Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: RSC Muno

Saturday, 30 March 2024

BELGIUM: RSC Muno

Rue de Tourgeon, Muno (RSC Muno)

Belgium, province: Luxembourg = Luxemburg

30 III 2024 / RSC Muno - SC Villers-devant-Orval 2-1 / Belgian Luxembourg, Provincial League 3B (= BE level 8)

Timeline

1917 / First traces of football activity in the village of Muno, but whatever the name of the first club was, it never joined Belgium’s Football Association and must have folded some time in the following years.
1932 / Foundation of Sporting Club (SC) Muno, with local timber merchant Joseph Godfrin becoming the new club’s first chairman. Upon joining Belgium’s FA, SC Muno receives registration number 1848. The club settles at a ground at Lieu-dit-Tonois, situated at Route de France on the southern outskirts of the village – right on the border with France.
1935 / Clinching the title in Belgian Luxembourg’s Division 3A, SC Muno accedes to Division 2, the highest regional division below the national league system at that time.
1946 / Having remained inactive for most of the years of German occupation, SC Muno restarts in Belgian Luxembourg’s Division 3.
1948 / Clinching the title in D3, SC Muno wins promotion to Provincial League 2 – staying at that level until dropping back into the bottom division two years later, in 1950.
1953 / After 21 years at the helm of the club, founder-chairman Joseph Godfrin cedes his place at the helm of the club.
1964 / SC Muno wins the title in Provincial League 3B, 1 point ahead of closest rivals Standard FC Bouillon. As such, the club accedes to Provincial League 2.
1967 / Winning the title in Provincial League 2A, SC Muno breaks down the door to Luxembourg’s Provincial League 1 for the first – and only – time in its existence.
1972 / Finishing in last place in P1, SC Muno drops back into Provincial League 2 after five seasons in the provincial top flight.
1976 / Abandoning the ground at Lieu-dit-Tonois, SC Muno settles at a newly laid-out pitch at Rue de Tourgeon in the village centre.
1978 / The clubhouse at Rue de Tourgeon, which includes a small indoor hall, is inaugurated.
1982 / Upon the club’s fiftieth anniversary, SC Muno obtains the royal epithet, thus officially becoming Royal Sporting Club (RSC) Muno.
1983 / Finishing in last place in P2A, RSC Muno drops back into Provincial League 3, nineteen years after last having played at that lowly level.
1995 / Clinching the title in Provincial League 3B, RSC Muno manages a return to Provincial League 2. The club’s stay at that level lasts for two seasons, with relegation following in 1997.
2006 / RSC Muno withdraws from first team football for the 2006-07 season.
2011 / Winning the title in Provincial League 3C, 8 points ahead of strongest contenders RCS Sugny, RSC Muno manages a return to P2.
2012 / Finishing in fourteenth place in P2B, RSC Muno drops back into Provincial League 3 along with ES Jéhonvilloise and RCS Sugny.
2014 / Clinching the title in Luxembourg’s Provincial League 3B, 3 points ahead of closest followers Union Cécilienne, RSC Muno accedes to Provincial League 2.
2015 / Finishing in fourteenth place in P2A, RSC Muno escapes direct relegation, eventually saving its skin by finishing ahead of R Standard FC Bouillon and RES Durbuy-Barvaux in the relegation play-offs.
2016 / Finishing in second-last place in P2A, RSC Muno drops back into P3 along with bottom club FC Torgny-Rouvroy.
2017 / Champions in P3B, 3 points ahead of closest rivals RUS Etalle, RSC Muno manages a new return to Provincial League 2.
2019 / Finishing in twelfth place in P2A, just 1 point short of AS Nothomb-Post and safety, RSC Muno descends into Provincial League 3 along with US Saint-Bernard Waltzing-Bonnert and RUS Etalle.
2022 / RSC Muno finishes in third place in P3B, just 3 points behind champions FC Tintifontaine. Qualifying for the promotion play-offs, the club defeats R Excelsior Fouches (3-1) before being eliminated in R2 by R Espérance Rossignol (5-0).
2024 / RSC Muno finished in fourth place in P3B, qualifying for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is eliminated in R1 by R Espérance Rossignol (4-1).

Note - Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-7 = non-matchday visit, August 2022 / pictures 8-21 = match visit, March 2024.