Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: Trazegnies Sports (±1960-2020) / Jeunesse Trazegnies (2020-)

Stade Communal - Rue des Cérisiers, Trazegnies (Jeunesse Trazegnies, formerly Trazegnies Sports)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

1 III 2026 / Jeunesse Trazegnies - FC Snef B 3-0 / Hainaut, Provincial League 4E (= BE level 9)

Timeline

1922 / In Trazegnies, a village halfway between Charleroi and La Louvière in the Province of Hainaut, a first football club is founded, Trazegnies Sport. It is unclear where the pitch of this short-lived club was situated.
1923 / Trazegnies Sport joins the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB), however without entering a first team in the regular provincial divisions yet.
1925 / Two years after joining the Belgian FA, Trazegnies Sport enters a regular first team for the first time, starting its existence in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3.
1926 / Placing in seventh place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3B, Trazegnies Sport withdraws from first team football after just one season. Later that year, as the system of registration numbers is introduced by the Belgian FA, Trazegnies Sport obtains number 335.
1927 / After an existence of merely five years, Trazegnies Sport folds, ceasing all activities, allegedly due to no longer disposing of a pitch of its own.
1955 / Following a gap of nearly thirty years, a new club from Trazegnies joins the Belgian Football Association – with Trazegnies Sports (note the plural, Sports instead of Sport, which had been the epithet of the club in Trazegnies in the 1920s) being accepted as a new member under registration number 5835. A pitch is laid out for the new club at Rue de l’Épine, in the immediate vicinity of the water tower still featuring there. The first team of the new entity is placed in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3 for the 1955-56 season.
1958 / Conquering the title in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D ahead of runner-up R Roux Sports, Trazegnies Sports gains promotion to Provincial League 2.
± 1960 / Moving away from its original ground at Rue de l’Épine, Trazegnies Sports settles at the newly laid-out Stade Communal at Rue des Cérisiers some time between 1959 and 1963. The location of the old ground has meanwhile been redeveloped as a small neighbourhood, Cité Achille Delattre.
1961 / Clinching the title in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2C ahead of runner-up R Goutroux Sports, Trazegnies Sports accedes to Provincial League 1 for the first time.
1963 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 1, Trazegnies Sports drops back into Provincial League 2 along with RACS Couillet, RLC Hornu, RU Jemappienne, and FC Souvret.
1970 / Trazegnies Sports finishes as runner-up in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2C, 5 points behind champions JS Fontainoise.
1979 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2B, 6 points ahead of closest followers RUS Binchoise, Trazegnies Sports manages a return to Provincial League 1 after an absence of sixteen years at that level.
1980 / In the best season in club history, Trazegnies Sports finishes in tenth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 1.
1982 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 1, Trazegnies Sports tumbles back into Provincial League 2, alongside derby rival RUS Courcelloise and Bosquetia FC Frameries.
1986 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2C, 5 points ahead of joint runners-up ES Frasnoise and R Jumet SC, Trazegnies Sports manages a return to Provincial League 1.
1987 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 1, Trazegnies Sports descends into Provincial League 2 after just one season, along with RFC Houdinois and SC Havré.
1988 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2C, 2 points ahead of closest rival ES Frasnoise, Trazegnies Sports finds its way back to Provincial League 1 again.
1989 / Finishing in second-last place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 1 – marking the final goodbye of the club at this level – Trazegnies Sports is retrograded into Provincial League 2 alongside bottom club R Gosselies Sports.
1998 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2C, Trazegnies Sports descends into Provincial League 3 along with the club in second-last place, RAFC Roux.
2000 / RAA Louviéroise from nearby La Louvière wins promotion to National Division 1. In those years – but it can no longer be traced in which years exactly – the professional league side’s reserves’ team played its home matches as groundsharers at the Stade Communal in Trazegnies.
2003 / Finishing in fourth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3C, Trazegnies Sports wins promotion to Provincial League 2 in the play-offs, thus accompanying champions CS Monceau-Hameau as well as fellow play-off winners PAC Buzet and RSC Naastois.
2004 / Finishing in second-last place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2C, Trazegnies Sports drops back into Provincial League 3 after just one season, along with bottom club AS Chimay-Virelles.
2007 / Trazegnies Sports finishes as joint runner-up in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D with FC Mont-sur-Marchienne-Collège, finishing 3 points behind champions R Châtelineau Sport.
2008 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, 2 points ahead of closest rivals FC Mont-sur-Marchienne-Collège, Trazegnies Sports manages a return to Provincial League 2 after an absence of four years.
2011 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2C, Trazegnies Sports descends into Provincial League 3 along with the club in second-last place, R Goutroux Sports.
2012 / Runner-up in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, 8 points behind champions EC Erpion, Trazegnies Sports qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by FC Nalinnois (1-0).
2013 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, 3 points ahead of runner-up FC Marbaisien, Trazegnies Sports wins promotion to Provincial League 2.
2016 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2C, Trazegnies Sports drops back into Provincial League 3 alongside the club in second-last place, RSA Forchies.
2018 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, 5 points ahead of closest followers JS Ragnicole, Trazegnies Sports manages a return to Provincial League 2 after two years.
2020 / Following a conflict with the municipal authorities of Courcelles, to which the village of Trazegnies belongs, Trazegnies Sports is evicted from the Stade Communal at Rue des Cérisiers, upon which the club finds refuge at the Complexe Omnisports at Rue de l'Avenir in nearby Piéton. That same summer, a new club sees the daylight in Trazegnies proper, Jeunesse Trazegnies, which takes over the Stade Communal, joining the Belgian FA under registration number 9751. For the time being, the new entity refrains from entering the regular provincial divisions, sticking to fielding recreational senior as well as youth academy teams.
2021 / One year after its foundation, Jeunesse Trazegnies enters a first team in the provincial divisions for the first time, starting its existence as a competitive club in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4G.