BELGIUM: US Commanster (1961-1969) / EC Beho (1969-2003) / RUS Gouvy (C) (±2009-±2016)

Terrain de la Route Nationale 827, Beho (formerly US Commanster / EC Beho / training pitch of RUS Gouvy)

Belgium, province: Luxembourg = Luxemburg

July 2024 / no match visited

Timeline

• ± 1941 / Recreational football is played by a group of youngsters in the hamlet of Commanster, some 5km to the north of Beho. It is unclear if there was any footballing activity in either Commanster or Beho in the years following World War II.
• 1961 / Foundation of a football club in Commanster, which takes on the name Union Sportive (US) Commanster, with Charles Gaspard being chosen as first chairman. The club joins Belgium’s Football Association with registration number 6433. For the 1961-62 season, US Commanster is placed in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 3D.
• 1969 / US Commanster changes its name to become Entente Communale (EC) Beho.
• 1971 / In the best season in club history, EC Beho finishes in fourth place in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 3F, behind AS Regné, US Gouvy, and JS Mageretoise. In the following decades, EC Beho never managed to win promotion to a higher level.
• 2003 / Having picked up just 4 points in its last season in P3F, EC Beho folds, ceasing all activities. Registration number 6433 is erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists. The ground at Route Nationale 827 (alternatively known as Route de Saint-Vith) was taken over by AC Aldringen, a recreational club from nearby Aldringen, just across the provincial border in Liège.
• ± 2009 / RUS Gouvy start using the ground in Beho for lower team football and training purposes in addition to the two pitches at Rue de Beho in Gouvy proper.
• ± 2016 / RUS Gouvy abandon the pitch at Route Nationale 827 – the need for an extra pitch completely evaporating after that club’s B pitch at Rue de Beho in Gouvy is equipped with a synthetic surface in May 2017. In the following years, with AC Aldringen moving to a different ground, the clubhouse of the former football ground is only used for occasional gatherings by the local boy scouts as well as futsal club Ampelkicker Aldringen. With the pitch itself no longer being in use for football matches, the facilities fell into disrepair in the following years. 

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