BELGIUM: CS Marchienne-Monceau (1922?-1940) / RA Marchiennoise des Sports (1940-1966) / RA Marchiennoise des Sports (B) (1966-2000) / ROC Charleroi-Marchienne (C) (2000-2010) / ROC Charleroi-Marchienne (D) (2010-2016) / ROC Charleroi (D) (2016-2019, 2020-2023) / OC Charleroi-Farciennes (D) (2019-2020) / ROC Charleroi (C) (2023-)

Terrain de la Rue Georges Tourneur terr. 2, Charleroi Marchienne-au-Pont (C pitch of ROC Charleroi, formerly CS Marchienne-Monceau / RA Marchiennoise des Sports / youth academy ground of RA Marchiennoise des Sports / ROC Charleroi-Marchienne / Olympic Charleroi-Farciennes)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

September 2025 / no match visited

Timeline

• 1922 / Foundation of a football club in Marchienne-au-Pont, a western suburb of Charleroi, which takes its membership partly from the neighbouring community of Monceau-sur-Sambre. The new club is given the name Cercle des Sports (CS) Marchienne-Monceau – often abbreviated at the time to simply CS Marchienne. The club may have settled on the pitch at the far end of Rue Georges Tourneur (currently pitch 2 of ROC Charleroi’s youth academy) from the outset, but no certainty is to be had on this matter.
• 1923 / CS Marchienne-Monceau joins the Belgian Football Association, starting its existence as a competitive club in Hainaut’s regional divisions.
• 1926 / As the Belgian FA introduces its system of registration numbers, CS Marchienne-Monceau acquires number 278. 
• 1931 / Winning promotion from Hainaut’s Provincial League 2, the highest provincial level at that time, CS Marchienne-Monceau accedes to Promotion, the third and lowest national league level at that time.
• 1932 / Finishing in third-last place in Promotion C, CS Marchienne-Monceau would have dropped back into Hainaut’s Provincial League 2, were it not for the fact that the club successfully files a complaint against the club which had finished one place above them, FC Châtelineau, in which the latter is accused of trying to bribe US Gilly players. As a result, CS Marchienne stays up, with FC Châtelineau being condemned to relegation instead.
• 1938 / CS Marchienne-Monceau has an excellent season in Promotion C, finishing as runners-up, 8 points behind champions RRC Bruxelles. Only the title winners win promotion to Division 1, the second level of the league pyramid.
• 1940 / CS Marchienne-Monceau changes its name to become Association Marchiennoise des Sports following the arrival of members of the former Étoile Sportive (ES) Moncelloise, which had folded in 1939 following an existence of nine years (registration number 1670).
• 1943 / Repeating its performance of five years before, Association Marchiennoise des Sports manages a second place in Promotion – this time in Promotion B, finishing 3 points behind champions Stade Nivellois.
• 1950 / Finishing in second-last place in Promotion B, Association Marchiennoise des Sports descends into Hainaut’s Provincial League 2 – renamed Provincial League 1 in 1952 – after nineteen years of national league football, with the other drop-outs being Ruisbroek FC and bottom club VV Oude God Sport.
• 1951 / Association Marchiennoise des Sports acquires the royal epithet, thus becoming Royale Association (RA) Marchiennoise des Sports, often abbreviated locally simply as RAMS.
• 1953 / Finishing in third-last place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 1, RA Marchiennoise des Sports descends into Provincial League 2 along with RSC Templeuvois and bottom club Morlanwelz Sports.
• 1954 / Probably following a title win in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2C, RA Marchiennoise des Sports manages an immediate return to Provincial League 1.
• 1956 / Finishing in second-last place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 1, RA Marchiennoise des Sports drops back into Provincial League 2 along with RLC Hornu and bottom club RCS Marcinelle.
• 1957 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2C, 6 points ahead of closest followers ACS Couillet, RA Marchiennoise des Sports manages an immediate return to Provincial League 1.
• 1959 / Clinching the title in Hainaut’s Provincial League 1 ahead of runners-up RFC Athois, RA Marchiennoise des Sports manages a return to the national level after nine years, acceding to National Division 4.
• 1965 / RA Marchiennoise des Sports loses a cup match away against RSC Anderlechtois with an emphatic scoreline of 16-0.
• 1966 / RA Marchiennoise des Sports moves into the newly built Stade Communal de Marchienne, of which the main entrance is in a side-street of Rue Georges Tourneur, Rue Gué Gobeau. The former main pitch at the far southern end of Rue Georges Tourneur is held onto by the club for lower team football and training purposes. Allegedly, in the following decades, the club is joined at the old ground by rugby club Black Star, but no exact information is available on the matter.
• 1984 / Eighteen-year-old striker Dante Brogno, who had joined RAMS’ youth academy from Pavillon Montagnard in 1981, breaks into the first team of RA Marchiennoise des Sports. Two years later, he earns a contract with R Charleroi SC, due to stay the remainder of his professional league career at Stade Mambourg (1986-2001). 
• 1991 / Eighteen-year-old RAMS youth academy striker Toni Brogno, the younger brother of Dante Brogno, breaks into the first team of RA Marchiennoise des Sports. Three years later, he signs a contract deal with R Charleroi SC, going on to have spells with ROC Charleroi, KVC Westerlo, CS Sedan-Ardennes, RSC du Pays de Charleroi, OH Leuven, and ROC Charleroi-Marchienne, ultimately hanging up his boots in 2009. Toni Brogno also earned 7 caps for the Belgian national team between 1998 and 2001.
• 2000 / Having suffered relegation from National Division 4 in the last season of its existence as an independent club, RA Marchiennoise des Sports concludes a merger with national league side ROC Charleroi, resulting in the foundation of Royal Olympic Club (ROC) Charleroi-Marchienne, which retains Olympic’s registration number 246; RAMS’ number 278 is erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists. With first team football moving to ROC Charleroi’s Stade Neuville in Montignies-sur-Sambre, the merger club retains the two grounds in Marchienne-au-Pont; the Stade Communal becomes the training ground of the first team, whereas the youth academy ground at the southern end of Rue Georges Tourneur is put together with ROC Charleroi’s youth academy, situated on the two pitches right beside since Olympic had moved its youth academy there from the Stade de la Chenevière in Marcinelle approximately two years before, to become ROCCM’s youth academy ground.
• 2016 / ROC Charleroi-Marchienne changes its name to become ROC Charleroi – thus dropping the reference to the erstwhile RA Marchiennoise des Sports.
• 2019 / ROC Charleroi absorbs R Châtelet-Farciennes SC, with the club name being adapted to become Olympic Club (OC) Charleroi-Farciennes. 
• 2020 / OC Charleroi-Farciennes changes its name back to becoming ROC Charleroi. 
• 2023 / As it seems, ROC Charleroi abandoned the Stade Communal in Marchienne-au-Pont in the summer of 2023, with all activities being centred at Stade Neuville and the four pitches at the southern end of Rue Georges Tourneur.

All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author