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Sunday, 23 August 2026

LUXEMBOURG: FC Résidence Walferdange

Stade Prince Henri, Walferdange (FC Résidence Walferdange)

Luxembourg, canton: Luxembourg

23 VIII 2026 / FC Résidence Walferdange - FC Atert Bissen 1-2 / National Division (= LUX level 1)

Timeline
  • 1908 / Foundation of a football club in Walferdange, a town 6 km to the north of Luxembourg, the capital of the eponymous Grand-Duchy. The new club is given the name FC Résidence Walferdange, with Nicolas Welter being the first chairman. Unfortunately, no information whatsoever is available regarding the location(s) where the club played its home matches between 1908 and 1965.
  • 1909 / FC Résidence Walferdange is one of the clubs to take part in the first-ever Luxembourg league championship, being placed in Division B, the second-level of the nascent league pyramid, for the 1909-10 season.
  • 1910 / After one season in Division B, FC Résidence Walferdange withdraws from competitive football for the following six years. 
  • 1916 / FC Résidence Walferdange joins the league pyramid again, being placed in Division 3 Canton Luxembourg.
  • 1917 / After just one season, FC Résidence Walferdange withdraws from competitive football again.
  • 1919 / FC Résidence Walferdange joins the league pyramid again, being placed in Division 3 Canton Luxembourg as three years previously.
  • 1920 / Yet again, FC Résidence Walferdange withdraws from the league pyramid after just one season.
  • 1921 / After a one-year break, FC Résidence Walferdange tries its hand at competitive football again, being placed in Division 3 Canton Luxembourg – which is by now the fourth tier of the league pyramid.
  • 1923 / FC Résidence Walferdange withdraws from Division 3 Canton Luxembourg after two seasons.
  • 1925 / After two years without competitive football, FC Résidence Walferdange is now placed in Division 3 Group 1 (level 4).
  • 1929 / Runner-up in Division 3, 2 points behind champions FC Olympique Eischen, FC Résidence Walferdange wins promotion to Division 2 (level 3).
  • 1932 / Finishing bottom of the table in Division 2 Group 1, FC Résidence Walferdange descends into Division 3 – which becomes level 5 in a reorganisation of the Grand-Duchy’s league pyramid, carried out in advance of the 1932-33 season.
  • 1933 / FC Résidence Walferdange withdraws from competitive football.
  • 1934 / After a one-year break, FC Résidence Walferdange rejoins the league pyramid in Division 3 Central Luxembourg (level 5).
  • 1935 / Champions in Division 3 Central Luxembourg, 9 points ahead of closest followers FC Marisca Mersch, FC Résidence Walferdange wins promotion to Division 2 (level 4).
  • 1937 / Finishing in third-last place in Division 2 Group 2, FC Résidence Walferdange drops back into Division 3 (level 5) after two years, alongside CS Grevenmacher and bottom club FC Minerva Lintgen.
  • 1938 / Champions in Division 3 Group 3, 3 points ahead of closest rivals FC Racing Troisvièrges, FC Résidence Walferdange wins promotion to Division 2 (level 4).
  • 1939 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 2 Group 1, FC Résidence Walferdange drops back into Division 3 (level 5) after just one season, along with FC UNA Strassen and bottom club FC Racing Troisvièrges.
  • 1940 / As Luxembourg is conquered by, and absorbed into, the Third Reich, the national league divisions are abolished. FC Résidence Walferdange, which is renamed Fussballklub (FK) 08 Walferdingen in the virulent Germanification campaign introduced by occupation authorities, does not take part in competitive football for the duration of the war.
  • 1944 / As the southern part of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg is liberated from the German yoke, FK 08 Walferdingen reverts to its pre-war name, FC Résidence Walferdange.
  • 1945 / FC Résidence Walferdange joins Luxembourg’s league pyramid again at the bottom tier, Division 3 (level 5).
  • 1946 / Champions in Division 3 Group 3, 1 point ahead of closest rivals FC Jeunesse Junglinster, FC Résidence Walferdange wins promotion to Division 2 (level 4) alongside the aforementioned club as well as FC Victoria Rosport and FC Marisca Mersch.
  • 1948 / Finishing in third place in Division 2 Group 2, FC Résidence Walferdange wins promotion to Promotion (level 3) along with champions FC Etzella Ettelbruck as well as runner-up FC Arminia Weidingen.
  • 1949 / Finishing in second-last place in Promotion Group 1, FC Résidence Walferdange drops back into Division 2 (level 4) after just one season, along with FC Etzella Ettelbruck and bottom club FC Arminia Weidingen.
  • 1951 / Runaway champions in Division 2 Group 2, 11 points ahead of closest followers FC Arantia Berdorf, FC Résidence Walferdange wins promotion to Promotion (level 3).
  • 1952 / Finishing in third place in Promotion Group 2, FC Résidence Walferdange wins promotion to Division 1, the antechamber of Luxembourg’s football pyramid, for the first time, alongside champions FC Etzella Ettelbruck and runner-up Daring Club Echternach.
  • 1961 / Having managed nine consecutive seasons at the second tier of the Grand-Duchy’s football pyramid, by now renamed Promotion d’Honneur, with two fourth places in 1953 and 1959 as highlights, FC Résidence Walferdange now finishes in joint second-last place with FC Young Boys Diekirch, going on to suffer defeat in a relegation play-off against that club (1-2). As a result, Résidence descends into Division 1 (level 3) along with bottom club FC Etzella Ettelbruck. Also in 1961, Walferdange’s municipal council takes the decision to construct a multi-sports complex on a plot of land hitherto owned by the Grand-Duchy’s armed forces at Route de Diekirch as a prospective new venue for FC Résidence Walferdange and other sports clubs. The field is situated opposite of the Château de Walferdange, a palace previously owned by King William I of the Netherlands – who also reigned as Grand-Duke of Luxembourg in a personal union at the time – who had it constructed as a royal stud farm in 1817. Following the Belgian Revolution of 1830, the stud farm was abandoned and the buildings remained largely unused for about a decade. In 1841, King William II proposed transforming the site into a royal residence. In 1850, his brother, Prince Henry of Orange, became Lieutenant-Representative of Luxembourg and moved into the château at the behest of his older brother, King William III. Henry lived there until his death in 1879, making Walferdange his principal residence for almost thirty years. Afterwards, the château was used only occasionally, notably by Grand Duke Adolphe as a secondary residence between 1891 and 1905. During the First World War, it provided refuge for evacuated families. From 1930 to 1944, it housed a teachers’ training school. After the Second World War, American troops briefly occupied the château, with the Luxembourg Army taking over the premises and using it as barracks from 1945.
  • 1965 / Inauguration of the new multi-sports complex in Walferdange, with Luxembourg’s Minister of the Armed Forces, Marcel Fischbach, performing the opening ceremony, in the presence of Prime Minister Pierre Werner and Minister of Public Works Pierre Werner on July 24th, 1965. That day, the football pitch of the new Stade Prince Henri, named after the Prince of Orange who lived in the Château opposite of the ground in the nineteenth century, is the venue of an inaugural match between FC Résidence Walferdange and a team of the Luxembourg Army; with the encounter finishing in a 3-3 draw, the drawing of lots decides that the army team receives the so-called Coupe de l’Inauguration. The inauguration of the venue kicks off a so-called Weeks of Sports with various sporting events being held for local residents. Apart from football, the Stade Prince Henri offers the opportunity to practice tennis, basketball, athletics, and volleyball. 
  • 1967 / With the Luxembourg Army abandoning the Château de Walferdange and the Stade Prince Henri in 1967, the castle becomes a campus of the newly established University of Luxembourg. Later on, more specifically since 2015, parts of the complex have been used by Luxembourg’s Ministry of Education, Childhood and Youth as a pedagogical training and research institute.
  • 1969 / Finishing bottom of the table in Division 1, FC Résidence Walferdange descends into Division 2 along with FC Swift Hesperange, AS Schifflange, and FC Jeunesse Biwer.
  • 1971 / Champions in Division 2 Group 1, 5 points ahead of FC Blue Boys Muhlenbach, FC Résidence Walferdange manages a return to Division 1 after two years. Also in 1971, a second pitch is added to the set-up of the Stade Prince Henri.
  • 1972 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 1, FC Résidence Walferdange drops back into Division 2 instantly, alongside AS Differdange, FCM Young Boys Diekirch, and bottom club FC Mamer 32.
  • 1973 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 2 Group 1, FC Résidence Walferdange suffers back-to-back relegations, descending into Division 3 along with bottom club SC Redange.
  • 1974 / Runner-up in Division 3 Group 1, 2 points behind champions FC Brouch, FC Résidence Walferdange wins promotion to Division 2.
  • 1980 / Runner-up in Division 2 Group 2, 3 points behind champions AS Luxembourg, FC Résidence Walferdange qualifies for the promotion-relegation play-offs, in which the club finishes as runner-up, ahead of US Rambrouch, but behind Division 1 side FC Atert Bissen; as a result, FC Atert avoids the drop, with FC Résidence staying behind with empty hands. Also in 1980, a new indoor sports hall is inaugurated as part of the Stade Prince Henri.
  • 1982 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 2 Group 2, FC Résidence Walferdange descends into Division 3, alongside bottom club FC Jeunesse Useldange.
  • 1984 / Champions in Division 3 Group 2, with an equal number of points as runner-up – and derby rivals – FC Alisontia Steinsel, but with a better goal difference (+49 vs. +41), FC Résidence Walferdange wins promotion to Division 2.
  • 1987 / Runner-up in Division 2 Group 2, with an equal number of points as champions FC Red Black Pfaffenthal, but with an inferior goal difference (+35 vs. +41), FC Résidence Walferdange wins promotion to Division 1 after an absence of fifteen years at that level.
  • 1990 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 1 Group 1, FC Résidence Walferdange drops back into Division 2 after three years, alongside US Boevange-sur-Attert and bottom club AS Wincrange.
  • 1998 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 2 Group 2, FC Résidence Walferdange is retrograded into Division 3, along with bottom club FC Jeunesse Useldange.
  • 1999 / Finishing in third place in Division 3 Group 3, FC Résidence Walferdange wins promotion to Division 2 along with runner-up FC Red Boys Aspelt, due to champions US Rumelange Reserves being ineligible for promotion. Also in 1999, the Stade Prince Henri is thoroughly refurbished, with a small two-stepped terrace alongside the main pitch and striking roof construction at the entrance of the indoor hall being created.
  • 2003 / Finishing bottom of the table in Division 2 Group 2, FC Résidence Walferdange descends into Division 3 alongside the club in second-last place, FC Syra Mensdorf.
  • 2004 / Finishing in third place in Division 3 Group 1, FC Résidence Walferdange wins promotion to Division 2 alongside champions FC Olympia Christnach-Waldbillig and runner-up FC Racing Heiderscheid-Eschdorf.
  • 2005 / Finishing bottom of the table in Division 2 Group 3, FC Résidence Walferdange drops back into Division 3 after just one season, along with FC Jeunesse Sportive Koerich.
  • 2009 / Clinching its first title in 25 years, FC Résidence Walferdange finishes top of the table in Division 3 Group 2, 2 points ahead of closest rivals FC Red Black Egalité 07 Pfaffenthal-Weimerskirch and gaining promotion to Division 2.
  • 2011 / Finishing in third place in Division 2 Group 1, only 1 point behind champions FC Lorentzweiler, FC Résidence Walferdange goes on to defeat FC Tricolore Gasperich in a play-off (5-4), resulting in the club earning promotion to Division 1 after an absence of 21 years at that level, alongside the aforementioned FC Lorentzweiler and US Feulen.
  • 2012 / Finishing bottom of the table in Division 1 Group 1, FC Résidence Walferdange drops back into Division 2 after one season only, together with FC Jeunesse Schieren and FC Kehlen.
  • 2013 / Runner-up in Division 2 Group 1, 2 points behind champions FC Kehlen, FC Résidence Walferdange manages an immediate return to Division 1, along with the aforementioned club as well as AS Wincrange.
  • 2016 / Finishing in third-last place in Division 1 Group 1, FC Résidence Walferdange staves off relegation through a win over SC Steinfort (2-1) in a play-off.
  • 2017 / Finishing bottom of the table in Division 1 Group 1, FC Résidence Walferdange drops back into Division 2, alongside FC Pratzerthal-Redange and FC Jeunesse Schieren. That summer, with the club nearly having to lay down the books due to a lack of board members, a new group of volunteers are found to save FC Résidence, taking over the club.
  • 2018 / The second pitch of the Stade Prince Henri is laid out anew with a synthetic surface.
  • 2019 / Champions in Division 2 Group 2, with an equal number of points as well as an equal goal difference as runner-up FC Avenir Beggen, but with more goals scored (72 vs. 50), FC Résidence Walferdange manages a return to Division 1 after two years.
  • 2023 / Runaway champions in Division 1 Group 2, 11 points ahead of closest followers FC Koeppchen Wormeldange, FC Résidence Walferdange wins promotion to Promotion d’Honneur after an absence of 52 years at that level. Moreover, the club also reaches the final of the FLF Cup, a knockout competition for clubs playing in the three lowest tiers of Luxembourg’s football pyramid; in the final, played at Stade Kuerzwénkel in Consdorf, FC Résidence takes on FC Koeppchen Wormeldange, with the tie finishing 2-2 A.E.T. – and with Résidence winning the penalty series. However, the result was subsequently changed by the sports authorities to a 3-0 forfeit win for Koeppchen, because Walferdange had fielded an ineligible player.
  • 2026 / Finishing in fourth place in Promotion d’Honneur, FC Résidence Walferdange goes on to defeat top flight team FC Jeunesse Canach in a promotion-relegation play-off, played at Stade de la rue Henri Dunant in Beggen (1-1 A.E.T. & penalty shoot-out), resulting in the club gaining an unprecedented promotion to the National Division, along with champions US Rumelange, runner-up FC Etzella Ettelbruck, and fellow play-off winner FC Wiltz 71.
Note – Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-5 = non-matchday visit, March 2011 / pictures 6-21 = match visit, August 2026.




















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Location: Walferdange, Luxemburg

BELGIUM: CS Vielsalm (1) (1919-1921) / CS Vielsalm (2) (1922-1925) / CS Vielsalm matr. 1214 (1928-1939) / Excelsior Vielsalm (1941-1942) / RCS Vielsalm matr. 3470 (1942-1995) / RCS Vielsalm (B) (1995-2017) / RCS de la Salm (C) (2017-)

Stade Saint-Gengoux / François Lejeune terr. 2 "Hermanmont", Vielsalm (C pitch of RCS de la Salm, formerly main pitch of CS Vielsalm - Excelsior Vielsalm - RCS Vielsalm & B pitch of RCS Vielsalm)

Belgium, province: Luxembourg = Luxemburg

23 VIII 2026 / RCS de la Salm Reserves - RESC Houffaloise Reserves 3-3 / Luxembourg, Reserves' League - Group G

Timeline
  • 1919 or 1920 / Foundation of a first football club in Vielsalm, a town in the far north of the Belgian Province of Luxembourg. The new club takes on the name Cercle Sportif (CS) Vielsalm, which joins the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB) in 1920. It is unclear if, yet rather probable that, the club played its football on the pitch known as Stade Saint-Gengoux at modern-day Rue Hermanmont from the outset. No other location for football within the confines of the town has been recorded – and the ground was certainly already in use before the start of World War II. 
  • 1921 / CS Vielsalm folds, ceasing all activities.
  • 1922 / Refoundation of CS Vielsalm.
  • 1923 / The phoenix version of CS Vielsalm joins the Belgian FA.
  • 1925 / With the club not having played competitive football in its first two years in the Belgian FA, CS Vielsalm now concludes a merger with neighbour club SS Salmienne from nearby Salmchâteau, resulting in the foundation of Entente Salmienne, with all activities moving to the ground in Salmchâteau, Champ des Dames.
  • 1926 / As the Belgian FA introduces its system of registration numbers, Entente Salmienne receives number 555.
  • 1928 / As a new, third successive CS Vielsalm is founded in Vielsalm, with registration number 1214 being obtained when being accepted into the Belgian FA, the 1925 merger is effectively disentangled. Settling at Stade Saint-Gengoux, CS Vielsalm starts its existence as a competitive club in the Special Championship, a league division for new clubs, being placed in Group E.
  • 1929 / Clinching the title in Group E of the Special Championship, CS Vielsalm is placed in Luxembourg’s Regional Division 3 for the new season.
  • 1930 / Champions in Luxembourg’s Regional League 3B, CS Vielsalm goes on to defeat D3A winners CS Halanzy in a play-off match, resulting in the club winning promotion to Regional League 2, the highest provincial level at the time.
  • 1932 / In Salmchâteau, Entente Salmienne reverts to its pre-merger name SS Salmienne.
  • 1933 / CS Vielsalm suffers relegation from Luxembourg’s Regional League 2 into Regional League 3 after three seasons.
  • 1936 / Clinching the title in Luxembourg’s Regional League 3B, 3 points ahead of closest rivals FC Hottonnais, CS Vielsalm wins promotion to Regional League 2.
  • 1937 / Clinching the title in Luxembourg’s Regional League 2 ahead of closest rivals US Èthe-Belmont and FC JS Athus, CS Vielsalm wins promotion to Promotion, the third and lowest national league level, for the first and only time in the history of football in Vielsalm. The club has the benefit of having a large military base in the vicinity of the town, with many soldiers of the Chasseurs Ardennais regiment reinforcing the first team.
  • 1938 / Unable to cope with the national league level, CS Vielsalm picks up only 3 points (1 win, 1 draw) in 26 matches in Promotion B, thus finishing bottom of the table and dropping back into the provincial divisions alongside Juprelle Union FC and Saint-Nicolas FC Liège.
  • 1939 / As the Belgian army mobilises in the face of the looming threat of a German invasion of Belgium, CS Vielsalm sees its first team heavily depleted, with the club withdrawing from competitive football as a result.
  • 1940 / One year after withdrawing from competitive football, CS Vielsalm is officially wound up, with registration number 1214 being erased from the membership list of the Belgian FA.
  • 1941 / After the dust of the German invasion of Belgium has settled down, a new club sees the daylight in Vielsalm, with the name Excelsior Vielsalm being adopted. The founding fathers of the club are Jean Bruyère, Louis Bruyère, Charles Evrard, Eugène Géradin, Alexandre Glaude, Omer Hoffman, Albert Kopp, Jules Martin, Léon Monfort, Willy Paquay, Joseph Talbot, and Jules Urbain.
  • 1942 / Excelsior Vielsalm joins the Belgian FA under a more familiar name, CS Vielsalm – with this being the fourth club of this name seeing the daylight in 25 years. Receiving registration number 3470, the new CS Vielsalm settles at Stade Saint-Gengoux (Hermanmont). Omer Hoffman becomes the club’s first chairman. He submits a request at the Belgian FA for his club to be allowed to join the Liège regional divisions, but this plea goes unheard, with CS Vielsalm being placed in Group D of Luxembourg’s Special Championship. At some point in the club’s history, CS Vielsalm acquired an additional training pitch in the hamlet of Ville-du-Bois, some 1 km to the east of the town proper. It is unclear if this Stade Josy was the same ground which had been used by the short-lived Wallonie Sportive (WS) Ville-du-Bois between 1924 and 1927.
  • 1943 / Having played in the Special Championship in the past season, CS Vielsalm is now transferred to the regular league pyramid, being placed in Regional League 2B, by now the second level of the provincial divisions in Luxembourg.
  • 1944 / Clinching the title in Luxembourg’s Regional League 2B, 3 points ahead of runners-up Bomal FC and OC Rochois, CS Vielsalm wins promotion to Provincial League 2 (renamed Provincial League 1 in 1952).
  • 1959 / Finishing in third-last place in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 1, CS Vielsalm descends into Provincial League 2. 
  • 1960 / Runaway champions in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 2B, 13 points ahead of closest followers JR Aye, CS Vielsalm manages an immediate return to Provincial League 1.
  • 1963 / Finishing bottom of the table in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 1, CS Vielsalm drops back into Provincial League 2.
  • 1964 / Finishing in second-last place in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 2C, CS Vielsalm descends into Provincial League 3.
  • 1966 / Champions in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 3D ahead of runners-up ES Champlonaise and RSS Salmienne, CS Vielsalm manages a return to Provincial League 2 after two years.
  • 1969 / Champions in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 2B, 3 points ahead of runner-up OC Rochois, CS Vielsalm manages a return to Provincial League 1 after an absence of six years.
  • 1971 / Finishing in thirteenth place in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 1, CS Vielsalm descends into Provincial League 2 after two years.
  • 1972 / Finishing in second-last place in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 2C, CS Vielsalm tumbles back into Provincial League 3.
  • 1973 / Runner-up in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 3G, 1 point behind champions AS Regné, CS Vielsalm wins promotion to Provincial League 2.
  • 1977 / Runaway champions in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 2C, 12 points ahead of closest followers Bomal FC, CS Vielsalm wins promotion to Provincial League 1.
  • 1981 / Finishing in third-last place in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 1, CS Vielsalm drops back into Provincial League 2 alongside JR Aye and bottom club RA Florenvillois.
  • 1991 / A second pitch is added to the set-up at Stade Saint-Gengoux (Hermanmont), to the east of the already existing (main) pitch, with the club’s goal being to create a clubhouse and covered stand alongside this new pitch, which is the projected new main pitch of the ground. This coincides with the abandonment of the club’s training pitch, the Stade Josy in Ville-du-Bois.
  • 1993 / Having obtained the royal epithet in 1992, CS Vielsalm now officially changes its name to become Royal Cercle Sportif (RCS) Vielsalm.
  • 1994 / Finishing in second-last place in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 2C, RCS Vielsalm drops back into Provincial League 3, alongside bottom club – and derby rivals – RSS Salmienne.
  • 1996 / With the new clubhouse and covered stand alongside the second pitch of Stade Saint-Gengoux (Hermanmont) being inaugurated, first team football moves to this new main pitch. In subsequent years, the small wooden covered stand, situated next to the old clubhouse alongside the old main pitch, is knocked down. The pitch as well as the old clubhouse are retained, the former for lower team football and training sessions, the latter as storage room.
  • 2017 / Following the 2016-17 season, a merger is concluded between RCS Vielsalm and RSS Salmienne, resulting in the foundation of Royal Cercle Sportif (RCS) de la Salm, with registration number 555 of RSS Salmienne being retained; number 3470 of RCS Vielsalm is erased from the Belgian FA’s membership list. The first chairman of the new club becomes Jean-Marie Thomas. First team football moves to the Champs des Dames in Salmchâteau, with the main pitch and side-pitch of the Stade Saint-Gengoux (Hermanmont) in Vielsalm remaining in use for lower team football and training sessions. In the following years, first team football regularly swaps from the main pitch of Stade Saint-Gengoux (Vielsalm) and the Champ des Dames in Salmchâteau.
  • 2020 / RCS de la Salm merges its youth academy with the academies of neighbour clubs R Lierneux FC and RUS Sartoise in a newly formed youth academy club, which is given the name Jeunesse Unie Nord-Ardenne (JUNA) Salm-Sart-Lierneux, with this ‘club’ acquiring registration number 9796 upon being admitted as a new member of the Belgian FA.
  • 2025 / The ground in Vielsalm, of which the old name Stade Saint-Gengoux has long fallen into disuse, is officially renamed Stade François Lejeune in honour of the man who served RCS Vielsalm as chairman between 1985 and 2017. 
Note - Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-3 & 6-7 = non-matchday visit, July 2026 / pictures 4-5 & 8-24 = match visit, August 2026. The last photo shows the pitch from the air in c. 2000, with a small covered stand still being in place next to the old clubhouse.
























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BELGIUM: RFC Comblain-la-Tour (1933-2006 / RRC Hamoir (B) (2006-) / R Fraiture FC (C) (2026-)

Terrain de la route de Fairon, Comblain-la-Tour (B ground of RRC Hamoir & C ground of R Fraiture FC, formerly RFC Comblain-la-Tour)

Belgium, province: Liège = Luik

August 2026 / no match visited

Timeline
  • 1933 / Foundation of a football club in Comblain-la-Tour, a village in the south of the Province of Liège. The new club takes on the name FC Comblain-la-Tour, joining the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB) under registration number 1969 that same year. The club played in Liège’s regional and provincial divisions throughout its existence. It is unclear if the club played its home matches on the pitch at Route de Fairon from the outset, but this is not improbable – and the club settled here in the mid-1950s at its latest.
  • 1959 / A summer jazz festival is held in Comblain-la-Tour for the first time, with all performances being held on the pitch at Route de Fairon. The lists of participants includes Chet Baker, Sadi Lallemand, and the orchestra of Léo Souris. Souris also writes the string arrangements to Chet Baker’s performance, conducting the orchestra on the night.
  • 1960 / The second edition of the open-air jazz festival in Comblain-la-Tour is staged on the football pitch and the surrounding area, with Chet Baker and Léo Souris once again featuring in the participants’ list, which includes no fewer than 48 (!) jazz orchestras. Souris’ orchestra accompanied a performance of Helen Mirrell, while Souris also arranged and conducted a Comblain Suite. In 1960, a set of artists from other genres were invited to perform in Comblain as well, notably Charles Aznavour.
  • 1961 / Third edition of the jazz festival on the football pitch in Comblain-la-Tour. The list of participants’ include Ray Charles, Stéphane Grappelli, Sacha Distel, Rita Reys & The Pim Jacobs Trio, Henri Segers, Colette Deréal, and Monica Zetterlund. The closing performance is taken care of by the orchestra of Jo Carlier.
  • 1962 / Fourth edition of the jazz festival at the ground of FC Comblain-la-Tour. Some of the artists featured were Pia Beck, Sylvie Vartan, Donna Hightower, and the orchestras of Daniel Janin and Léo Souris.
  • 1963 / Fifth edition of the jazz festival in Comblain-la-Tour. Some of the participating artists at Route de Fairon were Adamo, Robert Cogoi, the Fud Candrix All Stars, the Enrico Intra Trio, and the orchestra of Léo Souris.
  • 1964 / The main guest artist at the sixth edition of the summer jazz festival in Comblain-la-Tour is Ray Charles, who does a performance on the football pitch with his orchestra. Other artists featured include Robert Cogoi, Paul Louka, and the Bill Evans Trio.
  • 1965 / In the seventh edition of the jazz festival in Comblain-la-Tour, the list of participants include Nina Simone and the John Coltrane Quartet.
  • 1966 / In the eighth and last edition of the jazz festival at the ground of FC Comblain-la-Tour, some of the artists featured are John Coltrane, Benny Goodman, and Stan Getz.
  • 1983 / Upon the club’s fiftieth anniversary, FC Comblain-la-Tour obtains the royal epithet, thus officially becoming Royal Football Club (RFC) Comblain-la-Tour.
  • 1996 / With no information being available about the clubs performances prior to 1996, we now find RFC Comblain-la-Tour in Liège’s Provincial League 4, the bottom level of the provincial league pyramid, finishing in sixth place in Provincial League 4C in the 1996-97 season.
  • 1998 / RFC Comblain-la-Tour finishes in eighth place in Liège’s Provincial League 4C in the 1997-98 season, with no information being available about the club’s performance in the following year.
  • 2000 / RFC Comblain-la-Tour finishes in twelfth place in Liège’s Provincial League 4C.
  • 2001 / RFC Comblain-la-Tour finishes bottom of the table in Liège’s Provincial League 4C.
  • 2002 / RFC Comblain-la-Tour finishes in second-last place in Liège’s Provincial League 4C.
  • 2003 / RFC Comblain-la-Tour finishes bottom of the table in Liège’s Provincial League 4C. No information is available about the club’s performance in the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons. Possibly, the club already withdrew from competitive football in 2004, but it most certainly no longer participated with a first team in the 2005-06 season.
  • 2006 / Registration number 1969 of RFC Comblain-la-Tour is erased from the Belgian FA’s membership list. The ground at Route de Fairon is taken over by RRC Hamoir, who use the pitch as a training ground and venue for lower team matches besides the club’s own Stade Emile Thines in Hamoir proper.
  • 2026 / The reserves of RRC Hamoir, who do their training sessions at Route de Fairon, are joined by some youth teams of R Fraiture FC, another club from the area, who do not have enough capacity on their pitches at Rue de la Ferme (Fraiture-Sprimont) and Ravel de l’Ourthe (Chanxhe) to host all training sessions.











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