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24 VIII 2025 / R Ortho Sport - FC Montleban Reserves 3-2 / Belgian Luxembourg, Reserves' League I
Timeline
- 1938 / Foundation of a football club in Ortho, a remote, small village in the Ardennes to the southeast of La Roche-en-Ardenne. The new club takes on the name Ortho Sport, acquiring registration number 2725 upon joining the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB). With Arsène Cornet taking on the role as founder-president, Ortho Sport settles on a pitch situated at Route de Nisramont, to the east of the village. Not joining regular league football as yet, Ortho is placed in a division of debutant clubs from the Province of (Belgian) Luxembourg.
- 1946 / After several years of inactivity, brought about due to the hardships of the war and the Battle of the Bulge in its latter stages, Ortho Sport resumes its place in the debutant division.
- 1950 / Following four more years as a debutant club, Ortho Sport now takes its place in Belgian Luxembourg’s regular divisions, being placed in Division 3D (renamed Provincial League 3 in 1952).
- 1963 / Obtaining the royal epithet upon the club’s 25th anniversary, Ortho Sport officially changes its name to become Royal Ortho Sport.
- 1975 / Moving away from Route de Nisramont after 37 years, R Ortho Sport settles on a newly laid out pitch at a sideroad of Route de Hives, on the western fringes of the village.
- 1978 / In its best season so far, R Ortho Sport finishes as runners-up in Belgian Luxembourg’s Provincial League 3D behind champions AS Petit-Thier. In the subsequent round of play-offs, which are played in spite of no promotion places being at stake, the club reaches the final, in which it suffers defeat at the hands of Excelsior Fouches.
- 1995 / Champions in Belgian Luxembourg’s Provincial League 3F, 7 points ahead of closest followers RSS Salmienne and R Olympic Harre, R Ortho Sport wins promotion to Provincial League 2 for the first time in its history.
- 2000 / Finishing in third-last place in Belgian Luxembourg’s Provincial League 2C, R Ortho Sport drops back into Provincial League 3 after five seasons, along with US de la Wamme and bottom club AS Regné.
- 2012 / Finishing in fourth place in Belgian Luxembourg’s Provincial League 3E, R Ortho Sport qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by RE Roy-Lignières-Grimbiémont (3-0).
- 2013 / Finishing in third place in Belgian Luxembourg’s Provincial League 3E, R Ortho Sport qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club bows out in R1 following defeat against US Saint-Bernard Waltzing-Bonnert (0-1).
- 2014 / Runaway champions in Belgian Luxembourg’s Provincial League 3D, 10 points ahead of closest followers RFC Amonines, R Ortho Sport manages a return to Provincial League 2 after an absence of fourteen years at that level.
- 2016 / Having managed a ninth place in Belgian Luxembourg’s Provincial League 2C in the previous season, R Ortho Sport now finishes bottom of the table in that same division, dropping back into Provincial League 3 after two years, along with the club in second-last place, RCS Vielsalm.
- 2020 / R Ortho Sport withdraws from first team football. As the club does not have a youth academy, it has competed with a reserves’ team only from this time onward.
Note – Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-6 = non-matchday visit, July 2025 / pictures 7-27 = match visit, August 2025.
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