BELGIUM: R Antwerp FC (C) (19??-2025) / R Antwerp FC (B) (2025-)

Bosuilstadion terr. C, Antwerp = Antwerpen = Anvers Deurne (B pitch of R Antwerp FC)

Belgium, province: Antwerp = Antwerpen

18 X 2025 / R Antwerp FC U23 - KSK Tongeren 1-1 / VFV Amateur Division 2B (= BE level 4)

Timeline

• 1923 / R Antwerp FC, founded as a cricket club in 1880, with a football branch being added nine years later, moves into the Bosuilstadion. It is unclear if Pitch / Veld C, at the back of the east stand of the main ground, was part of the set-up from the outset - most probably not. It is clear that this pitch has been in use for training sessions of 'RAFC''s first team for many decades - at least from the mid-1990s onwards.
• 2022 / R Antwerp FC's U23 team, nicknamed 'Young Reds', is integrated into the regular national leagues, being placed in Amateur Division 1, the third tier of the Belgian football pyramid. Home matches are played at the Herman Vanderpoortenstadion "Het Lisp" in Lier, as R Antwerp FC concludes a groundsharing agreement with Lierse Kempenzonen.
• 2024 / Ending its groundsharing agreement with Lierse Kempenzonen (renamed K Lierse SK that same summer), R Antwerp FC moves its U23 side's home matches to the Bosuilstadion proper.
• 2025 / As R Antwerp FC U23 tumbles back from VFV Amateur Division 1 into Division 2, the fourth level of the national divisions, home matches of the reserves' squad are moved to Veld / Pitch C of the Bosuilstadion.

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