The club was created in 1924 following the merger between FC Union and FC Goldstar, two clubs from Sint-Truiden. The colors of the club were chosen to be yellow and blue, to match the colors of the city, and it was named
Sint-Truidense Voetbal Vereeniging. The first game of the team, against Cercle Tongeren, was played in front of only 9 attendees. In the late 1930s,
Léopold Appeltans was the leading player of Sint-Truidense. On 21 November 1948 he became the first capped player for
Belgium while playing at this club. In the late 1940s it qualified for the
second division. It also changed its name to
Sint-Truidense Voetbalvereniging in 1947. Five years later it finished second in the second division and thus promoted to the
first division. Successful manager
Raymond Goethals arrived at Sint-Truiden in 1959. Under his management, the team finished second of the top division in 1966. The former Sint-Truidense goalkeeper
Jacky Mathijssen became the manager of the club in 2001 and remained at the helm for three seasons after which he left for
Charleroi. He was replaced by
Marc Wilmots, who was fired shortly after. The team finished the season under the coaching of the trio
Guy Mangelschots,
Eddy Raymaekers and
Peter Voets. At the end of the
2004–05 season the board of directors hired
Oostende manager
Herman Vermeulen but he was dismissed on 9 February 2006 as the club languished in seventeenth position. In 2008 the women's team of
FCL Rapide Wezemaal joined STVV. On 15 November 2017, Japanese-based electronic commerce and Internet company
DMM.com acquired Sint-Truidense, becoming the full owner. Since the takeover, the club began recruiting and developing Japanese players, such as,
Daichi Kamada,
Wataru Endo,
Daniel Schmidt,
Zion Suzuki,
Daiki Hashioka and
Joel Chima Fujita. in 1999 , the stadium of STVV ==Honours==