Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: Racing Mater

Sunday, 14 April 2024

BELGIUM: Racing Mater

Terrein Casterstraat, Mater (Racing Mater)

Belgium, province: East Flanders = Oost-Vlaanderen

14 IV 2024 / Racing Mater - SV Everbeek B 9-2 / East Flanders, Provincial League 4C (= BE level 9)

Timeline

1971 / Foundation of a recreational club in Mater, a hamlet in the vicinity of Oudenaerde, which takes on the name Racing Moustache – a name chosen because all of the projected team’s players happened to wear a moustache. The club, which joins the Katholiek Vlaams Sportverbond (KVS), settles on a pitch situated at Braambergstraat.
1972 / Having played its first season at Terrein Braambergstraat, Racing Moustache settles at a newly laid-out pitch at Casterstraat.
± 1973 / Racing Moustache changes its name to become Racing Mater.
1986 / Having spent fifteen years with their club in the divisions of KVS, the board of Racing Mater takes the decision to switch to the official Belgian Football Association (KBVB). The club receives registration number 9023 upon being accepted as new member. Racing Mater starts its life as a regular league club in East Flanders’ Provincial League 4D.
1989 / After two difficult first seasons, Racing Mater now finishes in second place in Provincial League 4E.
1992 / Finishing in fourth place in P4C, Racing Mater goes on to win the play-offs, as a result of which the club accedes to Provincial League 3 for the first – and only – time in club history.
1993 / Bottom of the table in P3C, Racing Mater drops back into Provincial League 4 after just one season.
1994 / Racing Mater finishes in fourth place in P4C.
2000 / Racing Mater finishes in fourth place in P4B.
2007 / Racing Mater finishes in fourth place in P4C.
2024 / Following the 2023-24 season, in which the club finishes in sixth place in East Flanders’ Provincial League 4C – incidentally the club’s best season in seventeen years – Racing Mater folds, ceasing all activities due to a large part of the squad hanging up their boots and not enough potential new players being available.