BELGIUM: FC Route Verte Macquenoise (1960-2003) / ES Mominoise (B) (2003-2019) / ES Mominoise (2019-2022)

Route Verte, Macquenoise (formerly FC Route Verte Macquenoise / B ground of Entente Sportive Mominoise / A ground of Entente Sportive Mominoise)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

28 XI 2021 / ES Mominoise - FC Boussu-lez-Walcourt 1-5 / Hainaut, Provincial League 4H (= BE level 9)

Note: FC Route Verte Macquenoise, founded in 1960 (matricule 6347), merged with JS Momignies - this club dating back to 1943 (and affiliated to the Belgian FA in 1947 under matricule 3978) - in 2003, forming Entente Sportive Mominoise. Both grounds remained in use, with first team football usually being played at Momignies' ground at Rue Mandenne. In 2019, all activities moved to Macquenoise due to the commencement of extensive works on the ground in Momignies. With a 3G pitch having been installed there, allowing all the club's teams to train in Momignies from January 2022 onwards, ES Mominoise moved away from Macquenoise's Route Verte once and for all in February 2022.

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

BELGIUM: Chimay Sport matr. 1656 (1930-1938) / US Chimay (1938-1939) / Chimay Sport matr. 3869 (1943-1951) / ASAC Chimay (1953-1964) / FC Chimay (1969-1992) / AS Chimay-Virelles (B) (1992-2007)

Stade Jéricho, Chimay (formerly Chimay Sport / US Chimay / ASAC Chimay / FC Chimay / B ground of AS Chimay-Virelles)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

November 2021 / no match visited

Timeline

• 1930 / Foundation of a first football club in Chimay, which takes on the name Chimay Sport, acquiring registration number 1656 upon joining the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB). According to local sources, the club probably played its football on the pitch known locally as Stade Jéricho from the very start.
• 1931 / Chimay Sport takes its place in Hainaut’s Regional League 3, the lowest level of the football pyramid at that time.
• 1937 / Chimay Sport withdraws its first team from Hainaut’s Regional League 3 after six years. That same year, a rival club sees the daylight, Sporting Club (SC) Chimacien, which joins the Belgian FA under registration number 2519; this club, however, did not field a first team, probably having to compete in a division of aspirant clubs instead. It is unclear if SC Chimacien groundshared with Chimay Sport or if this club disposed of a pitch of its own.
• 1938 / A merger is concluded between Chimay Sport and SC Chimacien, resulting in the foundation of Union Sportive (US) Chimay, which, following the FA rules of the day, acquires a new registration number 2668; numbers 1656 and 2519 of the two predecessor clubs are erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists. For the 1938-39 season, US Chimay fields a first team in Hainaut’s Regional League 3.
• 1939 / US Chimay manages an eighth place in Hainaut’s Regional League 3C. However, following the 1938-39 season, the club withdraws from first team football – as was the case with so many other Belgian clubs, the main reason behind this withdrawal probably was the mobilisation of the Belgian armed forces in the summer of 1939, with many young men being called away to the army barracks. In the case of US Chimay, the club immediately folds, withdrawing from the Belgian FA in August 1939, with registration number 2668 being erased from the association’s membership list.
• 1943 / With Belgium still suffering under the cruel German occupation, a new football club is founded in Chimay, which takes on the name of one of its predecessors; Chimay Sport, which joins the Belgian FA with registration number 3869. However, for the time being, the new club does not or is unable to field any first team.
• 1945 / Two years after its foundation, Chimay Sport enters regular league football with a first team in Hainaut’s Regional League 3.
• 1947 / Either as champions or as runner-up, Chimay Sport wins promotion from Hainaut’s Regional League 3B to Regional League 2 alongside US Rance.
• 1949 / Finishing in twelfth place in Hainaut’s Regional League 2, Chimay Sport drops back into Regional League 3 along with US Rance, Club Goutroux Sport, AS Hameautoise Monceau, and bottom club Fleurus Sport.
• 1950 / Chimay Sport withdraws its first team from Hainaut’s Regional League 3.
• 1951 / After one year without first team football, Chimay Sport folds, withdrawing its Belgian FA membership. In November 1951, registration number 3869 is struck from the association’s membership list.
• 1953 / Two years after the demise of Chimay Sport, a new club sees the daylight in Chimay, Association Sportive des Anciens du Collège (ASAC) de Chimay, which joins the Belgian FA with registration number 5663. The new club takes its place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3 for the 1953-54 season.
• 1960 / Runner-up in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, ASAC Chimay wins promotion to Provincial League 2 alongside champions Sivry Sports.
• 1961 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2C, ASAC Chimay drops back into Provincial League 3 after just one season, along with the club in second-last place, R Jumet SC.
• 1963 / ASAC Chimay withdraws its first team from Hainaut’s Provincial League 3C.
• 1964 / After one year without first team football, registration number 5663 of ASAC Chimay is struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list.
• 1969 / Foundation of a new football club in Chimay, which takes on the straightforward name FC Chimay. The new club, which settles at the Stade Jéricho, acquires registration number 7323 upon being accepted as a new Belgian FA member club.
• 1970 / One year after its affiliation with the Belgian FA, FC Chimay commences its existence as a competitive club in Provincial League 4, the newly created bottom division in the Province of Hainaut.
• 1976 / In its best season so far, FC Chimay finishes in a joint second place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4G with JS Ham-sur-Heure, 7 points behind champions FC Nalinnois.
• 1978 / FC Chimay finishes as runner-up in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4H, 3 points behind champions and derby rivals US Saint-Rémy.
• 1979 / FC Chimay finishes as runner-up in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4G, 5 points behind champions FC Lobbain.
• 1980 / FC Chimay finishes as runner-up in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4H, 1 point behind champions JS Solrézienne.
• 1981 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4H, 3 points ahead of closest rivals REC Beaumont, FC Chimay finally manages the leap to Provincial League 3.
• 1984 / In the best season in club history, FC Chimay manages a sixth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D.
• 1985 / Finishing in third-last place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, FC Chimay descends into Provincial League 4 after four years, along with FC Collège and bottom club SC Biercée.
• 1990 / FC Chimay finishes as runner-up in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4G, 3 points behind champions JS Thudinienne.
• 1992 / In its last season as an independent club, FC Chimay manages an eighth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4G. Following the 1991-92 season, the club concludes a merger with US Virelloise from the nearby village of Virelles, resulting in the foundation of Association Sportive (AS) Chimay-Virelles, which retains Virelloise’s registration number 7593; Chimay’s number 7323 is erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists. The merger club, of which the name is often abbreviatedly given as ASCV, takes the place of US Virelloise in Provincial League 3, with first team football being played at the Stade de la Praye in Virelles and the club’s youth academy settling at Stade Jéricho in Chimay.
• 2007 / As plans are drawn up to construct a helicopter landing area on the site of the Stade Jéricho – plans which never materialise – AS Chimay-Virelles abandons its second ground, withdrawing all its activities to the Stade de la Praye in Virelles. The Stade Jéricho has been left to its own devices ever since.

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

BELGIUM: RFC Avenir Couvinois (1922?-1992) / RES Couvin-Mariembourg (B) (1992-2019, 2022-2024) / RES Couvin-Mariembourg-Fraire (B) (2019-2020) / RES Couvin-Mariembourg-Fraire (2020-2022) / US Couvinoise (2023) / RES Couvin-Mariembourg (2024-) / US Couvinoise (B) (2024) / US Couvinoise (C) (2024-2025)

Parc des Sports - Rue de la Foulerie, Couvin (RES Couvin-Mariembourg & C ground of US Couvinoise, formerly RFC Avenir Couvinois / RES Couvin-Mariembourg-Fraire / B ground of RES Couvin-Mariembourg / RES Couvin-Mariembourg-Fraire)

Belgium, province: Namur = Namen

27 XI 2021 / RES Couvin-Mariembourg-Fraire - RRC Stockay-Warfusée 0-0 / ACFF Division 2 (= BE level 4)

Timeline

• 1922 / Foundation of a football club in the town of Couvin, situated in the far south of Belgium, near the French border. The new club, which takes on the name FC Avenir Couvinois, joins the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB) and is placed in the regional divisions of the Province of Namur. It is unclear if FC Avenir Couvinois played its football at Rue de la Foulerie from the outset.
• 1926 / As the Belgian FA introduces its system of registration numbers, FC Avenir Couvinois is attributed number 248.
• 1953 / With no information available regarding the performances of FC Avenir Couvinois, other than that the club never reached the national divisions in the course of its existence, a notable feat constitutes the club’s qualification for the Belgian Cup in the 1953-54 season, with elimination following in R1 against Dinant FC (3-4). At the time, FC Avenir Couvinois played in Namur’s Provincial League 2. 
• 1956 / Acquiring the royal epithet, FC Avenir Couvinois officially takes on the name Royal Football Club (RFC) Avenir Couvinois.
• 1992 / RFC Avenir Couvinois concludes a merger with Etoile Sportive (ES) Mariembourgeoise, resulting in the foundation of Royale Entente Sportive (RES) Couvin-Mariembourg. The merger club retains registration number 248 of Avenir, with Mariembourgeoise’s number 5984 being erased from the Belgian FA’s official membership list. First team football of the new club moves to the Stade du Roi Soleil in Mariembourg, with the pitches at Rue de la Foulerie in Couvin remaining in use for lower team football and training sessions.
• ± 2015 / The main pitch at the Parc des Sports / Rue de la Foulerie in Couvin is equipped with a synthetic surface.
• 2019 / RES Couvin-Mariembourg absorbs Jeunesse Sportive (JS) Fraire to become RES Couvin-Mariembourg-Fraire, with Fraire’s registration number 8461 being erased from the Belgian FA’s official membership list. The following two years, the two pitches at Rue de Morialmé in Fraire are used for selected lower team matches and training sessions.
• 2020 / Due to floodlight failure at the Stade du Roi Soleil, first team football of RES Couvin-Mariembourg-Fraire is moved from Mariembourg to the synthetic pitch at Rue de la Foulerie in Couvin, with the former remaining in use for lower team football and training sessions. At the time, the first team plays its football in ACFF Amateur Division 2, the fourth tier of the Belgian football pyramid.
• 2022 / Finishing in third-last place in ACFF Amateur Division 2, RES Couvin-Mariembourg-Fraire descends into Amateur Division 3, alongside RUS Givry and bottom club Entente Durbuy. With a new club being formed in Fraire, Entente Sportive (ES) Fraire, RES Couvin-Mariembourg-Fraire drops the name of the village of Fraire from its name, thus reverting to the old RES Couvin-Mariembourg; in fact, the club had already abandoned the facilities in Fraire one year previously. In the summer of 2022, with the floodlights at the Stade du Roi Soleil having been repaired, first team football returns to Mariembourg.
• 2023 / Foundation of a new club in Couvin, Union Sportive (US) Couvinoise, which joins the Belgian FA under registration number 9808. Refraining from fielding a first team, US Couvinoise competes with just a reserves’ team and several youth squads; in the 2023-24 season, the new club makes use of two grounds, the Terrain à la Rue de la Foulerie in Couvin (thus groundsharing with RES Couvin-Mariembourg’s youth academy) and the Terrain de la Rue de la Prairie in Dailly, with the only senior team playing its home matches in the former in the first half of the season and moving to Dailly after the winter break. 
• 2024 / Abandoning the Stade du Roi Soleil in Mariembourg following the club’s relegation from ACFF Amateur Division 3 to Namur’s Provincial League 1, RES Couvin-Mariembourg moves all its activities to the Rue de la Foulerie in Couvin. Meanwhile, US Couvinoise fields a first team in Namur’s Provincial League 4 for the 2024-25 season, with local authorities allowing this club to use the Stade du Roi Soleil in Mariembourg for home matches; training sessions are held at Rue de la Prairie in Dailly or, when weather conditions prove harsh, on the synthetic pitch at Rue de la Foulerie in Couvin.
• 2025 / In spite of avoiding relegation in Namur’s Provincial League 1 with a thirteenth place, RES Couvin-Mariembourg withdraws from first team football due to financial problems. The club retains its youth academy, which is reinforced following the demise of US Couvinoise, which folds after an existence of only two years.
• 2026 / After an absence of two years, RES Couvin-Mariembourg returns to first team football with a flagship team in Namur’s Provincial League 4.

Note - Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-3 = non-matchday visit, October 2020 / pictures 4-19 = match visit, November 2021.

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

BELGIUM: Tielt-Winge 3000

Tiensesteenweg, Sint-Joris-Winge (Tielt-Winge 3000)

Belgium, province: Flemish Brabant

14 XI 2021 / Tielt-Winge 3000 - KFC Baal 1-3 / Brabant, VFV Provincial League 2A (= BE level 7)

Note: Tielt-Winge 3000 saw the daylight in 2010 as a merger between Tielt Sport and SJV Motbroek (Sint-Joris Vrienden Motbroek). Unusually, after the merger, both clubs abandoned their ground, as all football activities moved to the municipal sports facilities in Sint-Joris-Winge, which had hitherto been used by both clubs' youth academy (which had already merged previously) and recreational club VC Winge.

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