Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: R Jeunesse Magnétoise

Terrain des Hirondelles, Magnée (R Jeunesse Magnétoise)

Belgium, province: Liège = Luik

30 III 2025 / RJ Magnétoise - FC Trois Frontières B 1-2 / Liège, Provincial League 4E (= BE level 9)

Timeline

1938 / Foundation of a football club in Magnée, which is given the name Jeunesse Magnétoise. The club applies for membership of the Belgian Football Association, obtaining registration number 2876 upon being accepted. There is a possibility that the club already had existed previous to 1938 as a member of a different football association, notably the Fédération Socialiste, which enjoyed considerable membership in the Province of Liège prior to World War II. Another matter which remains shrouded in clouds is if Jeunesse Magnétoise played at Terrain des Hirondelles from the outset; if the club played elsewhere in its early days, it must have moved to their current ground in the early 1950s at its latest.
1971 / Obtaining the royal epithet, the club adapts its name to become Royale Jeunesse (RJ) Magnétoise.
2010 / R Jeunesse Magnétoise manages a ninth place in Liège’s Provincial League 2B, possibly the best achievement in club history. It is clear that RJ Magnétoise never rose above the level of Provincial League 2.
2011 / Finishing second from bottom in Liège’s Provincial League 2B, RJ Magnétoise drops back into Provincial League 3 along with R Elan Dalhem and bottom club RUS Glontoise.
2012 / Finishing in joint thirteenth position in Liège’s Provincial League 3C with FC Cheratte, RJ Magnétoise has to play a tie-break match against that club to avoid relegation – successfully doing so by winning the encounter (0-2). Also in or around 2012, RJ Magnétoise was allowed to make use of the neighbouring Stade Walthère Delvigne in Romsée for lower team football and training sessions.
2013 / Finishing in second-last place in Liège’s Provincial League 3C, RJ Magnétoise descends into Provincial League 4, the bottom division in Belgium’s league pyramid, along with R Battice FC B and bottom club RUS Glontoise.
2015 / RJ Magnétoise stops making use of the Stade Walthère Delvigne in Romsée for lower team football and training sessions.
2016 / Runners-up in Liège’s Provincial League 4C, 5 points behind champions R Sougné-Remouchamps Sports, RJ Magnétoise qualifies for the promotion play-offs. Knocking out R Fraiture FC in R1 (6-1), the club is eliminated in R2 by RSC Tilffois (3-3 & penalty shoot-out).
2018 / Finishing in third place in Liège’s Provincial League 4C, RJ Magnétoise qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by Alliance Fexhe et Slins-Fragnée (0-0 & penalty shoot-out).
2019 / Finishing in fourth place in Liège’s Provincial League 4E, only 4 points behind champions JS Liégeoise, RJ Magnétoise qualifies for the play-offs, but fails to win promotion yet again.