BELGIUM: RAS Saintoise (B) (1988-2025) / RAS Saintoise (2025-)

Stade René Kiermeer terr. 2, Saintes = Sint-Renelde (main pitch of RAS Saintoise, formerly B pitch of RAS Saintoise)

Belgium, province: Walloon Brabant = Waals Brabant

September 2024 / no match visited

Timeline

• 1934 / Foundation of a football club in Saintes, Union Sportive (US) Saintoise, which joins Belgium’s Football Association with registration number 1988. US Saintoise plays its football on a pitch situated at Rue de Rebecq.
• 1935 / One year after its foundation, the Roman Catholic US Saintoise concludes a merger with another club from the village taking part in the Socialist football league (club name & year of foundation unknown), resulting in the foundation of Alliance Sportive (AS) Saintoise. The new club takes US Saintoise’s place in Brabant’s Provincial League 3 as well as settling at that club’s pitch, Rue de Rebecq.
• 1952 / AS Saintoise is suspended due to having fielded ineligible players, with the club's registration number being erased from the Belgian FA's membership list two years later.
• 1958 / Alliance Sportive (AS) Saintoise is refounded, acquiring membership of Belgium’s Football Association with registration number 6158. The club settles on the old pitch situated at Rue de Rebecq.
• 1988 / Moving away from its pitch at Rue de Rebecq, AS Saintoise settles at a newly laid-out ground at with two pitches at Rue du Radoux, which is named after the chairman of the supporters’ club; Stade René Kiermeer. 
• 2011 / Obtaining the royal epithet, AS Saintoise officially changes its name to become Royale Alliance Sportive (RAS) Saintoise.
• 2024 / Clinching the title in Brabant ACFF’s Provincial League 2B, 3 points ahead of closest followers R La Hulpe SC, RAS Saintoise achieves a historic promotion to Provincial League 1.
• 2025 / RAS Saintoise moves its first team football to the new synthetic pitch, laid out on the side-pitch of Stade René Kiermeer, on the other side of Rue du Radoux, in fact a pitch which had fallen into disuse several years before.
• 2026 / Runner-up in Brabant ACFF's Provincial League 1, 1 point behind champions R Léopold FC, RAS Saintoise qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 against RRC Waterloo (4-1).

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