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BELGIUM: FC Pulle (1965-1994) / KFC Petrus Paulus Pulle (1994-2004) / KFC Pulle (2004-)

Terrein aan de Torenstraat (KFC Pulle, formerly FC Pulle / KFC Petrus Paulus Pulle)

Belgium, province: Antwerp = Antwerpen

1 VIII 2026 / KFC Pulle - KVV OG Vorselaar B 3-2 / Antwerp, Regional Cup P3-P4 - group stage, group 6

Timeline

• 1949 / Foundation of a football club in Pulle, a village situated halfway between Lierre and Herentals in the Province of Antwerp; the new club, FC Pulle, joins the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB) with registration number 5173, with smallholder Jan Van Laer taking on the chairmanship. Settling on a pitch at Keulsebaan, at the back of Café Jan Moortgat, the club starts its life with a preliminary season in the reserves’ divisions.
• 1950 / FC Pulle starts its existence as a competitive club in Antwerp’s Regional League 3 (3e Gewestelijke), which is renamed Provincial League 3 two years later.
• 1958 / Champions in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3B, FC Pulle wins promotion to Provincial League 2 for the first time.
• 1959 / In the best performance in club history, FC Pulle manages a tenth place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 2B.
• 1960 / Finishing bottom of the table in Antwerp’s Provincial League 2B, FC Pulle drops back into Provincial League 3.
• 1965 / Moving away from Terrein aan de Keulsebaan, FC Pulle moves to a newly laid-out pitch at Torenstraat, where the club has been home until the present day. Most probably, the pitch at Keulsebaan was retained for lower team football and training sessions.
• 1972 / Finishing in twelfth place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3D, FC Pulle is placed in the newly created Provincial League 4 for the 1972-73 season.
• 1983 / Runner-up in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4E, FC Pulle wins promotion to Provincial League 3. That same year, a group of disaffected members decides to break away to form a new club, Petrus Paulus Pulle, often abbreviated as PP Pulle, which settles at the old ground at Keulsebaan. Instead of joining the official Belgian FA, PP Pulle successfully applies for membership of the so-called Katholiek Sportverbond (KSV).
• 1986 / Finishing in second-last place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3C, FC Pulle drops back into Provincial League 4 after three years.
• 1987 / Runner-up in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4B, FC Pulle manages an immediate return to Provincial League 3.
• 1988 / Finishing bottom of the table in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3C, FC Pulle descends back into Provincial League 4 after one season only.
• 1994 / After eleven years, a reconciliation is achieved between FC Pulle and Petrus Paulus Pulle, resulting in a merger club, which is given the name FC Petrus Paulus Pulle, often abbreviated as FC PP Pulle. With the old PP Pulle renouncing its membership of the KSV league association, first team football in Provincial League 4 continues to be played on the pitch at Torenstraat, with Terrein aan de Keulsebaan remaining in use for some more years as a training ground.
• 1999 / Clinching the title in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4C with coach Danny Rymen, FC Petrus Paulus Pulle wins promotion to Provincial League 3. That same year, upon the club’s fiftieth anniversary, the royal epithet is obtained, with the club thus officially being renamed Koninklijke Football Club (KFC) Petrus Paulus (PP) Pulle.
• 2001 / A second pitch is added to the set-up at Torenstraat for lower team football and training sessions; this may have coincided with the abandonment of the pitch at Keulsebaan.
• 2003 / Finishing in second-last place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3C, KFC Petrus Paulus Pulle drops back into Provincial League 4.
• 2004 / For the 2004-05 season, KFC Petrus Paulus Pulle officially takes on the simplified name KFC Pulle. That same year, the old clubhouse at Torenstraat is knocked down to make way for a completely new edifice.
• 2005 / The new clubhouse at Terrein aan de Torenstraat is inaugurated. 
• 2007 / KFC Pulle finishes as runner-up in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4D, 1 point behind champions Minderhout VV.
• 2012 / Finishing in third place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4B, KFC Pulle qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club eases past K Brecht SK in R1 (7-0 aggr.), only to suffer defeat in the final against RKVV DOSKO (3-1 aggr.).
• 2013 / Finishing in fifth place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4C, KFC Pulle qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club manages successive wins over SK Hezewijk in R1 (3-1 aggr.) and KFC Sint-Martinus Halle in R2 (final: 6-2 aggr.). As such, KFC Pulle accedes to Provincial League 3. The successful coach is Kristof Van Nueten.
• 2015 / Finishing in third-last place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3A, KFC Pulle drops back into Provincial League 4 after one season only, alongside KFC Heidebloem Pulderbos and bottom club KFC Horendonk.
• 2016 / Finishing in fifth place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4D, KFC Pulle qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by K Schelle Sport (5-2 aggr.).
• 2017 / Runner-up in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4B, 13 points behind runaway champions VC Mortsel Oude God, KFC Pulle qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club bows out in R1 against KFC Heidebloem Pulderbos (4-3 aggr.).
• 2018 / Champions in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4B, 1 point ahead of closest rivals KFC Heidebloem Pulderbos, KFC Pulle wins promotion to Provincial League 3.
• 2020 / In the 2019-20 season, cut short due to the first COVID lockdown in March 2020, KFC Pulle finds itself in third-last place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3A after 27 of 32 matches played; on that basis, the club is retrograded into Provincial League 4 along with K Brecht SK, KFC Meerle, and bottom club K Borsbeek Sport (which, incidentally, ceases all activities following the season).
• 2023 / Champions in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4E, 5 points ahead of closest rivals KSK Oosthoven, KFC Pulle wins promotion to Provincial League 3. The successful coach is Kristof Van Nueten.
• 2024 / In spite of only finishing in eleventh place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3C, KFC Pulle qualifies for the promotion play-offs by virtue of the team winning the first of the so-called period titles, a phase of the first ten matches of the season. In the play-offs, KFC Pulle edges past KFC Molenzonen-Hallaar in R1 (4-4 A.E.T. & penalty shoot-out), going on to suffer defeat in the final against K Minderhout VV (4-1). However, due to extra promotion places turning out to be available, the club accedes to Provincial League 2 after an absence of 64 years at that level. The successful coach is Kristof Van Nueten.
• 2025 / KFC Pulle secures a prolonged stay in Antwerp’s Provincial League 2B by the skin of their teeth, finishing ahead of drop-outs KVV Zwaluwen Olmen only by virtue of securing 10 wins (as opposed to 8 for Olmen).
• 2026 / Finishing in second-last place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 2B, KFC Pulle drops back into Provincial League 3 after two years, along with K Verbroedering Balen and bottom club KFC Meer.

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BELGIUM: KFC Verbroedering Alberta Geel

Frans Kerckhofsstadion, Winkelomheide (KFC Verbroedering Alberta Geel)

Belgium, province: Antwerp = Antwerpen

1 VIII 2026 / KFCV Alberta Geel - Atletico Adler FC 10-1 / Antwerp, Regional Cup P3-P4 - group stage, group 6

Timeline

• ± 1917 / In Winkelomheide, a hamlet not far from Geel in the Province of Antwerp, a recreational football team sees the daylight, FC Heidezonen. The team, which found its origins in an earlier local group of youngsters playing football with a pig bladder, with them referring to themselves as ‘Heidebloem’. FC Heidezonen most probably played its football on a pitch in the vicinity of Café Louis Vandecruys. Not much later, another recreational football team, Belgica, is formed in Winkelomheide.
• 1925 / Following a merger of FC Heidezonen and Belgica, a proper football club is founded in Winkelomheide; FC Hei-Sport Gheel, which joins the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB). Given the lack of further details regarding the club’s performance in the following years, Hei-Sport probably competed in a league of candidate clubs and reserve teams. It is unclear where the pitch of this new club was situated.
• 1926 / As the Belgian FA introduces its system of registration numbers, FC Hei-Sport Gheel receives number 506.
• 1928 / After barely three years, FC Hei-Sport Gheel renounces its membership of the Belgian Football Association. This does not imply that the club folded, as it may have continued its existence in another league association, e.g. the Vlaamsche Voetbalbond (VVB) or the Kempische Voetbalbond (KVB).
• 1936 / A club from Winkelomheide, Hei Sport Gheel – either newly founded or the old FC Hei-Sport Gheel after a spell in a different league association – seeks affiliation with the Belgian Football Association, acquiring registration number 2390 upon being accepted. For the 1936-37 season, Hei Sport Gheel is placed in Antwerp’s Regional League 3 (3e Gewestelijke).
• 1939 / After three years in Antwerp’s Regional League 3, Hei Sport Gheel folds, ceasing all activities – possibly due to many of its players being called up to perform their military service upon the mobilisation of the Belgian armed forces in the summer of 1939.
• 1942 / During the German occupation of Belgium, a new club sees the daylight in Winkelomheide, FC Alberta Geel. Although not being accepted as Belgian FA member yet, the club is allowed to take part in the 1942-43 season in Regional League 3. FC Alberta’s first ground is Terrein Den d’Juus van Mol in Hezemeer – with players being allowed to use the nearby Café Den Hollander to change clothes.
• 1943 / One year after joining competitive league football under the auspices of the Belgian FA, FC Alberta Geel is officially accepted as a new member club under registration number 3926.
• 1950 / In spite of the existence of FC Alberta Geel, a new club is formed in Winkelomheide, Heisport Geel, which is allowed into the Belgian FA with registration number 5399. Heisport Geel plays its football at Terrein Kemeldijk, situated near the crossroads with Gemeenteheide. Oddly, FC Alberta Geel seems to have moved to a pitch referred to as Terrein Kemeldijk as well around this same time, leading to the assumption that both clubs may have groundshared – or playing their football on two adjoining pitches.
• 1951 / One year after its affiliation to the Belgian FA, Heisport Geel starts its existence as a competitive club in Antwerp’s Regional League 3 (renamed Provincial League 3 in 1952), resulting in two derby games against FC Alberta Geel each season.
• 1960 / In the best season in club history, otherwise marred by continued bad results, Heisport Geel manages an eighth place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3B. Also in or around 1960, FC Alberta Geel moves away from Terrein Kemeldijk, settling on a newly laid-out ground at Gasthuisheide.
• 1970 / Following a fourteenth place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3A in the 1969-70 season, Heisport Geel withdraws from first team football – however without folding; the club may very well have fielded recreational and/or youth teams in the 1970-71 season.
• 1971 / A merger is concluded between FC Alberta Geel and Heisport Geel, leading to the foundation of FC Verbroedering Alberta Geel, which retains Alberta’s registration number 3926; Heisport’s number 5399 is erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists. That same year, the new club settles on a brand new ground, laid out on a plot of farmland owned by a local smallholder, Petrus Van Olmen, at Hollandsebaan; this is the ground where the club has been home ever since.
• 1972 / Finishing in seventh place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3H, FC Verbroedering Alberta is placed in the newly created Provincial League 4 for the 1972-73 season.
• 1974 / Clinching its first title, FC Verbroedering Alberta finishes top of the table in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4E, thus gaining promotion to Provincial League 3.
• 1978 / Finishing in thirteenth place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3C, FC Verbroedering Alberta drops back into Provincial League 4.
• 1989 / Champions in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4E, FC Verbroedering Alberta manages a return to Provincial League 3 after eleven years.
• 1992 / Finishing bottom of the table in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3D, FC Verbroedering Alberta is retrograded into Provincial League 4 after three years.
• 1993 / Former Alberta youth player, winger Robby Van de Weyer, who had joined the academy of KVC Westerlo some years previously, makes his professional league debut for the club in National Division 2 at the age of eighteen. In the following years, Van de Weyer goes on to have spells at K Lierse SK, Germinal Beerschot Antwerpen, KFC Verbroedering Geel, KVSK United, KFC Racing Mol-Wezel, and Verbroedering Geel-Meerhout – ultimately hanging up his boots in 2012.
• 1994 / As FC Verbroedering Alberta Geel acquires the royal epithet, the club officially takes on the name Koninklijke Football Club (KFC) Verbroedering Alberta Geel.
• 1995 / Finishing in third place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4C, KFC Verbroedering Alberta goes on to win the promotion play-offs, thus acceding to Provincial League 3. 
• 1996 / Finishing in third-last place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3D, KFC Verbroedering Alberta drops back into Provincial League 4 after just one season.
• 1998 / Former Alberta youth player, wingback Filip Daems, who had joined the academy of KFC Verbroedering Geel nine years previously, makes his professional league debut at the age of twenty with K Lierse SK. In a successful career, Daems goes on to have subsequent spells at Gençlerbirliği SK, Borussia Mönchengladbach, and KVC Westerlo, ultimately hanging up his boots in 2017; notably, Daems also gained 8 caps for the Belgium national side between 2004 and 2010.
• 2000 / Runner-up in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4D, KFC Verbroedering Alberta wins promotion to Provincial League 3 for the new season, probably after a round of play-offs.
• 2001 / Finishing in second-last place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3D, KFC Verbroedering Alberta drops back into Provincial League 4 after just one year.
• 2003 / Runner-up in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4D, KFC Verbroedering Alberta wins promotion to Provincial League 3 for the new season, probably after a round of play-offs.
• 2004 / Finishing in third-last place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3D, KFC Verbroedering Alberta descends into Provincial League 4 after just one season, alongside Sint-Dimphna FC Zammel and bottom club KVV Zwaluwen Olmen.
• 2012 / Finishing in third place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4E, KFC Verbroedering Alberta qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out KSC Maccabi-Voetbal Antwerpen in R1 (4-2 aggr.), only to be pegged back by K Oelegem SK in the final (4-0 aggr.).
• 2019 / Ultimate clubman and honorary president of KFC Verbroedering Alberta, Frans Kerckhofs, passes away on February 19th, 2019, at the age of 86. Later that year, the ground at Hollandsebaan is renamed in his honour, the Frans Kerckhofsstadion.
• 2022 / After a string of particularly unsuccessful seasons, KFC Verbroedering Alberta temporarily withdraws from first team football in Provincial League 4.
• 2023 / KFC Verbroedering Alberta returns to first team football in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4.

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BELGIUM: VK Holsbeek (B) (1990-1991) / VK Holsbeek (1991-)

Terrein aan de Verhaegenstraat, Holsbeek (VK Holsbeek, formerly B ground of VK Holsbeek)

Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant = Vlaams Brabant

28 VII 2026 / VK Holsbeek - SMS Lubbeek 4-0 / Pre-season friendly

Timeline

• ± 1970 / Foundation of a football club in Holsbeek, a village halfway between Louvain and Aerschot in the Belgian Province of Brabant (nowadays in Flemish Brabant). The new club takes on the name Voetbalklub (VK) Milkano Holsbeek – Milkano being a reference to the fact that the main sponsor of the venture, Alfons ‘Fons’ Tuyls, is not only the owner of the café at Kortrijksebaan which serves as clubhouse, but also the local milkman. A pitch is laid out at Meesberg, but the club sticks to playing friendly matches in the first stages of its existence.
• 1972 / After about two years of playing friendlies, VK Milkano Holsbeek applies for membership of the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB), being accepted with registration number 7783. That same year, the club moves from the pasture at Meesberg to a proper football pitch situated at Bergestraat, referred to locally as Terrein Bergeveld. A board is put together, with Achille Persoons taking on the role of chairman, and Fons Tuyls becoming treasurer. Duly settled at its new ground, VK Milkano Holsbeek starts its life as a competitive club in Brabant’s Provincial League 4.
• 1983 / A second pitch is added to the set-up at Terrein Bergeveld for lower team football and training sessions.
• 1984 / Runner-up in Brabant’s Provincial League 4G, VK Milkano Holsbeek wins promotion to Provincial League 3 for the first time.
• 1987 / Finishing in second-last place in Brabant’s Provincial League 3A, VK Milkano Holsbeek drops back into Provincial League 4 after three years.
• 1989 / Clinching the title in Brabant’s Provincial League 4G without suffering a defeat all season, VK Milkano Holsbeek manages a return to Provincial League 3. That same year, however, the club finds itself in trouble, as it is given notice to vacate the two pitches at Bergestraat as soon as possible. Another plot of land on the fringes of the village is found at Verhaegenstraat, where works get underway on laying out two pitches. 
• 1990 / Although a clubhouse at Verhaegenstraat has not been erected yet, the bulk of lower team football and training sessions moves to the new location already. Moreover, also in 1989, the name of the club is shortened, no longer being VK Milkano Holsbeek, but simply VK Holsbeek.
• 1991 / In the summer of 1991, more specifically on August 23rd, the new clubhouse at Verhaegenstraat is inaugurated by the mayor of Holsbeek, René Van Goidsenhoven. From now on, all activities of the club take place at the new location, with Terrein Bergeveld being abandoned.  
• 1994 / Finishing in second-last place in Brabant’s Provincial League 3D, VK Holsbeek drops back into Provincial League 4.
• 1999 / Champions in Brabant’s Provincial League 4G, VK Holsbeek wins promotion to Provincial League 3.
• 2006 / VK Holsbeek finishes as runner-up in Brabant’s Provincial League 3D, 6 points behind champions K Everbeur Sport.
• 2009 / Finishing in second-last place in Brabant’s Provincial League 3D, VK Holsbeek drops back into Provincial League 4 after ten years, alongside bottom side KAC Betekom B.
• 2010 / Runner-up in Brabant’s Provincial League 4H, 5 points behind champions SC Aarschot, VK Holsbeek qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club finishes in third place in a group behind VK Borchtlombeek and KSV Drieslinter, but ahead of FC Limelette, with one win (3-0 over Limelette), one draw (1-1 against Drieslinter), and one defeat (2-1 against Borchtlombeek); in retrospect, however, the play-off was superfluous, as all four sides win promotion to Provincial League 3 due to extra promotion places being available.
• 2016 / Runner-up in Brabant’s Provincial League 3A, 6 points behind champions Wolfsdonk Sport, VK Holsbeek gains promotion to Provincial League 2 for the first time due to extra promotion places being available. 
• 2019 / The main pitch of Terrein aan de Verhaegenstraat is laid out anew with a synthetic surface.
• 2024 / Finishing in fifth place in Brabant’s VFV Provincial League 2B, VK Holsbeek qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by SK Nossegem (3-2).
• 2026 / Finishing in third place in Brabant’s VFV Provincial League 2B, VK Holsbeek qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club eliminates VC Bertem-Leefdaal in R1 (1-3), going on to defeat KCS Machelen in R2 (2-0) – and KVK Wemmel in the final round (1-0), which in retrospect was superfluous, as both finalists gain promotion to Provincial League 1. In the case of VK Holsbeek, it is the first time that the club manages to accede to the top tier of the provincial pyramid.

Note – The last photo in the series below shows the old ground of VK (Milkano) Holsbeek, Terrein Bergeveld, where the club was home between 1972 and 1991.

All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author