BELGIUM: Voorwaarts Oorbeek (1992-2004) / Voorwaarts Oorbeek United (2004-2005) / KVV Oorbeek-Kumtich (2005-2008) / KVK Tienen (C) (2008-2013) / KVK Tienen (B) (2013-2024)

Sportcomplex August Huon, Oorbeek (KVK Tienen additional youth academy ground, formerly Voorwaarts Oorbeek / Voorwaarts Oorbeek United / KVV Oorbeek-Kumtich / C ground of KVK Tienen)

Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant = Vlaams Brabant

November 2023 / no match visited

Timeline

• 1938 / Foundation of a first football club in Oorbeek, named Sportkring (SK) Oorbeek. The club joins Belgium's Football Association under registration number 2734. It is unclear where this club's ground was situated.
• 1940 / SK Oorbeek first enters a regular first team in Brabant's regional league pyramid.
• 1946 / Having spent six seasons in Brabant's provincial leagues, SK Oorbeek withdraws its first team.
• 1948 / Not having developed any activity since the summer of 1946, SK Oorbeek sees its registration number 2734 being erased from the Belgian FA's official lists. No information is available about football history in Oorbeek for the following 44 years, but it is more than probable that recreational football was played in the village during this period.
• 1992 / Foundation of a new football club in Oorbeek, which takes on the name Voorwaarts Oorbeek. Joining Belgium's FA under registration number 9263, the club settles at Sportcomplex August Huon.
• 1993 / Voorwaarts Oorbeek enters a regular first team for the first time, which has a reasonably successful first campaign, finishing in sixth place in Brabant's Provincial League 4F.
• 1995 / Runners-up in Provincial League 4F in their second season, Voorwaarts Oorbeek wins promotion to Provincial League 3.
• 2003 / Runners-up in Provincial League 3A, Voorwaarts Oorbeek wins promotion to Provincial League 2.
• 2004 / In its last season as an independent club, Voorwaarts Oorbeek finishes runners-up in Provincial League 2B, 11 points behind FC Neerwinden. As it happens, Voorwaarts Oorbeek and FC Neerwinden conclude a merger, resulting in the foundation of Voorwaarts Oorbeek United, retaining FC Neerwinden's registration number 6813. The new club, which settles at Oorbeek's Sportcomplex August Huon, starts its life in Brabant's Provincial League 1 on the back of FC Neerwinden's title in P2B. Meanwhile, Neerwinden's Terrein Schoolstraat is taken over by Standaard Wange (registration number 9304), which changes its name to become Standaard Neerwinden.
• 2005 / Finishing 11th in Brabant's Provincial League 1, Voorwaarts Oorbeek United descends into Provincial League 2. The club changes its name to become Tienen United and moves into Kumtich's ground at Sint-Barbarastraat. The club which spent the past two seasons at Sint-Barbarastraat, Koninklijke Unie Sint-Gillis (KUSG) FC Tienen (registration number 2721), the result of a merger between KUSG Kumtich (2721) and FC Tienen (9285), moves the other way, settling at Oorbeek under a new name, Koninklijke Voetbalvereniging (KVV) Oorbeek-Kumtich. Like Tienen United, KVV Oorbeek-Kumtich plays its football in Brabant's Provincial League 2.
• 2008 / Having played three seasons in P2B, KVV Oorbeek-Kumtich is absorbed into KVK Tienen (registration number 132). Registration number 2721 is erased from the Belgian FA's official lists. KVK Tienen takes over Sportcomplex August Huon for lower team football and training sessions.
• 2018 / A ladies' football club, DVC Eva's Tienen (registration number 9527), is allowed to take over the premises in Oorbeek, which are shared with KVK Tienen's youth academy.
• 2021 / After an independent existence of twelve seasons, DVC Eva's Tienen is absorbed (back) into KVK Tienen.
• 2024 / As it seems, KVK Tienen's female football teams have moved away all their activities to Tienen proper, meaning that the ground in Oorbeek has been abandoned.

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