Terrein Tervuursesteenweg, Bertem (formerly Rapid Bertem / A&B ground of VC Bertem-Leefdaal)
Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant
August 2018 / no match visited
Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant
August 2018 / no match visited
Timeline
- 1943 / Foundation of a football club in Bertem, a village halfway between Brussels and Louvain, which takes on the name Rapid Bertem, joining the Belgian Football Association under registration number 3948. The club may have been the continuation of an older club in the VVB (Vlaamsche Voetbalbond), which discredited itself to such an extent in World War II due to collaboration with the German oppressors, that many clubs left the association voluntarily. Whatever may be true of that, Rapid Bertem was placed in Brabant’s Provincial League 3. It is unclear where the ground of this club was situated.
- 1946 / Finishing in ninth place in Brabant’s Provincial League 3C, Rapid Bertem withdraws from first team football.
- 1947 / Following one year of inactivity, registration number 3948 of Rapid Bertem is erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists.
- 1953 / After a gap of six years, Rapid Bertem is re-established, with the phoenix club receiving registration number 5660 upon being admitted as a member of the Belgian FA. For the 1953-54 season, Rapid Bertem is placed in Brabant’s Provincial League 3. It is unclear if, yet probable that, Rapid Bertem played its football at Terrein Tervuursesteenweg from the outset.
- 1963 / Champions in Brabant’s Provincial League 3D, Rapid Bertem wins promotion to Provincial League 2.
- 1965 / In the best performance in club history, Rapid Bertem finishes in fourth place in Brabant’s Provincial League 2B.
- 1967 / Finishing bottom of the table in Brabant’s Provincial League 2C, Rapid Bertem drops back into Provincial League 3 after fourteen years.
- 1972 / Having finished as runner-up one year before, Rapid Bertem now clinches the title in Brabant’s Provincial League 3D, thus gaining promotion to Provincial League 2.
- 1975 / Finishing bottom of the table in Brabant’s Provincial League 2B, Rapid Bertem drops back into Provincial League 3.
- 1976 / Clinching the title in Brabant’s Provincial League 3D, Rapid Bertem manages a return to Provincial League 2 after just one season.
- 1977 / Equalling the best performance in club history of twelve years previously, Rapid Bertem finishes in fourth place in Brabant’s Provincial League 2B.
- 1987 / Finishing bottom of the table in Brabant’s Provincial League 2B, Rapid Bertem descends into Provincial League 3 after ten years.
- 2006 / In its last season as an independent club, Rapid Bertem finishes in tenth place in Brabant’s Provincial League 3E. Following the 2005-06 season, Rapid Bertem concludes a merger with local rivals, Provincial League 4 club VC Leefdaal Vooruit, resulting in the foundation of VC Bertem-Leefdaal, which retains Rapid’s registration number 5660; Leefdaal’s number 7598 is erased from the Belgian FA’s membership list. For the time being, while completely new facilities are constructed at Complex Sint-Veronica in Leefdaal, first team football moves to the ground of Rapid Bertem at Tervuursesteenweg.
- 2007 / Following one season of first team football in Provincial League 3 at Terrein Tervuursesteenweg in Bertem, VC Bertem-Leefdaal moves the home matches of its flagship team to the renovated Complex Sint-Veronica in Leefdaal, where a new clubhouse with elevated grandstand has been erected. Terrein Tervuursesteenweg is retained for lower team football and training sessions.
- 2014 / The main pitch of Complex Sint-Veronica is laid out anew with a synthetic surface. Following this, the B ground of VC Bertem-Leefdaal at Tervuursesteenweg saw less and less action, with home matches of all teams being moved to Leefdaal.
- 2019 / Terrein Tervuursesteenweg is given up to make way for a building project, aptly named Rapid Bertem, with 40 apartments.
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