Regenboogstadion

The ground took its name from a bicycle race. When the municipality opened the arena in Waregem on 18 August 1957, on land bought five years earlier in the boggy De Keukelmeersen park and raised and drained before anything could be built on it, the first event held there was the finish of the UCI Road World Championships. Football arrived a day earlier, on 17 August, but the cycling came first in the naming.

That origin shaped the building. It was oval, with a cycling and athletics track wrapped around the pitch, one small seated stand and open terraces behind the goals — a stadium designed for two sports rather than one. It stayed that way until the rebuild between 2014 and 2018, which took out the track, replaced the South and North stands and added a VIP corner, closing the ground into a bowl.

The night people still bring up came before any of that. On 27 November 1985, KSV Waregem drew 1-1 with AC Milan in the UEFA Cup in front of close to 20,000 spectators — more than the ground now holds — and the return leg in Italy was marked by objects thrown from the stands.

KSV Waregem were the tenants from 1957 until 2001, when the merger with Zultse VV produced SV Zulte Waregem , who have played here since and won the Belgian Cup in 2006 and 2017.