BELGIUM: FC La Reid (1972-2013) / Etoile Forestière Stoumontoise (2021)

Terrain Communal - Rue du Canada, La Reid (formerly FC La Reid / Etoile Forestière Stoumontoise)

Belgium, province: Liège = Luik

July 2022 / no match visited

Note: FC La Reid, founded in 1972 (matricule 7759), was a modest club in Liège's provincial leagues until 2013, when it was absorbed by its bigger neighbour RAF Franchimontois, who possibly used the premises in La Reid for several more years for training purposes until it was abandoned. In 2021, recreational club EF Stoumontoise, founded in 1983 and playing its football in the Royale Intercorporation Liégeoise (RIL) and being deprived of the right to use its own ground at Roua, Stoumont, temporarily moved into the ground in La Reid until moving on to a groundshare with FC Chevron for the remainder of the season (2021-22) - and eventually being allowed to return to Stoumont proper in mid-2022. Also in 2021, after the floodings which ravaged the Hoëgne valley in July of that year, RAF Franchimontois, its own ground at Juslenville being thoroughly devastated after the catastrophe, considered moving into the premises in La Reid for the 2021-22 season, but in the end decided against it due to the state of the clubhouse and preferred a groundshare with RFC Heusy-Rouheid at Croix de Fays in Jehanster instead.  

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