Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: K Verbroedering Loksbergen (1961-2023) / VE Zelo Halen (B) (2023-)

Sunday, 7 August 2022

Lindestraat, Loksbergen (K Verbroedering Loksbergen)

Belgium, province: Limburg

7 VIII 2022 / KV Loksbergen - Zonhoven United B 1-8 / Belgian Limburg - Provincial Cup Region South-West

Timeline

1942 / A first club in Loksbergen is founded; Eendracht Loksbergen joins Belgium's Football Association under matricule 3261.
1946 / Eendracht Loksbergen folds after having ceased all activities two years previously (1944).
1961 / Verbroedering Loksbergen is founded, obtaining matricule 6531 upon affiliation at the Belgian Football Association. The club has played at its ground at Lindestraat, nicknamed 'Hel van Loksbergen', from its foundation onwards.
1967-1972 / Verbroedering Loksbergen has a spell of five seasons in Provincial League 2, a level the club never again manages to reach in subsequent years.
2011 / Upon its 50th anniversary in 2011, the royal epithet is obtained. Since, the club is officially called Koninklijke Verbroedering Loksbergen, often abbreviated to KV Loksbergen.
2023 / In its last season as an independent club, K Verbroedering Loksbergen finishes 11th in Limburg's Provincial League 4A. A merger is concluded between K Verbroedering Loksbergen and KFC Eendracht Zelem, resulting in the foundation of Verbroedering Eendracht (VE) Zelo Halen, which retains Loksbergen's matricule 6531; Zelem's matricule 4514 is erased from the Belgian FA's official lists. The new merger club forms 2 first teams, both playing in Provincial League 4, one playing its home matches in Loksbergen, the other in Zelem.