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All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author

BELGIUM: RAA Brainoise (± 1965-1969) / R Stade Brainois (B) (1969-2021) / R Union Tubize-Braine (D) (2021-2022) / R Union Tubize-Braine (C) (2022-) / RFC Ronquières HY 86 (2026-2027)

Stade Communal du Poseur, Braine-le-Comte = 's-Gravenbrakel (C ground of R Union Tubize-Braine & temporary ground of RFC Ronquières HY 86, formerly RAA Brainoise / B ground of R Stade Brainois)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

4 X 2026 / RFC Ronquières HY 86 - RFCE Maurage 1-1 / Hainaut, Provincial League 3C (= BE level 8)

Timeline

• 1923 / In Braine-le-Comte (a village in the northeast of the Province of Hainaut, referred to in Dutch as ‘s-Gravenbrakel), a football club is formed, which is given the name Amicale Athlétique (AA) Brainoise. The club probably started its life on a pitch situated at Rue de la Bienfaisance. AA Brainoise may not have been the first football club to see the daylight in Braine-le-Comte, given that sources mention the existence of an Union Sportive (US) Brainoise, which was formed in 1907 and folded in 1908 or shortly thereafter; it is unclear, however, if US Brainoise was a club from Braine-le-Comte or one of the other villages called Braine; Braine-l’Alleud (Eigenbrakel) and Braine-le-Château (Kasteelbrakel).
• 1924 / One year after its foundation, AA Brainoise is admitted into the ranks of the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB).
• 1925 / AA Brainoise starts its existence as a competitive club in Hainaut’s Regional League 4, managing to climb up the ranks to Regional League 2 by 1928 either through promotion or a reform of the league pyramid. 
• 1926 / With the introduction of the system of registration numbers at the Belgian FA, AA Brainoise obtains number 343.
• 1932 / Winning the title in Hainaut's Regional League 2A, 3 points ahead of closest rivals FC Houdinois and US Leuzoise, AA Brainoise accedes to Provincial League 2, the top level of Hainaut’s provincial divisions at that time. 
• 1934 / Finishing in third-last place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2, AA Brainoise drops back into Regional League 2 after two years, alongside LC Hornu and bottom club LC Mesvinois.
• 1937 / After AA Brainoise in 1923, a second football club sees the daylight in Braine-le-Comte; this new club, Union Sportive (US) Brainoise obtains registration number 2607 when joining the Belgian FA one year later. US Brainoise settles on a newly laid-out pitch, referred to locally as the Stade au Sans-Fond. Remarkably, the distance between this location and the pitch of AA Brainoise at Rue de la Bienfaisance is no more than some 100 metres.
• 1945 / Following the restart of regular non-league football in Belgium after the havocs of World War II and the German occupation, AA Brainoise is placed in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2 rather than in Regional League 2 due to two P2 groups being created rather than one. By this time, Provincial League 2 is still the top level of the provincial league pyramid.
• 1946 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2A, AA Brainoise descends into Regional League 2 after one season only.
• 1947 / Champions in Hainaut’s Regional League 2B, 5 points ahead of closest followers SC Frameries, AA Brainoise wins promotion to Provincial League 2 – renamed Provincial League 1 in 1952 – where it meets town rivals US Brainoise. 
• 1951 / Obtaining the royal epithet, AA Brainoise adapts its name to become Royale Amicale Athlétique (RAA) Brainoise.
• 1955 / In the best season in club history, RAA Brainoise manages a runner-up place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 1, 13 points behind runaway champions RUS Binchoise.
• 1958 / Finishing in second-last place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 1, RAA Brainoise is retrograded into Provincial League 2, along with RU Jemappienne and bottom club – and derby rivals – US Brainoise.
• 1961 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2A ahead of runner-up RUS Lessinoise, RAA Brainoise manages a return to Provincial League 1 after three years.
• ± 1965 / Moving away from its ground at Rue de Bienfaisance, RAA Brainoise settles at a newly laid-out ground at Rue du Poseur.
• 1966 / Finishing in thirteenth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 1, RAA Brainoise descends into Provincial League 2 after five seasons, alongside RFC Ressaix, RFC Houdinois, and bottom club Soignies Sports.
• 1969 / In its last season as an independent club, RAA Brainoise manages a runner-up finish in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2B behind champions R Enghien Sports. Following the 1968-69 season, a merger is concluded between RAA Brainoise and US Brainoise, resulting in the foundation of Stade Brainois. Although the merger club retains Amicale's registration number 343, the royal epithet is lost due to negligence on the part of the new club’s board – and not retrieved in the following three decades. The new club plays in all-white shirts, thus avoiding any reference to the colours of the two old clubs (Amicale's blue and black; and Union's red and white). Stade Brainois starts its existence in Hainaut's Provincial League 1, the level at which US Brainoise played in its last season as an independent club. From the merger onwards, first team football is played at the Stade au Sans-Fond, the old ground of Union Sportive, while Amicale's Stade du Poseur remains in use for lower team football and training sessions.
• 1995 / The women's football branch of Stade Brainois forms a breakaway club, founding Standard Fémina de Braine (matricule 9286).
• 1999 / Stade Brainois finally retrieves its royal epithet, thus officially becoming Royal Stade Brainois.
• 2021 / R Stade Brainois concludes a merger with former professional league side AFC Tubize from nearby Tubize in Walloon Brabant. The new club, which retains Tubize’s registration number 5632, is officially given the name Royale Union Tubize Braine-le-Comte, although it has since universally been referred to as Royale Union Tubize-Braine (RUTB). Henceforth, the new merger club's first team plays its football in Tubize's Stade Leburton. A B team, which is placed in Walloon Brabant's (instead of Hainaut's!) Provincial League 1 – one obligatory step down from the level at which R Stade Brainois concluded its existence – settles at the Stade au Sans-Fond. The youth academy grounds in Tubize (Terrain du Chalet) and Braine-le-Comte (Stade Communal du Poseur) are retained as well.
• 2022 / R Union Tubize Braine's board files a request at Braine-le-Comte's town council to renovate the Stade au Sans-Fond, but permission for the planned works is not granted. Thereupon, the club takes the far-reaching decision to abandon the historic ground. Home matches of RUTB’s B team, which admirably held its own in Brabant's ACFF Provincial League 1 in the 2021-22 season, are moved to Tubize's Terrain du Chalet. While the other ground in Braine, the Stade Communal du Poseur, remains in use for part of RUTB's youth academy, the Stade au Sans-Fond is turned into a sports facility for padel and tennis.
• 2026 / As the Stade Communal Fernand Higuet in nearby Ronquières is completely renovated, with a synthetic surface being laid out on the main pitch, RFC Ronquières HY 86, playing its football in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3, is allowed to move all its activities to the Stade Communal du Poseur for the duration of the 2026-27 season, groundsharing with part of the youth academy of R Union Tubize Braine on that location.
• 2027 (projected) / After one season in exile at the Stade Communal du Poseur, RFC Ronquières HY 86 moves all of its activities back to the renovated Stade Communal Fernand Higuet in Ronquières proper.

Note 1 – Important parts of the information given above were provided by Pascal Delmoitiez; many thanks to him, as well as to Michel Vancamp for bringing me in touch with Mr Delmoitiez.

Note 2 – Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-2 = non-matchday visit, July 2022 / pictures 3-21 = match visit, October 2026.

All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author

NETHERLANDS: CSV '28

Sportpark De Verbinding, Zwolle Stadshagen (CSV '28)

Netherlands, province: Overijssel

3 X 2026 / CSV '28 - SV Nieuwleusen 2-1 / Combined Sunday & Saturday League 1G (= NL level 6)

Timeline

• 1928 / Foundation of a Reformed Christian football club in Zwolle, Christelijke Sportvereniging (CSV) 1928, during a meeting held at the Eigen Gebouw on Badhuiswal, chaired by Henk Bos. Tom Groeneveld was appointed the club’s first chairman. Following its foundation, CSV '28 rented its first playing field from ZAC at Veerallee for a fee of 1½ Dutch guilders. The foundation of CSV '28 coincides with the foundation of a football club by the less orthodox Dutch Reformed (Nederlands Hervormde) community of Zwolle, CSV Be Quick '28.
• 1929 / CSV ‘28 moves to its second playing field, known as Het Bleekien, located behind Thijssen's tea garden. The ground was also used by PEC and RKSC Zwolle.
• 1930 / CSV '28 establishes a permanent home ground at De Pelikaan, situated on Meppelerweg. The ground was owned by a gentleman known locally as Opoe Diek, associated with the well-known Café Dijk. In the same year, CSV ‘28 began competing in Division 1 of the Zwolle district of the so-called Christelijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond (CNVB), a football association for Protestant clubs unwilling to play their football on Sundays; this federation had been founded one year previously.
• 1934 / CSV '28 finishes as runner-up in Division 1 of the Zwolle district of the CNVB, two points behind champions vv DOS Kampen.
• 1935 / On 27 April, CSV '28 wins the Division 1 title of the CNVB Zwolle district after drawing 2-2 against Go-Ahead Kampen. The club subsequently contests the quarter-finals of the national CNVB championship, where it loses 7-4 to CVV Sparta Enschede in a tie played at a neutral ground in Nijverdal. During this period, CSV ‘28 plays on one of the side-pitches of Sportpark De Vrolijkheid, which was destined to make way for a motorway later on.
• 1940 / The start of World War II and the occupation of the Netherlands brings about a merger of the CNVB football federation with the official, non-confessional Netherlands’ Football Association (KNVB, renamed NVB for the duration of the war). As such, in the 1940-41, CSV ’28 is placed in Saturday Division 1 of Afdeling Zwolle, the western Overijssel NVB sub-branch, organising all football below the level of Sunday & Saturday League 4.
• 1946 / Having become inactive during the latter stages of World War II, CSV ’28 resumes operations, re-entering competition in Saturday Division 2 of Afdeling Zwolle. The club initially plays on a meadow belonging to a farmer near the Agnietenberg, some kilometres to the north of the city.
• 1947 / Struggling to field a full team, CSV ’28 is relegated from Afdeling Zwolle Saturday Division 1 to Division 2.
• 1948 / CSV '28 leaves the Agnietenberg ground, briefly settling on a field owned by the Reinders salad oil factory.
• 1949 / CSV '28 leaves the Reinders field, renting a ground at the municipal sports park alongside the Nieuwe Vecht River, a site later used by SC Hanze. Other clubs playing at the sports park at the time include PEC, CSV Be Quick ’28, and RKSC Zwolle. In a small committee room in the new changing-room building, the club begins its first tentative canteen activities. 
• 1951 / CSV ’28 wins the title of Afdeling Zwolle Saturday Division 2A, finishing 5 points ahead of runner-up vv OWIOS. Under coach E. Gruis, the club subsequently wins the promotion play-offs against Go-Ahead Kampen Reserves (2-1 aggr.), thus securing promotion to Division 1.
• 1955 / Under coach Jaap Holvast, CSV ’28 wins the title in Afdeling Zwolle Saturday Division 1A, finishing 1 point ahead of closest rivals WZC. The club then competes in the championship play-offs against vv Vroomshoopse Boys and vv Mariënberg. Losing both matches against vv Vroomshoopse Boys, CSV ’28 has the better of vv Mariënberg in both of its encounters with this club, thus finishing as runner-up in the play-offs – sufficient to secure promotion to KNVB District East Saturday Division 4 for the first time. 
• 1960 / CSV ’28 finishes as joint runner-up in District East's Saturday League 4B, level on points with vv HHC and 6 points behind champions ESC.
• 1961 / CSV ’28 wins the championship of District East’s Saturday League 4B, finishing 1 point ahead of closest followers SV Hatto-Heim. In the subsequent championship play-offs, CSV competes with vv Voorwaarts V and DTS ’35 for two places in Saturday League 3, with CSV '28 and Voorwaarts securing promotion. At the time, League 3 is the highest level available to Saturday football clubs in District East. The successful coach is Leo Halle, the renowned former goalkeeper of DVV Go-Ahead and the Netherlands national team, nicknamed De Leeuw van Deventer ('The Lion of Deventer'). CSV ’28 top scorer is a striker with the proverbial name Hans Schot (26 goals).
• 1962 / Finishing in joint second-last place in District East’s Saturday League 3 with vv DOS ’37, CSV ’28 goes on to suffer a clear-cut defeat in a tie-break match against the club from Vriezenveen (5-0); as a result, CSV drops back into Saturday League 4. Coach Leo Halle is succeeded by Jan Westerbeek. 
• 1964 / Under coach Jan Westerbeek, CSV ’28 finishes level on points with vv HHC and vv SVI at the top of District East’s Saturday League 4B. A play-off involving the three clubs is therefore required to determine the title and the automatic promotion place. With CSV managing two wins over SVI and a win and a draw against HHC, the club finishes top of the play-off group, thus securing the title and a return to Saturday League 3 after two seasons.
• 1966 / Finishing in second-last place in District East’s Saturday League 3 with coach Jan Westerbeek, CSV ’28 is relegated to Saturday League 4, alongside bottom-placed vv VRC.
• 1969 / CSV '28 moves to Veld (Pitch) 5 at Sportpark De Vrolijkheid. One year later, the club is joined at this park by SV Zwolsche Boys, which settles on the main pitch previously used by PEC, which relocates to Sportpark Oosterenk. During this period, CSV ’28 gradually moves away from its traditionally Reformed Christian identity, beginning to admit players from outside the orthodox Christian community, which contributes to the gradual growth of the club in the following decade.
• 1971 / Under coach Jan Westerbeek, CSV '28 wins the District East's Saturday League 4 championship for the third time, finishing 5 points ahead of vv DKB '44, IJVV, and SV HTC in Saturday League 4B. The title results in the club returning to Saturday League 3 after a five-year gap.
• 1975 / CSV '28 finishes as runner-up in District East's Saturday League 3A, 2 points behind champions vv Olympia '28.
• 1976 / Under coach Jan Westerbeek, CSV ’28 wins the title in District East’s Saturday League 3A, thus securing promotion to Saturday League 2 for the first time in the club’s history. The end of the season proves dramatic. The match between CSV ’28 and ESC is abandoned after a player of the Elburg side throws the ball at the referee. On May 1st, 1976, the teams play the remaining 26 minutes, with CSV '28 preserving its 1-0 lead under intense pressure. The victory enables the club to finish 1 point ahead of its arch-rivals DTS ’35.
• 1977 / CSV ’28 moves from Sportpark De Vrolijkheid to the Aa-landen district of Zwolle, taking up residence at the newly laid-out Sportpark Het Hoge Laar, where it acquires its own clubhouse for the first time.
• 1980 / CSV '28 finishes joint second-bottom in District East’s Saturday League 2D, level with CVV Oranje Nassau Almelo. The two teams contest a tie-break match to determine which club retains its place. In front of 1,500 spectators at Sportpark Bovenmolen in Oldebroek, CSV '28 wins 4-1, thus staving off relegation.
• 1981 / CSV ’28 finishes as runner-up in District East’s Saturday League 2D, 4 points behind champions DTS ’35.
• 1982 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Saturday League 2D with coach Jan Westerbeek, CSV ’28 is relegated to Saturday League 3.
• 1983 / CSV ’28 finishes as runner-up in District East's Saturday League 3B, 3 points behind champions CSV Be Quick ’28. 
• 1985 / After 23 years as coach, Jan Westerbeek leaves CSV ’28. That same year, Harold Borns, who had been top scorer for three consecutive seasons, moves to professional club PEC Zwolle ’82 – due to return to CSV after one season only.
• 1990 / Under coach Ton Heimerinkx, CSV ’28 wins the District East’s Saturday League 3A championship, finishing 4 points ahead of SDS ’55, DTS ’35, and CSV Apeldoorn, thus securing to Saturday League 2. Following the season, talented winger Max Huiberts leaves the club, signing a contract with professional league side FC Zwolle. Huiberts goes on to have spells with Roda JC, Borussia Mönchengladbach, and AZ, before retiring from professional football in 2003.
• 1991 / CSV ’28 finishes in third place in District East’s Saturday League 2D, qualifying for the promotion play-offs, in which the team is drawn in a group with ESC and AZSV. Managing a draw against the former (2-2), CSV suffers defeat against the latter (3-0), resulting in its elimination in the group stage. 
• 1993 / CSV ’28 finishes fourth in District East's Saturday League 2D, qualifying for the promotion play-offs, in which the team manages two draws in the group stage (3-3 against DTS ’35 and 2-2 against ESC), insufficient to progress to the final stage.
• 1994 / CSV ’28 finishes fourth in District East's Saturday League 2D but qualifies for the promotion play-offs after winning a period title in the 1993-94 season. In the Dutch league system, such a title is awarded for performance during a designated segment of the season, with qualification for the promotion play-offs being the prize. Finishing top in the play-off group stage following wins over AZSV (2-1) and CSV Be Quick ’28 (4-3), CSV ’28 faces Saturday League 1 side SV Spakenburg a deciding match for a place in the first class; however, Spakenburg proves too strong, winning 4-0 and thus denying CSV '28 promotion.
• 1996 / In spite of a modest ninth place finish in Saturday League 2D with coach Dick Bremmer, CSV ’28 is placed in Saturday League 1 in the new season following the introduction of the Zaterdag Hoofdklasse, a new top division above the first class. 
• 1997 / Finishing in joint ninth place with SVZW in Saturday League 1D, CSV goes on to defeat the club from Wierden in a tie-break at Sportpark De Bovenmolen in Oldebroek, with Taïb Abdelghani scoring the only goal. As such, the club avoids relegation.
• 1998 / Finishing bottom of the table in Saturday League 1C with coach Han Wonink, CSV ’28 is relegated to Saturday League 2, alongside the club in second-last place, CVV Sparta Enschede.
• 2000 / Finishing bottom of the table in Saturday League 2J with coach Bert Rohde, CSV ’28 is relegated to Saturday League 3, along with the club in second-last place, vv ASC '62. The team is coached by Bert Rohde. In the same year, former CSV ’28 youth player Dominggus Lim-Duan makes his professional debut for FC Zwolle at the age of seventeen. The attacking midfielder has subsequent spells at SBV Excelsior and FC Eindhoven before ending his professional career in 2011.
• 2001 / Finishing in third place in District East’s Saturday League 3C, CSV ’28 qualifies for the promotion play-offs, defeating CVV Oranje Nassau Almelo in R1 (3-1 aggr.), followed by a 5-3 (aggr.) victory over vv SVI in R2. In the final against vv DOS ‘37, CSV ’28 manages a 1-0 win, with Rutger Smit scoring the decisive goal to secure promotion to Saturday League 2. The successful coach is Eddy Zwijnenberg.
• 2005 / Coached by Marcel Beumer, CSV ’28 finishes bottom of the table in Saturday League 2J, thus dropping back into Saturday League 3 alongside second-bottom vv Bergentheim.
• 2006 / Runner-up in District East’s Saturday League 3C, 8 points behind champions SCD '83, CSV ’28 qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by CSV DZSV (7-2 aggr.).
• 2007 / Finishing in fifth place in District East’s Saturday League 3C, CSV '28 qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club bows out in R1 against vv Enter Vooruit (3-1 aggr.).
• 2008 / Finishing in third place in District East’s Saturday League 3C, CSV ’28 qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club manages a 1-1 aggregate draw against CSV DZSV, being eliminated on the away-goals rule. That same year, CSV moves away from Sportpark Het Hoge Laar after 31 years, with hockey club HC Zwolle taking over the location next to the grounds of vv Dieze West, FC Ulu Spor, and vv Storica; meanwhile, CSV settles at a new sports complex in Stadshagen, a newly developed district in the northwestern part of Zwolle. The complex, named Sportpark De Verbinding, provides the club with five grass pitches, two artificial turf pitches (including the main pitch), ten changing rooms, and a spacious canteen with several meeting rooms on the first floor. 
• 2009 / Finishing as runner-up in District East’s Saturday League 3C, 3 points behind champions vv ASC ’62, CSV ’28 fails to qualify for the promotion play-offs.
• 2010 / Finishing in fifth place in District East’s Saturday League 3C, CSV ’28 qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club suffers a clear-cut 5-1 aggregate defeat against ZVV De Esch in R1.
• 2011 / Runner-up in District East’s Saturday League 3C, 8 points behind champions SV Nieuwleusen, CSV ’28 enters the promotion play-offs. For the second consecutive year, the club faces ZVV De Esch in R1 – with the exact same result, a 5-1 aggregate defeat. and loses 5–1 on aggregate, resulting in elimination
• 2012 / Finishing in third place in District East’s Saturday League 3C, CSV ’28 qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is eliminated in R1 at the hands of vv Hulzense Boys (6-3 aggr.).
• 2013 / Finishing in eleventh place in District East’s Saturday League 3C with caretaker coach Edwin Kwakkel, who had taken over from Arnie Pot in the early stages of the season, CSV ’28 enters a three-team relegation play-off. However, following successive defeats against vv Bruchterveld (1-0) and KVV Quick ’20 (za) (3-2), the club finishes bottom of the group, thus suffering relegation to Saturday League 4 after an absence of 42 years at that lowly level. Following the disastrous season, Martin Reijnders takes over as coach. Reijnders is a former professional league midfielder who played for PEC Zwolle ’82, PEC Zwolle, FC Zwolle, Nashville Metros, FC Jokerit, FC Haka Valkeakoski, FC Den Bosch, and BV Veendam. During his time with FC Haka, he won the Finnish league title on two occasions. Reijnders had ended his career at FC Zwolle in 2008.
• 2014 / Former CSV ’28 youth academy player Kingsley Ehizibue makes his professional debut for PEC Zwolle at the age of nineteen. The wing-back goes on to play for for 1. FC Köln, Udinese Calcio, and Genoa CFC.
• 2017 / Finishing in fifth place in District East's Saturday League 4C, CSV ’28 qualifies for the promotion play-offs but loses to CVV Achilles in R1 (5-3 aggr.), resulting in instant elimination. That same year, former CSV '28 youth player Sepp van den Berg makes his professional debut for PEC Zwolle at the age of 16; the defender subsequently plays for Liverpool FC, Preston North End FC, FC Schalke 04, 1. FSV Mainz 05, and Brentford FC. Another former CSV youth player, midfielder Tijjani Reijnders, also makes his professional league debut at PEC Zwolle, aged 19; in fact, Reijnders had only spent the 2015-16 season at Sportpark De Verbinding, following spells at the academies of PEC Zwolle and FC Twente. Following his league debut at PEC Zwolle, Reijnders would go on to wear the colours of Jong AZ, AZ, RKC Waalwijk, AC Milan, Manchester City, and Al-Qadsiah FC, while making his debut for the Netherlands’ national side in 2023; he was part of his country’s squads in the 2024 European Championships and the 2026 World Cup.
• 2018 / Finishing in fourth place in District East’s Saturday League 4C, CSV ’28 qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club defeats WZC in R1 (2-0), going on to edge past vv Bruchterveld in R2 (3-2 A.E.T.; 2 goals by Rachid Lazal, 1 more by Mohammed El Bouhni). As such, the club secures promotion to Saturday League 3. The successful coach is Martin Reijnders.
• 2019 / CSV '28 and coach Martin Reijnders part ways midway through the season, with Emiel Diender taking over as manager. CSV ’28 finishes in second-last place in District East’s Saturday League 3C, going on to suffer defeat in a promotion-relegation play-off against vv Elspeet (1-4). As such, CSV descends into Saturday league 4 along with bottom-placed VSW.
• 2020 / Former CSV '28 youth player Rav van den Berg, Sepp’s younger brother, makes his professional debut for PEC Zwolle at the age of sixteen. The defender subsequently played for Middlesbrough FC and 1. FC Köln.
• 2023 / Finishing in second place in District East’s Saturday League 4E, with an equal numbe of points as champions vv 's-Heerenbroek, but with an inferior goal difference (+32 vs. +44), CSV ’28 misses out on direct promotion. In the play-offs, the club knocks out SV Rijssen in R1 (4-0), bowing out in R2 against SV Juliana ’31 (za) (2-0).
• 2024 / Under coach Sebastiaan Borgardijn, CSV ’28 clinches the District East’s Saturday League 4B title, finishing 1 point ahead of rivals FC Ulu Spor to secure promotion to Saturday League 3.
• 2025 / CSV '28 are runaway winners of the District East's Saturday League 3D championship, finishing 20 points ahead of closest followers FC Zuidwolde, thus managing back-to-back promotions and acceding to Saturday League 2. The successful coach is John Beijen.
• 2026 / Finishing in third place in Saturday League 2H, CSV ’28  qualifies for the promotion-relegation play-offs, in which the club defeats vv Den Ham in R1 (1-4) and vv ATC '65 in R2 (1-2). As a result, the club wins its third promotion in a row, marking its return to Saturday League 1 after an absence of 28 years at that level. The successful coach is John Beijen.

All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author

BELGIUM: JS Solrézienne (1966-2017, 2018-)

Stade Léopold Dethy-Lucien Bernard, Solre-Saint-Géry (JS Solrézienne)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

27 IX 2026 / JS Solrézienne - JS Jamioulx 2-0 / Hainaut, Provincial League 3D (= BE level 8)

Timeline

• 1966 / Foundation of a football club in Solre-Saint-Géry, a small village not far from Beaumont in the so-called Botte du Hainaut, the southeastern part of the Province of Hainaut. The new club takes on the name Jeunesse Sportive (JS) Solrézienne, acquiring membership of Belgium’s Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB) with registration number 6933. The club settles on a newly laid-out park with two pitches at Rue Sainte-Anne, at the back of the house of Mr Lucien Bernard. Bernard is the owner of most of the plot on which the two pitches are situated. The main pitch is only available in the September to April period, as cows are allowed onto the pitch to graze during the summer months. A very small clubhouse is constructed out of wood and corrugated metal sheet; the garage of Mr Bernard’s house at Rue Sainte-Anne 11 is subdivided into two very small dressing rooms. The ground is given the name Stade Léopold Dethy-Lucien Bernard – Léopold Dethy being the local agricultural merchant who takes on the role of chairman. In the club’s debut season, JS Solrézienne is placed in the Hainaut’s divisions for reserves’ teams.
• 1967 / Having competed in the reserves’ league for one season, JS Solrézienne is now placed in the regular league pyramid, in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3 – the bottom level in Hainaut’s provincial divisions until the introduction of Provincial League 4 in 1970.
• 1978 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, JS Solrézienne descends into Provincial League 4, along with the club in second-last place, FC Standard Châtelet.
• 1980 / Clinching the title in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4H, 1 point ahead of closest rivals FC Chimay, JS Solrézienne wins promotion to Provincial League 3 – the first tangible success in club history.
• 1986 / Finishing in second-last place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, JS Solrézienne drops back into Provincial League 4 after six seasons, along with bottom club SC Pont-de-Loup.
• 1989 / Lucien Bernard, one of the founding fathers of JS Solrézienne and owner of the grounds of the main pitch as well as half of the second pitch, passes away. Following his passing, the owner of the other half of the training pitch decides to end the lease agreement with JS Solrézienne one-sidedly, with the club having had only half a training pitch at its disposal. Needless to say, the arrangement with cows being allowed to graze the main pitch during the summer period came to an end to allow the club to continue playing on this location.
• 1993 / Finishing in fourth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4F, JS Solrézienne goes on to win the subsequent play-off round, thus acceding to Provincial League 3.
• 1994 / Finishing in second-last place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3E, JS Solrézienne is retrograded into Provincial League 4, along with bottom club FC Pont-de-Loup-Aiseau. In the following two decades, JS Solrézienne remains a regular feature in Provincial League 4, with a fifth place in 2008 being the best result.
• 2017 / JS Solrézienne withdraws from first team football, remaining inactive during the 2017-18 season.
• 2018 / With a new board taking over the club, JS Solrézienne restarts in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4.
• 2019 / Authoritarian champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4H with 26 wins from 26 matches, with a gap of 22 points separating them from runner-up CS Forges, JS Solrézienne wins promotion to Provincial League 3. Poignantly, two days before the match which gave the club the title, Mrs Lucienne Bernard, the daughther of René Hannoteau, passed away; from that time onwards, the house at Rue Sainte-Anne 11 which she inhabited until her passing has remained uninhabited – with the Bernard heirs allowing the club to continue making use of the dressing rooms in the garage. 
• 2023 / Finishing in fourth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, incidentally the best result in club history, JS Solrézienne qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out JS Jamioulx in R1 (4-3), only to suffer elimination in R2 at the hands of La Squadra Mouscron (0-1).
• 2025 / Finishing in fourth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, thereby repeating the result of the 2022-23 season, JS Solrézienne qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club bows out in R1 against Péruwelz FC B (2-1).

Note 1 – Thanks to Jean-Michel Hannoteau, son of René Hannoteau and Lucienne Bernard, for adding essential parts of information which have been included in the article above.

Note 2 – Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-6 = non-matchday visit, July 2025 / pictures 7-34 = match visit, September 2026.

All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author