Monday, 3 January 2022

BELGIUM: R Dinant FC (B)

Stade Alain Laloux "Gemechenne", Dinant Gemechenne (R Dinant FC - B ground)

Belgium, province: Namur = Namen

2 I 2022 / R Dinant FC - RUS Assesse 1-1 / Friendly

Timeline
  • 1930 / Foundation of Dinant Football Club (FC). Upon joining Belgium's Football Association, the club obtains matricule 1657. Dinant FC plays its football at Stade de la Citadelle from the outset.
  • 1955 / Dinant FC obtains the royal epithet, thus becoming Royal Dinant Football Club (R Dinant FC or RFC Dinant).
  • ±1965 / From some point onwards, probably in the 1960s, R Dinant FC have had the luxury of a training ground in Gemechenne. At some point, the main of the two pitches in Gemechenne was turned a quarter stroke, giving it its current position (if you can provide more clarity regarding the inauguration of this Stade Gemechenne and its change of outlay, please contact me).
  • 1987 / Alain Laloux, a former youth player of R Dinant FC, passes away at the age of 22. Stade Gemechenne is renamed Stade Alain Laloux in his honour.
Note: Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-5 = non-matchday visit, April 2019 / pictures 6-23 = match visit, January 2022.






















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

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