Extreme Football Tourism: BELGIUM: RAFC Gethois Orp (B) (±1979-2006) / RFC Orp-Noduwez (C) (2006-±2016) / RFC Orp-Noduwez (B) (±2016-2017) / RFC Orp-Noduwez (2017-)

Stade Victor Remacle terr. 2, Orp-le-Petit = Klein Adorp (main pitch of RFC Orp-Noduwez, formerly B / C pitch of RAFC Gethois Orp & RFC Orp-Noduwez)

Belgium, province: Walloon Brabant = Waals Brabant

8 XI 2026 / RFC Orp-Noduwez - FC Suryoyés Bruxellois 2-4 / Brabant, FFA Provincial League 1 (= BE level 6)

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.
1932 / After an existence of barely eight years, FC L’Entente Orp folds, ceasing all activities.
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. It is unclear where the ground of AFC Orp-le-Grand was situated in the years leading up to the mid-1960s.
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.
± 1965 / AFC Gethois Orp 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.
± 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.
1984 / Acquiring the royal epithet, AFC Gethois Orp is officially renamed Royal Albert Football Club (RAFC) Gethois Orp.
2006 / Following the 2005-06 season, a merger is concluded between RAFC Gethois Orp and 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. Henceforth, first team football is played at 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; 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 / Finishing bottom of the table in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 2, RFC Orp-Noduwez drops back into Provincial League 3, alongside RCS Brainois B and SC Beauvechain. More sadly than this, in May 2018, Victor Remacle, the chairman of RFC Orp-Noduwez, passes away at the age of 75.
2019 / Clinching the title in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 3D, 5 points ahead of RFC Perwez B, RFC Orp-Noduwez manages an immediate return to Provincial League 2.
2022 / Finishing in second-last place in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 2B, RFC Orp-Noduwez descends into Provincial League 3, along with CS Mont-Saint-Guibert and bottom club AS Mont-Saint-André.
2024 / Champions in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 3D, 7 points ahead of closest followers SC Jodoigne, RFC Orp-Noduwez wins promotion to Provincial League 2.
2025 / Finishing in third place in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 2B, RFC Orp-Noduwez qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out R Union Rixensartoise in R1 (1-2), only to suffer defeat in R2 against Racing White Woluwe (2-5); in a lucky loser round, the club defeats Berchem Brussels FC comprehensively (6-1) – but to no avail, as no extra promotion place turns out to be available. Also in 2025, after consent being granted to the club by municipal authorities, the Stade Albert Dupont is officially renamed Stade Victor Remacle, with a plaque in honour of the former chairman being revealed in the clubhouse in the presence of Hugues Ghenne, the mayor of Orp-Jauche.
2026 / Finishing in fourth place in Brabant’s ACFF Provincial League 2B, RFC Orp-Noduwez qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out Olympic Clabecq in R1 (1-2) and R Union Rixensartoise in R2 (0-1), going on to have the better of ROFC Stockel in the final (2-0) – but in the end, both clubs accede to Provincial League 1. This heralds the return of Provincial League 1 football to Orp-le-Petit for the first time in 45 years.