Terrain de la Rue Joseph Durieux, Namur = Namen Belgrade (Sporting Salzinnes Namur, formerly Etoile Rouge Belgrade / C ground of Union Namur Fosses-la-Ville / Namur City)
Belgium, province: Namur = Namen
13 XII 2025 / Sporting Salzinnes Namur - RCS Faulx-les-Tombes 1-3 / Namur, Provincial League 4B (= BE level 9)
Belgium, province: Namur = Namen
13 XII 2025 / Sporting Salzinnes Namur - RCS Faulx-les-Tombes 1-3 / Namur, Provincial League 4B (= BE level 9)
Timeline
- 1974 / Foundation of a new football club in Namur, more specifically in, Belgrade, a neighbourhood to the west of the city-centre named after the Serbian city following Austria’s conquest of Belgrade in a successful siege of the Turkish-held city in 1717 – it is important to note that Belgium was part of the Habsburg Empire at that time. In a new reference to what was then the capital of Yugoslavia, the founding fathers of the new football club in Namur decided to name it Etoile Rouge (ER) Belgrade, i.e. the literal translation in French of the name of FK Crvena Zvezda, none other than Yugoslavian powerhouse club Red Star Belgrade. Upon joining the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB), ER Belgrade receives registration number 8171, with the club settling on a pitch at Rue Joseph Durieux. The first thirty-odd years of club history have been badly documented, but it is clear that ER Belgrade never played a major role in Namur’s provincial divisions.
- 2001 / At Rue Joseph Durieux, a new clubhouse is inaugurated on October 20, 2001 in the presence of Namur’s mayor Bernard Anselme as well as Edouard Deryk and Patrick Sonvaux, the chairman and honorary president of ER Belgrade respectively.
- 2013 / A fixed value in Namur’s bottom provincial division, Provincial League 4, ER Belgrade now finishes bottom of the table in Provincial League 4B with only 3 points – a 1-0 home win over FC Espoir Tarciennois B being the only positive result in the season, which sees the club ending on a goal difference of -127. The nadir of the season is a 13-1 away defeat against US Emines B.
- 2015 / ER Belgrade finishes in third place in Namur’s Provincial League 4B, just missing out on a ticket for the promotion play-offs.
- 2016 / Finishing in third place in Namur’s Provincial League 4B for the second year in a row, ER Belgrade qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is drawn in a group with Sporting Espoir Jemeppe B and RUSG Sinsin-Waillet, suffering an away defeat against the former (2-1) and managing a home win against the latter (3-2). As Sinsin beats Jemeppe B 6-1, all three clubs finish on three points, with Sinsin grabbing the promotion ticket on goal difference. In a lucky loser round, ER Belgrade suffers defeat against Flavion Sport B (4-0), followed by a 4-2 away win at RAS Houyet. Due to extra promotion places being available, this last result proves sufficient for promotion to Provincial League 3.
- 2017 / Finishing in third-last place in Namur’s Provincial League 3B, ER Belgrade drops back into Provincial League 4 after just one season, along with Flavion Sport B and bottom club Union Saint-Gérard.
- 2019 / In its last season, ER Belgrade finishes in ninth place in Namur’s Provincial League 4B. Following the 2018-19 season, the club allows itself to be absorbed into Union Namur Fosses-la-Ville, with the ground at Rue Joseph Durieux remaining in use beside the Stade des Bas-Prés (Namur) and the Stade André Winson (Fosses-la-Ville) for part of the merger club’s youth academy. Simultaneously, a new club sees the daylight, Namur City, which acquires membership of Belgium’s FA under registration number 9729. Namur City takes the place of ER Belgrade at Rue Joseph Durieux, however refraining from fielding a first team in the 2019-20 season.
- 2020 / As Union Namur Fosses-la-Ville changes its name to Union Namur, the merger club abandons its C ground at Rue Joseph Durieux in Belgrade. This leaves Namur City as the sole users of the ground, with that club entering a regular first team in Namur’s Provincial League 4 for the first time.
- 2021 / A new club sees the daylight in Namur, Sporting Salzinnes Namur, which acquires membership of Belgium’s FA under registration number 9771. Although the founding father of the club hails from the Salzinnes neighbourhood, his club commences a groundshare with Namur City at Rue Joseph Durieux in Belgrade. For its first season, Sporting Salzinnes Namur sticks to fielding a team in the reserves’ divisions, refraining from first team football.
- 2022 / With Namur City withdrawing its first team from Provincial League 4A in the course of the 2021-22 season, the club folds in mid-2022 after an existence of only three years. While this leaves Sporting Salzinnes Namur as the only users of the ground, that club takes the decision to enter a regular first team in Provincial League 4 for the first time.
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