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