NETHERLANDS: vv DESK

Eikendijk, Kaatsheuvel (vv DESK)

Netherlands, province: North Brabant

25 IX 2011 / vv DESK - vv Dongen 2-3 / Zondag Hoofdklasse B (= fourth level)

 

NETHERLANDS: vv Kloetinge

Sportpark Wesselopark, Kloetinge (vv Kloetinge)

Netherlands, province: Zealand

24 IX 2011 / vv Kloetinge - HSV Hoek 1-0 / Zaterdag Hoofdklasse B (= NL level 4)

Note: vv Unitas (K.) saw the daylight in 1931, but changed their name to vv Kloetinge in 1952. In that same year, the club moved from their first ground at Kapelsweg to the current premises, Sportpark Wesselopark.

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

BELGIUM: KFC Dessel Sport (2011-)

Armand Melis-Stadion, Dessel (KFC Dessel Sport)

Belgium, province: Antwerp

21 IX 2011 / KFC Dessel Sport - Club Brugge KV 2-3 / Belgian Cup R5

Note: Dessel Sport moved from their old Lorzestadion to the Armand Melis-Stadion in the summer of 2011.

 

LUXEMBOURG: The National Schifflange (-1995) / FC Schifflange '95 (1995-)

Municipal-Rue Denis Netgen, Schifflange = Schëffleng (FC Schifflange '95, formerly The National Schifflange)

Luxembourg, canton: Esch-sur-Alzette

18 IX 2011 / FC Schifflange '95 - FC Berdenia Berbourg 2-3 / Luxembourg, League 3B

 

LUXEMBOURG: CS Le Stade Dudelange (1913-1991) / F91 Dudelange (C) (1991-)

Stade Aloyse Meyer, Dudelange (F91 Dudelange, youth academy / formerly CS Le Stade Dudelange)

Luxembourg, canton: Esch-sur-Alzette

September 2011 / no match visited

Timeline

• 1908 / Foundation of a football club in Dudelange, which is given the name Gallia Dudelange. It is unclear if the club played its football on the location of what is now known as Stade Aloyse Meyer from the outset.
• 1912 / Gallia Dudelange changes its name to become Sparta Dudelange.
• 1913 / Sparta Dudelange changes its name to become Cercle Sportif (CS) Le Stade Dudelange, commonly known as Stade Dudelange.
• 1914 / Taking part in regular league football organised by the Luxembourg’s Football Association (FLF) for the first time, Stade Dudelange is placed in Division 1 (level 1).
• 1915 / Champions in Division 1 Group 3, Stade Dudelange takes part in the title play-offs, in which it is eliminated in R1 by AS La Jeunesse d’Esch (4-1).
• 1916 / Finishing in last place in Division 1, Stade Dudelange descends into Division 2 (level 2).
• 1919 / Tying for first place in Division 2 with SC Differdange, Stade Dudelange goes on to win a tie-break match against that club (4-0), thus managing a return to Division 1 (level 1).
• 1920 / Stade Dudelange finishes as runners-up in Division 1, 4 points behind champions CS Fola Esch.
• 1923 / Stade Dudelange finishes as runners-up in Division 1, 1 point behind champions FA Red Boys Differdange.
• 1925 / Stade Dudelange finishes as runner-up in Division 1, 1 point behind champions CA Spora Luxembourg.
• 1926 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 1, Stade Dudelange suffers relegation to Promotion (level 2) along with bottom club US Esch.
• 1927 / Champions in Promotion, Stade Dudelange wins promotion to Division 1 (level 1) along with runners-up FC Progrès 08 Grund, which had finished 8 points behind them.
• 1928 / Stade Dudelange finishes as runner-up in Division 1, 8 points behind champions CA Spora Luxembourg. Furthermore, the club reaches the final of the Luxembourg Cup for the first time, with the first two encounters against CA Spora Luxembourg ending in a draw (2-2 A.E.T. / 3-3 A.E.T.). Eventually, in the third match, Spora takes home the trophy (5-2).
• 1929 / Finishing bottom of the table in Division 1, Stade Dudelange drops back into Promotion (level 2) along with the club finishing in second-last place, AS Differdange.
• 1930 / Runners-up in Promotion, 1 point behind champions The National Schifflange, Stade Dudelange joins that club in Division 1 (level 1) for the new season.
• 1931 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 1 along with The National Schifflange, Stade Dudelange meets that club in a tie-break match. Suffering a 2-0 defeat, Stade descends into Promotion (level 2) alongside bottom club FC Red Black Pfaffenthal.
• 1932 / Tying for first place in Promotion with FC Red Black Pfaffenthal, but with a better goal difference, Stade Dudelange wins promotion to the Division d’Honneur (level 1) along with Pfaffenthal.
• 1933 / Finishing in second-last place in the Division d’Honneur, Stade Dudelange suffers relegation to Division 1 (level 2) along with bottom club FC Red Black Pfaffenthal.
• 1936 / Runners-up in Division 1, 5 points behind champions FC Progrès Niederkorn, Stade Dudelange wins promotion to the Division d’Honneur (level 1). That same season, the club remarkably reaches the final of the Luxembourg Cup, in which FA Red Boys Differdange proves too strong (2-0).
• 1938 / Successively defeating AS La Jeunesse d’Esch, CS Fola Esch, and Union Luxembourg along the way, Stade Dudelange reaches the final of the Luxembourg Cup – conquering the trophy for the first time following a 1-0 victory over The National Schifflange.
• 1939 / Stade Dudelange crowns itself champions of Luxembourg for the first time, finishing 3 points ahead of town rivals US Dudelange in the Division d’Honneur. The two clubs also meet in the Luxembourg Cup final, with US Dudelange proving the stronger this time around (2-1).
• 1940 / Stade Dudelange conquers its second consecutive Luxembourg league title, finishing 7 points ahead of derby rivals US Dudelange in the Division d’Honneur. The club also reaches the Luxembourg Cup final, but, yet again, has to settle for the silver medal following a 6-2 defeat at the hands of CA Spora Luxembourg. Following the German annexation of Luxembourg in May 1940, CS Le Stade Dudelange is forcibly renamed Fussballverein (FV) Stadt Düdelingen in a fierce Germanisation programme instigated by Nazi authorities. All Luxembourg clubs are integrated into the German league pyramid.
• 1941 / FV Stadt Düdelingen reaches the final of the Moselland Regional Cup, in which it suffers a 4-2 defeat at the hands of SK 07 Differdingen (FA Red Boys Differdange).
• 1942 / Clinching the title in the Moselland Gauliga, one of the top divisions of German football, FV Stadt Düdelingen qualifies for the nationwide title play-offs, in which the club is knocked out by eventual title winners FC Schalke 04.
• 1944 / Upon the liberation of the southern half of Luxembourg from the German yoke, FV Stadt Düdelingen takes on its original name CS Le Stade Dudelange.
• 1945 / After the liberation of the southern half of Luxembourg, an improvised 1944-45 title race is organised between nine clubs from the liberated part of the country, with the competition adopting a knock-out system. Following defeats of AS La Jeunesse d’Esch and FA Red Boys Differdange in the previous rounds, Stade Dudelange reaches the final, in which it makes short work of CA Spora Luxembourg (6-0). Thus winning the so-called Coupe de la Libération, Stade Dudelange conquers its third nationwide title.
• 1946 / Conquering the title in the Division d’Honneur, 8 points ahead of runners-up US Dudelange, Stade Dudelange wins its fourth title – also its fourth consecutive title, when the war years are not taken into consideration. Furthermore, the club reaches the final of Luxembourg’s minor cup competition, the Coupe FLF, in which it has to leave the honours to FA Red Boys Differdange (1-0).
• 1947 / Stade Dudelange conquers its fifth (consecutive) nationwide title, finishing an impressive 12 points ahead of closest followers US Dudelange. The club also reaches the Luxembourg Cup final, but has to leave the silverware to Union Luxembourg (2-1 A.E.T.).
• 1948 / Stade Dudelange conquers it sixth (consecutive) nationwide title, finishing 11 points ahead of runners-up Union Luxembourg. The club also wins the Luxembourg Cup for the second time, with a solitary Nicolas Kettel goal deciding the final against FA Red Boys Differdange (1-0 A.E.T.). In the preceding rounds, Stade had had the better of CS Alliance Dudelange, CS Oberkorn, and AS La Jeunesse d’Esch.
• 1949 / Only finishing in third place in the Division d’Honneur, with its unbroken title streak thus coming to an end, Stade Dudelange has to settle for a third Luxembourg Cup win following a 1-0 win over FC Racing Rodange in the final (goal by Paul Feller). In the preceding rounds, the club had seen off US Rumelange, Union Luxembourg, and CS Grevenmacher.
• 1950 / Reclaiming its crown, Stade Dudelange wins its seventh nationwide title, finishing 1 point ahead of closest rivals The National Schifflange in the Division d’Honneur.
• 1955 / Stade Dudelange obtains its eighth national title, finishing 9 points ahead of runners-up CS Fola Esch. Also in 1955, Stade’s wing back Erny Brenner, who had joined the club from FC Aris Bonnevoie three years previously, wins his first cap for Luxembourg – remaining a regular feature in his country’s national team in the following decade.
• 1956 / Stade Dudelange manages its fourth Luxembourg Cup win, reaching the final following successive victories over AS La Jeunesse d’Esch, FC Racing Rodange, CS Grevenmacher, and SC Tétange – going on to defeat FC Progrès Niederkorn in the final (3-1 A.E.T.; two goals by Jos Rongoni, one more by Jean Halsdorf).
• 1957 / Stade Dudelange conquers its ninth national title, finishing 6 points ahead of closest followers AS La Jeunesse d’Esch in the Division d’Honneur. The club also reaches the Luxembourg Cup final, in which it suffers a 2-1 defeat at the hands of CA Spora Luxembourg. Qualifying for the European Cup for the first time on the back of its title win, Stade Dudelange draws FK Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade), which rips apart the Luxembourgian amateur side (14-1 aggr.). The home tie in this first European adventure is not played at the Stade Aloyse Meyer, which is deemed too small for such an event, but at the Stade Municipal in Luxembourg-Ville.
• 1960 / Stade Dudelange are runners-up in the National Division, as the Division d’Honneur had been renamed in 1957, finishing 6 points behind champions AS La Jeunesse d’Esch. Yet again, the club reaches the Luxembourg Cup final without being able to take the trophy home, suffering a 3-0 defeat at the hands of The National Schifflange.
• 1965 / Stade Dudelange lays its hands on its tenth and last-ever Luxembourg league title, finishing 1 point ahead of runners-up Union Luxembourg in the National Division. Yet again, the European adventure is not a success, as the club is absolutely demolished by SL Benfica in the European Cup qualifying round (18-0 aggr.). The home tie against the Portuguese side is played at CS Fola Esch’s Stade Emile Mayrisch.
• 1968 / Finishing in second-last place in the National Division, Stade Dudelange descends into Promotion d’Honneur (level 2) along with bottom side CS Pétange, after 32 years at the top level of Luxembourgian football.
• 1969 / Champions in Promotion d’Honneur, Stade Dudelange manages an immediate return to the National Division, winning promotion to the top tier along with the club finishing in second place, SC Tétange.
• 1971 / Finishing in second-last place in the National Division, Stade Dudelange drops back into Promotion d’Honneur alongside bottom club CS Grevenmacher. Also in 1971, wingback Erny Brenner hangs up his boots after nineteen consecutive seasons with the club. Brenner had also won 67 caps for his country between 1955 and 1965, being part of the legendary Luxembourg side which eliminated the Netherlands to reach the quarter-finals of the 1964 European Championships.
• 1973 / Finishing as runners-up in Promotion d’Honneur, 5 points behind champions FC Red Star Merl-Belair, Stade Dudelange wins promotion to the National Division.
• 1974 / Finishing in second-last place in the National Division, Stade Dudelange drops back into Promotion d’Honneur after just one season, along with bottom club The National Schifflange.
• 1975 / Runners-up in Promotion d’Honneur, 3 points behind champions FC Chiers Rodange, Stade Dudelange manages an immediate return to the National Division.
• 1978 / Finishing bottom of the table in the National Division, Stade Dudelange is retrograded to Promotion d’Honneur along with the club finishing in second-last place, CA Spora Luxembourg.
• 1979 / Runners-up in Promotion d’Honneur, 1 point behind champions CA Spora Luxembourg, Stade Dudelange manages an immediate return to the National Division.
• 1981 / Finishing bottom of the table in the National Division, Stade Dudelange is retrograded to Promotion d’Honneur along with the club finishing in second-last place, FC Etzella Ettelbruck.
• 1982 / Runners-up in Promotion d’Honneur, 3 points behind champions US Rumelange, Stade Dudelange manages an immediate return to the National Division.
• 1986 / Finishing bottom of the table in the National Division, Stade Dudelange drops back into Promotion d’Honneur alongside the club finishing second from bottom, FC Aris Bonnevoie. Stade would not manage to reclaim its spot in the top flight in the remaining years of its existence.
• 1987 / Finishing bottom of the table in Promotion d’Honneur, Stade Dudelange suffers its second relegation in a row, descending into Division 1 (level 3) along with the club in second-last place, FC Chiers Rodange. It is the first time that Stade Dudelange finds itself outside the top-two divisions of Luxembourg’s football pyramid.
• 1989 / Finishing in third-last place in Division 1 Group 2, Stade Dudelange suffers relegation to Division 2 (level 4) alongside FC Blo-Weiss Izeg and bottom club FC Sporting Bertrange.
• 1990 / Runners-up in Division 2 Group 3, 2 points behind champions FC Mondercange, Stade Dudelange manages an immediate return to Division 1 (level 3).
• 1991 / In its last season as an independent club, Stade Dudelange finishes in fourth place in Division 1. Following the 1990-91 season, CS Le Stade Dudelange concludes a merger deal with the two other clubs in Dudelange, CS Alliance Dudelange and FC US Dudelange, resulting in the foundation of Football 91 (F91) Dudelange. After starting the 1991-92 season at Stade J.F. Kennedy, F91 Dudelange moves its first team football to US Dudelange’s Stade Jos Nosbaum in the fall of 1991, with Alliance’s Stade Amadéo Barozzi being retained for lower team football (as well as recreational football) and Stade Dudelange’s Stade Aloyse Meyer becoming the main seat of the new club’s youth academy. Starting its life in Promotion d’Honneur after taking Alliance’s place in that division, F91 Dudelange would go on to win promotion to the National Division in 1992 – becoming Luxembourg’s absolute top club in the following decades.
• 2014 / The third pitch of Stade Aloyse Meyer is laid out anew as a 3G.
• 2016 / Arguably the most renowned player in the history of Stade Dudelange, Erny Brenner, passes away at the age of 84.
• 2017 / A new set of dressing rooms is inaugurated at Stade Aloyse Meyer.

Note - The last photo of the series below shows a dedication and an autograph of former Stade Dudelange and Luxembourg international player Erny Brenner (1931-2016), who I happened to meet while on holiday in Luxembourg in July 1995, when I asked him for the way to the Stade Jos Nosbaum. "Why? Is there a match on?", the older gentleman taking a stroll with his wife asked me. When I explained him that I was on a tour visiting stadiums in Luxembourg, he was greatly surprised, going on to reveal that he had been a footballer himself. He was greatly honoured when I turned out to know of the 1963 aggregate win which the Luxembourg side accomplished over the Netherlands in the European Championship qualifiers, as he was part of that legendary side. Before we said goodbye, I asked him for an autograph. A wonderful memory!

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

LUXEMBOURG: FC Red Boys Aspelt

Stade de la Frontière, Aspelt (FC Red Boys Aspelt)

Luxembourg, canton: Esch-sur-Alzette

September 2011 / no match visited

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

BELGIUM: CS Halanzy (1937-1957) / RCS Halanzy (B) (1957-)

Route de Musson - Rue du Bois, Halanzy (B ground of RCS Halanzy, formerly A ground of CS Halanzy)

Belgium, province: Luxembourg

18 IX 2011 / RCS Halanzy Reserves - FC Baranzy Reserves 3-1 / Belgian Luxembourg, Reserves' League - group C

Note: When Cercle Sportif (CS) Halanzy saw the daylight in 1927, it was the third successive football club to be founded in the village of Halanzy, after the short-lived Etoile Sportive (ES) Halanzynoise during the years of World War I and Entente Sportive Halanzy, founded in 1921 but disbanded after no more than a few years at most. Initially, CS Halanzy took part in a local league of village clubs (1928-29) before joining the Belgian Football Association in 1929, receiving matricule 1245. The club's first ground was the so-called Terrain au Moulin, situated at the foot of the Côte du Calvaire at the northern side of the village. In 1937, the club moved to a new pitch situated at Route de Musson - although nowadays the entrance to the ground is on the other side, at Rue du Bois. At the outset, an old railroad car served as changing room; later, it was replaced by the current clubhouse. The club remained at Route de Musson for twenty years, until 1957, when a second move was undertaken - this time to the Lieu-dit 'A la Motte' (also known less flatteringly as Pré de la Soupe), close to the village centre. This Stade Constant Mathieu - named after the mayor of Halanzy at the time who doubled as CS Halanzy's president - is still in use today (though renamed Stade Franck Ridremont in the 1980s), but the premises at Rue du Bois have remained in use ever since for lower team football and training purposes.

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