BELGIUM: KVV Hoeselt (2025-)

Sportpark Hoeselt - Industrielaan, Hoeselt (KVV Hoeselt)

Belgium, province: Limburg

25 VII 2026 / KVV Hoeselt - KVV Weerstand Koersel 2-4 / Belgian Cup R1 

Timeline

• 1926 / Foundation of a first football club in Hoeselt, a town in the south of the Belgian Province of Limburg. The new club takes on the name Hoesseltsche Voetbalvereeniging (VV), receiving registration number 848 and settling on a pitch laid out between Bergstraat and Hemeldreef – a ground known subsequently as Terrein aan de Caetsbeek. That same year, in the adjacent hamlet of Alt-Hoeselt, a club is formed as well, Alt-Hoeselt Voetbalvereeniging (VV), which does not join the Belgian Football Association as yet, instead sticking to playing friendly matches for the time being.
• 1929 / Three years after its foundation, Alt-Hoeselt VV (AVV) joins the Belgian FA, acquiring registration number 1479 upon being accepted as a new member club. The club settles on a pitch known locally as Terrein Beis, but changes to Terrein Gijzenakker in one of the following years.
• 1932 / Hoesseltsche VV withdraws from the Belgian FA, joining the Flemish-nationalist football association VVB (Vlaamsche Voetbalbond) instead.
• 1934 / Retracing its steps, Hoesseltsche VV abandons the VVB, re-joining the official Belgian FA with a slightly adapted name, Hoesselt Voetbalvereniging (VV), receiving a new registration number (2146).
• ± 1935 / Moving away from Terrein Gijzenakker, Alt-Hoeselt VV settles on a newly laid-out pitch behind the local train station, known locally simply as Terrein achter de Statie.
• ± 1938 / Moving away from Terrein achter de Statie, Alt-Hoeselt VV settles on a newly-laid out pitch at Smisstraat, which would remain the club’s home for the remainder of its existence.
• 1953 / Acquiring the royal epithet, Alt-Hoeselt VV officially changes its name to become Koninklijke Alt-Hoeseltse Voetbalvereniging, commonly abbreviated as K Alt-Hoeselt(se) VV.
• 1963 / With the demise of the short-lived club Standard FC Schalkhoven, which had only been founded in 1960, Hoeselt VV takes over that club’s ground at Plasstraat, using it for lower team football and training sessions.
• 1968 / After two previous, much shorter spells of national league football (1946-48, 1958-59), Hoeselt VV now wins promotion to the national level for the third time. Local rivals K Alt-Hoeseltse VV never rose to the national divisions in the course of its existence.
• 1979 / Hoeselt VV wins an unprecedented promotion to National Division 2, though the club’s stay at this level would only last one season.
• 1984 / Obtaining the royal epithet, Hoeselt VV officially changes its name to become Koninklijke Hoeselt Voetbalvereniging – or K Hoeselt VV.
• 1992 / K Hoeselt VV suffers relegation from National League 4 into Provincial League 1, thus ending a 24-year-spell of national league football.
• 2001 / Following the 2000-01 season, K Hoeselt VV, by now playing its football in Limburg’s Provincial League 3, concludes a merger with Hoeselt SK, a club founded in 1967. The result of the merger between K Hoeselt VV and SK Hoeselt is given the name Koninklijke Sportvereniging (KSV) Hoeselt, which continues its existence with registration number 7045 of Hoeselt SK – testimony to the fact that K Hoeselt VV’s much lower number 2146 had been contaminated, most probably due to debts. All activities move to the Caetsbeekstadion and the training ground at Plasstraat in Schalkhoven, with Terrein aan de Bilzerstraat of Hoeselt SK being abandoned.
• 2016 / Following the 2015-16 season, a merger is concluded between KSV Hoeselt and K Alt-Hoeseltse VV, resulting in the foundation of Koninklijke Voetbalvereniging (KVV) Hoeselt, which retains registration number 1479 of K Alt-Hoeseltse VV. For the time being, first team football moves to Terrein aan de Smisstraat in Alt-Hoeselt, with the Caetsbeekstadion in Hoeselt as well as Terrein aan de Plasstraat in Schalkhoven remaining in use for lower team football. The merger club is given the word of Hoeselt’s local authorities that a new stadium is to be built for the club in Hoeselt, though no exact date is given to its inauguration.
• 2018 / Two seasons after the merger, Terrein aan de Smisstraat in Alt-Hoeselt is abandoned to make way for housing. First team football moves to the Caetsbeekstadion in Hoeselt proper. Terrein aan de Plasstraat in Schalkhoven remains in use for lower team football.
• 2025 / In September 2025, KVV Hoeselt, by now playing its football in Limburg’s Provincial League 2, moves all its activities to the newly built Sportpark Hoeselt at Industrielaan, with the Caetsbeekstadion being abandoned after 99 years, as well as the training ground at Plasstraat in Schalkhoven.
• 2026 / Finishing in joint second place in Limburg’s Provincial League 2A with KHO Heide Hasselt, 4 points behind champions K Vlijtingen VV, KVV Hoeselt qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out KSK Meeuwen in R1 (2-1) and K HIH Hoepertingen in R2 (3-3 A.E.T. & penalty shoot-out), going on to edge past FC Diepenbeek in the final (2-2 A.E.T. & penalty shoot-out). As such, KVV Hoeselt wins promotion to Provincial League 1, exactly thirty years after predecessor club K Hoeselt VV last played at that level.

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