BELGIUM: R Wavre Sports (B) (19??-1988) / Racing Jet Wavre (B) (1988-2018) / Wavre Sports FC (B) (2018-2020) / R Wavre Limal (2020-2021, 2022-2025) / R Wavre Limal (B) (2021-2022) / R Wavre Limal (B) (2025-)

Stade Justin Peeters terr. 4, Wavre = Waver (B pitch of R Wavre Limal, formerly B pitch of R Wavre Sports, Racing Jet Wavre & Wavre Sports FC / main pitch of R Wavre Limal)

Belgium, province: Walloon Brabant = Waals Brabant

October 2026 / no match visited

Timeline

• 1919 / In Wavre (Waver in Dutch), a town in the French-speaking southern part of the Province of Brabant, a football club sees the daylight, Wavre Sports.
• 1920 / Wavre Sports joins the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB), later receiving registration number 79.
• 1923 / Although sources are conflicting, it seems Wavre Sports settled at the ground later renamed Stade Justin Peeters at what was to become the Avenue du Centre Sportif.
• 1960 / Acquiring the royal epithet, Wavre Sports becomes a Société Royale, officially changing its name to become Royal Wavre Sports.
• ± 1970 (?) / During the mayoral tenure of Justin Peeters in Wavre (1953-76), the Centre Sportif underwent renovations, being renamed Stade Justin Peeters in honour of the socialist politician. It is likely to think that in this period, which coincided with the first spell of R Wavre Sports in the national divisions, extra pitches were laid out to the east of the stadium proper, including terrain 4 and terrain 5.
• 1988 / Following the 1987-88 season, a merger is concluded between Wavre Sports and R Union Limaloise, resulting in the foundation of R Wavre Limal, which retains R Wavre Sports’ registration number 79. All activities are moved to the Stade du Martineau in Limal. This merger coincides with the arrival in Wavre of another club, Racing Jet de Bruxelles (registration number 4549), which had just dropped back from National Division 1 into Division 2. When Racing Jet Bruxelles was invited to settle in Wavre’s Stade Justin Peeters by local authorities, the club changed its name to become Racing Jet Wavre. In the following decades, Racing Jet Wavre descended into lower league anonymity, unable to revive its performances of old of the 1970s and 1980s. 
• 2015 / Terrain 4 of the Stade Justin Peeters is laid out anew with a synthetic surface.
• 2018 / In an attempt to revive the days of the old R Wavre Sports in the 1960s and 1970s, Racing Jet Wavre takes on the new name of Wavre Sports FC.
• 2020 / Suffering relegation from ACFF Amateur Division 3 into Provincial League 1, Wavre Sports FC receives an additional blow, when a notification is received from Wavre’s municipal authorities to the effect that the club is no longer allowed to use the Stade Justin Peeters from the new season onwards. Municipal authorities claim to have taken the decision due to the club being led unprofessionally, leading to heavy debts. Although Wavre Sports FC soldiers on in an attempt at starting the 2020-21 season, the lack of a ground heralds its death-knell; no matches are played in the new season and Wavre Sports FC folds in the summer months of 2020, with registration number 4549 being struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list. The club’s place at Stade Justin Peeters is taken by Provincial League 2 side Royal Wavre Limal – none other than the merger club formed in 1988 between the old R Wavre Sports and R Union Limaloise. Forced by Wavre’s authorities to abandon its Stade du Martineau, which is destined to make way for housing, R Wavre Limal avidly accepts the invitation to move into the stadium in Wavre and its two remaining side-pitches, terrain 4 (with its synthetic surface) and terrain 5, continuing to make use of its own B ground, the Centre Sportif de Limal at Rue Charles Jaumotte in Limal, for training sessions and the occasional match. In the 2020-21 season, the stadium proper remains unused, with first team football being played on terrain 4.
• 2021 / First team football of R Wavre Limal is moved from terrain 4 to the main ground of the Stade Justin Peeters.
• 2022 / After having been in use as a football venue for nearly a century, the last user being the first team of R Wavre Limal in the 2021-22 season, Stade Justin Peeters ceases to be a football stadium. With plans to turn the ground into a hockey stadium, R Wavre Limal temporarily moves its first team football to terrain 4 of the ground, with port-a-cabins serving as makeshift dressing rooms and clubhouse. Some of the training sessions are held at the Centre Sportif de Limal at Rue Charles Jaumotte. Meanwhile, plans are presented for a new, much smaller stadium for R Wavre Limal, to be constructed on Terrain 5 of the Stade Justin Peeters.
• 2023 / On October 23rd, 2023, the first stone for the national hockey stadium is laid as the symbolic start for the renovation works, which involve the renovation of the main stand as well as the construction of an unroofed all-seater stand opposite of the grandstand. The renovation of the ground follows a design by architectural firm CERAU Architecture & Urbanism. Meanwhile, first team football is still played on terrain 4 (synthetic pitch) and, for part of the home encounters in the winter months of the 2022-23 season (due to heating problems in the port-a-cabins alongside terrain 4), at the Centre Sportif de Limal at Rue Charles Jaumotte.
• 2024 / Works get underway on the new stadium for R Wavre Limal on terrain 5 of Stade Justin Peeters. 
• 2025 / Inauguration of the new stadium for R Wavre Limal on terrain 5 of Stade Justin Peeters. First team football moves to this pitch, with the synthetic terrain 4 as well as the two pitches of the Centre Sportif de Limal remaining in use for lower team football and training sessions.
• 2026 / On April 1st, 2026, the National Hockey Stadium, known as the Belfius Hockey Arena for sponsorship reasons, is officially inaugurated with two successive international hockey matches between the national teams of Belgium and the Netherlands (men & ladies).

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