Sunday, 18 October 2026

BELGIUM: FC Anderlecht-Milan (2021-2022, 2023-2024) / Racing Anderlecht (2021-2022, 2025-) / FC Anderlecht-Milan (B) (2022-2023) / Anderlecht Youth Talents (2022-2024, 2025-) / Anneessens 25 Brussels (2024-) / Anderlecht Youth Talents (B) (2024-2025) / FC Wolves Brussels (2024-2025) / Olympic Wolves Brussels (B) (2025-2026) / FEF Anderlecht (2026-)

Complexe du Vogelenzang terr. 2, Brussels = Brussel = Bruxelles Anderlecht (Racing Anderlecht - Anderlecht Youth Talents - Anneessens 25 Brussels - FEF Anderlecht, formerly A & B ground of FC Anderlecht-Milan / B ground of Anderlecht Youth Talents / A ground of FC Wolves Brussels / B ground of Olympic Wolves Brussels)

Belgium, Brussels-Capital Region = Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

18 X 2026 / Anderlecht Youth Talents - FC Genappe 2-2 / Brabant, ACFF Provincial League 1 (= BE level 6)

Timeline
  • ± 1966 / Sometime between 1961 and 1971, three football pitches are laid out Rue Chant d’Oiseaux (Vogelenzangstraat) in Anderlecht, the southwesternmost municipality of Greater Brussels (reorganised as the Brussels-Capital Region in 1989). These are now the three pitches on the eastern side of the Complexe du Vogelenzang. Nothing is known about clubs using the pitches before the turn of the century, but the park must have been primarily in use by recreational football teams – who have continued to make use of the facility until the present day.
  • ± 1974 / Between 1971 and 1977, two more pitches are added to the set-up at Complexe du Vogelenzang, to the southwest of the three original pitches, with Terrain 4 being positioned end-to-end with Terrain 3, and Terrain 5 end-to-end with Terrain 2. Terrain 1, one of the three original pitches, runs parallel to the Rue Chant d’Oiseaux. 
  • 2018 / With a synthetic pitch having been laid out on Terrain 5 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang previously, Terrain 2 is now also equipped with a 3G pitch.
  • 2019 / Foundation of a football club in Anderlecht, Racing Anderlecht, which joins the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB) with registration number 9723. Starting its existence in Provincial League 3, the club plays its home matches on Terrain 2 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang.
  • 2021 / Having played on Terrain 5 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang in the past years, Provincial League 3 side FC Anderlecht-Milan (founded in 2003, registration number 9439) moves its first team football to Terrain 2. 
  • 2022 / Having managed two seasons – both being interrupted by successive COVID lockdowns – with a first team on Terrain 2 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang, Racing Anderlecht now withdraws from first team football halfway through the 2021-22 season, in February 2022. Since, the club has not had a first team, continuing its existence with lower teams on Terrain 1. Also in 2022, FC Anderlecht-Milan moves its first team football back from Terrain 2 to Terrain 5 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang after one season, continuing to make use of Terrain 2 for lower team football and training sessions. Meanwhile, a newly founded club, Anderlecht Youth Talents (registration number 9778), enters a first team in Provincial League 3, settling on Terrain 2 of Complexe du Vogelenzang as well.
  • 2023 / Finishing in third place in its first season in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 3A, Anderlecht Youth Talents qualifies for the promotion play-offs, knocking out BX Brussels B in R1 (2-5), but bowing out in R2 against FC Kosova Schaerbeek B (3-0). Meanwhile, after one year of playing on Terrain 5 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang, FC Anderlecht-Milan resettles its first team, competing in Provincial League 3, on Terrain 2.
  • 2024 / Runaway champions in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 3A, 20 points ahead of closest followers Black Star FC, Anderlecht Youth Talents wins promotion to Provincial League 1. In the new season, the club moves its first team football to Terrain 5 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang, while continuing to make use of Terrain 2 for lower team football and training sessions. Meanwhile, FC Anderlecht-Milan, changing its name to become FC Anderlecht Sport Milan, abandons the Complexe du Vogelenzang following the 2023-24 season, resettling to the adjacent Sint-Niklaasinstituut with its first team as well as its academy. Also in 2024, another club playing its football at Complexe du Vogelenzang, Anneessens 25 Brussels (founded as FC Jorez Sport Anderlecht in 2016 and joining the Belgian FA with registration number 9668, but taking on the name Anneessens following a takeover in 2019 and moving from the Stade Frank Vercauteren to Complexe du Vogelenzang that same year) moves its first (and only) team, which competes in Provincial League 3, from Terrain 5 to Terrain 2. Lastly, still in 2024, academy club FC Wolves Brussels (founded in 2021 as Wolves Academy and joining the Belgian FA as FC Wolves Brussels one year later with registration number 9788), moves its activities from the Plaine des Sports Corneille Barca terr. 2, elsewhere in Anderlecht, to Complexe du Vogelenzang terr. 2.
  • 2025 / After one year on Terrain 5 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang, Anderlecht Youth Talents moves its first team football back to Terrain 2. Meanwhile, FC Wolves Brussels changes its name to become Olympic Wolves Brussels, while also entering a first team in Provincial League 3 for the first time; however, this first team joins FC Anderlecht Sport Milan at the Sint-Niklaasinstituut, while the club continues to make use of Terrain 2 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang for lower team football and training sessions. Also in 2025, the local professional league club, RSC Anderlecht, is allowed to start making use of Terrain 1 and Terrain 2 of Complexe du Vogelenzang for matches and training sessions of a part of their huge youth academy.
  • 2026 / Runaway champions in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 2A, 10 points ahead of closest followers ROFC Stockel, Anderlecht Youth Talents accedes to Provincial League 1. Meanwhile, having settled on Terrain 1 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang the previous year after being evicted from the Stade Frank Vercauteren, Provincial League 3 side Generation FEFA (Football-Etudes-Familles) Anderlecht (registration number 9750) now moves to Terrain 2 of the same park under an adapted name, FEF Anderlecht. Also in 2026, Olympic Wolves Brussels moves its youth academy away from the Complexe du Vogelenzang, settling on the synthetic (half) pitch of the CERIA-COOVI academy elsewhere in Anderlecht. Still in 2026, RSC Anderlecht stops making use of Terrain 1 of Complexe du Vogelenzang, which had seen home matches of some of their youth teams in the 2025-26 season, with all remaining teams being moved to Terrain 2 of the same park.
Note – Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1, 3 & 5-21 = match visit, October 2026 / pictures 2 & 4 = match visit, August 2026 (league match Anderlecht Youth Talents - RAS Saintoise called off due to the referee judging the pitch unplayable).





















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

BELGIUM: Racing Anderlecht (B) (2021-2022, 2026-) / Racing Anderlecht (2022-2024) / Anderlecht Youth Talents (B) (2022-) / Anderlecht Braine Black Eagles (2022-2023) / FC Dawn Anderlecht (2025-) / Generation FEFA Anderlecht (2025-2026) / RSC Anderlecht (E) (2025-2026)

Complexe du Vogelenzang terr. 1, Brussels = Brussel = Bruxelles Anderlecht (FC Dawn Anderlecht / B ground of Racing Anderlecht - Anderlecht Youth Talents, formerly A ground of Racing Anderlecht / Anderlecht Braine Black Eagles / Generation FEFA Anderlecht / E ground of RSC Anderlecht)

Belgium, Brussels-Capital Region = Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

18 X 2026 / FC Dawn Anderlecht - FC Bosanci Jette 2-5 / Brabant, ACFF Provincial League 3A (= BE level 8)

Timeline
  • ± 1966 / Sometime between 1961 and 1971, three football pitches are laid out Rue Chant d’Oiseaux (Vogelenzangstraat) in Anderlecht, the southwesternmost municipality of Greater Brussels (reorganised as the Brussels-Capital Region in 1989). These are now the three pitches on the eastern side of the Complexe du Vogelenzang. Nothing is known about clubs using the pitches before the turn of the century, but the park must have been primarily in use by recreational football teams – who have continued to make use of the facility until the present day (including, notably, FC Petit Saint-Guidon and RFC Syb, with the latter settling on Terrain 1 around 2020 after some ten years spent at Stade Jesse Owens elsewhere in Anderlecht).
  • ± 1974 / Between 1971 and 1977, two more pitches are added to the set-up at Complexe du Vogelenzang, to the southwest of the three original pitches, with Terrain 4 being positioned end-to-end with Terrain 3, and Terrain 5 end-to-end with Terrain 2. Terrain 1, one of the three original pitches, runs parallel to the Rue Chant d’Oiseaux. 
  • 2021 / Provincial League 3 club Racing Anderlecht, which started its existence in 2019 (registration number 9723) on Terrain 2 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang, starts making use of Terrain 1 for lower team football.
  • 2022 / With Racing Anderlecht having withdrawn its first team from Provincial League 3 in February 2022, the club continues its existence with only lower team football on Terrain 1 (although remaining inactive in the 2024-25 season). Also in 2022, a recreational club which joins the Belgian FA (with registration number 277004), Anderlecht Braine Black Eagles, starts playing its football on Terrain 1 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang. Meanwhile, another new club, Anderlecht Youth Talents (registration number 9778), which has a first team commencing its existence in Provincial League 3 on Terrain 2 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang (and temporarily moving to Terrain 5 for the 2024-25 season), is allowed to use Terrain 1 of the same park for part of its youth academy.
  • 2023 / After an existence of one year, Anderlecht Braine Black Eagles folds, ceasing all activities.
  • 2025 / FC Dawn Anderlecht, of which the club name is alternatively given as FC DAWM Anderlecht (with a club official confirming that Dawn is the correct orthography), founded in 2022 (registration number 9829), which had played the first three years of its existence at Stade Frank Vercauteren elsewhere in Anderlecht, is evicted from that ground by Anderlecht’s municipal authorities, with the club losing its youth academy and with its first team (taking part in Provincial League 3 since 2024) being resettled to Terrain 1 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang. The exact same involuntary resettlement is made simultaneously by another Provincial League 3 club called Generation FEFA Anderlecht (FEFA meaning: Football-Etudes-Familles-Anderlecht), also playing at Stade Frank Vercauteren since its foundation in 2020 (registration number 9750). Also in 2025, the local professional league club, RSC Anderlecht, is allowed to start making use of Terrain 1 and Terrain 2 of Complexe du Vogelenzang for matches and training sessions of a part of their huge youth academy.
  • 2026 / Having settled on Terrain 1 of the Complexe du Vogelenzang the previous year, Generation FEFA Anderlecht now moves to Terrain 2 of the same park under an adapted name, FEF Anderlecht. Meanwhile, having remained inactive in the 2024-25 season and restarting with first team football on Terrain 2 in 2025, Racing Anderlecht now restarts with lower team football on Terrain 1. Also in 2026, RSC Anderlecht stops making use of Terrain 1 of Complexe du Vogelenzang, which had seen home matches of some of their youth teams in the 2025-26 season, with all remaining teams being moved to Terrain 2 of the same park.



















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

BELGIUM: VK Weerde (±1981-±2009)

Terrein aan de Kerselarenweg "Kleinveld", Weerde (formerly VK Weerde)

Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant = Vlaams Brabant

October 2026 / no match visited

Timeline
  • 1936 / In Weerde, a rural village in the Province of Brabant, not far to the south of Mechlin, not one, but two football clubs join the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB), Klauwaarts Weerde and FC Zennestampers Weerde, who are allowed into the membership of the federation with registration numbers 2420 and 2443 respectively. It is unclear where the pitches of these two clubs were situated.
  • 1937 / After a season as beginning clubs, Klauwaarts Weerde and FC Zennestampers Weerde are both placed in Brabant’s Regional League 3 (3e Gewestelijke).
  • 1939 / After two years in Regional League 3, Klauwaarts Weerde withdraws from the Belgian FA, ostensibly ceasing all activities and with registration number 2420 being struck from the association’s membership list that same year. Meanwhile, FC Zennestampers are placed in Brabant’s Regional League 2 for the 1939-40 season following a fourth place in Regional League 3A – which might have been a promotion, but which was more probably a temporary arrangement, as only makeshift competitions were organised that season due to the mobilisation of the Belgian armed forces in the summer of 1939, which saw many clubs being deprived of the bulk of their players.
  • 1940 / FC Zennestampers Weerde withdraw from first team football.
  • 1942 / Strikingly, as in 1936, two clubs from Weerde join the Belgian Football Association simultaneously, probably the successors of the two pre-war clubs; a phoenix version of Klauwaarts Weerde (registration number 3739) and FC Weerde (number 3741), with yet again being unclear where the pitches of these clubs were situated. Only Klauwaarts Weerde takes part in Brabant’s Regional League 3 in the 1942-43 season.
  • 1943 / One year after Klauwaarts Weerde, FC Weerde is placed in Brabant’s Regional League 3 as well.
  • 1944 / After only one year in Brabant’s Regional League 3, FC Weerde withdraws from competitive football. Meanwhile, after several years of inactivity, registration number 2443 of FC Zennestampers Weerde is struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list.
  • 1945 / After three seasons in Brabant’s Regional League 3, Klauwaarts Weerde withdraws from competitive football as well.
  • 1947 / Registration number 3739 and 3741 of Klauwaarts Weerde and FC Weerde are struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list on the same day, March 15th, 1947. It is unclear if one or both of the clubs continued their existence in another league association. 
  • 1960 / After a gap of more than ten years, a new club from Weerde, which may or may not have been the continuation of a recreational club, joins the Belgian Football Association, FC Weerde, which receives registration number 6354 upon being accepted as a new member club. It is unclear if the club played on the pitch situated on Kerselarenweg, abandoned in c. 1981, from the outset. In the 1960-61 season, FC Weerde competes in Brabant’s Provincial League 3 for the first time.
  • 1966 / Finishing in third-last place in Brabant’s Provincial League 3E, FC Weerde descends into Provincial League 4.
  • 1969 / FC Weerde withdraws from first team football temporarily.
  • 1970 / After a one-year break, FC Weerde returns with a first team in Brabant’s Provincial League 4.
  • 1973 / Runner-up in Brabant’s Provincial League 4D, FC Weerde wins promotion to Provincial League 3.
  • 1976 / FC Weerde changes its name to become Voetbalklub (VK) Weerde.
  • 1979 / Clinching the title in Brabant’s Provincial League 3E, VK Weerde accedes to Provincial League 2 for the first and only time in club history.
  • 1980 / In the best season in club history, VK Weerde manages a fifth place in Brabant’s Provincial League 2C – an accomplishment repeated in 1983 and 1984.
  • ± 1981 / Abandoning their old pitch, situated in between modern-day Kerselarenweg, Pastoor Primsstraat, and Paul Van Ostaijenstraat, VK Weerde settles on a newly laid-out pitch nearby, Terrein Kleinveld, further down the road on Kerselarenweg.
  • 1988 / Finishing in second-last place in Brabant’s Provincial League 2C, VK Weerde drops back into Provincial League 3 after nine years.
  • 1995 / Finishing in second-last place in Brabant’s Provincial League 3E, VK Weerde descends into Provincial League 4, a return to the bottom of the league pyramid after 22 years. In the following decade, the club usually sits near the bottom of the P4 league table.
  • 2007 / VK Weerde is joined by 39-year-old Dutch striker Eric Viscaal, who had enjoyed a prolific professional league career (1986-2002) with spells at PSV, KSK Beveren, K Lierse SK, KAA Gent, Grasshopper Club, BV De Graafschap, and KV Mechelen, before bowing out into non-league at Dilbeek Sport; Viscaal also won 5 caps for the Netherlands. After a one year break as a player following his time at Dilbeek, he returned on the pitch at VK Weerde.  
  • 2009 / Runaway champions in Brabant’s Provincial League 4F, 14 points ahead of closest followers FC Borght, VK Weerde manages a return to Provincial League 3 after fourteen years. Eric Viscaal crowns himself top scorer of the division – hanging up his boots at the end of the season to become assistant coach at Germinal Beerschot Antwerpen. Moreover, that same year, works get underway on a completely new park for the club at Galgenberg, consisting of two pitches, with the move to the new facility taking place either in the second half of 2009 or the first half of 2010. Terrein Kleinveld on Kerselarenweg is abandoned and taken over by a dog agility training club.
  • 2024 / VK Weerde folds, ceasing all activities and abandoning Terrein aan de Galgenberg. Registration number 6354 is struck from the Belgian FA's membership list.






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