Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: VC Bekkevoort

Sunday, 19 November 2023

BELGIUM: VC Bekkevoort

Terrein Oude Tiensebaan, Bekkevoort (VC Bekkevoort)

Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant = Vlaams Brabant

19 XI 2023 / VC Bekkevoort - FC Meensel-Kiezegem 0-0 / Brabant, VFV Provincial League 3B (= BE level 8)

Timeline

1952 / Foundation of a football club in Bekkevoort, given the straightforward name VC (Voetbalclub) Bekkevoort. The club acquires membership of Belgium’s Football Association under registration number 5559 and starts its life in Brabant’s Provincial League 3G. The club plays its home games on a pitch situated at Staatsbaan.
1956 / Winning the title in Brabant's Provincial League 3G, VC Bekkevoort accedes to Provincial League 2 for the first time.
1957 / Finishing in third-last place in Brabant's Provincial League 2C, VC Bekkevooort drops back into Provincial League 3 after just one season.
1963 / Finishing in 13th place in Brabant's Provincial League 3G, VC Bekkevoort descends into the newly formed bottom league of Brabant’s football pyramid, Provincial League 4.
1964 / Runners-up in Brabant's Provincial League 4C, VC Bekkevoort wins promotion back to P3 just one year after being relegated from that level.
1969 / Champions in Brabant's Provincial League 3A, VC Bekkevoort accedes to Provincial League 2 for the first time in club history.
1970 / Finishing bottom of the table in Brabant's Provincial League 2B, VC Bekkevoort drops back into Provincial League 3 after just one season.
1975 / Finishing second-last in Brabant's Provincial League 3A, VC Bekkevoort drops back into Provincial League 4. Also in 1975, VC Bekkevoort moves into a new ground situated at Oude Tiensebaan, where the club has played its home matches ever since.
1995 / Having spent twenty consecutive seasons in Provincial League 4, VC Bekkevoort now wins the title in Brabant's Provincial League 4G, thus clinching a ticket for Provincial League 3.
2001 / Bottom of the table in Brabant's Provincial League 3D, VC Bekkevoort descends back into Provincial League 4.
2007 / Runners-up in Brabant's Provincial League 4E, 3 points behind champions Hoger Op Testelt, VC Bekkevoort manages a return to Provincial League 3 after a six-year absence.
2015 / VC Bekkevoort clinches the title in Brabant’s Provincial League 3A, 5 points ahead of VK Linden. The title marks the return of the club to Provincial League 2 after an absence of 45 years.
2016 / In an excellent first season in Provincial League 2B, VC Bekkevoort finishes in third place behind Hoger-Op Veltem and SC Aarschot. In the subsequent round of promotion play-offs, the club is eliminated in the group stage, finishing last in its group behind RFC Grez-Doiceau and KFC Rhodienne-De Hoek.
2019 / In its best season ever, VC Bekkevoort finishes in second place in Brabant's VFV Provincial League 2A, just 1 point behind champions SC Hoegaarden-Outgaarden. No promotion play-offs are held in Brabant at the end of the 2018-19 season, with the club thus being deprived of the opportunity to fight for an unprecedented promotion to Provincial League 1.
2020 / In the 2019-20 season, cut short in March 2020 due to the COVID lockdown, VC Bekkevoort finds itself in second-last place in Brabant's VFV Provincial League 2A after 24 (of 30 matches), resulting in the club being retrograded to P3 along with KFC Rapide Wezemaal and bottom club KRD Zoutleeuw.
2024 / Bottom of the table in Brabant's VFV Provincial League 3D, VC Bekkevoort descends into Provincial League 4 along with FC Averbode Testelt Okselaar B, KRD Zoutleeuw, and KVZ Glabbeek-Zuurbemde. In the summer of 2024, the main pitch of Terrein aan de Oude Tiensebaan is laid out anew with a synthetic surface.
2025 / Finishing in third place in Brabant's VFV Provincial League 4F, VC Bekkevoort qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club draws a bye in R1, following which elimination is suffered at the hands of Sporting Kampenhout B (6-3).
2026 / Champions in Brabant's VFV Provincial League 4E, 3 points ahead of closest rivals KFC Klimop Begijnendijk, VC Bekkevoort wins promotion to Provincial League 3.