BELGIUM: Cosmo Waremme (1972?-2010?) / R Stade Waremmien FC (B) (2013-2023, 2023-) / R Stade Waremmien FC (2023)

Stade Edmond Leburton terrain 2 "Le Cosmo", Waremme = Borgworm (B pitch of R Stade Waremmien FC, formerly Cosmo Waremme / A ground of R Stade Waremmien FC)

Belgium, province: Liège = Luik

22 VIII 2023 / R Stade Waremmien FC B - RCS Verlaine B 0-2 / Liège, Provincial League 2A (= BE level 7)

Timeline

• 1921 / Foundation of a new football club in Waremme, which is given the name Stade Waremmien FC.
• 1922 / A year following its foundation, Stade Waremmien FC joins Belgium’s Football Association. The club moves into its first ground, Stade Longchamps.
• 1972 / Having played at Stade Longchamps for 50 years, the club now moves away to Stade Edmond Leburton, situated closer to the town centre. Contrary to its predecessor, the new stadium is owned by Waremme’s municipality – and its construction has been commissioned by the town's socialist council who named after its longtime socialist mayor (1947-87) who even briefly served as Belgium's prime minister (1973-74). Simultaneously, on the northern side of the new stadium, a pitch is put in place for the benefit of local recreational clubs, including Cosmo Waremme, which is sponsored by a local café, named Cosmos; another local recreational club making use of the pitch was FC Champanette. Moreover, not far from the new stadium, at Site Haute-Wegge, new training facilities are built for R Stade Waremmien around the same time. In spite of the new facilities having been put in place, the pitch at Stade Longchamps remains in use for lower team football and training purposes in the following decades.
• 2010 / In the summer of 2010, major renovation works get underway at Stade Edmond Leburton, involving, most importantly, the construction of a clubhouse, the removal of the gravel track around the main pitch, and the putting in place of a synthetic surface on that same pitch. Unable to use the ground in the meantime, R Stade Waremmien moves its first team football (back) to Stade Longchamps. 
• 2011 / While the renovation works at Stade Edmond Leburton are ongoing, the pitch previously used by the meanwhile defunct recreational club Cosmo Waremme, is sown anew.
• 2012 / Inauguration of the renovated Stade Edmond Leburton, with its new clubhouse and 3G pitch on January 21st, 2012. The club abandons Stade Longchamps. 
• 2013 / Two years after having been sown anew, Terrain Cosmo – officially known from now on as Stade Leburton terrain A2 – is taken in use by R Stade Waremmien for lower team football and training sessions. 
• 2023 / Due to the artificial pitch in Stade Edmond Leburton having suffered due to its extensive use for matches and training sessions, it is deemed unsuitable for match purposes by Belgium’s FA. As a result, R Stade Waremmien has to play several of its home matches at the end of the 2022-23 season and the beginning of the 2023-24 season at the ground’s side pitch, Le Cosmo. By mid-September 2023, the club moved its first team football to its old ground, Stade Longchamps, while awaiting the commencement of works on the repair of the artificial pitch at Stade Leburton, which is meanwhile used only for training sessions.

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