BELGIUM: Carolo Team (19??-±2002) / RACS Couillet (B) (±2002-2009) / Football Couillet La Louvière (B) (2009-2011) / Couillet Sport (2010-2016) / FC Charleroi (C) (2011-2013) / FC Charleroi (B) (2013-2014) / Racing Charleroi-Couillet-Fleurus (B) (2014-2017) / Racing Couillet-Marcinelle (B) (2016-2017) / SC Montignies (C) (2017-2020) / RACS Couillet matr. 9369 (2020-)

Site 'Les Tourterelles', Charleroi Couillet (Racing ACS Couillet, formerly various recreational teams including Carolo Team, youth academy of RACS Couillet - Football Couillet La Louvière - FC Charleroi - Racing Charleroi-Couillet-Fleurus - SC Montignies)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

31 VII 2022 / AS Fontainoise - RJS Taminoise B 0-1 - encounter broken off after 12 minutes / Pre-season friendly (neutral venue)

Timeline

• ???? / It remains unclear when the football ground at Les Tourterelles was constructed. Before RACS Couillet moved in their youth academy, the pitch was used by recreational football teams, including, most notably, Carolo Team and AS Naples. It is not improbable that the short-lived Provincial League club Gioventù Sportiva Interclub Couillet (GSI Couillet, matricule 7709), founded in 1971 and changing its name to GSI Gerpinnes in 1978 - retaining that name until its demise in 1987 - played at Les Tourterelles as well before their move to Gerpinnes (anyone able to shed a light on the pre-2000 history of the pitch at Les Tourterelles is more than welcome to contact me).
• ±2002 / National league club RACS Couillet moves its youth academy from Terrain de l'Amérique to Les Tourterelles; this club's first team football takes place at Stade du Fiestaux.
• 2009 / RACS Couillet, playing in National Division 4, sells its matricule 94 to a group of supporters of RAA Louviéroise, the club from La Louvière which went bankrupt earlier that year, with RACS Couillet changing its name to become Football Couillet La Louvière - commonly abbreviated to FC La Louvière. First team football moves to Stade Communal du Tivoli in La Louvière, but part of RACS's youth academy remains at Les Tourterelles.
• 2010 / Foundation of Couillet Sport (matricule 9579). Couillet Sport, starting life in Provincial League 4 in 2011, settles at Site Les Tourterelles.
• 2011 / As URS du Centre from Haine-Saint-Pierre - but sharing Stade Communal du Tivoli with FC La Louvière - takes on the new name of UR La Louvière Centre, hereby staking its claim to the heritage of the old RAA Louviéroise, the FC La Louvière project is abandoned. The matricule moves back to Couillet, with the club being renamed FC Charleroi - initially playing its first team football in Stade de la Neuville in Montignies-sur-Sambre, but moving to Stade du Fiestaux in 2013. Les Tourterelles is the site of FC Charleroi's youth academy.
• 2014 / FC Charleroi concludes a merger with R Charleroi-Fleurus, becoming Racing Charleroi-Couillet-Fleurus, retaining FC Charleroi's matricule 94. With first team football being played at Fiestaux, Les Tourterelles remains in use for lower team football and training purposes.
• 2012 / In its first season, Couillet Sport clinches the title in Hainaut's Provincial League 4H with an impressive 61 points. 
• 2015 / After three seasons in Provincial League 3, Couillet Sport suffers relegation to P4. The club withdraws its first team from the regular league system.
• 2016 / Changing its name to Racing Couillet-Marcinelle, Couillet Sport moves its activities to Marcinelle's Stade de la Chenevière, with Les Tourterelles probably remaining in use for one more season for lower team football. In 2017, the club cuts its ties with Couillet, undergoing a second name change to become Marcinelle Sport - and, eventually, in 2018, Racing Club Marcinelle.
• 2017 / The matricule of Racing Charleroi-Couillet-Fleurus is sold to R Francs Borains, leaving Couillet without a football club of its own. The two grounds in Couillet, Stade du Fiestaux as well as Les Tourterelles, are taken over temporarily by SC Montignies. With just one pitch at its own Stade du Yernaux in Montignies-sur-Sambre, this club is more than happy to benefit from two extra playing fields for lower team football and training purposes.
• 2020 / FC Wangenies 61 (matricule 9369, founded in 2000 as Racing Club de Charleroi and having undergone several subsequent name changes) changes its name to become Racing Amical Cercle Sportif (RACS!) Couillet, with all activities moving from Wangenies to Les Tourterelles. The new club's aim is a return to Stade du Fiestaux, where RACS Couillet (matr. 94) used to play its first team football, but as yet no permission has been granted by Charleroi's town council. That same summer, SC Montignies abandons Les Tourterelles.
• 2021 / The new RACS Couillet first enter a first team in Hainaut's provincial leagues, starting life in Provincial League 4F.
• 2023 / Finishing runners-up in Provincial League 4G, 2 points behind RFC Gilly B, RACS Couillet qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which it is eliminated in R1 by FC Rumes-la-Glanerie (2-3).

Note: The game I attended at Les Tourterelles was stopped after some 12 minutes of play due to RJS Taminoise B refusing to continue after one of their players had been red-carded due to foul language directed at the referee.

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