BELGIUM: BSC Halle-Boyenhoven (1928-1932) / K Halle VV (1937-)

Terrein Asbroekstraat, Halle-Booienhoven (K Halle VV, formerly BSC Halle-Boyenhoven)

Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant = Vlaams Brabant

29 IX 2024 / K Halle VV - KSV Drieslinter B 2-5 / Brabant, VFV Provincial League 4F (= BE level 9)

Timeline

• 1928 / Foundation of a first football club in Halle-Booienhoven, which is given the name Blauw Ster Club (BSC) Halle-Boyenhoven. The club, which acquires membership of Belgium’s Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB) with registration number 1186, settles at Terrein Asbroekstraat, a pitch intersected by a path used by farmers and their cattle – for which reason matches have to be interrupted regularly until the path is cleared in the 1960s or 1970s. 
• 1932 / After four years, during which the club never fielded a first team in the regular Brabant provincial divisions, BSC Halle-Boyenhoven folds, ceasing all activities.
• 1937 / Refoundation of BSC Halle-Boyenhoven under a new name, Halle Voetbalvereniging (VV). The club, which joins Belgium’s Football Federation with registration number 2570, settles at the same pitch occupied by its predecessor, Terrein Asbroekstraat – playing on that site until the present day.
• 1938 / Taking part in Brabant’s regular provincial divisions for the first time, Halle VV is placed in Provincial League 3E.
• 1939 / After one season in Brabant’s P3E, in which the club manages a respectable second place, Halle VV withdraws its first team, probably due to many of its players being called up for army service following the mobilisation of the Belgian armed forces in the summer of 1939.
• 1942 / Halle VV makes a restart, entering a first team – not in Brabant’s Provincial League 3, but in Limburg’s Regional League 2J (2e Gewestelijke J).
• 1943 / After one year in Limburg’s Regional League 2, Halle VV returns to Brabant’s Provincial League 3.
• 1957 / Champions in Brabant’s Provincial League 3C, Halle VV wins promotion to Provincial League 2 for the first time.
• 1958 / Finishing in fourteenth place in Brabant’s Provincial League 2C, Halle VV drops back into P3 after just one season. The club never manages a return to Provincial League 2 in subsequent years. 
• 1963 / Finishing in twelfth place in Brabant’s Provincial League 3C, Halle VV descends into the newly formed Provincial League 4.
• 1966 / Champions in Brabant’s Provincial League 4C, Halle VV manages a return to Provincial League 3 after three seasons.
• 1987 / After 21 consecutive seasons in Provincial League 3, Halle VV now finishes bottom of the table in P3A, resulting in the club dropping back into Provincial League 4.
• 1997 / Halle VV obtains the royal epithet, officially changing its name to become Koninklijke Halle Voetbalvereniging (K Halle VV).
• 2001 / Runners-up in Brabant’s Provincial League 4F, K Halle VV wins promotion to Provincial League 3.
• 2004 / Finishing bottom of the table in Brabant’s Provincial League 3A, K Halle VV drops back into Provincial League 4 – a level where the club has played until the present day, with fifth place finishes in P4H (2015) and P4A (2018) being the highlights.
• 2022 / K Halle VV’s longtime secretary and treasurer, Louis Torsin, referred to lovingly as ‘The Heart and Soul of K Halle VV’, passes away at the age of 83.

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