BELGIUM: JS Solrézienne (1966-2017, 2018-)

Stade Léopold Dethy-Lucien Bernard, Solre-Saint-Géry (JS Solrézienne)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

27 IX 2026 / JS Solrézienne - JS Jamioulx 2-0 / Hainaut, Provincial League 3D (= BE level 8)

Timeline

• 1966 / Foundation of a football club in Solre-Saint-Géry, a small village not far from Beaumont in the so-called Botte du Hainaut, the southeastern part of the Province of Hainaut. The new club takes on the name Jeunesse Sportive (JS) Solrézienne, acquiring membership of Belgium’s Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB) with registration number 6933. The club settles on a newly laid-out park with two pitches at Rue Sainte-Anne, at the back of the house of Mr Lucien Bernard. Bernard is the owner of most of the plot on which the two pitches are situated. The main pitch is only available in the September to April period, as cows are allowed onto the pitch to graze during the summer months. A very small clubhouse is constructed out of wood and corrugated metal sheet; the garage of Mr Bernard’s house at Rue Sainte-Anne 11 is subdivided into two very small dressing rooms. The ground is given the name Stade Léopold Dethy-Lucien Bernard – Léopold Dethy being the local agricultural merchant who takes on the role of chairman. In the club’s debut season, JS Solrézienne is placed in the Hainaut’s divisions for reserves’ teams.
• 1967 / Having competed in the reserves’ league for one season, JS Solrézienne is now placed in the regular league pyramid, in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3 – the bottom level in Hainaut’s provincial divisions until the introduction of Provincial League 4 in 1970.
• 1978 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, JS Solrézienne descends into Provincial League 4, along with the club in second-last place, FC Standard Châtelet.
• 1980 / Clinching the title in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4H, 1 point ahead of closest rivals FC Chimay, JS Solrézienne wins promotion to Provincial League 3 – the first tangible success in club history.
• 1986 / Finishing in second-last place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, JS Solrézienne drops back into Provincial League 4 after six seasons, along with bottom club SC Pont-de-Loup.
• 1989 / Lucien Bernard, one of the founding fathers of JS Solrézienne and owner of the grounds of the main pitch as well as half of the second pitch, passes away. Following his passing, the owner of the other half of the training pitch decides to end the lease agreement with JS Solrézienne one-sidedly, with the club having had only half a training pitch at its disposal. Needless to say, the arrangement with cows being allowed to graze the main pitch during the summer period came to an end to allow the club to continue playing on this location.
• 1993 / Finishing in fourth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4F, JS Solrézienne goes on to win the subsequent play-off round, thus acceding to Provincial League 3.
• 1994 / Finishing in second-last place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3E, JS Solrézienne is retrograded into Provincial League 4, along with bottom club FC Pont-de-Loup-Aiseau. In the following two decades, JS Solrézienne remains a regular feature in Provincial League 4, with a fifth place in 2008 being the best result.
• 2017 / JS Solrézienne withdraws from first team football, remaining inactive during the 2017-18 season.
• 2018 / With a new board taking over the club, JS Solrézienne restarts in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4.
• 2019 / Authoritarian champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4H with 26 wins from 26 matches, with a gap of 22 points separating them from runner-up CS Forges, JS Solrézienne wins promotion to Provincial League 3. Poignantly, two days before the match which gave the club the title, Mrs Lucienne Bernard, the daughther of René Hannoteau, passed away; from that time onwards, the house at Rue Sainte-Anne 11 which she inhabited until her passing has remained uninhabited – with the Bernard heirs allowing the club to continue making use of the dressing rooms in the garage. 
• 2023 / Finishing in fourth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, incidentally the best result in club history, JS Solrézienne qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out JS Jamioulx in R1 (4-3), only to suffer elimination in R2 at the hands of La Squadra Mouscron (0-1).
• 2025 / Finishing in fourth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, thereby repeating the result of the 2022-23 season, JS Solrézienne qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club bows out in R1 against Péruwelz FC B (2-1).

Note 1 – Thanks to Jean-Michel Hannoteau, son of René Hannoteau and Lucienne Bernard, for adding essential parts of information which have been included in the article above.

Note 2 – Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-6 = non-matchday visit, July 2025 / pictures 7-34 = match visit, September 2026.

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

BELGIUM: Daring Club Charleroi (1927-1929, 1930-1950?) / FC DV Lodelinsart (1977-1980) / FC Willy Boys Saint-Amand (1979-1982) / RC Lodelinsart (1982-1986) / SC Lodelinsart (1994-2010)

Centre Sportif du Stade Jonet terr. 1, Charleroi Lodelinsart (formerly DC Charleroi / FC DV Lodelinsart / FC Willy Boys Saint-Amand / RC Lodelinsart / SC Lodelinsart)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

September 2026 / no match visited

Timeline

• 1927 / Although no absolute certainty is to be had on the matter – given that previous clubs had seen the daylight with the names Olympic Club Carolorégien Lodelinsart (the later Olympic Charleroi) and FC Lodelinsartois – it seems that Daring Club (DC) de Charleroi, founded in 1927 and acquiring membership of the Belgian FA that same year with registration number 892, were the first football club to settle at the Stade Jonet, situated at the eponymous road in the Charleroi neighbourhood of Lodelinsart, Rue Jonet, named after 19th century Charleroi-based liberal politician Dominique Jonet. If the ground consisted of two pitches, one pitch surrounded by a gravel track (the pitch situated farther away from the road) and another gravel football pitch (used by R Charleroi SC for their youth academy from some point in time onwards) from the outset, is unknown.
• 1928 / DC Charleroi starts its existence as a competitive club in Hainaut’s Regional League 3.
• 1930 / Having withdrawn from competitive football in the 1929-30 season, DC Charleroi now restarts in Hainaut’s Regional League 3.
• 1935 / Runner-up in Hainaut’s Regional League 3D, 2 points behind champions SC Thuillies, DC Charleroi wins promotion to Regional League 2 instead of Thuillies, which may have refused promotion due to the costs involved in travelling to away games against clubs situated further away.
• 1938 / DC Charleroi finishes as runner-up in Hainaut’s Regional League 2C, 13 points behind runaway champions Jumet SC.
• 1939 / Runner-up in Hainaut’s Regional League 2C, 8 points behind champions Union Farciennoise, DC Charleroi wins promotion to Provincial League 2 (the top level of Hainaut’s regional league pyramid at the time) instead of the champions. However, due to the mobilisation of the Belgian armed forces in the summer of 1939 in the face of a looming German invasion – and the subsequent German occupation of Belgium in World War II – regular league football comes to a standstill for the duration of the war.
• 1945 / After war’s end, with regular league football being resumed, DC Charleroi takes its place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2A.
• 1946 / Finishing in fifth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 2A, DC Charleroi withdraws from first team football after the 1945-46 season.
• 1950 / Registration number 892 of DC Charleroi is struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list, but the club may very well have prolonged its existence or have been re-established at some point as a recreational club, given that one source mentions the foundation of a cooperative society called Daring Club Charleroi, with the seat of the organisation being at Rue Bayet, only a few streets away from the stadium, in 1968. 
• 1976 / Foundation of a club in Lodelinsart called FC Diables Verts (DV) Lodelinsart.
• 1977 / FC DV Lodelinsart joins the Belgian FA with registration number 8538, starting its existence as a competitive club in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4. It seems more than feasible that this club played its football at Stade Jonet.
• 1979 / Foundation of a recreational club in Lodelinsart, which takes on the name FC Willy Boys Saint-Amand. This club competes in the Groupement de Charleroi corporative league. 
• 1980 / Having had three difficult seasons near the bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4, FC DV Lodelinsart folds, with registration number 8538 being erased from the Belgian FA’s membership list that same year.
• 1982 / Having applied for membership of the Belgian FA the previous year, FC Willy Boys Saint-Amand are initially allowed into the fold of the federation of FC Saint-Amand in February 1982, going on to change its name to become Racing Club (RC) Lodelinsart two months later, with registration number 8822 being handed to the club. RC Lodelinsart starts its existence as a competitive club in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4.
• 1984 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4F, 1 point ahead of closest rivals FC Aiseau, RC Lodelinsart wins promotion to Provincial League 3.
• 1985 / In the best season in club history, RC Lodelinsart manages a sixth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D.
• 1986 / Withdrawing its first team from Hainaut’s Provincial League 3C before the end of the 1985-86 season, RC Lodelinsart descends into Provincial League 4 along with ESC Horrues, but the club folds that same year, ceasing all activities. Registration number 8822 is struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list. 
• 1994 / A new club is founded in Lodelinsart, Sporting Club (SC) Lodelinsart, acquiring membership of Belgium’s FA with registration number 9277 and settling on the main pitch of Stade Jonet. The club is placed in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4 in 1994-95, their debut season.
• 1995 / Clinching the title in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4D, 4 points ahead of closest followers R Châtelineau Sports, SC Lodelinsart wins promotion to Provincial League 3 at its first attempt
• 1997 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, SC Lodelinsart drops back into Provincial League 4 after two years, alongside the club in second-last place, UJS Charleroi.
• 2001 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4C, 7 points ahead of closest followers RCD Charleroi, SC Lodelinsart manages a return to Provincial League 3 after four years. Also in 2001, with R Charleroi SC taking over the Stade Marius Meurée from RCS Marcinelle, the professional league side moves its entire academy to this new youth academy ground, of which one of the pitches had already served as the training pitch of their first team. As a result, the synthetic Terrain 2 of the Stade Jonet is abandoned, with SC Lodelinsart taking over this additional pitch for their own youth academy.
• 2002 / In the best season in club history, SC Lodelinsart manages a tenth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3E.
• 2003 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, SC Lodelinsart drops back into Provincial League 4, along with JS Momignies and RC Rance.
• 2007 / Without a doubt the best footballer to come out Stade Jonet, eleven-year-old youth player Théo Bongonda, who had joined the club two years previously, is picked out by R Charleroi SC to join their youth academy. Following a further spell at the Jean-Marc Guillou Academy, the winger would make his professional league debut at the age of seventeen with SV Zulte Waregem in 2013, going o to have spells at Celta de Vigo, Trabzonspor, KRC Genk, Cádiz CF, FK Spartak Moskva, and Al-Faisaly FC. Moreover, Bongonda also featured in the DR Congo squad taking part in the 2026 World Cup. 
• 2009 / SC Lodelinsart finishes as runner-up in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4H, 5 points behind champions RUFC Ransartoise B, but fails to win promotion in the subsequent play-off round. That same year, the clubhouse of the Stade Jonet is destroyed in a fire.
• 2010 / In its last season as a competitive club, the first team of SC Lodelinsart manages a tenth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4H, with the B team managing a better result, a fourth place, in Provincial League 4G. Following the 2009-10 season, SC Lodelinsart folds, ceasing all activities; registration number 9277 is struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list. It is unclear to what extent the destruction of its clubhouse in the previous year played a part in the demise of the club. Since, the ground has remained in use exclusively by athletic clubs Cercle Royal Athlétique de Charleroi (CRAC) and Royal Gosselies Sports Athlétisme (GOSP), with the synthetic pitch (Terrain 2) falling into disuse and disrepair. However, Charleroi’s municipal authorities put together a budget for the renovation of the main pitch, the starting point being a new athletics track being put in place in 2010.
• 2012 / Renovation works get underway on the construction of a new clubhouse at Stade Jonet.
• 2016 / Inauguration of the new clubhouse and covered stand at the Stade Jonet. 

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

BELGIUM: R Charleroi SC (B) (19??-2001) / SC Lodelinsart (B) (2001-2010)

Centre Sportif du Stade Jonet terr. 2, Charleroi Lodelinsart (formerly B ground of R Charleroi SC & SC Lodelinsart)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

September 2026 / no match visited

Timeline

• 1927 / Although no absolute certainty is to be had on the matter – given that previous clubs had seen the daylight with the names Olympic Club Carolorégien Lodelinsart (the later Olympic Charleroi) and FC Lodelinsartois – it seems that Daring Club (DC) de Charleroi, founded in 1927 and acquiring membership of the Belgian FA that same year with registration number 892, were the first football club to settle at the Stade Jonet, situated at the eponymous road in the Charleroi neighbourhood of Lodelinsart, Rue Jonet, named after 19th century Charleroi-based liberal politician Dominique Jonet. If the ground consisted of two pitches, one pitch surrounded by a gravel track (the pitch situated farther away from the road) and another gravel football pitch (used by R Charleroi SC for their youth academy from some point in time onwards) from the outset, is unknown.
• 1950 / Registration number 892 of DC Charleroi is struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list, but the club may very well have prolonged its existence or have been re-established at some point as a recreational club, given that one source mentions the foundation of a cooperative society called Daring Club Charleroi, with the seat of the organisation being at Rue Bayet, only a few streets away from the stadium, in 1968. 
• 1994 / The umpteenth in a long succession of short-lived non-league clubs in Lodelinsart, Sporting Club (SC) Lodelinsart sees the daylight, acquiring membership of Belgium’s FA with registration number 9277 and settling on the main pitch of Stade Jonet.
• ± 1996 / The gravel pitch of the Stade Jonet used by R Charleroi SC’s youth academy is laid out anew with a synthetic surface.
• 2001 / With R Charleroi SC taking over the Stade Marius Meurée from RCS Marcinelle, the professional league side moves its entire academy to this new youth academy ground, of which one of the pitches had already served as the training pitch of their first team. As a result, the synthetic Terrain 2 of the Stade Jonet is abandoned, with SC Lodelinsart taking over this additional pitch for their own youth academy.
• 2007 / Without a doubt the best footballer to come out Stade Jonet, eleven-year-old youth player Théo Bongonda, who had joined the club two years previously, is picked out by R Charleroi SC to join their youth academy. Following a further spell at the Jean-Marc Guillou Academy, the winger would make his professional league debut at the age of seventeen with SV Zulte Waregem in 2013, going o to have spells at Celta de Vigo, Trabzonspor, KRC Genk, Cádiz CF, FK Spartak Moskva, and Al-Faisaly FC. Moreover, Bongonda also featured in the DR Congo squad taking part in the 2026 World Cup. 
• 2009 / The clubhouse of the Stade Jonet is destroyed in a fire.
• 2010 / Following the 2009-10 season, SC Lodelinsart folds, ceasing all activities; registration number 9277 is struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list. Since, the main pitch of the ground has remained in use exclusively by athletic clubs Cercle Royal Athlétique de Charleroi (CRAC) and Royal Gosselies Sports Athlétisme (GOSP), with the synthetic pitch (Terrain 2) falling into disuse and disrepair.  

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

BELGIUM: DK Mielen (1977-1994) / RDK Gravelo (B) (1994-)

Terrein aan de Diepe Steeg, Mielen-boven-Aalst (B ground of RDK Gravelo, formerly DK Mielen)

Belgium, province: Limburg

27 IX 2026 / RDK Gravelo U17 - SV Drieslinter U17 3-1 / VFV Regional U17 competition - group BQ

Timeline

• 1929 / Foundation of a football club in Mielen-boven-Aalst, a village in the south of the Belgian Province of Limburg, with the club taking on the name Dappere Kampers (DK) Mielen – Dappere Kampers ('Brave Warriors') actually being the alternative for the name the club had originally submitted to the Belgian FA, but which was rejected; Dikkoppen Mielen. Inhabitants of Mielen are nicknamed ‘dikkoppen’ (= fat heads); not necessarily intended as a compliment, but adopted as a badge of honour by locals. Under the adapted name, the club is accepted as FA members under registration number 1475. It is unclear where the ground of this first DK Mielen was situated.
• 1930 / DK Mielen takes part in Limburg’s local divisions for the first time, being placed in Regional League 3C (3e Gewestelijke).
• 1933 / DK Mielen’s registration number is struck from the Belgian FA’s official lists following one year of inactivity. 
• 1941 / Refoundation of Dappere Kampers (DK) Mielen under a new registration number, 2921. The club is placed in Limburg’s Regional League 2B (2e Gewestelijke). It is unclear where this club’s ground was situated.
• 1945 / With the club folding after barely four years, DK Mielen has its registration number erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists for a second time.
• 1964 / Second refoundation of Dappere Kampers (DK) Mielen under a new registration number, 6711. DK Mielen’s first ground is situated at Grote Steenweg.
• 1965 / In its first competitive season, DK Mielen is placed in Limburg’s Provincial League 3D.
• 1968 / DK Mielen has its best season ever, finishing in third place in Limburg's Provincial League 3C; the club manages a repeat this result the following year in Provincial League 3F.
• 1977 / Abandoning Terrein Grote Steenweg, DK Mielen settles at a new ground situated at Diepe Steeg, where the club disposes of two pitches.
• 1992 / As a first step on the way to a full merger, DK Mielen merges its youth academy with Rapid Buvingen.
• 1994 / Having played in Provincial League 3 for 29 (!) consecutive seasons, DK Mielen concludes a merger with Rapid Buvingen, resulting in the foundation of Rapid Dappere Kampers (RDK) Gravelo, with Mielen’s registration number 6711 being retained; number 8452 of Rapid Buvingen is struck from the Belgian FA's membership list. 'Gravelo' is a reference to the name of a plot of land halfway between Mielen-boven-Aalst and Buvingen, which used to be part of the estates of the Counts (= 'Graven' in Dutch) of Loon before Napoleon conquered the Low Countries, destroying the Ancient Régime. RDK Gravelo’s first chairman is Benny Janssens, who also was the last chairman of DK Mielen prior to the merger. Following the merger, first team football moves to Buvingen’s ground at Truilingenstraat, while the two pitches in Mielen are retained for lower team football and training sessions. The new club’s first team starts its life in Limburg’s Provincial League 3, the level at which DK Mielen played in its last season as an independent club. 
• 2023 / RDK Gravelo merges its youth academy with KDH Jeuk, with the youth teams of both clubs taking part in the Belgian FA's youth competitions under the informal name SWG, Samenwerking Gingelom. Activities are subdivided among the grounds of RDK Gravelo at Truilingenstraat in Buvingen and Diepe Steeg in Mielen-boven-Aalst, and Cicindriastraat and Houtstraak in Jeuk (Goyer).

Note 1 – Important parts of the information above were provided by Omer Cartuyvels, co-founder of Rapid Buvingen as well as chairman of Rapid Buvingen (c. 1984-94) and RDK Gravelo (2015-present); and by Hugo Vanbrabant, former official at DK Mielen who joined RDK Gravelo following the merger with Rapid Buvingen in 1994.

Note 2 - Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-8 & 22 = non-matchday visit, March 2019 / pictures 9-21 = match visit, September 2026.

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