URSL Visé

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.

Not to be confused with the former club from the same city, C.S. Visé.

URSL Visé
Full nameUnion Royale Sportive Lixhe Visé
Founded22 October 1927 (1927-10-22)
GroundStade de la Cité de l'Oie, Visé
Capacity5,460[1]
ChairmanGuy Thiry Co President Shelley Mcfarlane
ManagerJosé Riga Assistant Manager Ricardo Martin
LeagueBelgian National Division 1
2022–23Belgian National Division 1, 9th of 20
WebsiteClub website

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

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 Belgium BEL Maxime Mignon
4 DF Belgium BEL Reno Wilmots
6 DF Morocco MAR Karim Essikal
7 FW Belgium BEL Grégory Perseo
8 MF Belgium BEL Alexandro Cavagnera
9 FW Guinea GUI Yady Bangoura
10 MF Belgium BEL Alessio Cascio
13 MF Morocco MAR Ayoub El Harrak
14 MF Belgium BEL Thomas Englebert
15 DF Belgium BEL Noah Putz
16 GK Belgium BEL Arthur Cremer
17 MF Belgium BEL Karim El Khattoutii
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 FW Ivory Coast CIV Cédric N'Guessan
19 FW Belgium BEL Hugo Gilon
20 MF Belgium BEL Sam Sylla
21 GK Belgium BEL Benjamin Thomé
22 MF Belgium BEL Nicolas Gerits
23 DF Belgium BEL Jonathan Hendrickx
27 DF Belgium BEL Axel Bonemme
28 MF Democratic Republic of the Congo COD Miguel Quintais
29 MF Belgium BEL Marten Wilmots
30 FW Belgium BEL Jonathan Legear
39 DF France FRA Guillaume Dequaire
— DF Morocco MAR Faycal Rherras

References
  1. "Stade de la Cité de l'Oie - Soccerway". nl.soccerway.com. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  2. "URSL VISE - Matricule 01352". ACFF. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  3. "Historique". URSL Visé (in French). Archived from the original on 1 March 2021.
  4. "Le CS Visé déclaré en faillite". DH Les Sports + (in French). 28 October 2014.
  5. "Visé: c'est parti pour le grand chantier du stade". DH Les Sports + (in French). 11 June 2019.
  6. "Een stap in het onbekende". KSVO (in Dutch).
  7. "Overzicht: wie stijgt en wie daalt in de lagere reeksen?". Het Nieuwsblad (in Flemish). 3 May 2017.
  8. 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).
  9. 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).
  10. "Eindronde 1e Amateurs - Voetbalexpress". www.voetbalexpress.be (in Dutch). 2 June 2019.
  11. Sintzen, Matthias (30 December 2019). "Jonathan Legear débarque à Visé!". DH Les Sports + (in French).
  12. "OFFICIEEL: Legear maakt nieuwe start bij Belgische amateurploeg". Voetbalprimeur (in Dutch). 30 December 2019.
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