Avenue des Sorbiers, Limelette (FC Polonia Limelette, formerly FC Limelette / AOC Buston / FC Polonia Boitsfort)
Belgium, province: Walloon Brabant
19 III 2014 / FC Limelette - Wavre Limal B 2-1 / Brabant, Provincial League 3B (= BE level 7)
Note: FC Limelette were banned from league football in September 2013 after their 'supporters' attacked a player of the opposite side (FC Lasne) with heavy weapons, resulting in his jawbone being broken. Limelette's coach condoned the supporters' behaviour and was also suspended. For reasons beyond my understanding, a civil court overruled the Belgian FA's decision, allowing FC Limelette back into their league (and forcing them to play two games a week for three months). My match visit was one of those midweek games. I found out that the mentality of part of Limelette's players and 'supporters' was quite awful. It was painfully obvious they had not learnt their lesson... the atmosphere became intimidating when 'supporters' took me (with my camera) for an undercover police officer. Sadly, Limelette's board - I spoke to one of the board members - did not seem up to the task to remove the unhealty elements in and around their club. At the end of the 2013-2014 season, Belgium's Football Association took the only logical step after everything which had happened and decided to remove FC Limelette as a Belgian FA member - heralding the end of the club. Since, the Avenue des Sorbiers ground has been taken over by several recreational clubs playing their football in the ABSSA league (including Les Pumas, Les Patjes & Les Requins). In 2016, they were given the company of a new club playing in the Belgian FA's leagues, AOC Buston, who only lasted for two years. In 2021, FC Polonia Boitsfort (founded in 1986 as a recreational club and switching to Brabant's Provincial Leagues in 2015), who had been playing their football on pitch 3 of Stade des Trois Tilleuls, took over the ground; one year later, a logical name change followed as FC Polonia Boitsfort became FC Polonia Limelette.
All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author
Belgium, province: Walloon Brabant
19 III 2014 / FC Limelette - Wavre Limal B 2-1 / Brabant, Provincial League 3B (= BE level 7)
Note: FC Limelette were banned from league football in September 2013 after their 'supporters' attacked a player of the opposite side (FC Lasne) with heavy weapons, resulting in his jawbone being broken. Limelette's coach condoned the supporters' behaviour and was also suspended. For reasons beyond my understanding, a civil court overruled the Belgian FA's decision, allowing FC Limelette back into their league (and forcing them to play two games a week for three months). My match visit was one of those midweek games. I found out that the mentality of part of Limelette's players and 'supporters' was quite awful. It was painfully obvious they had not learnt their lesson... the atmosphere became intimidating when 'supporters' took me (with my camera) for an undercover police officer. Sadly, Limelette's board - I spoke to one of the board members - did not seem up to the task to remove the unhealty elements in and around their club. At the end of the 2013-2014 season, Belgium's Football Association took the only logical step after everything which had happened and decided to remove FC Limelette as a Belgian FA member - heralding the end of the club. Since, the Avenue des Sorbiers ground has been taken over by several recreational clubs playing their football in the ABSSA league (including Les Pumas, Les Patjes & Les Requins). In 2016, they were given the company of a new club playing in the Belgian FA's leagues, AOC Buston, who only lasted for two years. In 2021, FC Polonia Boitsfort (founded in 1986 as a recreational club and switching to Brabant's Provincial Leagues in 2015), who had been playing their football on pitch 3 of Stade des Trois Tilleuls, took over the ground; one year later, a logical name change followed as FC Polonia Boitsfort became FC Polonia Limelette.
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