a consultant. Doortje, in the wake of Marc, starts out as a new age therapist.
Fernand needs the Kampioenen to move some things in his store. When it seems that nobody wants to help, he says that he hurt his back very much. Meanwhile Pascale thinks that Xavier is falling in love with her.
Pol and Doortje have bought a new house. Boma's girlfriend Goedele meets 'de Kampioenen'.
Pol gets fired and Maurice becomes the new trainer.
Boma meets Goedele's son Ronald. De Kampioenen are preparing to play a charity match against the national team.
Doortje breaks up with Pol. She becomes fascinated by choir singer Nicolas.
In order to impress Goedele, Boma wants to learn more about the Homo Erectus. De Kampioenen think he has become gay.
Carmen's foppish tendency to buy things needlessly, often useless junk, breaks the Waterslaghers family finances and drives whipped husband Xavier to uncharacteristic measures. Beacuse Marc's rich ma keeps showering baby Pauline with gifts, Bieke's less affluent ma feels she must follow to prove equal love. Bieke tries to forbid both to bury their tiny home under presents, but the kid's birthday is coming up, and neither grandpa manages to control his wife any better then Xavier his.
To 'step-dad' Boma's secret pride, Ronaldinho is such a success with girls that he can't remember his dates when his agenda gets lost. Alas, when Caro, Tessa and Fien all turn up at the soccer canteen, expecting a romantic date, only Mark is available to give him dubious help. Meanwhile Pol gets a visit from uncle Mathieu to invite him to the 25th anniversary of the school they founded in Ouagadougou (Sahel country Burkina Faso's capital) and temporarily put up two black Africans. Fernand asks Nicolas lots of cash to help him convince Doortje 'abusive husband' Pol wants to sell their home to move to Africa, so she'll dump Pol for Nicolas.
Doortje gets the soprano soloist post at the church choir without following Pol's tips to play inti the old director Wolfgang's known taste for flirtatious women. Carmen is jealous of the attention and proves that a howling hyena's highlighted physical profile seduces an old goat far better. Bieke finds a magazine test about the ideal women and assumes Mark wants an easier, servile partner, almost her opposite. Hearing that, ma enlists 'therapist' Helga Botermans again, who meanwhile abandoned her own laughing therapy. None of her 'strategies' work, whether Bieke actually cooperates or not. Yet there's another reason.
Jealous of Goedele's book's good reception, Boma decides to publish something himself, about the only subject he knows: an auto-biography. Soon realizing he can't write either, he enlist ghost-writer Marc, who alas unearths mostly facts Boma finds too embarrassing. Carmen is so furious she won't be mentioned that she decides to write an alternative 'gutter press' biography. Fernand enlists a greenhorn lawyer to sue Boma for slander, although no manuscript exists yet.
For once, Ronaldinho is struck by Cupid's arrow hard enough to forget all about soccer having eyes only for fair Julie. When the team learns she's the daughter of rival Schellekens team's president Jean-Luc Grootjans, he's told by the mates to chose and retires to his dorm room. Bieke is enchanted by her new boss Alex, who fire 15 colleagues but promoted her his assistant. Alas, he expects her to share his suite at a conference. Ronaldinho also hits on incompatible expectations.
A comedy of errors starts when Maurice decides to put up his ancestral castle for sale. Boma accepts to give an interview to a female reporter. Fernand has a bone to pick with Boma, so he sends his man-eating niece to seduce him for his money, exaggerating his villa is a castle. Xavier hears of the plan, which would allow the niece to make Boma sell the soccer-field, and enlists mark to sabotage it. As nobody saw any of the three women, they get confused repeatedly and treated unintentionally, as happens to Boma and Maurice.
DDT escapes out of prison and wants to take revenge on 'de Kampioenen'.
On the eve of the new football league, Boma is not lacking in ambition: this season he wants his team to play champion! For that reason, he is forced to pull through a few changes. Xavier, the old dean of the team, gets replaced by Jean-Jacques, a talented goalkeeper who once played for Barcelona. The women are furious and want to take action. Meanwhile Fernand keeps bullying his neighbors. This time he is planning to sabotage the soccer field.
Boma and Ronaldinho want to surprise Goedele for her birthday: Boma is planning to formally adopt the son of his girlfriend. Goedele has her doubts and sets a first condition: Ronaldinho must pass his astronomy exam. Boma takes up the challenge, but with his own nature and the playfulness of Ronaldinho it is not easy at all. Carmen is inspired by Boma's plan and arranges a similar adoption. The 'lucky' guy is ... her dog Nero.
Boma decides to release the club anthem on single, to bring the popularity of the now always winning Champions even further. He starts looking for a famous artist to spice up the song. The other Champions also believe that they should be able to sing and launch a competition held in the café. Fernand sets himself up as manager of Carmen and does his evil best to sabotage the other participants.
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