BELGIUM: AL Lisogne FC (1972-1993) / AL Lisogne-Thynes (1993-2005, 2007-2020) / RUS Dinantaise (B) (2020-2022, 2023-) / RUS Dinantaise (C) (2022-2023)

Chemin des Sarts, Loyers (Lisogne) (youth academy of RUS Dinantaise, formerly AL Lisogne FC / AL Lisogne-Thynes / B ground of RUS Dinantaise)

Belgium, province: Namur = Namen

28 VIII 2022 / RUS Dinantaise - US Saint-Hadelin Haversin 1-0 / Namur, Provincial League 1 (= BE level 6)

Timeline

• 1972 / Foundation of AL (Awagne-Loyers) Lisogne Football Club (FC), matricule 7927. Being a football club of Lisogne, Awagne, and Loyers, villages situated to the east of Dinant, the club name incorporates the names of all three - with Lisogne being given priority as it is the main village in the municipality at the time. Administratively, the municipality of Lisogne was absorbed into the larger entity of Dinant in 1977. From the start in 1972 on, AL Lisogne FC plays its football at Chemin des Sarts in Loyers (not to be confused with the village of Loyers - and its football club RUS Loyers - near Namur). The club's first chairman is François Beausart.
• 1981 / AL Lisogne FC accedes to Provincial League 2, beginning an uninterrupted spell of 11 years at that level.
• 1993 / One year after suffering relegation to Provincial League 3, AL Lisogne FC concludes a merger with another P3 side, SC Thynois from nearby Thynes. Henceforth, the new club AL Lisogne-Thynes, which retains Thynois' matricule 5226, plays its first team football at Chemin des Sarts in Loyers, while Thynes' ground at Rue Barbion remains in use for lower team football and training purposes. 
• 1994 / The new merger club has reason to celebrate, as AL Lisogne-Thynes' first team gains promotion to Provincial League 2 after winning the play-offs.
• 2005 / AL Lisogne-Thynes wins promotion to Namur's Provincial League 1 - a level which was previously reached by SC Thynois as an independent club. In order to be able to receive a maximum of supporters for the first team's home matches, the club concludes an agreement with R Dinant FC to groundshare at that club's Stade de la Citadelle. The grounds in Loyers and Thynes remain in use for lower team football.
• 2007 / After two years in Provincial League 1, AL Lisogne-Thynes is relegated to P2. The club moves its first team football back to Chemin des Sarts in Loyers.
• 2020 / AL Lisogne-Thynes concludes a merger with RSC Neffe, forming RUS (Royale Union Sportive) Dinantaise, with Neffe's matricule 5156 being retained. Neffe already having played its first team football - in Provincial League 1 - at Dinant's Stade de la Citadelle, the new club's flag-bearing team starts its life there. RUS Dinantaise has the luxury of having three other grounds for lower team football and training purposes; apart from the premises in Loyers and Thynes, Neffe's Stade André Quinet remains in use as well, mainly for training purposes. RUS Dinantaise's B squad as well as the majority of the club's youth academy settles at Loyers.
• 2022 / Due to a disagreement between R Dinant FC and RUS Dinantaise, the former rescinds the groundsharing agreement, refusing RUS Dinantaise access to Stade de la Citadelle. In a new arrangement, RUS Dinantaise moves its first team football to Neffe, while the B team settles at Thynes and the youth academy remains in Loyers. Due to the pitch in Neffe not being in a state deemed not yet good enough for first team football, the club played at Lisogne/Loyers until the second week of October (cp. photos below taken in August 2022).
• 2023 / With first team football moving to Stade de la Citadelle once more, the ground in Lisogne is now taken over by RUS Dinantaise's B team, which previously played in Thynes.

Note: Thanks to AL Lisogne FC's founding member and former chairman Jean-Claude Hatert, who provided me with most of the information in the historical timeline above.

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

BELGIUM: R Sorée FC (1937-2022)

Terrain du Rond Bois, Sorée (R Sorée FC)

Belgium, province: Namur = Namen

August 2022 / no match visited

Timeline

• 1937 / Foundation of Sorée Football Club (FC). Upon joining Belgium's Football Association, the club obtains registration number 2523.
• 1988 / Sorée FC becomes a Société Royale, thus changing its name to Royal Sorée Football Club (R Sorée FC).
• 2022 / Due to a lack of volunteers, R Sorée FC, which in the course of its history never played in the national leagues, withdraws its first team before the start of the new season. There are no activities for the 2022-23 season, given that the club has no youth academy or recreational teams.
• 2023 / R Sorée FC's registration number is erased from the Belgian FA's official lists.

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

BELGIUM: RES Izier (1966-2017, 2018-)

Terrain des Creûhétes, Izier (RES Izier)

Belgium, province: Luxembourg

28 VIII 2022 / RES Izier - RRC Mormont Reserves 5-0 / Belgian Luxembourg, Reserves' League I

Timeline

• 1932 / Foundation of Éclair Football Club (EFC) Izier. Joining the Belgian Football Association, the club obtains matricule 1829.
• 1936 / After four relatively anonymous years, EFC Izier folds, ceasing all activities.
• 1942 / Refoundation of Éclair Football Club Izier. As a new club, this second EFC Izier receives a different matricule, 3527.
• 1947 / Éclair Football Club Izier folds after an existence of just five years. In reality, the club was even more short-lived, as it was inactive from 1943 onwards.
• 1957 / A new club is founded in Izier, taking on the name Entente Sportive (ES) Izier. Upon joining the Belgian FA, ES Izier obtains matricule 6017.
• 1966 / ES Izier moves to its new ground at Rue des Croisettes, later renamed (in Walloon dialect) Rue des Creûhétes.
• 1974 / Winning the title in Provincial League 3, the club accedes to Belgian Luxembourg's Provincial League 2 for the first time in its history. In the two following seasons, the club finishes in respectable fifth and third positions.
• 1979 / After five seasons in Provincial League 2, ES Izier has to make the step back to the lowest provincial league level in Belgian Luxembourg due to losing the relegation play-offs against Union Saint-Louis Saint-Léger and JS Poix.
• 1980 / Winning the title in P3E, ES Izier bounces back, winning promotion to P2. The second spell at this level lasts for two seasons.
• 2005 / After coming close in the previous season, ES Izier wins the title in P3F, acceding to Provincial League 2 for the first time in over 20 years.
• 2008 / ES Izier obtains the royal epithet, thus becoming Royale Entente Sportive (RES) Izier.
• 2010 / In its fifth season in Provincial League 2, RES Izier is condemned to relegation back to the P3. 
• 2017 / In August 2017, part of the clubhouse at Rue des Creûhétes is consumed in a fire. For the 2017-18 season, the club groundshares at R Entente Durbuy's B ground, Terrain Driaisne in Bomal-sur-Ourthe. Following amendments at its own ground, the club returns to Izier in the summer of 2018 - although when the clubhouse will be restored completely or replaced, remains to be seen.
• 2022 / Having finished dead-last in P3, RES Izier withdraws its first team for the 2022-23 season, instead just competing with a reserves' squad and two youth teams.
• 2023 / RES Izier returns with a first team in Provincial League 3.

Note: Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-6 = non-matchday visit, May 2018 / pictures 7-19 = match visit, August 2022.

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

BELGIUM: SC Thorembais-Saint-Trond (±1981-1998) / RFC Perwez (1986-) / JS Chaumont-Gistoux (2016-2017)

Stade Louis Perniaux, Perwez = Perwijs (RFC Perwez, formerly SC Thorembais-Saint-Trond / JS Chaumont-Gistoux)

Belgium, province: Walloon Brabant

27 VIII 2022 / RFC Perwez - ROFC Stockel 1-0 / Brabant ACFF, Provincial League 1 (= BE level 6)

Timeline

• 1926 / Foundation of a first football club in Perwez, called Perwez Sport. Upon joining Belgium's Football Association, Perwez Sport receives matricule 652. The club plays at a ground at Rue de la Cayenne, usually referred to as the so-called Pré Kinart.  
• 1928 / Following back-to-back promotions, Perwez Sport finds itself in Brabant's Provincial League 2, holding out at that level for two seasons.
• 1934 / After eight seasons, Perwez Sport folds, ceasing all activities.
• 1936 / Two years after the demise of Perwez Sport, a successor club sees the daylight, Football Club (FC) Perwez (matricule 2364). The club first takes part with a first team in Brabant's Provincial Leagues in 1937. Unlike the former Perwez Sport, FC Perwez does not play at Pré Kinart, but at a ground at Rue Emile de Brabant - the location now used for the playgrounds of Perwez's communal primary school.
• 1942 / In Thorembais-Saint-Trond, a village just to the north of Perwez, a football club is founded, Union Thorembaisienne (matricule 3588). It is unclear where this club's ground was situated (anyone able to provide more information regarding this matter is welcome to contact me!).
• 1947 / Five years after its foundation, Union Thorembaisienne folds, having fielded a first team for two seasons only (1942-44). 
• ±1951 / Moving to the old ground of Perwez Sport, Pré Kinart, FC Perwez abandons its premises at Rue de Brabant.
• 1956 / Foundation of Sporting Club (SC) de Thorembais-Saint-Trond. Upon affiliation with the Belgian Football Association, the club receives matricule 5929. Probably, the club played at a ground situated at Chaussée de Charleroi from its foundation onwards.
• 1960 / Moving away from Pré Kinart, FC Perwez settles at a new ground situated at Route d'Aische-en-Refail (the modernt-day Rue Saint-Roch), renting a pasture from Mr Hemptinne, a local farmer.
• 1968 / After alternating spells in Brabant's Provincial Leagues 2 and 3, RFC Perwez descends into the abyss of Provincial League 4, the lowest level of the football pyramid, for the first time.
• 1976 / Inauguration of the new Centre Sportif de Perwez at Rue des Marronniers, Perwez. In the first years of its existence, however, there is no football club making use of the ground, which is used exclusively for athletics. 
• ±1981 / SC Thorembais-Saint-Trond moves its activities from Chaussée de Charleroi to the Centre Sportif de Perwez.
• 1986 / FC Perwez winst the title in Brabant's Provincial League 4A, acceding to P3. That summer, the move is made from the old ground at Route d'Aische-en-Refail to the Centre Sportif, where the club starts a groundshare with SC Thorembais-Saint-Trond. That same year, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, FC Perwez obtains the royal epithet, thus becoming Royal Football Club (RFC) Perwez. 
• 1998 / Having withdrawn its first team in the course of the 1997-98 season, SC Thorembais-Saint-Trond folds, ceasing all activities. For the last 35 years of its existence, the club's first team steadily played in Brabant's Provincial League 4, the lowest regular league level.
• 2003 / After decades of Provincial League 3 and 4 football, RFC Perwez manages a promotion to Provincial League 2 - playing at that level for the first time in 43 years. The spell in P2 lasts for four seasons.
• 2010 / Perwez's Centre Sportif is renamed Stade Louis Perniaux in honour of one of RFC Perwez's most loyal supporters and benefactors. Louis Perniaux passed away eight years later, in 2018.
• 2016 / Being forced out of its own Stade André Docquier by the Chaumont-Gistoux town council, Jeunesse Sportive (JS) Chaumont-Gistoux (founded in 1995 / matricule 9282) is allowed to groundshare with RFC Perwez at Stade Louis Perniaux.
• 2017 / Due to having forcibly cut its ties with its home soil - and moreover being faced with the foundation of a successor club, FC Ronvau Chaumont - JS Chaumont-Gistoux's board decides to cease its activities; the club is absorbed into RFC Perwez without the latter changing its name as a result.
• 2022 / After promotions from P4 to P3 (2016), P3 to P2 (due to a league reform, 2018), RFC Perwez wins the title in Brabant's francophone Provincial League 2B, acceding to Provincial League 1 for the first time in the 86 years of the club's existence.
• 2023 / Going from strength to strength, RFC Perwez now clinches the title in Brabant ACFF's Provincial League 1, 8 points ahead of closest followers FC Genappe. As such, the club wins promotion to the national leagues and ACFF Amateur Division 3 for the first time ever. 

Note: Thanks to Philippe Perniaux, son of Louis Perniaux, for providing me with invaluable parts of information on the history of RFC Perwez and SC Thorembais-Saint-Trond.

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