GROUND // Henri Houtsaegerstadion - KV Koksijde Oostduinkerke
When visiting the Belgian coastline, you can schedule a whole groundhop tour. One of the better stops is the Henri Houtsaegerstadion,...
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GROUND // Stade Joseph Vanstraelen - Racing Ans Montegnée FC
Once upon a time, Montegnée, near Liège, had a first division club. For a very long time, this club played at national level....
GROUND // Sportcentrum De Leunen - ASV Geel
The "Zotten van Geel" (Fools of Geel) have had quite the football history already. The last couple of years there seems to be more...
GROUND // Rue Pasteur - RUS Montagnarde
Montagnarde is a very small part of Saint-Nicolas (not to be confused with the Saint-Nicolas in Flanders) in the neighbourhood of Liège....
GROUND // Stade Dieudonné Randaxhe - FC Cheratte
One will find a lot more football history on the misty hills of Liège than you'd expect. The charming FC Cheratte, part of Visé, reminds...
GROUND // Caetsbeekstadion - KVV Hoeselt
Hasselt is one of the most charming cities in the Belgian province of Limburg. The lovely historical city centre, the vivid activities...
GROUND // Maria van Loonstraat - KVV Lummen
Lummen in the Belgian province of Limburg is mostly known for the junction of highways E313 and E314. These two and the Albert Canal...
GROUND // Dreef - KRC Haaltert (lost ground)
We already wrote about the history of FC Kerksken. That team underwent a merger in 2020 with the neighbouring KFC Haaltert. The stadium...
GROUND // Willy Michiels Stadion - FC Kerksken-Haaltert
In Haaltert in East Flanders, there's a lot of football to be found. Besides the sports activities in Denderhoutem (part of Haaltert),...
GROUND // Pijperzele - EC Oudenhove
Sint-Maria-Oudenhove is almost completely locked in by Brakel and Zottegem. And it's also one of those exceptions in Belgium that...
GROUND // Casterstraat - Racing Mater
In the rural Mater, part of Oudenaarde, life goes on with nothing but peace and quiet. They did have to wait until 1971 before they had...
GROUND // Haneveld - K Eendracht De Haan
2021 was yet another year full of Covid-19 sh*t. Not so often could we go to football games without any stress. On the other hand, when...
GROUND // Ambachtslaan - K Brecht SK
KFC Sint-Lenaarts is perhaps the better known team in the village of Brecht (if we include the smaller villages forming part of Brecht)....
GROUND // Kattegat - K Wuustwezel FC
Football in small villages that even have a history in second division; in Belgium it's not that uncommon. One of those examples is...
GROUND // Vic Coveliersstadion - FC Belgica & OSTAN
Earlier we already visited "Den Bolhoed", one of the many grounds Belgica Edegem had used in the past. But "Den Belgica" actually played...
GROUND // Den Bolhoed - KVV Belgica Edegem Sport (lost ground)
Back in the good old days, when football was still pure and passionate, there were some smaller clubs that managed to reach the highest...
GROUND // Ter Beke - KWS Oudenburg
Oudenburg might not sound familiar, but being in the shadow of Oostende it does have an old and consistent football team. "Waait Star"...
GROUND // Terrein aan de Leuvensebaan - VK Rode (lost ground)
Surrounded by Leuven, Brussels and Wavre, you'll find the village Huldenberg. OHR Huldenberg is the number one team of the village, but...
GROUND // Jahnplatz - TuS Preussen Vluyn 09 (lost ground - Germany)
Neukirchen-Vluyn is a village just across the Dutch/German border. Completely surrounded by German top teams, the village briefly had a...
GROUND // Glückauf-Kampfbahn - DJK Teutonia Schalke-Nord (Germany)
Let's talk about FC Schalke 04. To be more precise, their old Glückauf-Kampfbahn. For 45 years straight, this was the home ground of the...