Terrain Rue Joseph Wauters, Stockay (R Stockay Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse, formerly RRC Stockay-Warfusée)
Belgium, province: Liège = Luik
9 IV 2017 / RRC Stockay-Warfusée - RFC Raeren-Eynatten 5-0 / Liège, Provincial League 1 (= BE level 6)
Belgium, province: Liège = Luik
9 IV 2017 / RRC Stockay-Warfusée - RFC Raeren-Eynatten 5-0 / Liège, Provincial League 1 (= BE level 6)
Timeline
- 1935 / Foundation of a football club in Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse, which takes on the name Racing Club (RC) Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse, acquiring membership of Belgium’s Football Association under registration number 2239. It is unclear where exactly the first pitch of this club was situated.
- 1948 / In September 1948, RC Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse moves from Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse to a pitch in the hamlet of Warfusée, changing its name to become RC Warfusée.
- 1957 / In August 1957, RC Warfusée moves from Warfusée to Rue Joseph Wauters in Stockay, changing its name to become RC Stockay-Warfusée.
- 1961 / Having spent the first decades of its existence in Liège’s provincial divisions, RC Stockay-Warfusée now wins promotion from Liège’s Provincial League 1, accompanying P1 champions AS Eupen to National Division 4. Many of Stockay’s players are drop-outs of national league clubs R Tilleur FC and RFC Liège finding their way to Rue Joseph Wauters thanks to the intervention of the club’s strongman at the time, Dr Dispa.
- 1964 / Having managed safe eleventh place finishes in the previous two seasons, RC Stockay-Warfusée now finds itself at the bottom of the National Division 4D table, thus dropping back into Provincial League 1 along with US Èthe-Belmont and R Dinant FC.
- 1970 / Clinching the title in Liège’s Provincial League 1, RC Stockay-Warfusée wins promotion to National Division 4 for the second time. In the following season, the club manages a respectable tenth place in National Division 4A, which was to remain the best result in club history until the 2020s.
- 1972 / Bottom of the table in National Division 4B at the end of the 1971-72 season, RC Stockay-Warfusée drops back into Provincial League 1 along with R Jeunesse Arlonaise and RCS Andennais. In the following decades, the club drops back into the lower reaches of Liège’s Provincial divisions – although further information is lacking, the club probably managed to stave off relegation into Provincial League 4, the bottom level.
- 1985 / Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, RC Stockay-Warfusée acquires the royal epithet, thus officially becoming Royal Racing Club (RRC) Stockay-Warfusée.
- 2012 / Finishing second-last in Liège’s Provincial League 2A, RRC Stockay-Warfusée descends into Provincial League 3 along with bottom club Patro Othée FC. Also in 2012, the club’s presidency is taken over by the ambitious Jean-Pierre Dalla Costa.
- 2014 / Runners-up in Liège’s Provincial League 3A, 5 points behind champions R Stade Waremmien FC B, RRC Stockay-Warfusée qualifies for the promotion play-offs, successively defeating Seraing Athlétique RFC (2-4), R Alliance Clavinoise SC (1-3), and SFC Saive (5-1) to acquire a ticket for Provincial League 1.
- 2015 / In its first season back in Liège’s P2A, RRC Stockay-Warfusée clinches the title, 1 point ahead of closest followers ESFC du Geer, thus gaining promotion to Liège’s Provincial League 1.
- 2017 / Clinching the title in Liège’s Provincial League 1, 3 points ahead of closest rivals Stade Disonais, RRC Stockay-Warfusée manages a return to the national divisions for the first time in 45 years. The decisive points are clinched in a 5-0 home defeat of RFC Raeren-Eynatten (cp. pictures below). For the new season, the club is placed in ACFF Amateur Division 3, the fifth and lowest tier of the national league pyramid.
- 2018 / Finishing in third place in ACFF Amateur Division 3B in its first season back at the national level, RRC Stockay-Warfusée qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is eliminated in R1 by URSL Visé (2-3).
- 2019 / Clinching the title in ACFF Amateur Division 3B, 3 points ahead of closest followers RUS Givry, RRC Stockay-Warfusée wins promotion to ACFF Amateur Division 2, the fourth tier of the national league pyramid.
- 2023 / RRC Stockay-Warfusée takes over the youth academy of neighbour club FA d’Engis as well as its ground, the Stade des Fagnes – henceforth groundsharing with the senior teams of FA d’Engis.
- 2024 / Finishing in eighth place in ACFF Amateur Division 2, RRC Stockay-Warfusée acquires its permit (contrary to several teams finishing in higher positions in that same division) to accede to the newly created ACFF Amateur Division 1, the third tier of the national league pyramid (its creation being due to the abolition of the mixed Flemish / Walloon Amateur Division 1, in existence since 2016, which is carved up in separate ACFF and VFV divisions). As such, RRC Stockay – changing its name to become Royal Stockay Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse (usually abbreviated to Royal Stockay Saint-Georges) in mid-2024 – finds itself at the third level of the national league pyramid for the first time.
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