BELGIUM: RCS Genval (1936-2008) / R Rixensart FC (B) (1996-2003) / R Union Rixensartoise (B) (2008-201?)

Terrain des Charmettes, Genval (formerly RCS de Genval / B ground of R Union Rixensartoise)

Belgium, province: Walloon Brabant

July 2022 / no match visited

Timeline

• 1936 / Foundation of Cercle Sportif (CS) de Genval. Upon joining Belgium's FA, the club receives matricule 2412. It is unclear if the club played at Terrain des Charmettes from its foundation onwards (in case you have more information regarding the inauguration year of Terrain des Charmettes, you are very welcome to get in touch with me).
• 1946 / Having alternated spells in Brabant's Provincial League 3 and 2 in the previous seasons, CS Genval accedes to Provincial League 1. 
• 1949 / The club drops back to Provincial League 2, never to return to P1 in the remainder of its existence. 
• 1976 / After back-to-back relegations, CS Genval finds itself in Provincial League 4 for the first time in its history. The following year, the club manages a return to P3 after winning the title in P4C, heralding a spell of eight more seasons of Provincial League 3 football.
• 1987 / CS Genval obtains the royal epithet, thus becoming Royal Cercle Sportif (RCS) de Genval. 
• 1991 / RCS Genval wins the title in Provincial League 4C, thus acceding to Provincial League 3 for the first time in six years. The stay in P3 lasts for one season only, though, with the club spending its last 17 seasons at the bottom of the league ladder, in Provincial League 4.
• 1996 / RCS Genval are joined at their premises by the youth academy of R Rixensart FC, who were looking for a solution due to the lack of space at their own Complexe Sportif Joseph Verté - and the fact that the club had to leave their B ground, Stade Hamendice, in 1996 after complaints by local residents about noise disturbance created by young footballers.
• 2003 / End of the groundsharing arrangement at Genval as R Rixensart FC merges with FC Rosières, forming RAS Rosières-Rixensart. 
• 2008 / RCS de Genval merges with the aforementioned RAS Rosières-Rixensart, resulting in the foundation of R Union Rixensartoise - retaining Rixensartoise's matricule 1464. First team football moves to Rue de la Ferme du Plagniau in Rosières, while 'Les Charmettes' remains in use for some more years for lower team football and training purposes before being abandoned and taken over by a local hockey club (if you have information regarding the exact year in which R Union Rixensartoise abandoned the Terrain des Charmettes, you are very welcome to get in touch with me).

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