Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: RUS Gouvy (B)

Tuesday 30 July 2024

BELGIUM: RUS Gouvy (B)

Rue de Beho "Champ Loups" - terrain 2, Gouvy (RUS Gouvy - B pitch)

Belgium, province: Luxembourg = Luxemburg

30 VII 2024 / RUS Gouvy B - RSC Nassogne 0-0 / Belgian Luxembourg, Provincial Cup for P1-P2 teams - group stage, group E

Timeline

1924 / Foundation of a first football club in Gouvy, which is given the name Union Sportive (US) Gouvy, joining Belgium’s Football Association with registration number 388. A pitch is laid out for the club to the south of the village centre, the so-called Terrain du Remaifait.
1939 / US Gouvy temporarily ceases all activities.
1941 / After two years of inactivity, US Gouvy is founded anew, joining Belgium’s FA with registration number 3227. The club settles on Terrain Maxime Laloux in Les Jarbages.
± 1951 / Moving away from Terrain Maxime Laloux, US Gouvy settles on the Terrain des Cheminots, also in Les Jarbages.
1988 / Moving away from the Terrain des Cheminots in Les Jarbages, RUS Gouvy settles at a newly laid-out set of two pitches at Rue de Beho, where the club has been home ever since. The pitch shown in the pictures below has been the club's B pitch from the outset in 1988.
± 2009 / RUS Gouvy takes possession of the Terrain de la Route Nationale 827 in Beho, which had been the home ground of EC Beho until that club’s demise in 2003, as an extra training pitch.
± 2016 / RUS Gouvy abandons its training pitch at Route Nationale 827 in Beho. Also in 2016, the club fields a B team in Luxembourg's Provincial League 3F for the first time; RUS Gouvy B plays its home matches on the side pitch at Rue de Beho – occasionally referred to as Champ Loups in more recent years.
2017 / Inauguration of the synthetic surface on pitch 2 (terrain 2) of RUS Gouvy’s ground at Rue de Beho in May 2017.
2019 / RUS Gouvy B finishes in second place in P3F, 7 points behind champions RES Bourcy. No promotion play-offs are organised.
2022 / Champions in P3F, 5 points ahead of closest followers RESC Houffaloise B, RUS Gouvy B wins promotion to Provincial League 2.
2024 / Champions in P2C, 11 points ahead of closest followers R Marloie Sport, RUS Gouvy B wins promotion to Luxembourg's Provincial League 1 – and thanks to the club's A side narrowly managing to stay up in ACFF Amateur Division 3, thus avoiding the drop to Provincial League 1, the reserves' team becomes the first-ever B team to claim a spot in Belgian Luxembourg's provincial elite.