Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: CS Quévy-le-Grand (1928-1934) / AS Quévy-le-Grand (1944-1989) / RUS Genly-Quévy 89 (1989-2012) / RUS Genly-Quévy 89 (B) (2012-2015)

Sentier de l'Eglise, Quévy-le-Grand (formerly CS Quévy-le-Grand (?), AS Quévy-le-Grand & RUS Genly-Quévy 89)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

20 V 2012 / RUS Genly-Quévy 89 - RES Couvin-Mariembourg 1-0 / Interprovincial Promotion Play-Off (= BE level 5)

Timeline

1928 / Foundation of Cercle Sportif (CS) de Quévy-le-Grand. Upon joining Belgium's FA, the club obtains matricule 1190. It is unclear whether this club already played at Sentier de l'Eglise (anyone able to provide more information on this matter, is more than welcome to contact me).
1934 / After spending the first two seasons of its existence in Hainaut's Provincial League 4, and the four following years in P3, CS Quévy-le-Grand folds, ceasing all activities.
1944 / Foundation of Association Sportive (AS) Quévy-le-Grand et Extensions, mostly referred to abbreviatedly simply as AS Quévy. The new club, which first takes part in Hainaut's Provincial League 3 - at that time the lowest provincial level - in 1945, receives matricule 4194. It is probable, yet not completely certain, that the club played at Sentier de l'Eglise from its foundation onwards (anyone able to provide certainty on this matter, is more than welcome to contact me).
1970 / After 25 uninterrupted years in P3, AS Quévy is put back to the newly formed Provincial League 4.
1971 / Managing the first promotion in its existence, AS Quévy finds itself back in Provincial League 3 after a one-year absence. The stay at that spell does not last longer than one season though, and the club spends the last 17 years of its independent existence in P4.
1989 / AS Quévy merges with its younger neighbour club FC Genly-Noirchain (matricule 8139, founded in 1973), resulting in the foundation Union Sportive (US) Genly-Quévy 89 under Quévy's matricule 4194. As FC Genly-Noirchain played in Provincial League 3 at the time, it is at that level that the new club starts in the summer of 1989. First team football is played at Quévy-le-Grand, while the club's youth academy moves to Stade de la Motte in Genly.
1995 / US Genly-Quévy 89 acquires the royal epithet, thus becoming Royale Union Sportive (RUS) Genly-Qúevy 89.
1998 / RUS Genly-Quévy 89 wins promotion to Provincial League 2 for the first time, but the stay at that level lasts one season only.
2007 / Winning the title in Provincial League 3B, RUS Genly-Quévy accedes to Provincial League 2 for a second time.
2009 / An unprecedented event in the combined football histories of Quévy and Genly, as RUS Genly-Quévy 89 wins the title in Provincial League 2B, thus acceding to Provincial League 1.
2012 / After coming close to the title in P1 in its first two seasons at that level, RUS Genly-Quévy 89 beats RES Couvin-Mariembourg in the interprovincial promotion play-offs following the 2011-12 season (match photos below taken at that encounter) to accede to the national divisions for the first time. This feat posed a practical problem, however, as the measurements of the pitch in Quévy-le-Grand were too short to be in conformity with national league requirements. Forced by circumstances, RUS Genly-Quévy 89 moves its first team to Stade de la Motte in Genly. The pitch at Sentier de l'Eglise remains in use for lower team football and training purposes.
2014 / After two seasons in National Division 4, RUS Genly-Quévy is condemned to relegation back to Hainaut's Provincial League 1. Even so, no return of first team football to Quévy-le-Grand is undertaken.
2015 / RAEC Mons, matricule 44, folds, upon which RUS Genly-Quévy 89 fills the void in Hainaut's capital by taking on the new name of R Albert Quévy-Mons (RAQM), moving its first team football to Mons' Stade Charles Tondreau - with the premises in Genly remaining in use for lower team football and training purposes. The pitch at Sentier de l'Eglise is abandoned.
2021 / After two name changes (R Albert Quévy Mons becoming Renaissance Mons 44 in 2020, and Renaissance Albert Elisabeth Club Mons in 2021), matricule 4919 eventually cuts its ties with Quévy and Genly by abandoning Stade de la Motte. Thereupon, a new club is founded in Genly, taking on the name of FC Quévy-Genly (matricule 9764), thereby at least preserving the reference to Quévy-le-Grand and its football history.

Note: Below, a compilation of photos of two visits: pictures 1-19 = match visit, May 2012 / pictures 20-29 = non-matchday (ruin) visit, February 2017.