Tuesday 10 September 2019

BELGIUM: KFC Mandel United Izegem-Ingelmunster (B) (2018-2019) / KFC Mandel United Izegem-Ingelmunster (2019-2021) / RFC Mandel United (2021-)

Sportcentrum Krekel Zuid, Izegem (KFC Mandel United Izegem-Ingelmunster)

Belgium, province: West Flanders

7 IX 2019 / KFC Mandel United - KFC Merelbeke 2-2 / VFV Division 2A (= BE level 4)

Note: KFC Mandel United Izegem-Ingelmunster came into being in 2017, the result of a merger between KFC Izegem and Olympic Molensport (OMS) Ingelmunster. Between 2017 and 2019, first team football was played at Ingelmunster's ground at Bollewerpstraat. Meanwhile, KFC Izegem's ground, the so-called Stedelijk Sportstadion, was stripped of its main stand and turned into a ground for American football and athletics purposes; and right besides, a new stadium was constructed - the ground shown in the pictures below. Inaugurated in September 2018, it was not until the start of the 2019/2020 season that Mandel's first team moved into the new premises. That same summer, a new club saw the daylight in Ingelmunster: SV Ingelmunster, who took over the Bollewerpstraat stadium. In 2021, upon being taken over by the Strive Football Group, an international investment consortium, KFC Mandel United Izegem-Ingelmunster took on the abbreviated name - note the French royal epithet 'R' instead of the Dutch 'K' for 'koninklijk') - RFC Mandel United.



















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

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