BELGIUM: Borgerhoutsche SK (19??-1933) / KRC Borgerhout (1933-1960) / Tubantia FAC (±1941-1944) / K Tubantia Borgerhout FC (1960-1971) / K Tubantia Borgerhout VK (1971-2020)

Stadion Rivierenhof, Antwerp = Antwerpen = Anvers Deurne (formerly Borgerhoutsche SK / KRC Borgerhout / K Tubantia Borgerhout FC / K Tubantia Borgerhout VK)

Belgium, province: Antwerp

25 IV 2010 / K Tubantia Borgerhout VK - KFC Zandvliet Sport 0-3 / Antwerp, Provincial League 1 (= BE level 5)

Note 1: The year in which football was first played in Stadion Rivierenhof cannot be determined with the sources which are at my disposal, but it was home to KRC Borgerhout from 1933 onwards and probably also to its predecessor Borgerhoutsche SK (which merged with RC Anvers-Deurne in 1933 to become Racing Club Borgerhout). In the war years, when the stadium of Tubantia FAC, 'De Put', also situated in the Ter Rivierenhof public park, was commandeered by the German oppressor, this club moved to Stadion Rivierenhof of their neighbours KRC Borgerhout, only to return to their old ground upon liberation. Both clubs concluded a merger in 1960, becoming K Tubantia Borgerhout FC, flemicised to K Tubantia Borgerhout VK (Voetbalkring) in 1971. From the merger onwards, first team football moved to KRC Borgerhout's ground. The all-seater stand featuring in the photos below was inaugurated in 1974. Due to its ongoing dilapidation, it was knocked down in 2013. In 2020, "Den Tuub" abandoned the ground, henceforth playing their football at the nearby Park Groot Schijn with their youth teams moving to the nearby Stabelino ground. Following Tubantia's departure, Stadion Rivierenhof was knocked down (cp. picture 19 below).

Note 2: Below, a compilation of photos of three different visits: pictures 1 & 18 = non-matchday visit, February 2010 / pictures 2-17 = match visit, April 2010 / picture 19 = non-matchday visit (location), April 2022.

All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker (co-edited by J.C. te Boekhorst) / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author