Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen
28 VI 2025 / RAAL La Louvière - FC Differdange 03 0-0 / Pre-season friendly
Timeline
- 1912 / Foundation of Association Athlétique (AA) Louviéroise. The club plays its matches in the Stade Triffet at Rue du Hocquet.
- 1937 / At its 25th anniversary, the club obtains the royal epithet, thus becoming Royale Association Athlétique Louviéroise or RAAL. That same year, the club accedes to the national leagues for the first time, where it becomes a regular feature in the lower divisions.
- 1970 / RAA Louviéroise wins promotion to National Division 2 for the first time.
- 1972 / After sixty years, RAA Louviéroise moves away from the Stade Triffet to settle down in the newly built Stade Communal du Tivoli.
- 1975 / Winning the promotion play-offs, RAA Louviéroise accedes to National Division 1 for the first time. The spell lasts just one year, but the club manages two more seasons in the top flight later in the 1970s (1977-79).
- 2000 / Following an absence of 21 seasons, RAA Louviéroise manages a return in National Division 1 after winning the promotion play-offs.
- 2003 / RAA Louviéroise conquers its only tangible silverware, the Belgian Cup, defeating K Sint-Truidense VV 3-1 in the final in Brussels' Koning Boudewijnstadion / Stade Roi Baudouin.
- 2009 / Meanwhile down in National Division 3, RAA Louviéroise succumbs to grave financial difficulties. Bankruptcy follows in July 2009, with the club's registration number 93 being erased from the Belgian FA's lists. Following this, a group of RAAL supporters, determined to keep their club alive in a new guise, purchases the registration number of a small club from Charleroi playing at national league level in Division 4, RACS Couillet (number 94), moving it to Tivoli and renaming it Football Couillet (FC) La Louvière.
- 2011 / After only two years, the FC La Louvière project comes to an end. Registration number 94 is sold to a Charleroi businessman, Roberto Leone, who changes the name to FC Charleroi, moving the club to Stade de la Neuville in Montignies-sur-Sambre.
- 2017 / In a nearly exact copy of events eight years previously, a group of supporters of the former RAA Louviéroise purchases registration number 94 from the aforementioned Roberto Leone, whose FC Charleroi, through name changes and one merger, was now meanwhile called Racing Charleroi-Couillet-Fleurus, playing at Stade du Fiestaux. With Racing Charleroi-Couillet-Fleurus taking on the name RAAL La Louvière, the club's first team football moves (back) to Stade Tivoli in La Louvière.
- 2018 / RAAL La Louvière wins the title in Amateur Division 3, the new fifth tier of Belgium's national league pyramid, in the first season of its existence.
- 2022 / RAAL La Louvière wins the title in D2, thus acceding to Amateur Division 1.
- 2024 / Champions in Amateur Division 1, 13 points ahead of runners-up KSC Lokeren-Temse, RAAL La Louvière accedes to National Division 1B, the second tier of the national football pyramid - heralding the return to professional league football in La Louvière after an absence of eighteen seasons.
- 2025 / Runners-up in National Division 1B, with an equal number of points as champions SV Zulte Waregem, but with SVZW winning one more match (18 vs. 17), RAAL La Louvière wins promotion to National Division 1A. Meanwhile, in the early summer of 2025, after under two years of construction works, a new football stadium is inaugurated in La Louvière, situated right next to the Stade Communal du Tivoli at Avenue Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, a design by architect Cyril Rousseau. Other than Stade Tivoli, which is municipal property, the new stadium, with a capacity of 8,050, is privately owned by RAAL La Louvière's president, Salvatore Curaba, who chooses to give the construction the name Easi Arena, after his information technology company, EASI. This heralds the end of Stade Tivoli as a football ground after 53 years, with the facilities remaining in use for athletics events.
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