Belgium, province: Namur = Namen
15 II 2025 / REFC Evelette-Jallet - RFC Spy 6-1 / Namur, Provincial League 1 (= BE level 6)
Timeline
- 1916 / Foundation of a first football club in Ohey. The exact name of this club is unknown, the same of which is true of the location of the pitch where home games were played.
- ± 1924 / The first club in Ohey folds, ceasing all activities.
- 1928 / Foundation of a new football club in Ohey, which takes on the name Standard Club (SC) Oheytois. The club’s first chairman is Georges Lemaître. SC Oheytois settles on a pitch laid out at Rue Grande Ruelle, moving grounds multiple times until the 1950s, with the club successively playing at Terrain Carabine, Terrain de la Rue Winget, and Terrain de la Rue Draily.
- 1929 / SC Oheytois successfully applies for membership of Belgium’s Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB), obtaining registration number 1422 upon being accepted as new member club.
- ± 1959 / Abandoning its pitch at Rue Draily, RSC Oheytois settles on a newly laid-out pitch situated at Rue Bois d’Ohey. Some years later, a clubhouse and dressing rooms are added to the set-up.
- 1984 / Obtaining the royal epithet, SC Oheytois officially changes its name to become Royal Standard Club (RSC) Oheytois.
- 2008 / At the start of the 2008-09 season, RSC Oheytois finds itself in Namur’s Provincial League 2. No information whatsoever is available about the club’s performance in the first eighty years of its existence, other than that the national divisions were never reached.
- 2013 / Finishing in sixth place in Namur’s Provincial League 2A, RSC Oheytois qualifies for the promotion play-offs. Being drawn in a group against Racing FC Fosses and FC Ligny, RSC Oheytois manages to defeat the former club in an away game (1-2), but it is knocked into second place by FC Ligny (0-3) – with FC Ligny thus winning promotion at the expense of Ohey.
- 2015 / Finishing bottom of the table in Namur’s Provincial League 2A, RSC Oheytois descends into Provincial League 3 along with RCS Bossièrois and AC Lustin.
- 2017 / Finishing second from bottom in Namur’s Provincial League 3C, RSC Oheytois drops back into Provincial League 4 along with RCS Hastièrois, Entente Sommenoise, and bottom club RUSG Sinsin-Waillet.
- 2018 / Runaway champions in Namur’s Provincial League 4C, 14 points ahead of RRC Havelange, RSC Oheytois wins promotion to Provincial League 3. Earlier that same year, with works having commenced in 2017, RSC Oheytois’ main pitch is laid out anew as a 3G. The synthetic pitch is inaugurated in the spring of 2018 in the presence of Ohey’s mayor, Christophe Gillon, as well as Walloon minister Valérie De Bue. In the works, the pitch has been elevated considerably from its original level, which was so low that the grass surface was waterlogged regularly. Meanwhile, with the old covered stand at the western side of the ground having been knocked down, a replacement is erected on the opposite side.
- 2022 / Finishing as runners-up in Namur’s Provincial League 3A, 2 points behind champions RSC Petit-Waret, RSC Oheytois qualifies for the play-offs, in which the club fails to attain promotion.
- 2023 / Runaway champions in Namur’s Provincial League 3B, 10 points ahead of closest followers RUW Ciney B, RSC Oheytois wins promotion to Provincial League 2. Meanwhile, the club is forced by Ohey’s municipal authorities to accept a groundsharer at Terrain de la Bois d’Ohey, as local rivals REFC Évelette-Jallet abandons its pastural yet basic Terrain Saint-Donat in Évelette. Earlier this year, businessman José Lardot, former strongman at RUW Ciney, Solières Sport, and R Stade Waremmien FC, took over the presidency of the Provincial League 1 club, with ambitions being to take the club to national league football.
- 2024 / Following the demise of RCS Andennais, REFC Évelette-Jallet’s chairman José Lardot secures a partnership deal with Andenne’s municipal authorities, which allows the defunct club’s youth teams to continue playing under Évelette’s registration number. The partnership, widely regarded as a first step towards the club eventually moving to Andenne, is given the name Andenne Sports Football.
Note - Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-5 = aborted match visit (friendly: RSC Oheytois - FCE Tarciennois) on 16 I 2022 (refused at the ground due to COVID restrictions) / pictures 6-18 = match visit, February 2025.
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