The club's outfits are a striped yellow and red shirt with black shorts and socks.

[3] Coached by Aad de Mos, the well balanced team with international players like Michel Preud'Homme, Lei Clijsters, Erwin Koeman, Marc Emmers and Eli Ohana defeated Ajax in the final 1–0.

[5] In the 1988–89 season, the team also won the European Super Cup against another Dutch side, PSV Eindhoven.

A few years in a row, Anderlecht, located in nearby Brussels, attracted top players from Mechelen such as Graeme Rutjes, Johnny Bosman, Marc Emmers, Bruno Versavel, Philippe Albert and Glen de Boeck.

After a successful 2010 and four seasons for the yellow reds, coach Peter Maes decided to leave Malinwa and signed a four-year contract with Lokeren.

Van Veldhoven also could not lead KV Mechelen to Play-off 1, the clubs' recent unspoken ambition.

The club ended up choosing Yannick Ferrera for the vacant job, who had just been fired as manager of Standard Liège.

[10] In May 2019, more than 30 years after their last major trophy, second division side Mechelen won the Belgian Cup after a 2-1 victory over Gent in the final at the King Baudouin Stadium.

However the two have sparingly met in the modern era, the last time in 2005, where the game had to be stopped due to crowd violence.

[13] Traditionally KV Mechelen was the club of the catholic elite in the city while Racing was set up by the secular, liberal classes, with nationalist sympathies.

KV Mechelen also have a rivalry with football clubs from the neighbouring town of Lier (mainly Lierse SK and its successors).

It proved to be a highly successful campaign, with Mechelen reaching the final undefeated by winning seven of their eight matches en route.

They then went on to defeat Ajax 1–0 in the final, Piet den Boer scoring the decisive goal early in the second half.

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