BELGIUM: VC Blauberg (1959-2010) / Blauberg Sport (2011-2019)

Terrein aan de Sparstraat, Blauberg (formerly VC Blauberg / Blauberg Sport)

Belgium, province: Antwerp = Antwerpen

July 2026 / no match visited

Timeline

• 1959 / Foundation of a football club in Blauberg, a hamlet in the far south of the Province of Antwerp. The new club, which takes on the name Voetbalclub (VC) Blauberg, receives registration number 6249 upon joining the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB). It is not entirely clear if VC Blauberg played its football at Terrein aan de Sparstraat from its foundation onwards (any information regarding this matter is very welcome; please get in touch!).
• 1974 / Finishing in third-last place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3B, VC Blauberg descends into Provincial League 4, a level created in 1971.
• 1978 / Runner-up in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4F, VC Blauberg wins promotion to Provincial League 3 – either via a play-off or due to extra promotion places being available.
• 1979 / Finishing in second-last place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3C, VC Blauberg drops back into Provincial League 4 after just one season.
• 1998 / Finishing in third place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4D, VC Blauberg goes on to win the ensuing play-off rounds, thus managing a return to Provincial League 3 after a nineteen-year absence.
• 1999 / Finishing bottom of the table in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3D, VC Blauberg drops back into Provincial League 4 after just one season.
• 2010 / Having had to compete in several matches with fewer than eleven players in the early stages of the 2010-11 season, VC Blauberg was struck from the league by the Belgian FA due to an outstanding debt.
• 2011 / With registration number 6249 of VC Blauberg having been erased from the Belgian FA’s membership list, a new club sees the daylight in the village, Blauberg Sport, which joins the association with registration number 9567 and being placed in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4 for the 2011-12 season. Of course, Blauberg Sport settles on the former ground of VC Blauberg at Sparstraat.
• 2014 / Runner-up in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4E, 13 points behind runaway champions KSAV Sint-Dimpna, Blauberg Sport qualifies for the promotion play-offs. Knocking out KVC Oostmalle Sport in R1 (8-3 aggr.), the club goes on to defeat K Boechoutse VV in the final (3-0 aggr.), thus gaining promotion to Provincial League 3.
• 2015 / Finishing in third-last place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3C, Blauberg Sport drops back into Provincial League 4 after just one season, alongside KFC Heultje, VV Laakdal, and bottom club K Blauwvoet Oevel.
• 2017 / Finishing in third place in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4D, Blauberg Sport qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club bows out in R1 against FC Sint-Jozef SK (2-0 aggr.).
• 2018 / Clinching the title in Antwerp’s Provincial League 4D – incidentally the first-ever league title in the history of football in Blauberg – 3 points ahead of closest rivals KVC Booischot, Blauberg Sport manages a return to Provincial League 3 after three seasons.
• 2019 / Finishing bottom of the table in Antwerp’s Provincial League 3C, Blauberg Sport drops back into Provincial League 4 after just one season, along with FC Netezonen Eindhout, KVC Oostmalle Sport, and Lierse Kempenzonen B. However, following the 2018-19 season, the club withdraws from the Belgian FA, with its registration number 9567 being erased from the membership list of the association. Since, Terrein aan de Sparstraat has remained unused for regular league football, with the site having remained in use as an open community ground.

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

BELGIUM: RAS Saintoise (B) (1988-2025) / RAS Saintoise (2025-)

Stade René Kiermeer terr. 2, Saintes = Sint-Renelde (main pitch of RAS Saintoise, formerly B pitch of RAS Saintoise)

Belgium, province: Walloon Brabant = Waals Brabant

26 VII 2026 / RAS Saintoise - FC Enghiennois 3-0 / Belgian Cup R1

Timeline

• 1934 / Foundation of a football club in Saintes, Union Sportive (US) Saintoise, which joins Belgium’s Football Association with registration number 1988. US Saintoise plays its football on a pitch situated at Rue de Rebecq.
• 1935 / One year after its foundation, the Roman Catholic US Saintoise concludes a merger with another club from the village taking part in the Socialist football league (club name & year of foundation unknown), resulting in the foundation of Alliance Sportive (AS) Saintoise. The new club takes US Saintoise’s place in Brabant’s Provincial League 3 as well as settling at that club’s pitch, Rue de Rebecq.
• 1952 / AS Saintoise is suspended due to having fielded ineligible players, with the club's registration number being erased from the Belgian FA's membership list two years later.
• 1958 / Alliance Sportive (AS) Saintoise is refounded, acquiring membership of Belgium’s Football Association with registration number 6158. The club settles on the old pitch situated at Rue de Rebecq.
• 1988 / Moving away from its pitch at Rue de Rebecq, AS Saintoise settles at a newly laid-out ground at with two pitches at Rue du Radoux, which is named after the chairman of the supporters’ club; Stade René Kiermeer. 
• 2011 / Obtaining the royal epithet, AS Saintoise officially changes its name to become Royale Alliance Sportive (RAS) Saintoise.
• 2024 / Clinching the title in Brabant ACFF’s Provincial League 2B, 3 points ahead of closest followers R La Hulpe SC, RAS Saintoise achieves a historic promotion to Provincial League 1.
• 2025 / RAS Saintoise moves its first team football from its main pitch to the new synthetic pitch, laid out on the side-pitch of Stade René Kiermeer, on the other side of Rue du Radoux, in fact a pitch which had fallen into disuse several years before.
• 2026 / Runner-up in Brabant ACFF's Provincial League 1, 1 point behind champions R Léopold FC, RAS Saintoise qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 against RRC Waterloo (4-1).

Note - Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-8 = non-matchday visit, September 2024 / pictures 9-23 = match visit, July 2026.

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

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.

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