Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: ASE Chastre

Stade des Quinze Bonniers, Chastre (ASE Chastre)

Belgium, province: Walloon Brabant = Waals Brabant

1 II 2018 / ASE Chastre B - FC Genappe B 3-0 / Brabant, ACFF Provincial League 3B (= BE level 8)

18 X 2026 / ASE Chastre - R Union Rixensartoise B 0-0 / Brabant, ACFF Provincial League 3C (= BE level 8)

Timeline

1924 / Foundation of a first football club in Chastre, in the French-speaking southern half of the Province of Brabant; the new club takes on the name Union Sportive (US) de Chastre, acquiring membership of the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB) with registration number 365. It is unclear where the pitch of US Chastre was situated.
1927 / After two seasons in Brabant’s regional divisions (1925-27), US Chastre folds, ceasing all activities; registration number 365 is struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list.
1928 / Refoundation of US Chastre with the exact same name, but with a new registration number (1201).
1940 / After an existence of twelve years, the phoenix version of US Chastre folds, ceasing all activities – possibly after having been inactive for several years already.
1963 / Foundation of a new club in Chastre, Amicale Sportive (AS) Chastre-Villeroux-Blanmont – with inhabitants from the three adjacent villages combining to form a club, which acquires registration number 6634 upon being accepted into the fold of the Belgian FA. AS Chastre-Villeroux-Blanmont settles on a pitch situated at Rue de la Chapelle in Chastre, starting its life as a competitive club in Brabant’s Provincial League 4.
1976 / In the best season in club history, AS Chastre-Villeroux-Blanmont finishes as runner-up in Brabant’s Provincial League 4C.
± 1984 / Due to its ground at Rue de la Chapelle in Chastre no longer meeting Belgian FA standards, AS Chastre-Villeroux-Blanmont concludes a groundsharing agreement with a recreational club of veteran players nearby, AS Villeroux, settling on that team’s ground at Rue de la Brasserie in Villeroux.
1988 / Finishing in thirteenth place in Brabant’s Provincial League 4H, AS Chastre-Villeroux-Blanmont folds, ceasing all activities after having spent its last four seasons at Rue de la Brasserie in Villeroux.
1989 / Registration number 6634 of AS Chastre-Villeroux-Blanmont is struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list. Meanwhile, municipal authorities of Chastre have promised officials of the former club a new communal football ground, due to be built at Rue des Quinze Bonniers, but the plans take several years to come to fruition. For the time being, football in Chastre goes into hibernation.
± 1992 / In 1992 or 1993, a pitch is laid out at Rue des Quinze Bonniers in Chastre, allowing two recreational clubs to revive football in the village, New Look (New Look FC?) and AS Cornoi. Both of these clubs join the ABSSA recreational federation. Meanwhile, a design for a clubhouse at the new ground has been made, but construction works do not get underway until mid-1993 at its earliest.
1994 / In December 1994, the clubhouse at the Complexe Sportif des Quinze Bonniers is inaugurated.
1997 / New Look, one of the two recreational clubs playing at the Terrain des Quinze Bonniers, is officially re-established as Association Sportive de l’Entité (ASE) de Chastre on January 1st, 1997, with the newly founded club joining the Belgian FA with registration number 9308 two months later. Naturally settling on the new ground – which also boasts a side-pitch – at Rue des Quinze Bonniers, ASE Chastre starts its life as a competitive club in Brabant’s Provincial League 4.
2003 / Runaway hampions in Brabant’s Provincial League 4G, 15 points ahead of closest followers RC Mélin, ASE Chastre wins promotion to Provincial League 3.
2011 / The main pitch of the Terrain des Quinze Bonniers is laid out anew with a synthetic surface.
2016 / Finishing in third place in Brabant’s Provincial League 3B, ASE Chastre wins automatic promotion to Provincial League 2 – alongside champions RAS Jodoigne as well as SC Beauvechain and ROFC Stockel B – due to extra promotion places being available following the split of Brabant’s provincial divisions from Provincial League 2 to Provincial League 4 into a Dutch-speaking part (VFV) and a French-speaking part (ACFF, renamed FFA in 2026).
2017 / Finishing in eighth place in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 2, ASE Chastre achieves a historic promotion to Provincial League 1 – alongside champions BX Brussels as well as R Union Lasne-Ohain, RC Villers-la-Ville, Stade Everois RC, FC Kosova Schaerbeek, RAS Jodoigne, and R Ixelles SC – due to Brabant’s Provincial League 1 also being split into independent Flemish and French-speaking parts.
2018 / Finishing bottom of the table in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 1, ASE Chastre drops back into Provincial League 2 after one season only, along with the club in second-last place, RC Schaerbeek.
2022 / Finishing in third place in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 3B, ASE Chastre qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by RCS Brainois B. Also in or around 2022, recreational club AS Cornoi folds, ceasing all activities.
2024 / Finishing bottom of the table in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 2B, ASE Chastre descends into Provincial League 3 – the bottom level of the provincial divisions in the French-speaking Brabant pyramid since 2018 – along with the club in second-last place, FC Ronvau Chaumont.

Note – Below, a compilation of photos of two different matchday visits: pictures 1-4 & 14-16 = February 2018 / pictures 5-13 & 17-18 = October 2026.