BELGIUM: Union 81 FC (1987-2005) / R Wanze Sports (B) (2005-2013) / RJS Bas-Oha (B) (2005-2013) / RES Wanze-Bas-Oha (B) (2013-)

École des Jeunes Footballeurs de l'Entité de Wanze (EJFEW) - Rue de Leumont terr. 1, Antheit (B ground of RES Wanze-Bas-Oha, formerly Union 81 FC / B ground of R Wanze Sports & RJS Bas-Oha)

Belgium, province: Liège = Luik

August 2025 / no match visited

Timeline

• 1929 / Foundation of a football club in Vinalmont, a village in the western part of the Province of Liège. The new club takes on the name Vinalmont FC, acquiring registration number 1509 upon joining Belgium’s Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB). It is unclear where this club’s pitch was situated.
• 1932 / After three years in Liège’s regional divisions, Vinalmont FC withdraws from first team football.
• 1933 / After one year of inactivity, Vinalmont FC’s registration number 1509 is erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists, marking the official end of the club.
• 1940 / Refoundation of Vinalmont FC. It is unclear if the club played its football at Rue Charles Frère from the outset.
• 1941 / One year after its re-establishment, Vinalmont FC is admitted as a new Belgian FA member club under a new registration number, 2988.
• 1946 / Foundation of a football club in Antheit, a village immediately to the south of Vinalmont. The new club takes on the name FC Antheit, acquiring membership of Belgium’s FA with registration number 4495. It is not improbable that FC Antheit played its football on a pitch at Rue de la Hachelette from the outset. That same year, a club is founded in another village in the region, Wanze, as well, with this new club, Wanze Sports, acquiring registration number 4496. It is unclear if Wanze Sports played its football on the pitch at Chaussée de Wavre from the foundation onwards.
• 1981 / Having spent their entire existence in the lower reaches of Liège’s provincial divisions, Vinalmont FC and FC Antheit conclude a merger, resulting in the foundation of Union 81 FC, which retains Antheit’s registration number 4495; Vinalmont’s number 2988 is erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists. All activities move to Rue de la Hachelette in Antheit, with the ground at Rue Charles Frère in Vinalmont being abandoned.
• 1987 / Moving away from Rue de la Hachelette, Union 81 FC settles at a newly laid-out ground at Rue de Leumont, situated halfway between Antheit and Wanze. A small covered stand is constructed between the two pitches of the ground.
• 1996 / At Chaussée de Wavre, Wanze Sports celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, with the club taking on the royal epithet and officially becoming Royal Wanze Sports.
• 2005 / Works get underway to create a municipal youth academy ground at Rue de Leumont in Antheit. As a result of the works, Union 81 FC concludes a groundsharing agreement with RJS Bas-Oha, allowing the club to play its home matches at Stade Louis Manne in Bas-Oha for the duration of the works. With the number of pitches at the ground being extended from two to five (!), of which four (Terrain 1, Terrain 2, Terrain 4, and Terrain 5) sport a small covered stand, the new facility, rebaptised Ecole des Jeunes Footballeurs de l’Entité de Wanze (EJFEW), is officially inaugurated on November 16, 2005. The new clubhouse has been constructed following a design by architect Benoit Voneche. With no first team football being played at this facility, it became the home of the youth academies of RJS Bas-Oha and R Wanze Sports.
• 2006 / After one year of groundsharing at Stade Louis Manne, Union 81 FC is absorbed into RJS Bas-Oha. Union’s registration number 4495 is erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists. 
• 2013 / Having spent its last two seasons as an independent club in Liège’s Provincial League 3, R Wanze Sports concludes a merger with RJS Bas-Oha, the club with which it had shared the youth academy facilities in Antheit since 2005. The merger results in the foundation of Royale Entente Sportive (RES) Wanze-Bas-Oha, which retains Bas-Oha’s registration number 1654; Wanze’s number 4496 is erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists. The ground of Wanze Sports at Chaussée de Wavre in Wanze is abandoned forthwith, with the location being redeveloped for the construction of a retirement home, Résidence Les Avelines. First team football moves to Stade Louis Manne in Bas-Oha, while the youth academy ground in Antheit remains in use for lower team football and training sessions. However, Terrain 1 (pitch 1) of the ground has been rarely in use for competitive football since, with most youth matches being played on Terrains 2, 4, and 5.

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