Extreme Football Tourism: LUXEMBOURG: FC Yellow Boys Weiler-la-Tour

Terrain Am Dieltchen, Weiler-la-Tour (FC Yellow Boys Weiler-la-Tour)

Luxembourg, canton: Luxembourg

18 VIII 2024 / FC Yellow Boys Weiler-la-Tour - Union 05 Kayl-Tétange 2-1 / Division 1 Série 2 (= LUX level 3)

Timeline

1931 / Foundation of a first football club in Weiler-la-Tour, a village in the southeast of Luxembourg. The newly founded club, FC Weiler, does not join Luxembourg’s Football Association (FLF), instead sticking to playing friendly matches against teams from surrounding villages. It is unclear where the pitch used by FC Weiler for home matches was situated.
1938 / Due to a lack of players, FC Weiler has to cease its activities – with no refoundation of the club being contemplated during the hardships of World War II, with many Luxembourgers being forced into the German army fighting on the Russian front.
1954 / At the instigation of several youngsters from the village, who had to travel several miles to play football at FC Red Boys Aspelt, a new football club is founded in Weiler-la-Tour, which is given the name FC Yellow Boys Weiler-la-Tour. The first chairman is Mathias Seil, while a pitch is laid out for the club which is referred to locally as Terrain Op de Mëssen.
1955 / FC YB Weiler-la-Tour joins Luxembourg’s FA. However, FLF officials judge Terrain Op de Mëssen unfit for regular league football. Thereupon, a new pitch is laid out, Terrain Baamacker, later renamed Terrain / Stade Am Dieltchen. The new ground is inaugurated on August 7th, 1955, during the local summer festival. Being placed in Division 3 Série 2, the fifth level of Luxembourg’s league pyramid, the club suffers a 2-6 home defeat in its first regular league match against FC Syra Mensdorf. It is not until early October when Weiler succeeds in picking up its first points by defeating ES Schouweiler.
1965 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 3 Série 2, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour descends into the new bottom division of Luxembourg’s league system, Division 4, along with bottom club JS Koerich.
1967 / Champions in Division 4 Série 3, 1 point ahead of runners-up US Moutfort-Medingen, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour manages a return to D3.
1968 / Runners-up in Division 3 Série 2, 1 point behind champions FC Mamer 32, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour wins its second promotion in a row, acceding to Division 2 for the first time. Also in the 1967-68 season, the club reaches R4 of the Coupe du Luxembourg for the first time, being eliminated by National Division club CS Pétange (2-4).
1970 / Finishing bottom of the table in Division 2 Série 2, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour drops back into D3 after two seasons, along with the club finishing in second-last position, AS Schifflange.
1973 / Runners-up in Division 3 Série 2, 1 point behind champions FC Avenir Flaxweiler, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour wins promotion to D2.
1978 / Bottom of the table in Division 2 Série 3 at the end of the 1977-78 season, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour is retrograded to D3 along with the club finishing second from bottom, FC Red Boys Aspelt.
1979 / Champions in Division 3 Série 3, 4 points ahead of closest followers FC Vinesca Ehnen, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour wins promotion to D2.
1981 / Finishing in second-last position in Division 2 Série 2, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour drops back into D3 again, along with bottom club FC Munsbach.
1987 / Dressing rooms are added to the set-up at Terrain Am Dieltchen. Up to that point, players had had to change clothes in the nearby primary school.
1989 / Runners-up in Division 3 Série 3, with an equal number of points as champions FC Racing Rodange, but with an inferior goal difference (+56 vs. +58), FC YB Weiler-la-Tour wins promotion to D2.
1994 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 2 Série 3, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour drops back into D3 after five seasons, along with bottom club FC Beyren-Udinesina.
1996 / Finishing in third place in Division 3 Série 4, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour accompanies champions AS La Jeunesse d’Esch II to D2 instead of runners-up AS Differdange II due to a rule existing that no more than one B team can win promotion from the same division.
1999 / Champions in Division 2 Série 4, 1 point ahead of closest followers CS Sanem, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour accedes to Division 1, the third level of Luxembourg’s league pyramid, for the first time in club history.
2004 / FC YB Weiler-la-Tour reaches the round of last 32 of the Coupe du Luxembourg for the first time, suffering elimination at the hands of National Division club Union Luxembourg (1-2).
2008 / After nine seasons in Division 1 – with a fifth place in 2005 being the best result – FC YB Weiler-la-Tour now finishes in twelfth place in Division 1 Série 2, descending into D2 along with FC ES Clémency and bottom club FC Blo Weiss Itzig.
2011 / Runners-up in Division 2 Série 2, 1 point behind champions FC Jeunesse Junglinster, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour manages a return to Division 1 after an absence of three years.
2012 / The pitch of Terrain Am Dieltchen is equipped with a synthetic surface.
2013 / FC YB Weiler-la-Tour reaches the round of last 16 in the Coupe du Luxembourg, suffering elimination at the hands of FC Atert Bissen (2-3).
2015 / Inauguration of a new clubhouse and grandstand at Terrain Am Dieltchen – from now on rightfully bearing the name Stade Am Dieltchen.
2019 / With coach Jhemp Almeida, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour narrowly misses out on the title in Division 1 Série 2, finishing with an equal number of points as FC Mondercange, but with an inferior goal difference (+41 vs. +58). Subsequently, the club meets Promotion d’Honneur team FC Atert Bissen in a promotion-relegation play-off, going on to win the encounter at FC Minerva Lintgen’s Stade Jean Donnersbach (over 1,400 spectators) after extra time (3-1). As such, Weiler accedes to Promotion d’Honneur, the second level of Luxembourg’s league pyramid, for the first time in club history. As the icing on the cake, the club also wins the Coupe FLF, a cup competition for clubs in the three lowest divisions of Luxembourg’s league pyramid, managing to defeat CS Grevenmacher in the final, held at Stade Op Biirk in Mensdorf (1-3).
2022 / In the best season in club history so far, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour finishes in ninth place (in a field of sixteen competing clubs) in Promotion d’Honneur. Also in 2022, the club reaches the round of last 16 in the Coupe du Luxembourg, being eliminated at the hands of UN Käerjéng 97 (2-0).
2024 / FC YB Weiler-la-Tour has a good cup run, reaching the quarter finals of the Coupe du Luxembourg, in which the club is eliminated by National Division team FC Una Strassen (0-2). Meanwhile, in the regular league, the club is markedly less successful; finishing in fourteenth place in Promotion d’Honneur, just ahead of bottom clubs CS Grevenmacher and FC Blo-Weiss Medernach, FC YB Weiler-la-Tour avoids direct relegation, but the club has to play a promotion-relegation play-off against D1 club US Feulen – going on to suffer a 0-3 defeat in the match organised at FC Berdenia Berbourg’s Stade Renert. As such, Weiler suffers relegation to D1 after five years in the antechamber of Luxembourgian football.