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LATEST UPDATE - JS THIER-À-LIÈGE / TERRAIN DE LA RUE DU PLOPE, LIÈGE-LUIK THIER-À-LIÈGE (BELGIUM)

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BELGIUM: JS du Thier (1969-2003) / JS du Thier-à-Liège (2003-)

Terrain de la Rue du Plope, Liège = Luik Thier-à-Liège (JS du Thier-à-Liège, formerly JS du Thier)

Belgium, province: Liège = Luik

9 IV 2026 / JS du Thier-à-Liège - R Jeunesse Magnétoise B 0-2 / Liège, Provincial League 4C (= BE level 9)

Timeline

• 1969 / Foundation of a recreational football club in Thier-à-Liège, which takes on the name Jeunesse Sportive (JS) du Thier – being admitted as a member club of the Royale Ligue Belge de Football Amateur (RLBFA) under registration number 432. Most probably, JS du Thier played its football on the pitch situated at Rue du Plope from the outset.
• 1986 / JS du Thier changes its name to become Sporting Club (SC) du Thier.
• 1987 / After an existence of eighteen seasons as a recreational club, SC du Thier now joins the official Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB) under its original name, JS du Thier, acquiring membership under registration number 9075. The new club starts its existence in Liège’s Provincial League 4. The club’s achievements in the following twenty odd years are unknown.
• 1989 / Foundation of a new football club in Vottem, another town in the vicinity of Liège; the new club takes on the name Jeunesse Sportive (JS) Vottemoise, acquiring membership of Belgium’s FA under registration number 9150; JS Vottemoise, a refoundation of FC Lanaye (number 9076, founded in 1982), which had ceased its activities in 1987, settled on a pitch situated at Rue des Champs in Vottem.
• 1994 / JS Vottemoise changes its name to become FC Thier-Liège - which may have amounted to a merger with a recreational club already bearing that name, as sources state that FC Thier-Liège played its football at Rue Coupé in Fond des Tawes.
• 2003 / A merger is concluded between JS du Thier and FC Thier-Liège, resulting in the foundation of JS du Thier-à-Liège, which retains registration number 9075 of JS du Thier – with first team football moving to Rue du Plope, the ground of the last-mentioned club.
• 2009 / Finishing in second-last place in Liège’s Provincial League 3B, JS Thier-à-Liège descends into Provincial League 4 alongside R Juprelle Union and bottom club Union Roclenge-Wonck.
• 2011 / Finishing in third place in Liège’s Provincial League 4B, JS Thier-à-Liège qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by RUSJ Wandruzienne (2-2 & penalty shoot-out).
• 2012 / Finishing in fourth place in Liège’s Provincial League 4B, JS Thier-à-Liège qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is eliminated in R1 by SFC Saive (1-1 & penalty shoot-out).
• 2013 / Finishing in fifth place in Liège’s Provincial League 4B, JS Thier-à-Liège qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club suffers elimination in R1 at the hands of Union Roclenge-Wonck (4-3).
• 2014 / Replacing the old clubhouse behind the goal at the western end of the pitch at Rue du Plope, a new two-storey construction is inaugurated alongside the northern touchline of the ground. 
• 2017 / Finishing in third place in Liège’s Provincial League 4B, JS Thier-à-Liège qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club has the better of R Jeunesse Haccourtoise in R1 (2-1), only to bow out in R2 against AS Hermalienne (1-3).
• 2018 / Runner-up in Liège’s Provincial League 4B, 3 points behind champions R Harzé FC, JS Thier-à-Liège qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by R Fraiture FC (1-2).
• 2024 / Runner-up in Liège’s Provincial League 4E, 12 points behind runaway champions CFC Pontisse Herstal, JS Thier-à-Liège qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club suffers defeat at the hands of CS Juprelle B in R1 (2-3).
• 2025 / Finishing in third place in Liège’s Provincial League 4B, JS Thier-à-Liège qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by JS Hognouloise (3-5).

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BELGIUM: FC Juventus de Herstal (1978-2000) / FC Juventus-Herstal (2000-2002) / FC Ellas Liège (2000-2017) / FC Cœurs d'Or (±2009-2012) / Ellas Herstal (2017-2019) / Ellas Herstal (B) (2019-) / FC Vétérans Liégeois (2023-2024)

Terrain de la Rue Croix Jouette, Vottem (B pitch of Ellas Herstal, formerly FC Juventus de Herstal / FC Juventus-Herstal / FC Ellas Liège / FC Cœurs d'Or / Ellas Herstal) 

Belgium, province: Liège = Luik

April 2026 / no match visited

Timeline

• 19?? / It is unclear when the football pitch at Rue Croix Jouette and the adjacent pitch at Rue des Mésanges in Vottem were laid out. It is clear that, apart from the clubs mentioned below, the pitch at Rue Croix Jouette was used by many more recreational football teams, including Pompiers Herstal and AC Herstal.
• 1978 / A recreational football club sees the daylight in Vottem. The club is given the name FC Juventus de Herstal, which joins recreational league ALFA (Association Liégeoise du Football Amateur). It is not certain if the club played at Rue Croix Jouette from the outset.
• 2000 / After 22 years in the ranks of ALFA, FC Juventus Herstal now makes the leap to the official Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB) under the slightly adapted name FC Juventus-Herstal and registration number 9370; the club is placed in the bottom division of Liège’s Provincial leagues, i.e. Provincial League 4. Meanwhile, also in 2000, a new club sees the daylight, FC Ellas Liège, which joins the Belgian FA under registration number 9379, settling at Rue Croix Jouette in Vottem as groundsharers of FC Juventus-Herstal – and also starting its existence in Provincial League 4.
• 2002 / After two seasons in Provincial League 4, FC Juventus-Herstal is absorbed into a merger with RUS Wandruzienne, which changes its name to become RUS Jeunesse (RUSJ) Wandruzienne and maintaining its own registration number 2887; with all activities moving to Wandruzienne’s Terrain du Pont de Wandre, the ground at Rue Croix Jouette is left to FC Ellas Liège alongside – probably – several recreational teams.
• ± 2009 / FC Ellas Liège is joined at Rue Croix Jouette by a new recreational club, FC Cœurs d'Or, which joins the ALFA league association.
• 2012 / Usually finding itself in the lower reaches of Liège’s Provincial League 4, FC Ellas Liège has a terrible season even by its own standards, finishing bottom of the table in Provincial League 4B with just 4 points (from four draws) and a goal difference of -60. Also in or around 2012, FC Cœurs d'Or ceased its activities after an existence of some three years.
• 2017 / FC Ellas Liège changes its name to become Ellas Herstal.
• 2018 / Finishing in seventh place in Liège’s Provincial League 4B, Ellas Herstal qualifies fort he promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by R Fraiture FC (1-1 & penalty shoot-out). Surprisingly, given this relative success in the shape of qualification for the play-offs, Ellas Herstal withdraws from first team football for the 2018-19 season.
• 2019 / As FC Montemauro, who had played its football on the adjacent pitch (entrance at Rue des Mésanges) in Vottem since its foundation in 1973, moves away to groundshare with MS Herstal Milmort at Rue de l'Escousset, the former ground of the historic R Milmort FC, Ellas Herstal takes over Montemauro’s clubhouse and pitch, moving first team football to this location. The pitch at Rue Croix Jouette has remained in use for training purposes until the present day.
• 2023 / ALFA club FC Vétérans Liégeois settles on the pitch at Rue Croix Jouette in January 2023.
• 2024 / After one year and a half at Rue Croix Jouette, FC Vétérans Liégeois moves away to the synthetic side-pitch of Terrein Elderenweg in Millen.

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NETHERLANDS: SV TVO

Sportcomplex De Kruudnhof, Beckum (SV TVO)

Netherlands, province: Overijssel

6 IV 2026 / SV TVO - vv Erix 5-2 / District East, Sunday League 4B (= NL level 9)

Timeline

• 1933 / Foundation of a football club in Beckum, which takes on the name Roomsch-Katholieke Sportvereeniging (RKSV) ‘Tot Vriendschap Opgericht’ (TVO), with co-founder G.H. van der Zwaan being chosen as the club’s first chairman. Until that time, boys from Beckum had had to join clubs from other villages nearby, notably HAC in Haaksbergen (the current vv HSC ’21), to play football. Following its foundation in 1933, RKSV TVO joins the RKUVB (Roomsch-Katholieke Utrechtsche Voetbalbond), one of the sub-branches of the Roman Catholic Football Federation (RKF). It is unclear where RKSV TVO played its home matches in the first four years of its existence – what is clear, though, is that the pitch was blessed by the village priest, Fr Osse, prior to the club’s first home match against RKVV Blauw-Wit Reserves. 
• 1937 / Moving away from its first pitch after four years, RKSV TVO settles on the newly laid-out Terrein Geurdsweg, located at the crossroads with Deldenerdijk – and therefore usually referred to locally as Veld Deldenerdijk.
• 1940 / Having spent the first seven years of its existence in the RKF (RKUVB), RKSV TVO is now constrained to make the step to the official Netherlands’ FA (renamed NVB following the German oppression of the Netherlands, abandoning the royal epithet ‘koninklijk’ for obvious reasons) as all other football associations are abolished by German occupation authorities – taking its place in the NVB sub-branch in Eastern Overijssel, the so-called TVB (Twentse Voetbalbond), alternatively referred to as Afdeling Twente.
• 1944 or 1945 / RKSV TVO absorbs the local netball and walking clubs.
• 1949 / The netball branch of RKSV TVO is replaced by a branch for handball. 
• 1955 / Winning promotion from the ranks of the TVB for the first time, RKSV TVO wins promotion to District East’s Sunday League 4 for the first time. 
• 1957 / Finishing in joint last place in District East’s Sunday League 4B with SV Hector, RKSV TVO manages to defeat the club from Goor in a tie-break match, thus avoiding relegation.
• 1959 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 4B, RKSV TVO drops back into TVB Sunday Division 1 after four years.
• 1963 / Finishing in second-last place in TVB Sunday Division 1A, RKSV TVO descends into TVB Sunday Division 2 alongside bottom club vv Dolphia. It should be pointed out that, at some point in the 1960s, the prefix RKSV was dropped officiously, with the club being referred to simply as SV TVO in all sources from that time onwards.
• 1969 / The village priest in Beckum, the markedly progressive Fr Geertman, doubling as TVO’s spiritual advisor, proposes the idea of turning part of his church into a sports facility. When this proposal proves infeasible, ideas turn to laying out a sports ground at the back of the church, in the rectory garden.
• 1970 / Runner-up in TVB Sunday Division 2A, 3 points behind champions VVDL, SV TVO wins promotion to TVB Sunday Division 1. Also in 1970, works get underway on the new ground for SV TVO at the back of the church, with the main pitch being ready for use in November of that year; due to no further facilities being available in situ, though, the club finishes the 1970-71 season at Terrein Geurdsweg.
• 1971 / Finishing bottom of the table in TVB Sunday Division 1A, SV TVO drops back into Division 2 of the said league system after just one season, along with the club in second-last place, vv Geel-Zwart. Also in 1971, although not all building works have been completed, Sportcomplex De Kruudnhof is taken in use, with first team football moving to the new location behind the local church. Initially, the entrance is situated at Appelhof. The pitch at Geurdsweg, the club’s home since 1937, remains in use for lower team football and training sessions.
• 1973 / Runner-up in TVB Sunday Division 2A, 4 points behind champions RKSV Bornerbroek, SV TVO wins promotion to Division 1 of the said league system. Also in 1973, with the completion of a set of dressing rooms near the entrance gate at Appelhof, Sportpark De Kruudnhof is officially inaugurated.
• 1976 / Champions in TVB Sunday Division 1A, 1 point ahead of closest rivals vv UDI, SV TVO manages a return to Sunday League 4 after an absence of seventeen years.
• 1977 / Champions in District East’s Sunday League 4C, 1 point ahead of closest rivals vv Gendringen, SV TVO wins back-to-back promotions, acceding to Sunday League 3 for the first time in club history.
• 1978 / In the best season in club history, SV TVO manages a sixth place in District East’s Sunday League 3A.
• 1979 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 3A, SV TVO drops back into Sunday League 4 along with the club in second-last place, RKSV VOGIDO. Also in 1979, in the second phase of the development of a sports ground at the back of the church in Beckum, a sports hall and a clubhouse for SV TVO are added to the set-up – with the inauguration of the former leading to the foundation of a volleyball branch under the aegis of SV TVO. The indoor hall is named Sportzaal ‘t Geertman in honour of initiator Fr Geertman. With the inauguration of the new clubhouse, the entrance of Sportcomplex De Kruudnhof is moved from Appelhof to Beckumerkerkweg. 
• 1980 / (RK)SV TVO is officially recreated as an omni-sport club – thereby only confirming a situation which had already been in practice since the mid-1940s.
• 1984 / SV TVO finishes as runner-up in District East’s Sunday League 4A, 2 points behind champions EV&AC De Tubanters.
• 1985 / Champions in District East’s Sunday League 4A, 7 points ahead of closest followers vv Rood Zwart, SV TVO wins promotion to Sunday League 3. The successful coach is Wim Wormgoor.
• 1986 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 3A, SV TVO drops back into Sunday League 4 after just one season, alongside the club in second-last place, vv Haaksbergen.
• 1987 / Probably coinciding with the inauguration of a third pitch at Sportcomplex De Kruudnhof, SV TVO abandons its training ground, Terrein Geurdsweg, which had been in use since 1937.
• 1988 / The clubhouse at Sportcomplex De Kruudnhof is renovated and extended.
• 1990 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 4B, SV TVO descends into TVB Sunday Division 1, along with BVV Borne, the club in second-last place.
• 1991 / Champions in TVB Sunday Division 1A, 2 points ahead of closest rivals RKSV Bonifatius Boys, SV TVO manages an immediate return to Sunday League 4.
• 1992 / Finishing in second-last place in District East’s Sunday League 4A, SV TVO drops back into TVB Sunday Division 1 – renamed Sunday League 5 in 1996 – after just one season, along with bottom club vv UDI.
• 2000 / Champions in District East’s Sunday League 5B, 9 points ahead of closest followers vv Ruurlo, SV TVO wins promotion to Sunday League 4. The successful coach is Wim te Nijenhuis.
• 2002 / Coached by Wim te Nijenhuis, SV TVO finishes in second-last place in District East’s Sunday League 4B, thus descending into Sunday League 5, along with bottom club Tilligte SV.
• 2003 / Champions in District East’s Sunday League 5B, 4 points ahead of closest rivals SC Barbaros, SV TVO manages an immediate return to Sunday League 4. The successful coach (still) is Wim te Nijenhuis.
• 2004 / Finishing in second-last place in District East’s Sunday League 4A, SV TVO drops back into Sunday League 5 after just one season, alongside bottom club FC Het Centrum. Following the 2003-04 season, coach Wim te Nijenhuis leaves the club after five tumultuous years.
• 2007 / A covered stand is added to the set-up at Sportcomplex De Kruudnhof. 
• 2012 / Champions in District East’s Sunday League 5B, 9 points ahead of closest followers vv VIOS-B, SV TVO wins promotion to Sunday League 4. The successful coach is Thijs Vaanholt.
• 2013 / Finishing in eleventh place in District East’s Sunday League 4C, SV TVO goes on to save its skin at that level in a promotion-relegation play-off against vv Erix (3-2 aggr. A.E.T.).
• 2014 / The clubhouse at Sportcomplex De Kruudnhof is further extended with an extra set of dressing rooms and a new boardroom. 
• 2015 / Finishing in eleventh place in District East’s Sunday League 4B with coach Leo ter Haar, SV TVO proves unable to stave off relegation, suffering a crushing defeat against vv Buurse in a promotion-relegation play-off (5-1 aggr.) – and thus descending into Sunday League 5 along with direct drop-outs SV Wilhelminaschool and TVV.
• 2016 / Champions in District East’s Sunday League 5, 8 points ahead of closest followers vv Rietmolen, SV TVO manages an immediate return to Sunday League 4. The successful coach is Danny Ottink.
• 2017 / SV TVO concludes an agreement with local rivals vv Hoeve Vooruit, with some of the two clubs’ youth teams being merged into one.
• 2019 / Champions in District East’s Sunday League 4B, 2 points ahead of closest rivals vv UDI, SV TVO wins promotion to Sunday League 3, heralding a return to that level after an absence of 33 years. The successful coach is Danny Ottink.
• 2023 / Coached by Gijs Noltes, SV TVO finishes bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 3A, thus descending into Sunday League 4 alongside AVC Luctor et Emergo and VC Fleringen. Also in 2023, six years after the first partnership between the two clubs, SV TVO and vv Hoeve Vooruit merge their youth academies under the name SJO (Samenwerkende Jeugdopleidingen) ZWO ’23 (Zwart Wit Oranje 2023).

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

BELGIUM: RJS Anseremmoise

Stade Baron Michel de Bonhome (RJS Anseremmoise)

Belgium, province: Namur = Namen

22 III 2026 / RJS Anseremmoise - RFC Miécret 1-3 / Namur, Provincial League 3C (= BE level 8)

Timeline

• 1922 / Foundation of a football club in Anseremme, a village on the River Meuse, just to the south of Dinant in the Province of Namur. The new club, which is given the name Anseremme-Dinant FC, acquires membership of the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB) in November 1922 and settles on a ground at Rue du Vélodrome. In another contemporary source, the club is erroneously referred to as Anseremme Sporting Club (SC).
• 1926 / Anseremme-Dinant FC withdraws from regular league football. Although the club is still nominally a member of the Belgian FA when the system of registration numbers is introduced in December 1926, it does not receive a number – a sign that it was completely inactive by then.
• 1927 / The Belgian FA membership of Anseremme-Dinant FC is officially renounced in February 1927.
• 1937 / Foundation of a new football club in Anseremme, FC Anseremme, which joins the Belgian FA under registration number 2461. Its ground is situated in the Darse neighbourhood, close to the modern day marina. 
• 1941 / FC Anseremme folds, ceasing all activities; registration number 2461 is erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists. 
• 1960 / Foundation of a new football club in Anseremme, which is given the name Jeunesse Sportive (JS) Anseremmoise. The club is given permission by Baron Michel de Bonhome to lay out a pitch on his estate on the heights above the village – more specifically at Charreau de Dréhance. As a result, the pitch is usually referred to locally as the Stade du Baron.
• 1961 / Under the aegis of the club’s first chairman, Émile Wauthy, JS Anseremmoise acquires membership of the Belgian FA under registration number 6429, being placed in Namur’s Provincial League 3 for the 1961-62 season.
• 1972 / Clinching the title in Namur’s Provincial League 3C, 4 points ahead of closest followers FC Honnay, JS Anseremmoise wins promotion to Provincial League 2 for the first time. The successful coach is Jacques Fourneaux.
• 1976 / Obtaining the title in Namur’s Provincial League 2C, 1 point ahead of closest rivals RUS Assesse, JS Anseremmoise wins promotion to Provincial League 1 for the first and only time in its existence. The successful coach is Jacques Fourneaux. That summer, the wooden clubhouse at Charreau de Dréhance is replaced by a stone construction, still standing today, much closer to the sole pitch of the ground than its predecessor.
• 1977 / JS Anseremmoise suffers relegation from Namur’s Provincial League 1 after just one season, thus dropping back into Provincial League 2. In one of the following three seasons, the club tumbles back into Provincial League 3. 
• 1982 / Clinching the title in Namur’s Provincial League 3E, 3 points ahead of runner-up Chevetogne Football, JS Anseremmoise wins promotion to Provincial League 2. The successful coach is Serge Mossiat. The spell in P2 does not last very long, with relegation following sometime between 1983 and 1986.
• 1987 / Winning the title in Namur’s Provincial League 3F, 4 points ahead of closest rivals FC Monceau-en-Ardenne, JS Anseremmoise manages a return to Provincial League 2. The successful coach is Bernard Hengen. Sometime between 1988 and 2003, the club must have suffered two relegations, all the way down into Provincial League 4. 
• 2004 / Obtaining the title in Namur’s Provincial League 4D, 6 points ahead of closest followers RJS Leignon, JS Anseremmoise wins promotion to Provincial League 3. The successful coach is Francis Bar.
• 2009 / JS Anseremmoise finishes as runner-up in Namur’s Provincial League 3C, 1 point behind champions R Stade Gedinnois.
• 2010 / JS Anseremmoise finishes as runner-up in Namur’s Provincial League 3C, 12 points behind runaway champions RRC Havelange.
• 2011 / As the club celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, JS Anseremmoise acquires the royal epithet, thus officially becoming Royale Jeunesse Sportive (RJS) Anseremmoise.
• 2012 / Finishing in second-last place in Namur’s Provincial League 3C, RJS Anseremmoise drops back into Provincial League 4 alongside RUS Pondrôme and bottom club Bonneville Sport.
• 2014 / Baron Michel de Bonhome, the owner of the pitch of RJS Anseremmoise, passes away at the age of 86.
• 2018 / Finishing in third place in Namur’s Provincial League 4D, RJS Anseremmoise qualifies for a promotion play-off group with OC Sommière and RCS Hastièrois – however, losing both of its matches against these respective clubs (5-3 / 0-1), the club misses out a return to P3. 
• 2019 / RJS Anseremmoise finishes as runner-up in Namur’s Provincial League 4D, 8 points behind champions ES Gimnée-Mazée.
• 2023 / Finishing in fourth place in Namur’s Provincial League 4D, RJS Anseremmoise qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out CSE Han-sur-Lesse in R1 (0-2), only to suffer defeat in R2 at the hands of AC Lustin B (4-3). However, due to additional promotion places being at stake, a lucky loser competition is organised, with RJS Anseremmoise losing to RSC Petit-Waret B in R1 (3-4), but being given another opportunity, goes on to defeat RFC Surice B in R2 (4-2) – sufficient for a return to Provincial League 3 after an absence of eleven seasons.
• ± 2024 / The Stade du Baron at Charreau de Dréhance is officially renamed Stade Baron Michel de Bonhome.

Note - Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-5 = non-matchday visit, July 2025 / pictures 6-23 = match visit, March 2026.

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