Belgium, province: Liège = Luik
3 VIII 2025 / FC Nivezé - R Espoir Minérois Reserves 5-2 / Pre-season friendly
Timeline
- ± 1910-50 / There is a football club in Nivezé, which has the name Nivezé FC. For the moment, not much more information is available than that the last pitch where this club played its football, was at Avenue Peltzer de Clermont on the southern outskirts of this village situated not far from Spa.
- 1965 / At the annual funfair in Nivezé, two youngsters, Joseph and Jean Jérôme, come up with the idea to hold a football match between the young and the old. Subsequently, the local schoolmaster, Jean Micha, proposes to form a football club, which he proceeds to do in collusion with André Counet and Charles Herman. Initially, football is played on a pitch laid out on the meadows of Marcel Counet at Chemin Maron, but quite soon after a new location was found in Bas-Nivezé, the so-called Pré-Jonas, owned by Charles Grosdent. This pitch is known as Terrain au Pré-Jonas or, officially, Stade Charles Grosdent. The club, known as FC Nivezé, does not seek affiliation with any league association, instead playing friendly matches or joining a recreational league (no information available). At some point, FC Nivezé chose to become a sub-branch of provincial league club RFC Sart-lez-Spa, officially playing their football as that club's reserves' team - but in fact remaining an independent entity.
- 1991 / The non-profit organisation Vétérans de Nivezé, founded to maintain the football club FC Nivezé, purchases the Terrain au Pré-Jonas, with a clubhouse and dressing rooms in situ being erected in subsequent years.
- 1998 / FC Nivezé conquers one of the sixteen league titles in the first sixty years of its history.
- ± 2005 / A small covered stand is added to the set-up at Stade Charles Grosdent.
- 2009 / As one of the founding members of the club, André Counet, passes away, Stade Charles Grosdent is renamed Stade André Counet in his honour.
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