Rotsartlaan-Parklaan, Beigem (K Fenixx Beigem Humbeek, formerly FC Beigem)
Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant
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).
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