BELGIUM: SK Elewijt (B) (1962-1971) / VV Elewijt (B) (1971-1991) / Crossing Elewijt (B) (1983-1991) / KCVV Elewijt (B) (1991-2022, 2023-) / KCVV Elewijt (2022)

Complex 'Den Reggel' / Terwilgenstadion, Elewijt - veld 2 (KCVV Elewijt - temporary main pitch, formerly B ground of SK Elewijt / VV Elewijt / Crossing Elewijt / K Crossing VV Elewijt)

Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant

9 VIII 2022 / KCVV Elewijt - KFC Eppegem B 8-1 / Beker van Zemst - group stage, group 2

Timeline

• 1962 / One of Elewijt's two football clubs at the time, Sportkring (SK) Elewijt (matricule 2415, founded in 1936), leaves its ground at Voetbalstraat to settle at a newly created sports park at Driesstraat, referred to as Terwilgenstadion. The pitch pictured in the below is this new ground's B pitch - and this remains the case in the following decades.
• 1971 / SK Elewijt merges with rival club FC Elewijt, forming VV (Voetbalvereniging) Elewijt, retaining SK's matricule 2415. First team football is played at SK's Terwilgenstadion, while FC Elewijt's ground at Kastanjelaan remains in use for lower team football and training purposes.
• 1983 / VV Elewijt's ambitious president, Maurice De Laet, makes a striking move by buying matricule 55 of former top flight club R Crossing Club Schaerbeek. Renamed R Crossing Elewijt, the club moves from Brussels' Josaphatpark to Elewijt's Terwilgenstadion, groundsharing with VV Elewijt. In the following years, VV Elewijt is reduced to little more than Crossing's satellite outfit.
• ±1988 / A second pitch is added to the ground at Driesstraat (which is the pitch shown in the photos below, nowadays equipped with a synthetic surface).
• 1991 / R Crossing Elewijt merges with VV Elewijt, resulting in the foundation of Koninklijke Crossing Voetbalvereniging (KCVV) Elewijt, often referred to as Crossing VV Elewijt or simply Crossing Elewijt. The club retains matricule 55.
• 1992 / Thorough renovation of the club's Terwilgenstadion, involving the construction of a cycling track around the main pich. Upon its inauguration, the track is given the name Den Reggel - a reference to the nickname of Corneel De Coster, a successful cyclist from Elewijt. In the years following the construction of the track, the name Den Reggel is gradually adopted to refer to the sports park as a whole - condemning the old title Terwilgenstadion to the realms of history.
• 2022 / KCVV Elewijt accedes to Flemish Brabant's Provincial League 1 for the first time since its foundation as a merger club in 1991.
• 2022 / In the fall of 2022, Den Reggel's cycling track is demolished. While construction works on a new - synthetic - main pitch take place, all of KCVV Elewijt's teams play their football at Den Reggel's second pitch.
• 2023 (projected) / Return of first team football to pitch 1 (which will be closer to the clubhouse than the old main pitch). Update August 2023 - the works on the new main pitch take longer than expected after archaeological finds were dug out on the site.

Note: Thanks to KCVV Elewijt's club historian Martijn Van den Berg for providing me with the bulk of the information given above. Mr Van den Berg is in the process of writing a book about the history of football in Elewijt. Anybody able to provide him with relevant information or photos is welcome to contact him via his email address: martinus.vandenberg@gmail.com. 

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