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.
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