BELGIUM: FC Pont-de-Loup (1950-1961) / SC Pont-de-Loup (1972-1989) / FC Pont-de-Loup-Aiseau (B) (1989-1995) / Sporting Pont-de-Loup (1995-2013) / JS Aiseau-Presles (2013-)

Stade Camille Lebrun, Pont-de-Loup (JS Aiseau-Presles, formerly FC Pont-de-Loup / SC Pont-de-Loup / B ground of FC Pont-de-Loup-Aiseau / Sporting Pont-de-Loup)

Belgium, province: Hainaut = Henegouwen

5 VIII 2025 / JS Aiseau-Presles - FC Espoir Tarciennois 6-3 / Pre-season friendly

Timeline

• 1950 / Foundation of a football club in Pont-de-Loup, a village on the eastern outskirts of Greater Charleroi, near the provincial border of Hainaut with Namur. The new club, which is given the name FC Pont-de-Loup, acquires registration number 5438 upon joining the Belgian Football Association. Most probably, this club played its football at Stade Camil Lebrun at Rue des Monts from the outset. The pitch is laid out on the pastures of a smallholder, whose name is given to the ground subsequently.
• 1952 / Two years after its foundation, FC Pont-de-Loup becomes a competitive club, being placed in the bottom division of Hainaut’s provincial leagues at that time, Provincial League 3.
• 1961 / After nine rather anonymous seasons in Provincial League 3, FC Pont-de-Loup changes its name to become FC Roselies. No doubt, this name change also entailed a move of the club away from Pont-de-Loup to the neighbouring village of Roselies. Possibly, the new club settled on the pitch at Rue des Français in Roselies, but no information is available on this matter. Furthermore, it is unclear what became of Stade Camil Lebrun in the following years. Possibly, the pitch was used by recreational clubs.
• 1968 / Registration number 5438 undergoes a second name change; after FC Pont-de-Loup became FC Roselies in 1961, the club now takes on the name FC Aiseau, moving to a pitch at Rue d’Oignies in Oignies, a hamlet of Aiseau. Significantly, this name change and move occurred one year after the foundation of the rivalling provincial league club JS Roselies, which plays its football at Rue de la Praile.
• 1972 / Foundation of a new provincial league club in Pont-de-Loup, which takes on the name Standard Club (SC) de Pont-de-Loup, acquiring registration number 7823 upon joining the Belgian FA.
• 1973 / One year after its foundation, SC Pont-de-Loup begins its life as a competitive club in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4.
• 1975 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4G, 4 points ahead of closest followers FC Wayaux, SC Pont-de-Loup wins promotion to Provincial League 3.
• 1976 / In the best season in club history, SC Pont-de-Loup manages a third place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3C. 
• 1977 / In spite of finishing in a safe eleventh place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3C, SC Pont-de-Loup is retrograded to Provincial League 4 – possibly as a punishment for misconduct on or off the pitch? – along with bottom club US Piéton.
• 1978 / SC Pont-de-Loup finishes as runners-up in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4G, 4 points behind derby rivals Entente Presloise.
• 1979 / SC Pont-de-Loup finishes as runners-up in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4G, 4 points behind champions FC Dampremy.
• 1980 / After two seasons of being close to the title, SC Pont-de-Loup now finishes top of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4F, 1 point ahead of closest rivals FC Soleilmont, thus winning promotion to Provincial League 3.
• 1986 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, SC Pont-de-Loup drops back into Provincial League 4 after six seasons, along with the club in second-last place, JS Solrézienne.
• 1989 / In its last season as an independent club, SC Pont-de-Loup finishes in sixth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4G. Following the 1988-89 season, Standard Club de Pont-de-Loup concludes a merger with FC Aiseau, resulting in the foundation of FC Pont-de-Loup-Aiseau, with Aiseau’s registration number 5438 being retained. First team football is played at Rue d’Oignies in Oignies, while Stade Camil Lebrun in Pont-de-Loup is retained for lower team football and training purposes. 
• 1995 / Probably coinciding with FC Pont-de-Loup-Aiseau abandoning their youth academy ground in Pont-de-Loup, a new club is founded at Stade Camil Lebrun: Sporting Pont-de-Loup, which acquires registration number 9278 upon being accepted as a new member club of the Belgian FA. Sporting Pont-de-Loup starts its life in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4.
• 1998 / Sporting Pont-de-Loup finishes as runners-up in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4C, 18 points behind runaway champions FC Aldegondois.
• 2001 / FC Pont-de-Loup-Aiseau folds, ceasing all activities; registration number 5438 is erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists. The pitch at Rue d’Oignies is abandoned.
• 2005 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4D, 8 points ahead of runners-up JS Dampremy, Sporting Pont-de-Loup wins promotion to Provincial League 3.
• 2006 / Finishing in second-last place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, Sporting Pont-de-Loup drops back into Provincial League 4 after just one season, along with bottom club CS Forges.
• 2007 / Champions in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4F, 4 points ahead of closest followers Entente Presloise, Sporting Pont-de-Loup wins promotion to Provincial League 3.
• 2008 / In the best season in club history, Sporting Pont-de-Loup manages a sixth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D.
• 2009 / Finishing bottom of the table in Hainaut’s Provincial League 3D, Sporting Pont-de-Loup drops back into Provincial League 4 along with the clubs in third and second-last places, JS Ragnicole and RRFC Gozée.
• 2013 / In its last season, Sporting Pont-de-Loup finishes in twelfth place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4G. Following the 2012-13 season, the club folds, ceasing all activities; registration number 9278 is erased from the Belgian FA’s official lists. Following this, at the suggestion of players of recreational club FC Gougnies, who groundshared with Sporting at Stade Camil Lebrun, former AS Châtelineau player Jean Jacques forms a new club, Jeunesse Sportive (JS) Aiseau-Presles, which settles at the ground in Pont-de-Loup, acquiring registration number 9606 upon joining the Belgian FA.
• 2016 / In the best season in club history until now, JS Aiseau-Presles finishes in third place in Hainaut’s Provincial League 4H, narrowly missing out on qualification for the promotion play-offs.

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

LUXEMBOURG: FC Jeunesse Canach

Stade Fernand Weber - Rue de Lenningen, Canach (FC Jeunesse Canach)

Luxembourg, canton: Remich

3 VIII 2025 / FC Jeunesse Canach - FC Mamer 32 1-3 / National Division (= LUX level 1)

Timeline

• 1930 / Foundation of a football club in Canach, a village in the southeast of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. The new club takes on the name FC Fortuna Canach. It is unknown if, yet no improbable that, the club played its football on a pitch laid out at Rue de Lenningen from the outset. In the course of the 1930s, the club never ventures into league football, sticking to playing friendly matches instead.
• 1940 / Upon the German occupation of Luxembourg, FC Fortuna Canach folds, ceasing all activities. 
• 1946 / FC Fortuna Canach is re-established, with the club now taking the leap to playing proper league football in Division 3, the fifth and lowest level of Luxembourg’s league system. 
• 1953 / After seven seasons in Division 3, FC Fortuna Canach folds, ceasing all activities.
• 1957 / FC Fortuna Canach is re-established with a new name, FC Jeunesse Canach. This club settles on the pitch at Rue de Lenningen – on what is now the side-pitch of the ground, situated to the west of the current main pitch.
• 1964 / Finishing in tenth place in Division 3 Group 3, FC Jeunesse Canach descends into the newly created Division 4, i.e. the sixth level of Luxembourg’s league pyramid, along with FC Blo-Weiss Itzig, FC Mondercange, FC Noertzange Huncherange-Fennange, FC Ehlerange, and bottom club JS Hagen.
• 1971 / Runners-up in Division 4 Group 3, 3 points behind champions FC Red Boys Aspelt, FC Jeunesse Canach qualifies for the promotion play-offs for one extra promotion ticket. Finishing in second place, 2 points behind FC Berdenia Berbourg, but ahead of FC Blo-Giel Hupperdange en FC Luna Oberkorn, the club fails to secure a return to Division 3.
• 1975 / Champions in Division 4 Group 3, 8 points ahead of closest followers FC Vinesca Ehnen, FC Jeunesse Canach manages a return to Division 3 after an absence of eleven years. 
• 1976 / In a reorganisation of Luxembourg’s league pyramid, all reserves’ teams are excluded from league football, as a result of which FC Jeunesse Canach wins automatic promotion to Division 2, the fourth tier, for the first time.
• 1978 / Runners-up in Division 2 Group 3, 4 points behind champions AS Remich, FC Jeunesse Canach qualifies for the promotion-relegation play-offs for one ticket in Division 1, taking on CS Hobscheid and D1 club CS Oberkorn. With the latter taking first place, FC Jeunesse Canach stays in Division 2.
• 1983 / Champions in Division 2 Group 3, 2 points ahead of closest rivals FC Progrès Cessange, FC Jeunesse Canach accedes to Division 1, the third level of Luxembourgian football, for the first time.
• 1984 / Finishing bottom of the table in Division 1 Group 2, FC Jeunesse Canach drops back into Division 2 after just one season, along with the club finishing in second-last place, FC Jeunesse Biwer.
• 1985 / A new pitch is added to the set-up at Rue de Lenningen, laid out to the east of the original pitch, with first team football moving to this new playing field. 
• 1987 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 2 Group 2, FC Jeunesse Canach descends into Division 3 along with bottom club FC Alisontia Steinsel.
• 1989 / Champions in Division 3 Group 2, FC Jeunesse Canach clinches promotion to Division 2, along with runners-up FC Rupensia Larochette, which had finished 3 points behind them.
• 1991 / Finishing in third place in Division 2 Group 2, FC Jeunesse Canach qualifies for a play-off for two extra promotion places against FC Green Boys Harlange-Tarchamps and FC Les Aiglons Dalheim. Taking second place in these play-offs behind the former, Canach manages a return to Division 1 after an absence of seven seasons, along with the two best placed teams in its division, FC Sporting Bertrange and FC Jeunesse Junglinster.
• 1992 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 1 Group 2, FC Jeunesse Canach is retrograded into Division 2 after just one season, along with US Mondorf-les-Bains and bottom club US Sandweiler.
• 1994 / Runners-up in Division 2 Group 3, 1 point behind champions FC Minière Lasauvage, FC Jeunesse Canach manages a return to Division 1.
• 1996 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 1 Group 2, FC Jeunesse Canch drops back into Division 2 along with CS Sanem and bottom club FC Olympique Eischen.
• 2004 / Runners-up in Division 2 Group 2, 5 points behind champions US Sandweiler, FC Jeunesse Canach manages a return to Division 1. The successful player-coach is Patrick Maurer, who had joined the club six years previously.
• 2005 / Runners-up in Division 1 Group 1, 10 points behind champions FC Minerva Lintgen, FC Jeunesse Canach wins back-to-back promotions, acceding to Promotion d’Honneur, the second tier of Luxembourg’s football pyramid, for the first time. The successful player-coach is Patrick Maurer.
• 2010 / Going from strength to strength with coach Patrick Maurer, FC Jeunesse Canach now manages a second place in Promotion d’Honneur, 4 points behind champions FC Wiltz 71 – sufficient for a historic promotion to the National Division, the top flight of Luxembourg football. Moreover, the club also manages to reach the quarterfinals of Luxembourg’s Cup following wins over AS Wincrange and National Division teams Racing FC Union Luxembourg and US Rumelange. Eventually, the club suffers elimination at the hands of CS Grevenmacher (4-2). 
• 2011 / Having had a rocky ride in the first half of its maiden season in the National Division, with the first eleven (!) matches ending in defeat, FC Jeunesse Canach manages to improve its performances in the course of the season – but not enough to stave off relegation, finishing in last place and dropping back into Promotion d’Honneur along with FC Wiltz 71 and FC Etzella Ettelbruck.
• 2012 / Champions in Promotion d’Honneur, 1 point ahead of FC Etzella Ettelbruck, FC Jeunesse Canach manages an immediate return to the National Division, along with the aforementioned club and play-off winners FC Wiltz 71.
• 2013 / Still coached by Patrick Maurer, FC Jeunesse Canach enjoys the best season in club history, finishing in a respectable seventh place in the National Division.
• 2015 / Finishing bottom of the table in the National Division, FC Jeunesse Canach drops back into Promotion d’Honneur after two seasons, along with UN Käerjéng 97 and FC US Hostert. In the winter break of the following season, coach Patrick Maurer leaves the club after an impressive 17,5 years. Maurer would later return to Canach for a shorter – and less successful – second spell.
• 2023 / Finishing in fourth place in Promotion d’Honneur, FC Jeunesse Canach qualifies for a promotion-relegation play-off, in which the club suffers defeat at the hands of CS Fola Esch (4-3 A.E.T.) in an encounter staged at Stade Achille Hammerel in Luxembourg.
• 2025 / Finishing in fourth place in Promotion d’Honneur, FC Jeunesse Canach qualifies for a promotion-relegation play-off, in which the club edges past FC Wiltz 71 (1-1 A.E.T. & penalty shoot-out) in an encounter staged at Stade am Deich in Ettelbruck. As such, the club manages a return to the National Division after eight years. In September 2025, the ground at Rue de Lenningen is officially renamed Stade Fernand Weber in honour of a supporter and volunteer who had died in a car accident the previous year.
• 2026 / Finishing in thirteenth place in the National Division, FC Jeunesse Canach fails to save its skin in a promotion-relegation play-off, played at Stade Rue Henri Dunant in Beggen, in which the club has to leave the honours to FC Résidence Walferdange (1-1 A.E.T. & penalty shoot-out). As such, the club drops back into Promotion d'Honneur after just one season, alongside FC Mamer 32, Union Titus Pétange, and bottom club FC Rodange 91.

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

BELGIUM: FC Nivezé (RFC Sart-lez-Spa C)

Stade André Counet "Terrain au Pré-Jonas", Nivezé (FC Nivezé a.k.a. RFC Sart-lez-Spa Reserves)

Belgium, province: Liège = Luik

3 VIII 2025 / FC Nivezé - R Espoir Minérois Reserves 5-2 / Pre-season friendly

Timeline

• ± 1910-50 / There is a football club in Nivezé, which has the name Nivezé FC. For the moment, not much more information is available than that the last pitch where this club played its football, was at Avenue Peltzer de Clermont on the southern outskirts of this village situated not far from Spa.
• 1965 / At the annual funfair in Nivezé, two youngsters, Joseph and Jean Jérôme, come up with the idea to hold a football match between the young and the old. Subsequently, the local schoolmaster, Jean Micha, proposes to form a football club, which he proceeds to do in collusion with André Counet and Charles Herman. Initially, football is played on a pitch laid out on the meadows of Marcel Counet at Chemin Maron, but quite soon after a new location was found in Bas-Nivezé, the so-called Pré-Jonas, owned by Charles Grosdent. This pitch is known as Terrain au Pré-Jonas or, officially, Stade Charles Grosdent. The club, known as FC Nivezé, does not seek affiliation with any league association, instead playing friendly matches or joining a recreational league (no information available). At some point, FC Nivezé chose to become a sub-branch of provincial league club RFC Sart-lez-Spa, officially playing their football as that club's reserves' team - but in fact remaining an independent entity.
• 1991 / The non-profit organisation Vétérans de Nivezé, founded to maintain the football club FC Nivezé, purchases the Terrain au Pré-Jonas, with a clubhouse and dressing rooms in situ being erected in subsequent years.
• 1998 / FC Nivezé conquers one of the sixteen league titles in the first sixty years of its history.
• ± 2005 / A small covered stand is added to the set-up at Stade Charles Grosdent.
• 2009 / As one of the founding members of the club, André Counet, passes away, Stade Charles Grosdent is renamed Stade André Counet in his honour.

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