Monday, 27 November 2017

BELGIUM: Zwarte Duivels SV Hoeilaart (1941-1945) / Eendracht Hoeilaart (1945-2002) / Eendracht Racing Club Hoeilaart (2002-)

Kapelstraat, Hoeilaart (Eendracht Racing Club Hoeilaart, formerly Zwarte Duivels SV Hoeilaart & Eendracht Hoeilaart)

Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant

26 XI 2017 / ERC Hoeilaart - FC Heur-Tongeren 1-2 / VFV League 3B (= BE level 5)

Note: ERC Hoeilaart are the result of a merger between the originally Roman-Catholic club Eendracht Hoeilaart and their liberal counterparts KRC Hoeilaart, concluded in 2002; football has since been played exclusively at Eendracht's premises at Kapelstraat, as Racing Club's ground was knocked down immediately after ERC Hoeilaart were formed.














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

BELGIUM: KVV Laarne-Kalken

Sportcomplex Veldmeers, Laarne (KVV Laarne-Kalken)

Belgium, province: East Flanders = Oost-Vlaanderen

25 XI 2017 / KVV Laarne-Kalken - FC SKV Overmere 3-2 / East Flanders, Provincial League 3B (= BE level 8)

Note: KVV Laarne-Kalken are a merger of SK Kalken and FC Eendracht Laarne, formed in 2007; in the original plans, KFC Hoger Op Kalken was also due to join, but, in the end, this club chose to continue independently. The Veldmeers ground, taken in use in 2007 and officially inaugurated one year later, was created by the Laarne municipality specifically to accommodate the new merger club. At that point, Eendracht Laarne's ground, Terrein Lange Meire, as well as SK Kalken's Terrein Heesvelde at Ekerstraat were abandoned - possibly after a transitory period lasting until 2008 at its latest.













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Sunday, 26 November 2017

NETHERLANDS: HVV Bernisse (1974-2016) / GHVV '13 (2016-2020)

Sportpark Bernisse - Wethouder Gelderlandlaan, Heenvliet (GHVV '13, formerly HVV Bernisse)

Netherlands, province: South Holland

25 XI 2017 / GHVV '13 - vv NSVV 0-5 / District West II, Saturday League 3D (= NL level 8)

Note: Geervliet-Heenvliet Voetbalvereniging '13 (GHVV '13) are a merger of HVV Bernisse from Heenvliet and PFC from Geervliet, which was concluded in 2016. Youth teams from both clubs had already been playing under the same flag and name since 2013. Following the merger, first team football was played in Heenvliet for the first half of the season, moving to Geervliet's Sportpark Toldijk for the set of matches after the winter break. In 2020, GHVV '13 moved into their newly built Sportpark Guldeland, situated halfway between Geervliet and Heenvliet. Subsequently, the two old grounds were abandoned.













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Friday, 24 November 2017

BELGIUM: US PiƩton (1929-1937, 1946-1991, 2017-2023) / PiƩton Amical Club (1976-1990) / FC PiƩton Sport (1992-1998) / Football Chapelle PiƩton Godarville (2008-2009) / FC PiƩton (2009-2016) / Union EntitƩ Chapelloise (2017-2018) / Trazegnies Sports (2020-)

Complexe Omnisports - Rue de l'Avenir, PiƩton (Trazegnies Sports, formerly US PiƩton / PiƩton Amical Club / FC PiƩton Sport / Football Chapelle PiƩton Godarville / FC PiƩton / UE Chapelloise)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

23 XI 2017 / UE Chapelloise B - FC PƩronnes 0-2 / Hainaut, Provincial League 4E (= BE level 9)

Note 1 - It is unclear if the pitch at Rue de l'Avenir already existed when the first incarnation of US PiƩton saw the daylight in 1929. After Provincial Leaguers FC PiƩton ceased all activities in mid-2016, it took a year until a new club was created: US PiƩton (named after the first club in PiƩton, which was a member of Belgian FA until 1991); contrary to their predecessors, the new US PiƩton play their football under the aegis of the RGCCMB (Royal Groupement Corporatif Centre-Mons-Borinage), an association of Saturday league clubs from Hainaut. For the 2017-2018 season, US PiƩton were joined by Union EntitƩ Chapelloise, as the ground in Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont is being renovated. Eventually, US PiƩton ceased all activities in or around 2023. By that time, the ground had been taken over by Trazegnies Sports, who had been evicted from their ground, the Stade Communal at Rue des CƩrisiers, in the summer of 2020 by Courcelles' municipal authorities - with the club and its predecessor having played at that ground for 75 consecutive years.

Note 2 - Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-4 = non-matchday visit, July 2025 / pictures 5-16 = match visit, November 2017.
















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