Stade Magdeleine Lefebvre, Tournay = Tournai = Doornik (formerly RUS Tournaisienne / RFC Tournai / B ground of RFC Tournai)
Belgium, province: Hainaut = HenegouwenVisited location, August 2009 / no match visited
Note: Union Sportive Tournaisienne (matricule 26) played their football at the Plaine des Hôpitaux - renamed Stade Gaston Horlait in the 1920s and then, much later, Stade Magdeleine Lefebvre - from the club's foundation in 1903 onwards. In 1928, the royal epithet was acquired. In 1997, Royale Union Sportive Tournaisienne absorbed SC de Pecq (matricule 8786) without changing their name - and with Pecq leaving their Stade Christory. A second merger was concluded in 2002, as RUS Tournaisienne and their town rivals Royal Racing Club Tournaisienne (founded in 1908, matricule 36), who played at the Drève de Maire since 1923. The new club, RFC Tournai (matricule 36), played for one more season at Stade Magdeleine Lefebvre before moving to the new Stade Luc Varenne, constructed on the premises of RRC Tournaisienne's youth academy, Complexe de Balamo. After one more season of lower team football at Stade Magdeleine Lefebvre, the ground was abandoned once and for all - and knocked down to make way for an extension to the local hospital.
All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author
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