BELGIUM: R Queue-du-Bois FC (1923-1990) / RFC Queue-du-Bois-Bellaire (1990-2009) / RFC Queue-du-Bois (2009-) / FC Bressoux matr. 9385 (2010-2012)

Terrain sur les Bouhys, Queue-du-Bois (RFC Queue-du-Bois)

Belgium, province: Liège = Luik

3 VIII 2014 / FC Queue-du-Bois B - CS Juprelle 1-3 / Liège, Provincial Cup R1

Timeline

• 1923 / Foundation of Queue-du-Bois FC. It is unclear if the club played its football at Rue / Terrain / Stade sur les Bouhys from the outset (anyone able to shed more light on this matter is more than welcome to get in touch with me).
• 1924 / Queue-du-Bois FC joins the Belgian Football Association.
• 1926 / Upon introduction of the matricule register, Queue-du-Bois FC acquires matricule 378.
• 1943 / Queue-du-Bois FC accedes to the national leagues for the first time in club history, being placed at the third and lowest level of the Belgian national league pyramid, in Promotion D.
• 1944 / Queue-du-Bois's first acquaintance with national league football turns out to be an unhappy affair, ending in 16th and last place in Promotion D with just 8 points and a goal difference of -104. Upon war's end, however, the Belgian FA rescinds all relegations occurred during wartime, allowing Queue-du-Bois FC to stay up in Promotion - but, understandably, the club prefers a voluntary return to Liège's provincial leagues.
• 1947 / Finding its way back to Promotion, Queue-du-Bois FC has two more years of national league football before dropping back into Liège's Provincial League 1 in 1949.
• 1951 / Queue-du-Bois FC becomes a Société Royale, adapting its name to become Royal Queue-du-Bois Football Club.
• 1958 / Winning promotion from Provincial League 1, R Queue-du-Bois FC begins a third spell of national league football in National Division 4 - the fourth and lowest step of the national league pyramid, created in a league reform in 1952.
• 1960 / After two years in D4, R Queue-du-Bois FC suffers relegation back into Liège's Provincial League 1. The club never manages a return to the national divisions, in which it spent a total of five seasons over a period of 17 years.
• 1990 / R Queue-du-Bois FC concludes a merger with Bellaire FC (matricule 7207, a refoundation of the eponymous club which was a member of Belgium's FA between 1938 and 1948 under matricule 2736), resulting in the creation of Royale Alliance Football Club (RAFC) Queue-du-Bois-Bellaire. Probably due to a mistake made at the FA's administrative department, the merger was recorded as Royal Football Club (RFC) Queue-du-Bois-Bellaire - which became the official name. R Queue-du-Bois FC's matricule 378 is retained, while all activities move to Queue-du-Bois' Terrain sur les Bouhys.
• 2009 / Dropping the reference to Bellaire FC, the club is henceforth known as RFC Queue-du-Bois.
• 2010 / Bereft of a ground of its own, the newly created FC Bressoux (matricule 9385), a refoundation of the old RFC Bressoux (matricule 23), which played its football at Terrain de Péville in Grivegnée until the club disappeared in a merger with R Jupille FC to become Royale Union Liégeoise (1992), temporarily settles at Terrain sur les Bouhys, groundsharing with RFC Queue-du-Bois. 
• 2012 / Having groundshared with RFC Queue-du-Bois for the first two years of its existence, FC Bressoux finds a new home at CREF in Blégny.

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