Terrein Sint-Barbarastraat, Kumtich (formerly K Union Sint-Gillis Kumtich / KUSG FC Tienen / Tienen United / K Sparta Kumtich-Tienen)
Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant = Vlaams Brabant
Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant = Vlaams Brabant
August 2018 / no match visited
Timeline
- 1937 / Foundation of a football club in Kumtich, which is given the name Union Sint-Gillis Kumtich. The club joins Belgium's Football Association under registration number 2721. It is unclear if USG Kumtich played its football at Terrein Sint-Barbarastraat from the outset.
- 1942 / In its first season with a regular first team, USG Kumtich wins the title in Provincial League 3D, thus acceding to Provincial League 2. In the following decades, the club alternates spells in P2 (1942-44, 1947-48, 1957-66) and P3 (1944-47, 1948-57), with titles being clinched in P3D in 1947 and P3E in 1957.
- 1966 / Winning the title in Provincial League 2B, Union Sint-Gillis Kumtich accedes to Brabant's Provincial League 1 for the first time.
- 1967 / In the best season in club history, USG Kumtich finishes in third place in Provincial League 1.
- 1970 / After four years in Provincial League 1, USG Kumtich drops out of Brabant's top provincial division following a fourteenth place in the 1969-70 season.
- 1971 / Finishing second-last in P2B, Union Sint-Gillis Kumtich suffers a second relegation in a row, suddenly finding itself in Provincial League 3. In the following decade, the club alternates spells in P3 (1971-73, 1976-81) with three seasons in P2 (1973-76).
- 1974 / USG Kumtich are joined at their ground by a ladies' football club founded in 1969 as Sportiva, renamed Jepita-Stars in 1970 and taking on the name Eva's Kumtich upon their being admitted to the official Belgian FA in 1974 (registration number 8220). In the following decades, Eva's Kumtich becomes one of the major forces in Belgian' ladies football.
- 1981 / Second-last in the final ranking of the 1980-81 season in P3A, Union Sint-Gillis Kumtich descends into Provincial League 4 for the first time in club history.
- 1987 / On its fiftieth anniversary, USG Kumtich acquires the royal epithet, thus officially becoming Koninklijke Union Sint-Gillis (KUSG) Kumtich.
- 1990 / Having spent the last nine seasons in P4, KUSG Kumtich now clinches the title in Provincial League 4F, thus acceding to Provincial League 3. The adventure at that level does not last longer than one season, though, with relegation to the bottom division following in 1991.
- 1994 / Following back-to-back titles in P4F (1993) and P3A (1994), K Union Sint-Gillis Kumtich suddenly finds itself in Provincial League 2 for the first time in eighteen years.
- 1999 / Runners-up in Provincial League 2B, KUSG Kumtich accedes to Brabant's Provincial League 1 after an absence of 29 seasons.
- 2000 / Bottom of the table at the end of the 1999-2000 season, KUSG Kumtich drops out of P1 at the first instance.
- 2003 / In its last season as an independent club, K Union Sint-Gillis Kumtich finishes in tenth place in P2A. Following the 2002-03 season, the club concludes a merger with FC Tienen, resulting in the foundation of Koninklijke Unie Sint-Gillis Football Club (KUSG FC) Tienen. With FC Tienen abandoning their (probable) groundsharing agreement with KRC Tienen at Terrein Elsenbosweg, all activities are moved to Kumtich's Terrein Sint-Barbarastraat. The new club starts its life in Provincial League 2, a level at which KUSG Kumtich already played and to which FC Tienen had gained access following the P3A title in its last season as an independent club.
- 2005 / In its last season under that name, KUSG FC Tienen finishes in fifth place in Provincial League 2B. The club changes its name to become Koninklijke Voetbalvereniging (KVV) Oorbeek-Kumtich, moving away to Oorbeek's Sportcomplex August Huon. Simultaneously, Voorwaarts Oorbeek United (registration number 6813), born one year previously following a merger of Voorwaarts Oorbeek and FC Neerwinden, moves to Terrein Sint-Barbarastraat in Kumtich under the newly adopted name of Tienen United. Also in 2005, the successful ladies' football club Eva's Kumtich is absorbed into KVK Tienen (registration number 132).
- 2006 / In its first season at Terrein Sint-Barbarastraat, Tienen United clinches the title in Provincial League 2B, thus acceding to Brabant's Provincial League 1. Also in 2006, VC Bost Tienen (registration number 5851) is absorbed into Tienen United, with the premises at Bost being abandoned.
- 2007 / Tienen United ceases all activities in the course of the 2006-07 season, withdrawing its first team from Provincial League 1. The club is wound up once and for all. It is unclear if the ground at Kumtich remained in use in the following years.
- 2009 / KVK Tienen's ladies' branch prefers to continue independently, four years after having been absorbed into that club. Continuing independently under a new name, Damesvoetbalclub (DVC) Eva's Tienen, the club settles at another pitch in Kumtich, Terrein Maalderijweg. At some point in the following years, DVC Eva's Tienen moved from Maalderijweg to Sint-Barbarastraat, but it is unclear when exactly.
- 2013 / K Sparta Tienen (registration number 5044), which had hitherto played its football at Terrein Elsenbosweg in Tienen, changes its name to become K Sparta Kumtich-Tienen, moving its first team football to Terrein Sint-Barbarastraat in Kumtich. Terrein Elsenbosweg remains in use for lower team football and training sessions.
- 2014 / In its first season at Sint-Barbarastraat, K Sparta Kumtich-Tienen wins the title in Brabant's Provincial League 4H, thus acceding to Provincial League 3.
- 2016 / For reasons which remain unclear, K Sparta Kumtich-Tienen abandons Terrein Sint-Barbarastraat, moving its first team football to Terrein Elsenbosweg. In 2017, this club concludes a groundsharing agreement with Crossing Vissenaken, into which it is absorbed one year later.
- 2018 / DVC Eva's Tienen abandons Terrein Sint-Barbarastraat, moving away to Sportcomplex August Huon in Oorbeek. Since, the premises in Kumtich have remained derelict.
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