Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: R SCUP Jette (±1957-2002) / RSD Jette (2002-) / BX Brussels (2013-2014, 2015-2021) / FC Amicii Bruxelles Jette (2021-2022)

Stade Communal de Jette / Gemeentestadion Jette "Complexe Expo", Brussels = Bruxelles = Brussel Jette (R Scup Dieleghem Jette, formerly R SCUP Jette / Racing Club de Jette / BX Brussels / FC Amicii Bruxelles Jette)

Belgium, Brussels Capital Area

21 III 2010 / RSD Jette - K Hoger Op Stade Bierbeek 2-0 / Brabant, Provincial League 1 (= BE level 5)
1 XII 2013 / BX Brussels - KFC Sporting Sint-Gillis-Waas 1-1 / National League 4B (= BE level 4)

Timeline

1922 / Foundation of Excelsior Athletic Football Club (FC) Jette.
1925 / Excelsior Athletic FC Jette changes its name to become Sporting Club (SC) Jettois.
1926 / Joining the Belgian Football Association, SC Jettois obtains matricule 474. That same year, the club absorbs Union Sainte-Anne, a smaller football club not affiliated to the Belgian FA.
1927 / Another club in Jette, Cercle Union et Progrès Jette (founded in 1925 and being accepted as members of Belgium's FA under matricule 493 in 1926), folds, ceasing all activities. That same year, SC Jettois changes its name to become Sporting Club Union et Progrès (SCUP) Jette, leading to the inevitable conclusion that, unofficiously, a merger must have taken place between the two clubs, in which Sporting's matricule 474 is retained.
1928 / Winning the title in Brabant's Provincial League 3A, SCUP Jette accedes to Provincial League 2 - the highest provincial level at the time.
1931 / SCUP Jette accedes to Promotion, the third and lowest national level, for the first time. With an interruption of one season in Brabant's newly created Provincial League 1 (1934-35), SCUP holds out in Promotion until 1939.
1945 / Following the war, in which SCUP played one season of national league football in Promotion (1942-43), the club has one more unsuccessful season in the third national division, resulting in relegation to Provincial League 1 in 1946.
1949 / Having suffered relegation to P2 in 1947, SCUP finds the way back up the league ladder by re-acceding to Provincial League 1.
1951 / Upon the 25th anniversary of the club's FA membership, SCUP Jette becomes a Société Royale, officially changing its name to Royal SCUP Jette.
1952 / After an absence of six seasons, SCUP Jette returns to the national level by winning promotion to the newly created National Division 4.
1955 / Finishing first in National Division 4B, SCUP Jette accedes to the third tier of the Belgian football pyramid.
±1957 / Moving away from its old ground at Chaussée de Wemmel / Wemmelse Steenweg in 1957 or 1958, SCUP Jette settles at a newly built ground, baptised Stade Communal de Jette (official capacity: 10,000) - but usually referred to locally as the Stade Expo or Complexe Expo - given that the entrance of the ground is situated at Avenue de l'Exposition / Tentoonstellingslaan.
1959 / After four seasons in National Division 3, SCUP Jette has to take a step back, as the club is relegated to the fourth national level.
1960 / Unable to stop the sequence of bad results, SCUP suffers a second relegation in a row, suddenly finding itself in Brabant's Provincial League 1.
±1961 / At Avenue de Laerbeek / Laarbeeklaan, a new ground is constructed for Racing Club Jette, which abandons its old premises at Drève de Dieleghem / Dieleghemdreef. The new stadium is situated directly at the back of the Complexe Expo's main stand.
1964 / Finishing first in P1, SCUP Jette commences a new spell of national league football.
1970 / SCUP's neighbour club Racing Club Jette, playing in National Division 3, concludes a merger with R Stade de Bruxelles, resulting in the foundation of Racing Jet Bruxelles. All this new club's activities are moved to Stade de Bruxelles' ground, Stade Heysel II in Laeken. With Racing Club Jette's ground at Avenue de Laerbeek now being abandoned, the premises are taken over by SCUP, who started using it for lower team football and training purposes.
1976 / After 12 consecutive seasons in National Division 4 - a third place in 1968 constituting the best result - SCUP Jette drops out of the national leagues. In the following years, the club manages a short-lived return to D4 (1978-80).
1983 / After three seasons in P1, SCUP is relegated, finding itself in Provincial League 2 for the first time since the 1940s.
1990 / Clinching the title in Provincial League 2A, SCUP Jette is back at P1 level after an absence of seven seasons.
1991 / After a sensational second promotion in a row, SCUP accedes to National Division 4B. This time, the spell at the national level lasts for three seasons.
1995 / Following back-to-back relegations, SCUP Jette drops back to Provincial League 2 - a level where it is to remain for the last seven years of its existence as an independent club.
2002 / R SCUP Jette concludes a merger with Etoile Dieleghem Jette (matricule 8682, in itself a merger of AS Caravelle and Sporting Dieleghem Jette concluded in 1991), forming Royal SCUP Dieleghem (RSD) Jette, retaining SCUP's matricule 474. Henceforth, first team football is played at Jette's Stade Communal, while Dieleghem's ground, Complexe Heymbosch (shared with Ritterklub VSV Jette), has remained in use for lower team football and training purposes ever since. As Etoile Dieleghem played one step higher up the league ladder than SCUP at the time of the merger, the new merger club's first team starts its life in Provincial League 1.
2004 / Although having a relatively anonymous season in Provincial League 1, resulting in an eighth position in the final ranking, RSD Jette unexpectedly wins promotion to National Division 4 after winning the play-offs. Predictably, though, the spell in D4 lasts no longer than one season.
2009 / Having suffered relegation to Provincial League 2 two years previously, RSD Jette finds its way back to P1 by winning the promotion play-offs.
2013 / After four seasons in P1, RSD Jette has to take the step back to Provincial League 2. In October of that year, Vincent Kompany's new club BX Brussels also settles down at Complexe Expo after having played their first matches of the 2013-14 season at Complexe Hunderenveld in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe. Groundsharing with RSD Jette, BX played their first team football in Jette for seven seasons (2013-14, 2015-21), with an interruption of one year at Complexe Sportif du Bempt in Forest (2014-15).
2016 / Clinching the title in P2C, RSD Jette is back at P1 level after an absence of three years.
2018 / Winning the promotion play-offs in P1, RSD Jette accedes to ACFF Amateur Division 3, the new fifth and lowest tier of Belgium's national league system.
2020 / Finishing second in ACFF Amateur Division 3A behind FC Ganshoren, RSD Jette nevertheless accedes to Amateur Division 2 without play-offs, which are cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on number of points obtained, Jette (48 points) gets the D2 ticket over R Jeunesse Aischoise, second in Amateur Division 3B with one point less.
2021 / BX Brussels moves its first team to their youth academy at Complexe La Roue in Anderlecht. As groundsharers at Complexe Expo, they are replaced by FC Amicii Bruxelles Jette, who had played their football at the ground's first side pitch for the two previous seasons.

Note 1: Thanks to RSD Jette's club president René Kruys for providing part of the information given above (2022).

Note 2: Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1, 4-5, 8-9 & 11-13 = match visit, March 2010 / pictures 2-3, 6-7, 10 & 14-25 = match visit, December 2013.