BELGIUM: KAS Eupen (B)

Stadion am Kehrweg terr. B, Eupen (KAS Eupen - first side-pitch of the stadium)

Belgium, province: Liège = Luik

8 XII 2024 / KAS Eupen B - R Aywaille FC 2-3 / ACFF Amateur Division 2 (= BE level 4)

Timeline

• 1945 / Foundation of Alliance Sportive (AS) Eupen as a merger of two pre-war football clubs in the town of Eupen: La Jeunesse d'Eupen (founded in 1919 as a merger of two previous clubs and becoming a Belgian FA member in 1920, registration number 108) and FC Eupen (founded in 1920, but having a lower registration number, 92, probably due to the club tracing its origins to one of the original clubs which had merged to become La Jeunsse d'Eupen). No information is available about the football grounds used in pre-war Eupen, but it is clear that the new AS Eupen settled on a pitch laid out at Kehrweg from the outset in 1945. Two years later, a first stand was added. It is unclear when the first side pitch of the ground was laid out, but it may have been pretty shortly after the war as well. Oral sources state that it is the oldest of the side-pitches of the stadium - going back to the 1960s at least.
• 1981 / AS Eupen germanicises its name, officially becoming Allgemeine Sportvereinigung (still AS) Eupen.
• 1995 / AS Eupen acquires the royal epithet, officially becoming Königliche Allgemeine Sportvereinigung (KAS) Eupen.
• 2009 / The side-pitch of the Stadion am Kehrweg is equipped with a synthetic surface.
• 2010 / KAS Eupen wins promotion to the top division of Belgian football for the first time. By that time, the club is fully professional.
• 2024 / KAS Eupen's U23 team becomes a part of the Belgian national league pyramid, being placed in ACFF Amateur Division 2, the fourth tier of the league system. Home matches are played not in the stadium itself, but on the synthetic side-pitch.

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