Belgium, province: Walloon Brabant = Waals Brabant
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Timeline
- 1924 / In Orp, a twin village in the French-speaking southern half of the Province of Brabant, consisting of Orp-le-Grand (Groot-Adorp) in the north and Orp-le-Petit (Klein-Adorp) in the south, a first football club sees the daylight, FC L’Entente Orp, which joins the Belgian Football Association (URBSFA / KBVB) on the last day of 1924. It is unclear where the pitch of this club was situated.
- 1925 / In its first competitive season, FC L’Entente Orp is placed in Brabant’s Regional League 3 (3e Gewestelijke).
- 1926 / As the Belgian FA introduces its system of registration numbers, FC L’Entente Orp receives number 448.
- 1928 / Clinching the title in Brabant’s Regional League 3D, FC L’Entente Orp wins promotion to Regional League 2.
- 1929 / Finishing in eleventh place in Brabant’s Regional League 2A, FC L’Entente Orp drops back into Regional League 3 after one year only.
- 1931 / Runner-up in Brabant’s Regional League 3A, FC L’Entente Orp wins promotion to Regional League 2.
- 1932 / Withdrawing its team from Brabant’s Regional League 2 in the course of the season, FC L’Entente Orp folds, with registration number 448 being struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list.
- 1934 / Foundation of a new club in Orp, Albert FC (AFC) Orp-le-Grand, which sees itself attributed registration number 2098 upon being allowed into the Belgian FA. In the Belgian FA’s membership list, the club is explicitly mentioned as a refoundation of FC L’Entente Orp, which folded two years previously. It is unclear where the ground of AFC Orp-le-Grand was situated in the years leading up to the mid-1960s.
- 1935 / In its first season as a competitive club, AFC Orp-le-Grand is placed in Brabant’s Regional League 3.
- 1936 / Runner-up in Brabant’s Regional League 3D, AFC Orp-le-Grand wins promotion to Regional League 2.
- 1941 / A new club sees the daylight in Maret, a village directly to the north of Orp-le-Grand, with the new club taking on the name FC Gethois Maret. It is unclear where the ground of this club was situated. In its debut season, 1941-42, the new club is placed in Brabant’s Regional League 3.
- 1944 / AFC Orp-le-Grand wins the title in Brabant’s Regional League 2D, but the club does not win promotion to Provincial League 2, the top level of Brabant’s regional pyramid, for some reason – probably having to do with the closing stages of World War II.
- 1945 / With Regional League 3 side FC Gethois Maret being absorbed into AFC Orp-le-Grand, this club takes on the new name Albert Football Club Gethois Orp, retaining its registration number 2098; registration number 3176 of FC Gethois Maret is struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list.
- 1948 / Finishing in second-last place in Brabant’s Regional League 2C, AFC Gethois Orp descends into Regional League 3.
- 1949 / Champions in Brabant’s Regional League 3B, AFC Gethois Orp manages an immediate return to Regional League 2.
- 1950 / Finishing in second-last place in Brabant’s Regional League 2B, AFC Gethois Orp drops back into Regional League 3 – renamed Provincial League 3 in 1952.
- 1956 / Champions in Brabant’s Provincial League 3F, AFC Gethois Orp wins promotion to Provincial League 2.
- 1958 / Finishing in third-last place in Brabant’s Provincial League 2A, AFC Gethois Orp drops back into Provincial League 3.
- 1959 / Champions in Brabant’s Provincial League 3A, AFC Gethois Orp manages an immediate return to Provincial League 2.
- 1960 / Finishing in second-last place in Brabant’s Provincial League 2B, AFC Gethois Orp drops back into Provincial League 3.
- 1962 / Champions in Brabant’s Provincial League 3A, AFC Gethois Orp wins promotion to Provincial League 2.
- 1964 / In what seems like an eternal up and down, AFC Gethois Orp now finishes in third-last place in Brabant’s Provincial League 2A, thus descending into Provincial League 3.
- ± 1965 / With no information being available regarding the whereabouts of the club’s pitch in the first thirty odd years of its existence, AFC Gethois Orp now settles on a pitch on Rue Joseph Jadot in Orp-le-Petit, a pitch laid out by municipal authorities of Orp-le-Grand and which is given the name Stade Albert Dupont. Albert Dupont was the mayor of Orp-le-Grand from 1927 until his passing in 1935 – which might have meant that Dupont played an important part in the foundation of AFC Orp-le-Grand in 1934 and perhaps even was its founding chairman.
- 1970 / Champions in Brabant’s Provincial League 3B, AFC Gethois Orp wins promotion to Provincial League 2.
- ± 1979 / A second pitch is added to the set-up at Stade Albert Dupont, with this training pitch being laid out to the east of the main pitch.
- 1980 / Champions in Brabant’s Provincial League 2A, AFC Gethois Orp wins promotion to Brabant’s Provincial League 1, the fifth tier of Belgian football, for the first time in club history.
- 1981 / Finishing in second-last place in Brabant’s Provincial League 1, AFC Gethois Orp drops back into Provincial League 2 after one season only.
- 1984 / Acquiring the royal epithet, AFC Gethois Orp is officially renamed Royal Albert Football Club (RAFC) Gethois Orp.
- 1992 / Finishing bottom of the table in Brabant’s Provincial League 2A, RAFC Gethois Orp drops back into Provincial League 3, 22 years after last finding itself at that level.
- 1994 / Withdrawing its first team from Provincial League 3A before the end of the season, RAFC Gethois Orp descends into Provincial League 4 for the first time in club history.
- 1999 / Champions in Brabant’s Provincial League 4A, 4 points ahead of closest rivals FC Inter Jandrain-Jandrenouille, RAFC Gethois Orp wins promotion to Provincial League 3.
- 2002 / Finishing in second-last place in Brabant’s Provincial League 3A, RAFC Gethois Orp drops back into Provincial League 4, alongside bottom club FC Attenhoven.
- 2006 / Champions in Brabant’s Provincial League 4A, 4 points ahead of closest followers JS Noduwez, RAFC Gethois Orp wins promotion to Provincial League 3. Following the 2005-06 season, a merger is concluded with that same JS Noduwez, resulting in the foundation of Royal Football Club (RFC) Orp-Noduwez, which retains Orp’s registration number 2098; Noduwez’s number 7313 is struck from the Belgian FA’s membership list. First team football moves to Stade Albert Dupont in Orp-le-Petit, with Stade Paul Landeut in Noduwez and the side-pitch of the ground in Orp remaining in use for lower team football and training sessions.
- ± 2016 / Some ten years after the merger between RAFC Gethois Orp and JS Noduwez, RFC Orp-Noduwez abandons the Stade Paul Landeut in Noduwez, with all activities henceforth taking place at Stade Albert Dupont in Orp-le-Petit and its side-pitch. This more or less coincided with works getting underway on a new clubhouse for RFC Orp-Noduwez, to be built on the southern touchline of the side-pitch of Stade Albert Dupont, in 2016.
- 2017 / Having been a stable P3 contender in the past decade, RFC Orp-Noduwez now clinches the title in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 3B, 3 points ahead of closest rivals RFC Saint-Michel; as a result, the club wins promotion to Provincial League 2 for the first time since the 2006 merger. Later that year, on December 18th, 2017, after construction works which took about a year, the new clubhouse of RFC Orp-Noduwez, constructed alongside the second pitch of Stade Albert Dupont, is inaugurated in the presence of Valérie de Bue, the Walloon minister for sports facilities. The building comprises dressing rooms and storage facilities on the ground floor, topped by a clubhouse with a terrace overlooking the pitch. Although the old facilities of the club on the western pitch of the ground are not removed, first team football now moves to what had hitherto been the second pitch of the ground, with the former main pitch (terrain 1) remaining in use for lower team football and training sessions.
- 2018 / Victor Remacle, chairman of RFC Orp-Noduwez, passes away at the age of 75.
- 2025 / After consent being granted to the club by municipal authorities, the Stade Albert Dupont is officially renamed Stade Victor Remacle.
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