Belgium, province: Liège = Luik
July 2012 / no match visited
Timeline
- 1901 / Foundation of Sporting Club de Theux. It is unclear if the club played at Rue du Waux-Hall from the foundation onwards (anyone able to provide more information concerning this matter is welcome to contact me!).
- 1908 / SC Theux reaches the national divisions, playing three seasons at the second - and at the time lowest - national level before tumbling back to Liège's regional divisions in 1911.
- 1924 / The club manages a second promotion to the national leagues, but the stay in Promotion (level 3 of the Belgian pyramid at the time) does not last longer than one year.
- 1926 / Belgium's Football Association introduces the matricule system; as one of the oldest clubs in the country, SC Theux is endowed with the correspondingly low matricule 14. At the club's 25th anniversary, the royal epithet is obtained - and as a result, the club name changes to become Royal Sporting Club (RSC) de Theux.
- 1934 / Promotion to the third and lowest national level, where Theux maintains itself for three seasons until lapsing back to Liège's Provincial Leagues in 1937.
- 1990 / After an absence of 53 years, RSC Theux returns to the national leagues for a last time. The adventure in National Division 4 lasts four seasons. Relegated in 1994, the club returns to Liège's Provincial League 1.
- 1998 / RSC Theux merges with its more modest town rival RCS (Royal Cercle Sportif) Juslenvillois (matricule 3853), forming RAF (Royale Association Football) Franchimontois under Theux's matricule 14. Theux's ground at Rue du Waux-Hall is the venue for first team football, while Juslenville's Centre Sportif remains in use for lower team football and training purposes. Part of the second (southernmost) pitch of this ground had already been used by RSC Theux for training purposes for decades - no luxury given that there was no more than one (main) pitch available at Rue du Waux-Hall.
- 2009 / RAF Franchimontois accedes to Liège's Provincial League 1, but the spell lasts no longer than a single season. In those years, the club is a regular in Provincial League 2C.
- 2012 / The historic ground at Rue du Waux-Hall is abandoned, as both pitches in Juslenville are equipped with a synthetic surface. As the Centre Sportif's northern (main) pitch is being reconstructed - with a 3G as well as with a covered stand - in the second half of 2012, first team football is temporarily taking place at the ground's second pitch. After some seasons of decay, the old ground at Rue du Waux-Hall is demolished to make way for a supermarket.
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