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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Saturday, 25 November 2017

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

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

Netherlands, province: South Holland

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

Timeline
  • 1974 / Foundation of a football club in the village of Heenvliet, on the island of Voorne-Putten in the province of South Holland, which takes the name HVV (Heenvlietse Voetbalvereniging) Bernisse – named after the River Bernisse, which divides the twin island of Voorne-Putten. In contrast to the much older vv PFC from the nearby village of Geervliet (founded in 1917), which is non-denominational and plays its football on Sundays, HVV Bernisse is a Protestant (Evangelical) club, which disapproves of sporting activities on the Sabbath. From the outset, the club plays its home matches at Sportpark Bernisse, located on Wethouder Gelderlandlaan.
  • 1975 / HVV Bernisse begins its competitive activities in Saturday Division 3 of the so-called Rotterdamse Voetbalbond (RVB), the Rotterdam sub-association of the Netherlands’ Football Association (KNVB).
  • 1979 / HVV Bernisse wins promotion from RVB Saturday Division 3 to Division 2.
  • 1982 / HVV Bernisse is relegated from RVB Saturday Division 2 back to Division 3.
  • 1984 / HVV Bernisse achieves promotion again to Saturday Division 2 after two years at the lowest level.
  • 1986 / HVV Bernisse wins promotion from RVB Saturday Division 2 to Division 1 for the first time.
  • 1992 / HVV Bernisse wins promotion from RVB Saturday Division 1 to the RVB Saturday Hoofdklasse for the first time. The successful coach is Sietse van der Meer.
  • 1996 / HVV Bernisse is promoted from the RVB Saturday Hoofdklasse, which is abolished that year to make way for Saturday League 5, into District West IV’s Saturday League 4 for the first time.
  • 1997 / Finishing second-from-bottom in District West IV Saturday League 4D, HVV Bernisse is relegated to Saturday League 5, together with bottom club vv Rockanje.
  • 2002 / Finishing in fifth place in District West II Saturday League 5D, HVV Bernisse wins the promotion playoffs and returns to Saturday League 4 after five years.
  • 2003 / Finishing bottom of District West II Saturday League 4D, HVV Bernisse is relegated back to Saturday League 5 after just one season, together with second-last club SC Botlek.
  • 2006 / Runner-up in District West II Saturday League 5D, 4 points behind champions vv Puttershoek, HVV Bernisse wins promotion to Saturday League 4. The successful coach is Peter-Marcel Nauta.
  • 2007 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West II’s Saturday League 4D with coach Ruud Worung, HVV Bernisse descends into Saturday League 5 after just one season, alongside the club in second-last place, vv Bolnes (za).
  • 2009 / Finishing in third place in District West II’s Saturday League 5D, HVV Bernisse attains promotion to Saturday League 4 via the promotion play-offs. The successful coach is Patrick Borsboom.
  • 2011 / Champions in District West II’s Saturday League 4E, 4 points ahead of runner-up vv Rockanje, HVV Bernisse wins promotion to Saturday League 3 for the first time. The successful coach is Peter Hoek.
  • 2012 / Coached by Peter Hoek, HVV Bernisse finishes in second-last place in District West II’s Saturday League 3D, resulting in relegation into Saturday League 4 after just one season, alongside SV Piershil, vv WFB, and bottom club vv Zinkwegse Boys.
  • 2013 / HVV Bernisse merges its youth academy with neighbour club vv PFC from Geervliet, resulting in the foundation of a so-called Samenwerkende Jeugdorganisatie (SJO) or Combined Youth Academy, which is given the name GHVV ’13, i.e. Geervliet-Heenvliet-Voetbalvereniging 2013, with the clear goal of bringing about a fully-fledged merger between the two clubs in due course.
  • 2015 / Runner-up in District West II’s Saturday League 4G, 12 points behind runaway champions vv Rockanje, HVV Bernisse qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which a comprehensive 8-3 aggregate win over RSC Alliance is sufficient to accede to Saturday League 3. 
  • 2016 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West II’s Saturday League 3D with coach Ronard (sic!) Venekamp, HVV Bernisse suffers relegation into Saturday League 4 alongside PSV Poortugaal (za) and vv Rockanje. Following the 2015-16 season, three years after the merger of the youth academies of the two clubs, a fully-fledged merger is achieved between vv PFC, which had also suffered relegation (from Sunday League 1 to League 2) and HVV Bernisse, resulting in the foundation of GHVV ’13. For the following four seasons, pending a new sports complex halfway between the two villages, first team football is alternately played at Sportpark Bernisse in Heenvliet (each first half of the season) and Sportpark Toldijk in Geervliet (each second half of the season). Withdrawing from the Sunday pyramid altogether, GHVV ’13 allows its first team to take over the place of HVV Bernisse in Saturday League 4.
  • 2017 / Champions in District West II’s Saturday League 4F, 1 point ahead of closest rivals vv Rockanje, GHVV ’13 wins promotion to Saturday League 3.
  • 2020 / After four years of subdividing club activities between Sportpark Toldijk in Geervliet and Sportpark Bernisse in Heenvliet, GHVV ’13 now moves into its new, purpose-built Sportcomplex Guldeland, on the western outskirts of Geervliet. The old ground of HVV Bernisse is redeveloped into a shopping centre.













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

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 at least 55 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.
















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