BELGIUM: FC Genly-Noirchain (1973-1989) / RUS Genly-Quévy 89 (B) (1989-2012) / RUS Genly-Quévy 89 (2012-2015) / R Albert Quévy-Mons (B) (2015-2020) / Renaissance Mons 44 (B) (2020-2021) / FC Quévy-Genly (2021-)

Stade de la Motte, Genly (FC Quévy-Genly, formerly FC Genly-Noirchain & RUS Genly-Quévy 89 / B ground of R Albert Quévy-Mons & Renaisscane Mons 44)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

28 VIII 2013 / RUS Genly-Quévy 89 - KSK Ronse 2-0 / National League 4A (= BE level 4)

Timeline

• 1973 / Foundation of Football Club (FC) Genly-Noirchain, usually referred to simply as FC Genly. The club joins Belgium's FA in the spring of the following year, obtaining matricule 8139. Most probably, the club played at Stade de la Motte from its foundation onwards.
• 1979 / Winning the title in Provincial League 4D, FC Genly-Noirchain begins a spell of seven years in Provincial League 3.
• 1987 / Relegated to P4 in 1986, FC Genly bounces straight back by winning the second P4D title in club history.
• 1989 / FC Genly-Noirchain are absorbed by AS Quévy-le-Grand et Extensions (matricule 4194), the result being Union Sportive (US) Genly-Quévy 89. First team football is played at Quévy-le-Grand's Sentier de l'Eglise, while Stade de la Motte remains in use for the new club's youth academy. The new club starts life in Provincial League 3, Genly's level - AS Quévy was down in P4 at the time.
• 1995 / US Genly-Quévy 89 becomes a Société Royale, adapting its name to become Royale Union Sportive (RUS) Genly-Quévy 89.
• 2012 / After coming close to the title in Provincial League 1 in the club's first two seasons at that level (2009-11), RUS Genly-Quévy 89 beats RES Couvin-Mariembourg in the interprovincial promotion play-offs following the 2011-12 season (match photos below taken at that encounter) to accede to the national divisions for the first time. This feat posed a practical problem, however, as the measurements of the pitch in Quévy-le-Grand were too short to be in conformity with national league requirements. Forced by circumstances, RUS Genly-Quévy 89 moves its first team to Stade de la Motte in Genly. The pitch at Sentier de l'Eglise remains in use for lower team football and training purposes.
• 2014 / After two seasons in National Division 4, RUS Genly-Quévy is condemned to relegation back to Hainaut's Provincial League 1. Even so, no return of first team football to Quévy-le-Grand is undertaken.
• 2015 / RAEC Mons, matricule 44, folds, upon which RUS Genly-Quévy 89 fills the void in Hainaut's capital by taking on the new name of R Albert Quévy-Mons (RAQM), moving its first team football to Mons' Stade Charles Tondreau - with the premises in Genly remaining in use for lower team football and training purposes. The pitch at Sentier de l'Eglise in Quévy-le-Grand is abandoned.
• 2021 / After two name changes (R Albert Quévy Mons becoming Renaissance Mons 44 in 2020, and Renaissance Albert Elisabeth Club Mons in 2021), matricule 4194 eventually cuts its ties with Quévy and Genly by abandoning Stade de la Motte and settling the entirety of its youth academy at the so-called Dragon's Academy, the side-pitches of Stade Tondreau. Thereupon, a new club is founded in Genly, taking on the name of FC Quévy-Genly (matricule 9764).

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