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URSL Visé - Wikipedia

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URSL Visé

Full name

Union Royale Sportive Lixhe Visé

Founded

22 October 1927; 97 years ago

Ground

Stade de la Cité de l'Oie, Visé

Capacity

5,460^[1]

Chairman

Guy Thiry Co President Shelley Mcfarlane

Manager

José Riga Assistant Manager Ricardo Martin

League

Belgian National Division 1

2022–23

Belgian National Division 1, 9th of 20

Website

https://urslvise.be/

Home colours

Away colours

Current season

Union Royale Sportive Lixhe Visé, commonly known as URSL Visé, is a Belgian professional football club based in Visé, Liège Province. The club play their home games at Stade de la Cité de l'Oie.^[2] The club colours, reflected in their crest and kits, are white, red and blue. Formed in 1927 as a merger between to local clubs, the club has spent most of its existence in the provincial tiers. The club changed ownership with Phoenix All Stars Football Academy taking 50 percent shares in 2023.

History

The club was formed on 22 October 1927 when two clubs not affiliated to the Royal Belgian Football Association (KBVB) (Bleus clairs and Bleus foncés) merged and continued under the name Union Sainte-Brigitte Football Club.^[3] On 21 November 1928, the club joined the KBVB.

On 6 August 1929, the name was changed to Union Sportive Lixhe. On 17 May 1945 the name was changed again: they would continue under the name Sporting Union Lixhe-Lanaye. On 5 November 1953, the club was given royal status and its name was changed to Union Royal Sports Lixhe-Lanaye on 26 November 1953.^[3]

For a long time, the club spent an anonymous existence in the regional tiers of the Liège Province. Until the 2013–14 season, where the club won four consecutive promotions – three championships and one play-offs win – to reach the Belgian Third Division.^[3]

After the bankruptcy of local rivals CS Visé in 2014,^[4] the club was relocated to the main stadium in Visé, the 5,460 capacity Stade de la Cité de l'Oie.^[5] In order to give this move more weight, the name was changed to Union Royale Sportive Lixhe Visé on 1 July 2016.^[3]^[6] In 2017, the club was promoted from the provincial series to the Belgian Third Division and finished second behind FC Tilleur, thereby promoting to the second amateur division.^[7] The following year, they again entered the play-offs for promotion, in which they beat Oudenaarde and Ronse, which secured their sixth promotion in a row.^[8]^[9]^[10] Thereby, URSL Visé would compete in the highest amateur division, the Belgian third-tier First Amateur Division for the first time in club history for the 2019–20 season.

In December 2019, the club managed to sign former Belgian international Jonathan Legear.^[11]^[12]

Honours

Belgian Second Amateur Division
- Runners-up (1): 2018–19
Belgian Third Amateur Division
- Runners-up (1): 2017–18
Première Provinciale Liège
- Runners-up (1): 2016–17
Deuxième Provinciale Provinciale Liège
- Winners (1): 2015–16
Troisième Provinciale Provinciale Liège
- Winners (1): 2014–15
Quatrième Provinciale Provinciale Liège B
- Winners (1): 2013–14

Current squad

As of 11 August 2022

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	BEL	Ali Tourki
2	DF	BEL	Giulian Teise
4	DF	GUF	Yohan Marmot
5	MF	FRA	Amadou Diakhaté
6	MF	UKR	Denys Bunchukov
8	MF	JAM	Michael Graham
11	FW	FRA	Amine Karraoui
14	MF	JAM	Alexander Bicknell
16	GK	BEL	Arthur Cremer
17	MF	BEL	Karim El Khattoutii
18	MF	JAM	Damoi Whitfield
19	DF	BEL	Amine Belhadj
20	FW	FRA	Amadou Thioune


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	MF	BEL	Nicolas Gerits
23	DF	BEL	Jason Kaluanga
24	MF	JAM	Mario Simms
25	MF	VIN	Shemron Phillips
27	FW	FRA	Iliasse Errahmouni
28	MF	JAM	Kevaughn Wilson
29	MF	TOG	Adji-Martin Aharrh
30	MF	BEL	Ilias Bouhlal
39	DF	FRA	J-Renson Ebengue
44	MF	JAM	Zhaine Pinnock
—	MF	BEL	Enes Saglik
—	FW	BEL	Giacomo D'Asaro
—	DF	FRA	Gédéon Tshiabuiye

References

^ "Stade de la Cité de l'Oie - Soccerway". nl.soccerway.com. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
^ "URSL VISE - Matricule 01352". ACFF. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Historique". URSL Visé (in French). Archived from the original on 1 March 2021.
^ "Le CS Visé déclaré en faillite". DH Les Sports + (in French). 28 October 2014.
^ "Visé: c'est parti pour le grand chantier du stade". DH Les Sports + (in French). 11 June 2019.
^ "Een stap in het onbekende". KSVO (in Dutch).
^ "Overzicht: wie stijgt en wie daalt in de lagere reeksen?". Het Nieuwsblad (in Flemish). 3 May 2017.
^ Gerday, Philippe (3 June 2019). "L'URSL Visé tient sa 6e montée d'affilée: les Mosans ont réussi l'exploit à Renaix et rejoignent le FC Liège et Seraing en D1 amateurs!". sudinfo.be (in French).
^ Heuvel, Stephan van den (31 May 2019). "URSL Visé heeft nog negentig minuten om historische zesde promotie op rij af te dwingen". Door Fans Voor Fans (in Dutch).
^ "Eindronde 1e Amateurs - Voetbalexpress". www.voetbalexpress.be (in Dutch). 2 June 2019.
^ Sintzen, Matthias (30 December 2019). "Jonathan Legear débarque à Visé!". DH Les Sports + (in French).
^ "OFFICIEEL: Legear maakt nieuwe start bij Belgische amateurploeg". Voetbalprimeur (in Dutch). 30 December 2019.

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2024–25 Belgian National Division 1 Teams (ACFF)	Binche Mons Olympic Charleroi Rochefort SL16 FC Stockay Tournai Tubize-Braine Union Namur Union SG B Virton Zébra Élites
2024–25 Belgian National Division 1 Teams (VV)	Belisia Bilzen Cappellen Dessel Sport Hasselt Heist Hoogstraten Jong Cercle Jong KAA Gent Knokke Lyra-Lierse Berlaar Merelbeke Ninove OH Leuven U-23 Thes Sport Tienen Young Reds Antwerp
Past winners	Until 2016 (Third Division) From 2017 to 2020 (First Amateur Division) From 2020 (National Division 1)
Seasons	2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 ~~2020–21~~ 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25

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