HASSELT, Belgium (Interstat) — Limburg United will begin its season at home Friday against Mechelen at Sporthal Alverberg in Hasselt, Belgium.

Both teams enter the game with 0-0 records. Limburg is the home team and carries the United nickname. Mechelen is the visiting team. The game marks the first scheduled contest of the season for each club.

Mechelen’s most recent previous result was a 90-85 home loss to Okapi on May 17. Limburg’s most recent previous result was a 91-79 home loss to Port of Antwerp on May 29. Those outcomes closed the teams’ previous schedules, and both will look to start the new campaign with a different result Friday.

Limburg will play its first game under the United banner at Sporthal Alverberg, a venue familiar to its home supporters. The matchup gives Limburg an early home date before a stretch that will send the team across Belgium and into the Netherlands. Mechelen, meanwhile, will open on the road before returning home for a series of upcoming contests.

Mechelen’s next 10 games include matchups with Okapi, Liège, Port of Antwerp, Shoeters Den Bosch, Kortrijk, Leuven, ZZ Leiden, Rotterdam, Mons-Hainaut and Donar. The schedule moves through October, November and December. Mechelen will alternate between home and road games during that run, with several opponents coming from the same regional basketball landscape.

Limburg’s next 10 games include meetings with Liège, Rotterdam, Kortrijk, Port of Antwerp, Donar, Landstede, Okapi, Shoeters Den Bosch, Leuven and Oostende. United will also face a mix of home and away dates over that span. The early schedule includes trips to Liège and Kortrijk and home games against Rotterdam and Okapi, among others.

Mechelen will open with a road test before a stretch that includes home games against Okapi and Liège. Limburg will follow its opener with a road contest at Liège and then a home game against Rotterdam. The teams’ upcoming schedules include multiple opponents that appear on both lists, including Liège, Port of Antwerp, Kortrijk, Shoeters Den Bosch, Okapi and Leuven.

The season opener for both sides comes before a busy calendar that will quickly test depth and rotation. Mechelen and Limburg each enter with no wins and no losses, so Friday’s result will provide the first official record update for both clubs. Neither team has played a regular-season game yet, according to the available records.

Limburg’s home floor at Sporthal Alverberg in Hasselt will host the contest. The game is set for Friday. It will be the first of several meetings and schedule swings for the two teams as they move through the opening months of the season.

Interstat’s game simulator projects a final score of Limburg 90, Mechelen 85.