Hasselt Cup

Friday Afternoon Arrival: check-in with welcome address and information from our on-site representatives at the home ground of RC Hades. You will be informed in person about your stay and the tournament. Evening Free time to do as you wish.

Saturday Daytime Start of the match programme. The tournament will be held in the north of Hasselt at the sport park of Hades and nearby Zonhoven. The matches will be officiated by referees from the KBVB.

Afternoon A super social welcome ceremony featuring music and dancing. Evening Free time to do as you wish.

Sunday Daytime Continuation of the match programme. Qualification matches and finals followed by the prize-giving ceremony.

Afternoon UEFA Respect ceremony: every participant receives a medal on the podium. Evening Free time

Monday Teams depart

Organiser
The Hasselt Cup is organised by Racing Club Hades and Zonhoven United. RC Hades is a club of some 500 members, a large number of whom are young members.

For the organisation of the Hasselt Cup, the club collaborates closely with the municipality of Hasselt.

Founded in 2018, Zonhoven United is a merger club of Zonhoven VV and Melo Sport and comprises 30 youth teams. Zonhoven United has plenty of enthusiastic volunteers to make sure the tournament runs smoothly.

Sport facilities
The Hasselt Cup event is held in Hasselt-Kiewit and nearby Zonhoven, four kilometres from the centre of Hasselt.

Both sports grounds offer six-seven pitches, a spacious canteen/clubhouse and a cosy terrace. The Hasselt-Kiewit location will also feature a large hospitality tent during the event.

Teams will stay at Vakentiepark Hengeloef which is around 10 miles from where the tournament is played.

Vakantiepark Hengelhoef (holiday park) is situated in a beautiful green area with woods and a heath near the Dutch border and the city of Hasselt, the capital of Belgian Limburg.

The holiday park has a wide range of facilities, but the
big attraction is the impressive swimming paradise with its wild water rapids and slides.

Facilities
Reception, restaurant, café-bar with spacious seating area, outdoor terrace – partly covered, supermarket, indoor playground, slot machines, billiards, amusement hall, mini-golf, recreation lake with beach, and car park.

Cabins
Each of the simply furnished holiday homes is designed with a living-dining room with TV, kitchen, bedrooms, bathroom with shower and toilet, and a terrace with garden furniture.

Remarks
– A minimum of one adult per unit is required.
– Please bring your own towels, kitchen towels and toilet paper.
– Bed linen included.

We offer two ways of getting to this tournament, EITHER directly from your home base by coach and ferry. The advantage of this is that you have access to the coach throughout your stay. OR you can choose to fly.

There are several airports nearby, we’ve listed these below including the airlines that fly from each of them. If you choose this we will provide you with airport-accommodation-airport and accommodation-tournament-accommodation transfers throughout your stay.

Eindhoven Airport is 46 miles away. Brussels Airport is 50 miles away. Charleroi is 76 miles away. Dusseldorf Airport is 86 miles away.

There are two airlines that fly into Eindhoven from the UK and Ireland, Ryan Air with departures from Dublin, Edinburgh, London-Stansted and Manchester. Whilst Wizz Air flies there from Doncaster-Sheffield.

Brussels Airport has more choice; Aer Lingus from Dublin, British Airways from London-Heathrow, Brussels Airlines from London-Heathrow and Manchester and Ryan Air from Dublin.

The only airline that flies into Charleroi is Ryan Air with departures from Dublin, Edinburgh and Manchester.

The airlines the fly into Dusseldorf Airport are Aer Lingus from Dublin. British Airways from London-City and London-Heathrow. Easyjet from London-Gatwick. Eurowings from Birmingham, Dublin, Edinburgh, London-Heathrow, Manchester and Newcastle.