BELGIUM: Racing Club Jette (±1961-1970) / R SCUP Jette (B) (1970-2002) / RSD Jette (B) (2002-) / FC Amicii Bruxelles Jette (2019-2021, 2022-)

Stade Communal de Jette / Gemeentestadion Jette "Complexe Expo" - terrain B, Brussels = Bruxelles = Brussel Jette (R Scup Dieleghem Jette - B ground & A ground of FC Amicii Bruxelles Jette, formerly Racing Club Jette & B ground of R SCUP Jette)

Belgium, Brussels Capital Area

8 X 2022 / RSD Jette B - FC Amicii Bruxelles Jette 2-3 / Brabant, ACFF Provincial League 2A (= BE level 7)

Timeline

• 1945 / Racing Club (RC) Jette - often referred to as Racing Jette -, probably founded in 1944, joins a Bruxellois socialist football league, the so-called Fédération Sportive Ouvrière. It is unclear if the club played at its ground at Drève de Dieleghem / Dieleghemdreef from the very outset.
• 1946 / Racing Club Jette switches allegiance, joining the Belgian Football Association. The club obtains matricule 4549 upon being accepted as new members.
• 1954 / After having played in Brabant's Provincial League 3 for its first eight seasons, Racing Jette manages its first tangible success, winning promotion to Provincial League 2. The adventure does not last longer than one season, though, returning to P3 in 1955.
• 1957 / Winning the title in Provincial League 3G, Racing Jette accedes to P2 for a second time. Looking back, this is the start of a long spell of continued success.
• 1960 / Racing Jette wins first place in Provincial League 2C, thus acceding to Provincial League 1 for the first time in club history.
• ±1961 / Abandoning its pitch at Drève de Dieleghem / Dieleghemdreef, Racing Club Jette settles at a newly constructed ground just down the road at Avenue du Laerbeek / Laarbeeklaan. This pitch, with a small covered stand and terracing surrounding most of its northern half, is situated right next to SCUP Jette's Stade Communal de Jette "Complexe Expo".
• 1962 / Clinching the title in Brabant's Provincial League 1, Racing Club Jette manages a historic promotion to the national leagues.
• 1965 / After three seasons in National Division 4, Racing Jette finishes first in Division 4D, thus winning promotion to the third tier of Belgium's football pyramid.
• 1966 / Racing Jette finishes ninth in National Division 3B - the best result in its history as an independent club.
• 1970 / After having stayed up in D3 for five consecutive seasons, Racing Club Jette concludes a merger with Royal Stade Bruxelles (matricule 281 - in itself a merger of US du Centenaire and RUS Laeken, 1964), resulting in the foundation of Racing Jet de Bruxelles - strikingly, retaining Racing's matricule 4549 instead of Stade's much lower number. The new club settles at Stade de Bruxelles' ground, Stade Heysel II (also known as Petit Heysel / Annexe Heysel). Racing's ground at Avenue du Laerbeek is taken over by neighbouring club R SCUP Jette, who turned it into their training pitch and B ground.
• 2002 / R SCUP Jette concludes a merger with Etoile Dieleghem Jette (matricule 8682) to form Royal SCUP Dieleghem (RSD) Jette, with SCUP's matricule 474 being retained - and with all club activities moving to the Complexe Expo and its B pitch. Complexe Heymbosch, where Etoile Dieleghem had been home until that time, has remained in use for lower team football and training purposes.
• ±2009 / A 3G surface is installed on Complexe Expo's terrain 2.
• 2019 / FC Amicii Bruxelles, the club of Brussels' Romanian community (founded in 2014 and joining Belgium's FA in 2017 under matricule 9685), moves away from its ground at Avenue de Boechout / Boechoutlaan (Stade Heysel III) to commence a groundshare with RSD Jette. To mark its move to Jette, the club adapts its name to become FC Amicii Bruxelles Jette. All of the club's teams, including the first team which had just won promotion to Provincial League 2, play their matches on Complexe Expo's B pitch.
• 2020 / FC Amicii just misses out on promotion to Provincial League 1, finishing second in P2A behind eventual champions NSeth Berchem. 
• 2021 / At the behest of Jette's municipal council, FC Amicii's first team football is moved to Complexe Expo's main pitch.
• 2022 / In the spring of 2022, Doru Bucovina, the contracting company of Amicii's founder and club president Doru Costea, undertakes a renovation of the terracing on the western end of Complexe Expo's terrain 2. For the new season, FC Amicii's first team football returns to the B pitch as well.
• 2023 / Clinching the P2A title, just 1 point ahead of FC Schaerbeek, FC Amicii Bruxelles Jette finally manages to accede to Brabant ACFF's Provincial League 1.

Note 1: Thanks to RSD Jette's president René Kruys for providing part of the information given above.

Note 2: Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-2 & 6-22 = match visit, October 2022 / pictures 3-5 = non-matchday visit, March 2010.

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