Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: K Red Star Korspel (1941-2001)

Terrein Stalsesteenweg, Korspel (formerly K Red Star Korspel)

Belgium, province: Limburg

July & August 2024 / no match visited

Timeline

1941 / Foundation of a football club in Korspel, which is given the name Red Star Korspel, acquiring membership of Belgium’s Football Association with registration number 3179. The club starts its life in Limburg’s Regional League 2 (2e Gewestelijke) – renamed Provincial League 2 in 1952. It is unclear if Red Star Korspel played at Terrein Stalsesteenweg from the outset.
1953 / Red Star Korspel achieves the best result in club history, finishing in fifth place in Limburg’s Provincial League 2A – going on to repeat that result in 1955 in Provincial League 2B.
1964 / Finishing in fifteenth place in P2C, Red Star Korspel descends into Provincial League 3 for the first time.
1966 / Champions in P3A, Red Star Korspel wins promotion to Provincial League 2.
1969 / Finishing in fifteenth place in P2B, Red Star Korspel drops back into Provincial League 3.
1982 / Champions in P3B, Red Star Korspel wins promotion to Provincial League 2.
1986 / Finishing in fifteenth place in P2A, Red Star Korspel drops back into Provincial League 3.
1987 / Champions in P3B, Red Star Korspel wins promotion to Provincial League 2.
1991 / Bottom of the table in P2C, Red Star Korspel drops back into Provincial League 3. Also in 1991, upon the club’s fiftieth anniversary, Red Star Korspel acquires the royal epithet, thus officially becoming Koninklijke Red Star Korspel.
2001 / In its last season as an independent club, K Red Star Korspel finishes in sixth place in Limburg’s Provincial League 3B. Strikingly, the club never played either in Provincial League 1 or Provincial League 4. Following the 2000-01 season, K Red Star Korspel concludes a merger with VK Beverlo, a club founded in 1968 (registration number 7236), which dropped back from Provincial League 2 to Provincial League 3 in its last season. The new merger club is given the name Red Star Beverlo, retaining VK Beverlo’s number 7236. First team football moves to Beverlo’s Terrein Schansvijverstraat. It is unclear if Terrein Stalsesteenweg remained in use for some more years for lower team football before being abandoned once and for all. The ground has now been taken over by a pétanque club.