Belgium, province: Luxembourg = Luxemburg
13 VII 2025 / RJS Sainte-Marie-Wideumont - RES Vaux-Noville B 1-4 / Pre-season friendly
Timeline
- 1950 / Foundation of a football club in Sainte-Marie-Chevigny, a village situated between Libramont and Bastogne in the heart of the Ardennes. The new club is given the name Jeunesse Sportive de Sainte-Marie, often referred to as JS Sainte-Marie-Wideumont (Wideumont being a hamlet shortly to the north of Sainte-Marie) to distinguish it from another club in Belgian Luxembourg, RUS Sainte-Marie from Sainte-Marie-sur-Semois. The club's first chairman is none other than the village priest, Fr Joseph Bastin. Home matches are played on a pitch situated in the heart of the village. Upon joining the Belgian Football Association, JS Sainte-Marie acquires registration number 5363.
- 1961 / Never having reached a level higher than Provincial League 3, the bottom division of Belgian Luxembourg's provincial league pyramid, in the previous eleven seasons, JS Sainte-Marie temporarily ceases its activities.
- 1962 / After a break of one year, RJS Sainte-Marie restarts its life in Belgian Luxembourg's Provincial League 3.
- 1986 / Having played on the pitch in the heart of the village of Sainte-Marie-Chevigny since the club's foundation, RJS Sainte-Marie now moves into a newly laid-out ground to the north of the village centre, at Rue Baltrai. The old pitch is retained for lower team football and training sessions.
- 1990 / In the best season up until that point, RJS Sainte-Marie finishes in fourth place in Luxembourg's Provincial League 3C, behind RES Chaumont, SC Tillet, and RUC Bras.
- ± 1995 / As a training pitch is added to the set-up at Rue Baltrai, RJS Sainte-Marie abandons its old pitch in the heart of the village.
- 1999 / Runners-up in Luxembourg's Provincial League 3B, 4 points behind champions RAC Neuvillers, JS Sainte-Marie qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by RJ Freylangeoise (1-5).
- 2000 / Finishing in fourth place in Luxembourg's Provincial League 3C, JS Sainte-Marie qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is eliminated in R1 by RFC Saint-Hubert (1-0). That same year, the club receives the royal assent - however, too late to add the royal epithet to the club name before the 2000-01 season.
- 2001 / With a delay of one season, JS Sainte-Marie takes on the royal epithet, thus officially becoming Royale Jeunesse Sportive (RJS) Sainte-Marie.
- 2012 / Runners-up in Luxembourg's Provincial League 3C, 5 points behind champions RAC Neuvillers, RJS Sainte-Marie qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out R Forrières FC in R1 (2-1) and ES Winaloise in R2 (2-2 aggr. & away goals). The decisive goal in the away match at ES Winaloise in Nadrin (2-1) is scored by the club's skipper Nicolas Ska. As such, RJS Sainte-Marie wins promotion to Provincial League 2 for the first time in club history. The successful coach is Francis Plennevaux.
- 2013 / Finishing bottom of the table in Luxembourg's Provincial League 2B, RJS Sainte-Marie drops back into Provincial League 3 after just one season, along with RES Chaumont and RES Vaux-sur-Sûre.
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