NB: all matches played at the stade municipal, Luxembourg, over the Whitsuntide weekend (Sunday 4 Jun 1933 and Monday 5 Jun 1933). Semifinals [Jun 4] Netherlands B 2-0 Belgium B [HT: 0-0] Luxembourg 1-4 France B [HT: 0-1] Third Place Match [Jun 5] Luxembourg 3-1 Belgium B [HT: 1-1] Final [Jun 5] Netherlands B 3-1 France B [HT: 1-1]
Belgium B (16 players) GK: Frans Christiaens (Liersche SK); DF: Henri Van Poucke (CS Brugge), Albert Heremans (Daring); MF: François Wouters (Tilleur), Emile Stijnen (Berchem), Edouard Van Brandt (Berchem); FW: François Devries (Antwerp), Félix Deculot (Tilleur), Joseph Desmedt (Uccle Sport), Joseph Van Beeck (Antwerp), Antoine Franckx (Lyra); res: Drossart (Seraing), Keuwalis (Daring), Collard (Seraing), François Ledent (Standard), Cuypers (FC Liégeois). NB: Louis Verboven (Berchem) and Alexis Chantraine (FC Liégeois) apparently were added afterwards. France B (18 players) GK: François Encontre (FC Roubaix), Klarès (U.L. Moyeuvre-Grande); DF: Roger Rolhion (SO Montpellier), Charles Zehren (Hayange), André Lapierre (Amiens); MF: Lucien Halter (FC Mulhouse), Georges Verriest (RC Roubaix), Raymond François (RC Lens), Robert Barbieux (Excelsior), Célestin Delmer (Excelsior); FW: Gérard Taillis (FC Rouen), Albert Polge (SC Nîmes), Norbert Van Caeneghem (Excelsior), Noël Liétaer (Excelsior), Marceau Lherminé (FC Rouen), Camille Cottin (Sochaux), André Chauvel (FC Roubaix), René Gérard (SO Montpellier). NB: Louis Finot (CA Paris), Bertrand (Red Star) and André Guimbard (CA Paris) apparently were added afterwards. Luxembourg (19 players) GK: Michel Strasser (Progrès Grund); DF: Henri Reiners (US Luxembourg), Nicolas Remy (Spora); MF: Gaston Theis (Red Boys), Mathias Feller (Spora), Joseph Fischer (The National); FW: Joseph Waltener (Red Boys), François Michels (Jeunesse d'Esch), Léon Mart (Jeunesse d'Esch), Pierre Bommertz (Red Boys), Théo Logelin (Red Boys); res: Camille Leger (AS Differdange), Jean Jaeger (Stade Dudelange), Jean-Pierre Frisch (The National), Steinbauer (Jeunesse d'Esch), Arnold Kieffer (Progrès Niedercorn), Mathias Becker (Red Boys), Robert Theissen (Spora), Théophile Speicher (Spora). Netherlands (16 players) GK: Adri van Male (Feijenoord), Jaap de Korver (D.F.C.). DF: Miel Lelyveld (V.U.C.), B. Pettinga (Hermes D.V.S.), Henk Plenter (Be Quick (Groningen)); MF: Huub de Leeuw (Willem II), Cees van Maren (A.D.O.), Henk Breitner (A.D.O.), Bram van der Tuijn (Hermes D.V.S.), Gijs Dragt (D.F.C.); FW: Gerrit Nagels (S.C. Enschede), Van Vliet (H.B.S.), Piet van Reenen (Ajax), De Smit (H.F.C.), Arend Schoemaker (Quick (Den Haag)), Henk Mulders (Ajax).
Semifinals 4- 6-1933 14.30 Netherlands B 2-0 Belgium B [Van Vliet 66, Van Reenen 90] [Netherlands B: Van Male; Pettinga, Lelyveld; Van Maren, De Leeuw, Breitner; Nagels, Van Vliet, Van Reenen, Van der Tuijn, Mulders; Belgium B: Christiaens; Van Poucke, Heremans; Verboven, Stijnen, Van Brandt; Devries, Deculot, Desmedt, Van Beeck, Franckx; ref: Peco Bauwens (Germany)] 4- 6-1933 16.15 Luxembourg 1-4 France B [Bommertz 65; Lherminé 3, 49, Guimbard 47, 58] [Luxembourg: Strasser; Reiners, Remy; Fischer, Feller (c), Theis; Logelin, Bommertz, Mart, Michels, Waltener; France B: Encontre; Rolhion, Lapierre; Barbieux, Verriest, Delmer; Polge, Gérard, Guimbard, Liétaer, Lherminé; ref: William Bangerter (Switzerland)] Third Place Match 5- 6-1933 14.30 Luxembourg 3-1 Belgium B [Waltener 25, Bommertz 58, 82; Cuypers 18] [Luxembourg: Leger; Reiners, Remy; Fischer, Feller, Theis; Speicher, Logelin, Bommertz, Becker (c), Waltener; Belgium B: Christiaens; Chantraine, Heremans; Verboven, Stijnen, Collard; Devries, Van Beeck (Desmedt ~30), Cuypers, F. Ledent, Franckx; ref: William Bangerter (Switzerland); [FLF 83] credited the first Luxembourg goal to Bommertz as well] Final 5- 6-1933 16.25 Netherlands B 3-1 France B [Van Vliet 38, Schoemaker 63, Nagels 77; Taillis 4] [Netherlands B: Van Male; Plenter, Lelyveld; Van Maren, Breitner, Van der Tuijn; Nagels, Van Vliet, Van Reenen, Schoemaker, Mulders; France B: Klarès; Rolhion, Zehren; Halter, Finot, Barbieux; Taillis, Bertrand, Guimbard, Chauvel, Lherminé; ref: Peco Bauwens (Germany); the first goal of the Netherlands was scored after a shot by Schoemaker was insufficiently cleared by Klarès, upon which a scrimmage ensued involving Klarès, Zehren and Van Vliet, who apparently applied the final touch]
Sources: [FLF 83], De Letzebuerger Football, various contemporary Belgian and Dutch newspapers
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