Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: ES Torgny (1969-2007) / FC Torgny-Rouvroy (2007-)

Sunday 27 November 2022

BELGIUM: ES Torgny (1969-2007) / FC Torgny-Rouvroy (2007-)

Rue Grande, Torgny (FC Torgny-Rouvroy, formerly ES Torgny)

Belgium, province: Luxembourg

27 XI 2022 / FC Torgny-Rouvroy - RSC Athusien Reserves 1-5 / Belgian Luxembourg, Reserves' League B

Timeline

1933 / Foundation of a first football club in the southernmost village of Belgium, Torgny, called Espérance FC. Upon joining Belgium's FA, the new club obtains matricule 1974. It is unclear where Espérance FC's ground was situated.
1934 / Espérance FC folds after an existence of barely one year.
1969 / After a 35-year gap, football returns to the village, as Entente Sportive (ES) Torgny sees the daylight. The club's first chairman is Marcel Bekaert. ES Torgny, its ground situated at Rue Grande, takes part in Belgian Luxembourg's Provincial League 3A for the first time in the 1970-71 season.
1983 / Finishing 10th in a field of 15 clubs, ES Torgny manages a finish outside the bottom five of the Provincial League 3 table for the first time.
2000 / Never having managed a better finish in P3 than a ninth place previously, out of the blue, ES Torgny clinches the title in Provincial League 3B with an advantage of just one point over RAC Saint-Mard.
2001 / In what turns out to be the club's only-ever season in Provincial League 2, ES Torgny finishes in last place in P2A, thus dropping back into P3 straightaway. In the following seasons, the club returns to its old habits, steadily finding itself among the bottom teams in Provincial League 3.
2007 / Following a series of robberies of the clubhouse at Rue Grande - among those one committed by one of the club's board members, leading to a conviction at Arlon's Court of Justice -, ES Torgny succumbs to its debts and folds, ceasing all activities; matricule 7407 is erased from the Belgian FA's official lists in October 2007. Five months previously, a successor club is founded, taking on the name FC Torgny-Rouvroy and joining Belgium's Football Association under matricule 9509.
2008 / Having an excellent first season, FC Torgny-Rouvroy finishes third in Provincial League 3A.
2013 / Seemingly reverting to the old ways of its predecessor ES Torgny, FC Torgny-Rouvroy finishes dead-last in P3A with just one point in the entire season, in which it suffers several comprehensive defeats, amongst which a 11-0 drubbing away at R Excelsior Fouches. The only point is picked up in a home game against SC Villers-devant-Orval (2-2). In the end, Torgny's goal difference is -105.
2015 / In a reversal of fortunes, after a respectable 5th place in 2014, FC Torgny-Rouvroy, guided by head coach Lindsay Faber, obtains the league title in P3A after a close-run race with RSC Rachecourt, which in the end falls just one point short.
2016 / Like ES Torgny in 2001-02, FC Torgny-Rouvroy's stay in P2 lasts for one season only; with 13 points and a last place, the club returns to the familiar surroundings of Provincial League 3.
2019 / In the worst season in club history, FC Torgny-Rouvroy does not manage to pick up a single point in Provincial League 3B, suffering 11 defeats in which it concedes ten goals or more - with a 22-0 away defeat at ROC Meix-devant-Virton B being the uncontested lowpoint of the campaign. The club enters a team in Provincial League 3 for 2019-20, but it withdraws before the start of the season. Since, FC Torgny-Rouvroy has only taken part in Belgian FA competitions with a reserves' team.