Wednesday, 19 August 2026

BELGIUM: Eendracht Mazenzele Opwijk (C) (2017-2023) / Eendracht Mazenzele Opwijk (B) (2023-2025) / Eendracht Mazenzele Opwijk (2025-)

Campus Tesseskouter terr. 2, Opwijk (Eendracht Mazenzele Opwijk, formerly B / C pitch of Eendracht Mazenzele Opwijk)

Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant = Vlaams Brabant

19 VIII 2026 / Eendracht Mazenzele Opwijk - K Londerzeel SK 2-2 / Pre-season friendly

Timeline
  • 1959 / Foundation of Voetbalclub (VC) Eendracht Mazenzele, which is accepted as new Belgian FA member that same year under matricule 6353. Most probably, the club played at Terrein Vossestraat from the outset.
  • 2014 / In its last season under the name VC Eendracht Mazenzele, the club finishes in second place in P3F - with the club never having rosen to a higher level than Provincial League 2. Meanwhile, in Opwijk, not far from Mazenzele, former national league side KSK Sint-Paulus Opwijk (matricule 4013) finds itself in financial trouble - deciding to put a stop to all its activities for a full season. As a temporary arrangement, this club's youth academy is transferred as a whole to VCE Mazenzele, which changes its name to become Eendracht Mazenzele Opwijk (often abbreviated "EMO"). 
  • 2015 / The plans of KSK Sint-Paulus Opwijk's board to pay off all its debts in the course of the 2014-15 season having come to naught, this club folds; matricule 4013 is erased from the Belgian FA's official lists. Not long after, the historic ground at Ringlaan in Opwijk is demolished. In order to facilitate Eendracht Mazenzele Opwijk's large youth academy, Opwijk's municipal authorities finance the creation of two synthetic pitches, the first being put in place in the fall of 2015 next to the pitch of recreational club VK De Sjoeters (Steenweg op Vilvoorde, Opwijk). Upon completion, this pitch, Terrein Molenkouter, is taken in use by EMO's youth academy as well as by VK De Sjoeters - especially by this club's ladies' branch, which joined Belgium's FA in 2014 under the name VK Sjoeters Opwijk (matricule 9621).
  • 2017 / Ladies' football club VK Sjoeters Opwijk is absorbed into Eendracht Mazenzele Opwijk. Around that same time, EMO's second synthetic pitch is inaugurated at Klaarstraat in Opwijk - also in this case, the 3G is laid out next to the pitch of a recreational football club, in this case VK Eeksken. 
  • 2018 / A third pitch is added to the sports park at Klaarstraat in Opwijk for the benefit of Eendracht Mazenzele Opwijk's first team football. In addition to that, a new clubhouse is built on the location as well, the premises being inaugurated in August 2018. The new park, now consisting of three pitches - one for VK Eeksken, two for EMO - is given the name Campus Tesseskouter.
  • 2019 / Having played in the upper reaches of Provincial League 3 for the past seasons, Eendracht Mazenzele Opwijk wins promotion to P2 by virtue of a second-place finish in P3C.
  • 2022 / In an impressive season in Provincial League 2B, Eendracht Mazenzele Opwijk wins the title hand-down with a total of 79 points. Thus, EMO accedes to Provincial League 1 for the first time in club history.
  • 2025 / First team football is moved from the natural grass pitch (pitch 1) to the synthetic side-pitch (pitch 2) of Campus Tesseskouter.
  • 2026 / With Terrein Molenkouter being taken over by a newly founded club, Jong FC Opwijk, Eendracht Mazenzele Opwijk centres all its activities on Campus Tesseskouter once and for all.











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

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