Belgium, province: Liège = Luik
31 X 2021 / Union Rocourtoise - CB Flémalle 1-1 / ALFA Sunday Div. 2 (ALFA level 3)
Note 1: The sports complex in Alleur, named after the town's former alderman and mayor François Heine, was inaugurated on October 11th, 1980. It comprises an indoor hall as well as outdoor tennis pitches, a velodrome (cp. pictures 2-7 below) and two grass pitches - originally both intended for football, but one of those - the one in the velodrome - was adapted to become a rugby pitch in the summer of 2021 after it hadn't seen footballing action for some years. The remaining football pitch has been in use for many years by several recreational teams, including ALFA League club Union Rocourtoise who have been home at Stade Heine since their foundation in 2016. Around 2010, for one season, provincial league club MCS Sport Liège played at Route Militaire before settling down at their current ground at Rue du Village, Liège. In 2015, another provincial club settled down at this ground; in that year, Jeunesse Saint-Nicolas, founded in 2013 and playing their football at a ground at Rue des Martyrs, Tilleur, underwent a second name change, becoming JSN Ans. From that time onwards, this club - mainly a youth academy, but fielding a first team in Provincial League 4 occasionally - have been the ground's main user. Aptly, in 2017, the decision was taken to undergo a second name change to be called, more logically in view of the location of the ground, JSN Alleur. In 2023, JSN Alleur were joined by the youth academy of FC Ans (matr. 2913), the reincarnation of RFC Tilleur, which moved its first team to Rue Gilles Magnée, Ans, that same summer.
Note 2: Strikingly, it seems JSN Alleur are the first club with the name of the village of Alleur taking part in the Belgian Football Association's regular provincial leagues in Liège since World War II; in a distant past, there were three short-lived clubs: CS Alleurois (matricule 294, 1923-1928), RC Alleurois (matricule 1226, 1928-1931), and Alleur FC (matricule 3522, 1942-1945). In the following decades, there were only recreational teams playing their football in local leagues, notably JS Alleur (their ground was behind the Athenée Royal, Rue Georges Truffaut) and AS Alleur (ground at Rue des Oveyes, until the club were evicted and continued life for some more years at Rue d'Othee in Ans). Some other recreational teams who played their football at Stade Heine before Union Rocourtoise include FC Orange Givrée (wound up in 2019), CS Loony Ans, and FC Granada.
Note 3: Below, a compilation of images of two different visits: photos 1 & 8-10 = non-matchday visit, August 2021 / photos 2-7 & 11-22 = match visit, October 2021.
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