Tuesday 21 December 2021

BELGIUM: DC Beigem (1942-1958) / FC Onder Den Toren (1968-1972) / FC Beigem (1972-2022) / Fenixx Beigem Humbeek (2023-)

Rotsartlaan-Parklaan, Beigem (K Fenixx Beigem Humbeek, formerly FC Beigem)

Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant

19 XII 2021 / FC Beigem - FC Ramsdonk 1-1 / Brabant, VFV Provincial League 3C (= BE level 8)

Timeline
  • 1915 / Foundation of a first football club in Beigem, which must have folded after no more than a couple of years at most, leaving few traces - not even the memory of its name. This club was not a member of the Belgian Football Association.
  • 1942 / Foundation of Delta Club (DC) Beigem, which joins the Belgian Football Association under matricule 3597. Probably, the club played at Rotsartlaan from its foundation onwards.
  • 1958 / DC Beigem folds after two years of inactivity (1956-58). In the course of its 16-year existence, the club always played in Brabant's Provincial League 3, the lowest level at the time. Following the demise of DC Beigem, the ground remains in use, as there are several recreational teams playing their football on it - including, most notably, a team called Duvelshoek.
  • 1968 / At Rotsartlaan, a newly founded recreational team settles down, FC Onder Den Toren. Groundsharing with Duvelshoek, the team plays in Sportverband Vilvoorde (1968-70) before joining the regional branch of Arbeidersvoetbal (1970-72).
  • 1972 / FC Onder Den Toren changes its name to FC Beigem to apply for membership of the Belgian Football Association, joining under matricule 7753.
  • 2013 / After a staggering 41 consecutive seasons in the bottom league of the pyramid, Provincial League 4, FC Beigem clinches the title in Provincial League 4E, thus managing its first promotion ever.
  • 2014 / Official inauguration of FC Beigem's new clubhouse and stand at the eastern end of the main pitch in November 2014. Construction works had commenced a year before; when the new facilities were taken in use - which was in early 2014, well before the official inauguration -, the old canteen at the other end of the pitch was knocked down. In the process, the main entrance of the ground switched from Rotsartlaan to Parklaan.
  • 2022 / FC Beigem clinches the title in Provincial League 3C in the most spectacular way possible, by beating leaders FC Zemst Sportief 0-3 in the last game of the season, thus pipping them at the post with a difference of just one point. This success would have led to a historic promotion to Provincial League 2, were it not for the fact that FC Beigem ceases to exist as an independent club; merger of FC Beigem with KFC Borght-Humbeek, the result being Fenixx Beigem Humbeek (unofficially referred to as Fenixx BeigHum). The new club retains KFC Borght-Humbeek's matricule 39. Works get underway to put in place a 3G on the main pitch of Sportpark Parklaan.
  • 2023 / Upon completion of the works on a 3G on FC Beigem's main pitch, in the early months of 2023, first team football moves to Parklaan, with the first home match against KFC Rhodienne-De Hoek on March 12th, 2023. KFC Borght-Humbeek's A ground at Populierendal in Borgt is abandoned, while the last-mentioned club's youth academy at Gemeentelijk Stadion Humbeek (Nachtegaallaan) remains in use for lower team football and training purposes. Meanwhile, Fenixx Beigem Humbeek's first team has an excellent season - however, giving away the title to its direct rivals KFC Wambeek Ternat on the last day of the season, losing 2-0 in an away match in Ternat. As a result, both teams finish with 59 points, but as KFC Wambeek Ternat has the better goal difference, Fenixx has to make do with the interprovincial promotion play-offs. In those play-offs, the club sails past KSK Beveren in R1 (2-0), only to be eliminated by Sporting Tisselt in R2 (3-0).

















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

BELGIUM: Sibelgas (±1968-2004) / KVK Wemmel (B) (2004-2015) / VK Mireille Wemmel (2009-2020)

Gemeentelijk Complex 'De Zijp' "Sibelgasterrein", Wemmel (formerly Sibelgas / B ground of KVK Wemmel / VK Mireille Wemmel)

Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant

December 2021 / no match visited

Note: The football pitch shown in the pictures below is part of a larger complex of sports facilities, which, until 2004, belonged to the Sibelgas company, which used to have its own recreational football team (probably also known as Sibelgas, exact name unknown). In 2004, the premises were acquired by the Wemmel town council, who allowed local football club KVK Wemmel to use it for lower team football and training purposes. In 2015, KVK Wemmel abandoned the premises after their own Marcel Van Langenhovestadion was equipped with a 3G - making the extra pitch at De Zijp superfluous. Meanwhile, a local recreational club, VK Mireille Wemmel (founded in 1970), had moved in - remaining the ground's sole user until being forced out by Wemmel's town council who have turned the sports hall next to the pitch into a vaccination centre - and don't want any other activities in its vicinity for the moment. Since 2020, Mireille Wemmel have played their football at a venue close by - on the same street in fact - behind CafĂ© 'Op 't Hoeksken'. 







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

Monday 20 December 2021

BELGIUM: CS Beauval (1953-1971) / Beauval Sport (1971-1979) / K Sporting Tange (1979-)

Sint-Annalaan, Filford (Vilvoorde, Vilvorde) Het Voor = Beauval (K Sporting Tange, formerly Beauval Sport)

Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant

19 XII 2021 / K Sporting Tange Veterans - VC Groot Dilbeek Veterans 4-0 / Brabant, VFV Veterans' League A

Note: Cercle Sportif Beauval saw the daylight in 1953 (matricule 5649) as the club of Filford's outlying district 'Het Voor' - the quarter's French name Beauval gave the club its name. From its inception onwards, the ground at Sint-Annalaan hosted all of the club's activities. In the course of its history, the club underwent two name changes, first becoming Beauval Sport (1971), and, eight years later, Sporting Tange - Tange being a reference to the rivulet which borders the northern side of the ground. In the 2021/2022 season, at the time of my visit, the club had no first team - which had withdrawn prior to the start of the competition - but just four veterans' teams, one competing in the regular Belgian Football Association's Veterans' League (of which I attended a match, cp. photos below) and three in a Flemish recreational league, KAVVV.



















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

BELGIUM: VK Rode (1971-2009) / VK Huldenberg (B) (2009-2014)

Leuvensebaan, Sint-Agatha-Rode = Rhode-Sainte-Agathe (formerly VK Rode / VK Huldenberg)

Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant

December 2021 / no match visited

Note: Founded in 1971 (matricule 7580), VK Rode merged with their near-neighbours FC Huldenberg in 2009, becoming VK Huldenberg and retaining FC Huldenberg's matricule 6827. Since, first team football was played at Huldenberg's ground at Emile Gillisstraat. I suspect VK Rode's ground remained in use for lower team football and training purposes, also judging from the fact that I found a trophy at the ground bearing the inscription of the new merger club (cp. last photo in the series below). In 2014, VK Huldenberg concluded a new merger, this time with SK Ottenburg, becoming OHR Huldenberg. From that time on, SK Ottenburg's ground, 'De Kastanje', has been the new club's training ground, which makes the year 2014 the most likely date of the final abandonment of VK Rode's former home ground.



















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