Thursday 4 November 2021

BELGIUM: RUFC Concordia Pepinster (1945-2016) / FC Entente Pepine (2016-2021)

Rue Prévochamps, Pepinster (FC Entente Pepine, formerly R Union Football Club Concordia Pepinster)

Belgium, province: Liège = Luik

October 2021 / no match visited

Note: Royale Union Football Club Concordia Pepinster, founded in 1945 (matricule 4266), merged with REFC Wegnez in 2016, forming FC Entente Pepine, retaining Pepinster's matricule. After the merger, all club activities were centred at Pepinster's ground at Rue Prévochamps, while the pitches at Ruelle du Koreux in Wegnez were abandoned - and finally taken over, in 2019, by American football club Les Mustangs Verviers-Pepinster. In the summer of 2021, a horrible flooding of the Vesdre and Hoegne rivers - the latter flowing right past Pepinster's ground - took place, washing away the synthetic pitch at Rue Prévochamps and ravashing most of the fences as well as part of the interior of the clubhouse. Forced by circumstances, FC Entente Pepine moved all activities to Wegnez, concluding a groundsharing agreement with the aforementioned American football club. How long Entente Pepine's stay up in the hills in Wegnez will last - and if they will ever return to Rue Prévochamps - is as yet unclear.













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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