Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: CS Pécrot-Bossut-Gottechain (1970-2011) / US Archennes-Pécrot (2011-2020)

Friday, 29 July 2022

BELGIUM: CS Pécrot-Bossut-Gottechain (1970-2011) / US Archennes-Pécrot (2011-2020)

Rue Cyrille Bauwens, Pécrot = Peerot (formerly CS Pécrot-Bossut-Gottechain / US Archennes-Pécrot)

Belgium, province: Walloon Brabant

July 2002 / no match visited

Timeline

1942 / Foundation of a first football club in Pécrot: Football Club (FC) Jeunesse Pécrot. Upon joining Belgium's FA, the club obtains matricule 3635. It is unclear where the ground of this club was situated (in case you have more information regarding this matter, you are very welcome to get in touch with me).
1951 / FC Jeunesse Pécrot folds, two years after having withdrawn its first team from Brabant's provincial leagues.
1970 / Foundation of Cercle Sportif (CS) Pécrot-Bossut-Gottechain, usually referred to abbreviatedly as CS Pécrot BG (matricule 7454). It is unclear if the club played at Rue Cyrille Bauwens from the beginning (in case you have more information regarding the inauguration year of the ground at Rue Cyrille Bauwens, you are very welcome to get in touch with me).
1990 / Having played in Brabant's Provincial League 4 since its foundation, CS Pécrot BG wins the title in P4G, acceding to Provincial League 3 for the first time.
2000 / After ten steady years in P3, CS Pécrot wins promotion to Provincial League 2 for the first time in its existence. The club holds its own for three seasons - but by the skin of its teeth, with a 13th place in 2002 as its best result.
2004 / After back-to-back relegations, CS Pécrot finds itself in Provincial League 4, spending the last seven seasons as an independent club at that level.
2011 / CS Pécrot BG concludes a merger with another P4 regular, US Archennoise (founded in 1972, matricule 7907), resulting in the foundation of Union Sportive (US) Archennes-Pécrot (occasionally abbreviated to USAP), retaining Pécrot's matricule. All activities move to the ground in Pécrot.
2016 / US Archennes-Pécrot withdraws its first team from Brabant's provincial leagues for one season, returning in P4 in 2017.
2018 / A reorganisation of Brabant's league pyramid, entailing the abolition of Provincial League 4 on the French-speaking side of the language border, sees US Archennes-Pécrot being admitted automatically to P3.
2019 / After an excellent season in P3C, finishing second at just one point of eventual champions Stade Everois Racing Club B, US Archennes-Pécrot accedes to Provincial League 2. The club makes use of the possibility of also entering a B team in P3.
2020 / Having already withdrawn its two first teams (USAP A in P2B, USAP B in P3D) in February 2020 - i.e. before the outbreak of the COVID lockdown -, US Archennes-Pécrot folds in the summer of that same year, ceasing all activities.