See 2022 FIFA World Cup (Group E) Spain – Germany for the main article on this topic. World Cup in South Africa, plus three matches at the East Asian Championship. Three seasons later, in 1998/99, the team was penultimate, but was even relegated to the fourth division due to financial problems. Brazil against Poland was a remarkable game: 6-5 with three goals from Leônidas and four from the Pole Wilimowski. SV Zulte Waregem convincingly won their first away game against Austria Wien on October 19, 2006 with 1-4, with 3 goals from Tim Matthys and 1 from Wouter Vandendriessche. The recipe turned out to be successful and Zulte Waregem spent the entire season at the top of the standings, including a series of 17 unbeaten matches. After Zulte Waregem finished second in the competition of the 2012/13 season, it was allowed to participate in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League.

In the first leg in Ghent on February 15, 2007, they lost 1-3, a week later, on February 22, they lost 1-0 in Newcastle. SV Zulte Waregem stranded in the sixteenth finals. On September 11, 2007, he made his debut in the first team. The first home game of the French was against Croatia on September 8, 2020. Dejan Lovren put France behind in the sixteenth minute. SVZW won the game 2-1. It first took the lead after a header goal in the eleventh minute by cap Stefan Leleu. Their second game, a home game on November 2, 2006, was also convincingly and deservedly won against the Czech Sparta Prague 3-1, with goals for SVZW from Cédric Roussel, Stijn Meert and an own goal. Because the Rainbow Stadium did not meet the requirements of UEFA, the home game of Zulte Waregem was played in the stadium of Anderlecht. In those groups they were placed in a difficult group, group F, with FK Austria Wien (away game), Sparta Prague (home game), RCD Espanyol (away game) and AFC Ajax (home game) as opponents. As a result, SV Zulte Waregem surprisingly qualified for the groups. Those 18,000 supporters of SV Zulte Waregem was a strikingly large number; partly because this was more than twice the capacity of our own Rainbow Stadium.

In the 2016/17 season, SV Zulte Waregem became autumn champion after 14 matches with 30 points, 5 more than KV Oostende and RSC Anderlecht. The club continued to perform strongly in the play-offs, including victories against Anderlecht (2-1) and Club Brugge (5-2). In the tenth and final match of the play-offs, Zulte Waregem took on Anderlecht in a direct title match, which had a two-point lead. NAC Breda puts its trainer Cees Lok on hold after disagreements within the selection and the weak results in, among other things, the play-offs. Artist in Focus at the Buddhist Film Festival Europe on October 4, 5 and 6, 2014 with the films: Haiku, the Art of the Present Moment, Mount Analogue and She Who Sees in the Dark and 20 stills from her recent film at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Kimpembe made his debut on October 12, 2014 in Congo-Kinshasa U21, in a match against Young Austria. The promotion to the Primera División meant an extension of his contract in June 2014 to 2016 for coach Fernando Vázquez, but some statements made by him in the press about Deportivo's transfer policy led to his resignation only a month later. The home stadium is the Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez in Barranquila and the current coach is the Argentinian José Pekerman.

In the second half, Roberto Baggio had a great chance to make it 1-3. The captain was sent deep by Giancarlo Marocchi, placed the ball next to goalkeeper Stefan Klos, but saw his shot blocked by Bodo Schmidt before the line. Although the striker always faced competition from strikers who had become World Footballer of the Year (Marco van Basten, Roberto Baggio and George Weah), Simone still managed to play 274 matches for Milan in which he scored 74 goals. In just two years, the employees managed to completely rebuild the building. Belgium beat France 1-0, but because Poland was won twice and the Belgians lost twice against the same opponent, a 1-1 draw against Belgium was enough for qualification. Through the play-off round against the Cypriot APOEL Nicosia, the club advanced to the group stage of the Europa League. This means that the club is often regarded as a West Flemish club, although the base number comes from Zultse VV (Zulte belongs to the province of East Flanders). The name changed slightly, from SV Zulte-Waregem to SV Zulte Waregem. Two seasons later, Zulte-Waregem became champion in second division.