VVV-Venlo

VVV-Venlo
Basic data
Surname	Venlose Voetbal Vereniging Venlo
Seat	Venlo , the Netherlands
founding	February 7, 1903
President	Ineke Gutterswijk
Website	vvv-venlo.nl
First soccer team
Head coach	Hans de Koning
Venue	De Koel
Places	8000
league	Eredivisie
2019/20	13th place
home Away

The Venlose Voetbal Vereniging Venlo , or VVV-Venlo for short , is a football club from the Dutch border town of Venlo . The club has existed under this name since February 7, 1903. VVV-Venlo is thus one of the oldest professional football clubs in the Netherlands.

General

The club colors are black and yellow. This is also reflected on the field of play. The current home shirt is predominantly yellow with some black accents. The pants are completely black, while yellow is the dominant color for the socks.

history

1903–1952: Foundation and development in the first 50 years

The football club VVV-Venlo was founded in 1903 on the initiative of several friends. Already in the first years the club experienced name changes again and again. It was not until February 7, 1903 that an agreement was reached on Venlose Voetbal Vereniging . The Venloers were one of the first football clubs in the city and are now one of the oldest in the country. VVV first played in lower class leagues before the team rose to first class in 1911/12. After the 1921/22 season, the forced relegation to the second division took place. There they established themselves, but did not make it back up so quickly. After the end of the Second World War , the first Dutch league was increased. This gave the Venlo team the opportunity to play first class again. There one achieved several good placements, but one title was missing.

1953–1961: Involvement in professional football

In the 1950s, the Venloers were regularly among the top seven in the table. The club's greatest success was celebrated in 1959 by winning the KNVB Cup under Austrian coach Wilhelm Kment . In the final, ADO Den Haag was defeated 4: 1 in their Zuiderpark Stadium - due to the draw, however, it was considered a home game for VVV. For the German Karl-Heinz Spikofski it was the last game in the yellow-black dress before he went back to Germany and got hired by Wormatia Worms . The game started with a setback for Venlo: Timmer took the 1-0 lead for The Hague before Herman Teeuwen equalized in the middle of the first half. Hans Sleven was able to take the lead for his team ten minutes before the break . The Hague soon had the opportunity to equalize, but Timmer missed a penalty owed by VVV goalkeeper Frans Swinkels . What was special about this penalty was that Swinkels was injured and Teeuwen took his jersey and put it in the goal. Swinkels was then able to continue playing. In the second half it was Jan Klaassens and Teeuwen again, who made two more goals for VVV's clear success.

In 1953 VVV joined the Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond , the Dutch football association. When professional football was introduced in the Netherlands in 1954, Sportclub Venlo '54 merged with VVV-Venlo to form SC VVV-Venlo or just VVV . After the Nederlands landskampioenschap (Dutch national champions) had previously been played, there was a reform of the Dutch football system for the 1954/55 season. Thus, the clubs went into the first professional football season. Along with BVV / Caterpillar , Eendracht Brengt ons Hoger , Excelsior Rotterdam , Hermes DVS , SV Kerkrade , SV Limburgia , NAC Breda , PSV Eindhoven , RBC Roosendaal , RKSV Sittardia , Willem II Tilburg and XerxesDZB played Venlo in the Eerste class C . In addition to this, there were also seasons A, B and D and the professional league of the Nederlandse Beroeps Voetbalbond (NBVB), an association that was formed in 1953 to enforce the recognition of football as a professional sport. For the following season the Eerste was replaced by the double-track Hoofdklasse . There were two groups. Venlo was placed in the Hoofd class A. The first two teams of each season qualified for the championship games. The first nine teams in both leagues made it through their placement to qualify for the newly created Eredivisie for the 1956/57 season. The Venlo team managed to safely participate in the new single-track league as fifth. In the years to come, the club stayed in the middle of the table in the Eredivisie. In 1960/61 they even achieved the best placement in the club's history to date, when the team took third place behind Feyenoord Rotterdam and Ajax Amsterdam . At the time, this qualified them to participate in the Intertoto Cup . A club record was set with a total of 77 goals scored. The record of 47 goals conceded was not beaten until 1987. By the 1961/62 season, the club managed to assert itself in the first class. Important players during this time were Jan Klaassens , Faas Wilkes , Coy Koopal and Herman Teeuwen , in whose honor the competition for the Herman Teeuwen Memorial Cup has been played since 2004 .

1962–1989: Commuting between Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie

In 1962 he was relegated to the Eerste Divisie . In seventeenth place in the table, only Rapid JC Kerkrade was left behind. The Venlo team was only two points short of fifteenth place, the first non-relegation position held by ADO Den Haag . After a few years there, he even moved into the third class. You never even managed to get close to the promotion ranks. Best placement was eighth place in 1964/65. In addition to the sporting failures, the club had to struggle with financial problems and the survival of the club was at times questioned. Before the 1972/73 season, Rob Baan was hired as the new coach. This led the team back to the Eredivisie in 1976. They held the class there for two years, but failed to prevent relegation in 1977/78. Between 1980 and 1984 the Eersten Divisie sank into the insignificance. The best place was seventh. The team was entitled to take part in the play-offs for promotion to the Eredivisie in 1982, 1983 and 1984, but missed the victory in this. At the end of the 1985 season they found themselves in second place and thus qualified for direct promotion to the Eredivisie. With 75 goals scored, the club made the most goal-hungry attack at the time. Here was Peter van Velzen the best attacker of the black and yellow. He contributed 28 hits to the promotion and thus secured himself the top scorer for the second division. In the first year after promotion, the club had to tremble about staying in the top Dutch league until shortly before the end. In the end, however, the team left five other teams behind. Together with the Go Ahead Eagles, the club conceded the second most goals in the course of the year. The 7-1 defeat against Ajax Amsterdam on matchday 6 was particularly bitter . But also respectable successes such as a 4-0 win over AZ Alkmaar or a 3-2 win at Feyenoord Rotterdam were celebrated. In the seasons 1986/87 and 1987/88 the club surprised by reaching fifth place in the top Dutch division twice in a row. In 1988 the team also had the second best defense with only 35 goals. Only the eventual champions PSV Eindhoven had seven fewer goals. The two defenders Raymond Libregts and Stan Valckx were important . Other players such as Ger van Rosmalen , Remy Reynierse and Brian Boitano were decisive pillars for this success . But the following year the disillusionment followed again. The central defense with Libregts and Valckx was blown up as both left the club. While Valckx, together with teammate Frank Berghuis , moved to PSV Eindhoven, Libregts moved to Sparta Rotterdam . Attacker John Lammers decided to move abroad. Venlo was forced to make a fresh start. But the team couldn't cope with this bloodletting and the free fall ensued. A total of only five wins this season. 14 times they separated with a draw from the opponent, which was the highest in the league. In the end there was only seventeenth place and thus direct relegation.

1990–1999: Short-term successes

In the early 1990s, VVV-Venlo was stamped as an elevator team . In 1991 Venlo rose to the first division after the play-offs. In the group phase of the relegation, they left FC Eindhoven and FC Dordrecht behind, in the decisive game they then prevailed against NAC Breda . But only a year later, he was relegated as seventeenth in the table. The team had a bad start in the league from the start and was subsequently regarded as the league's "shooting gallery" . With 84 goals conceded, the Venloers were 20 goals worse than the second worst defense of the Eredivisie (SVV / Dordrecht '90). Again and again it set high defeats. After the third match day, VVV-Venlo's negative account counted 13 goals conceded. The biggest defeats came on matchdays 3 and 21 against SVV / Dordrecht'90 and Vitesse Arnheim , when the team came under the wheels with 1: 6. In the following season VVV was champion of the second division and thus managed the direct promotion. The team scored as many goals of their own as they had conceded last year. With Maurice Graef , who scored 29 goals in 34 games, the club had the best goalscorer in the league. But the joy did not last long and again a year later the club was relegated. Although the team lost fewer games than five other teams, they also drew eleven times. That was the most point-sharing in the Eredivisie behind runner-up Feyenoord Rotterdam (13 draws). Graef also had a reliable goal scorer (14 goals), who scored almost half of all Venlo's goals. After relegation, previous top performers such as Graef left the club to remain first class. In the following three years, the team played repeatedly in the play-offs for promotion, but did not succeed. The end of 1996/97 was very bitter when they remained pointless in six matches and conceded a total of 22 goals. At the end of the 20th century, the club found itself in the insignificance of the league again. The team rarely achieved good results and the return to the Eredivisie was a long way off.

2000–2009: Impending loss of existence and resurgence

In the following years the club could not maintain the level and one almost had to fear for the continued existence of professional football in Venlo. The club played only moderate second division football. At the end of the 2000/01 season, the team only achieved 18th place and was thus on the bottom of the table in the Eerste Divisie. With only 37 goals scored, the goal yield was as bad as any other team. Only in the second half of the first decade of the 21st century did sporting successes predominate again. From 2004 to 2007 the VVV-Venlo was able to reach the relegation games for promotion to the Eredivisie four times in a row, but did not make the promotion. In the 2005/06 season, the club started as a candidate for the title. Venlo, however, only reached second place at the end of the season and remained in the second division. After the relegation games of the 2006/07 season, the club succeeded for the first time since 1993 the promotion to the Dutch upper house. In the decisive game against the Eredivisie relegation team, the RKC Waalwijk , three games had to be played to make the return perfect. After a 2-0 win and a 0-1 defeat, the club decided the decisive game 3-0 for themselves. The best attacker in the league at the time was Dirk Jan Derksen , who left the club for Fortuna Sittard . The comeback was anything but good. The team was only able to win seven games and accordingly found themselves at the bottom of the table. With 76 goals conceded, the club, together with Sparta Rotterdam , conceded the most goals. In the end, the team saved themselves from Excelsior Rotterdam to the penultimate place in the table. This secured participation in the relegation games against teams from the second division. But already in the first round the Venloers were eliminated by ADO Den Haag and had to start the difficult course back to the Eerste Divisie. 2009 succeeded the direct promotion to the first division. For the 2008/09 season they were first in the Eersten Divisie and could celebrate this triumph for the first time since 1993. The team secured first place in the Eerste Divisie two game days before the end.

Since 2009 - present

With a 3: 3 on the first match day of the 2009/10 season against PSV Eindhoven and four more draws, the first win of the season against Heracles Almelo followed on match day 6 . By the end of the first half of the season, Venlo had collected important points to stay in the league. With only five defeats by matchday 16, they had fewer than last year's champions AZ Alkmaar . However, there were eight draws, which was the highest in the league until then. By the end of the season Venlo secured a place in midfield and finished in twelfth place. It won nine points ahead of Sparta Rotterdam , who had to go into the relegation round as 16th. Twelfth place also meant the best position since 1988. Venlo started with the second lowest budget in the league in 2009/10 (eight million euros) and still held the class. Sandro Calabro was an important source of support, scoring nine goals, more than any other VVV player. During the winter of this season, President Hai Berden had the idea to play the team's top games in a stadium in neighboring Germany. The DFB officials in particular were concerned about this idea. After the good performance in the league, a cut in the squad followed, as is so often the case. With top performers like Keisuke Honda (eight goals in the first half of the season), who left the team for Moscow during the winter break, or striker Calabro (eleven goals this season), who followed the call of the Swiss club FC St. Gallen , as well as players like Ruben Schaken and Adil Auassar (both at Feyenoord Rotterdam ) were important pillars of the team. A total of nine players left the club in the summer of 2010. In order to further establish the club, the board of directors is planning to build a new stadium, which will be called “De Kazerne” and will replace the smaller sports facility “De Koel” . In addition, the club is increasingly expanding into neighboring Germany, where it is seeking partners and sponsors. In this context, the first German-Dutch business evening was organized on April 26, 2010, led by ex-Leverkusen manager Reiner Calmund . Venlo started the 2010/11 season with significantly changed staff. Regular players from the previous year, such as Adil Auassar and Ruben Schaken, had left the club and in return VVV signed up young talents from Germany and abroad. After only three wins after seventeen match days, coach Jan van Dijk was sacked in December 2010 . Only a month later, Willy Boessen was introduced as the new soccer teacher. But even he did not manage to lead the team from the relegation places, so that the club finished seventeenth after the end of the Eredivisie season. The relegation was then used to secure a place in the highest Dutch league for the coming year. With victories over the second division clubs FC Volendam and FC Zwolle , the team managed to avert the threatened relegation to the Eerste Divisie . For the new season, the former Belgian international Glen De Boeck was introduced as the new coach, but he gave up his position before the end of the first half of the season. Interim coaches Wil Boessen and Ben van Dael took over. With the new coach Ton Lokhoff , the team played a weak first round in the 2011/12 season and just missed out on relegation. In the playoffs, victories over SC Cambuur and Helmond Sport could still hold the class. In the following season 2012/13 you had to be as table 17. back in the relegation, there was subject to the Go Ahead Eagles Deventer and consequently relegated to the Eerste Divisie . The new coach was René Trost , who had last looked after MVV Maastricht in the second division for three years and was active as a player in Venlo in the 1994/95 season with moderate success. This time, too, his activity in Venlo was short-lived; after the failure in the promotion relegation consolation returned to his home club Roda JC Kerkrade , where he had spent most of his playing and coaching career. He was succeeded by Maurice Steijn , who came from the first division club ADO Den Haag . He also failed with the team twice in the promotion relegation before returning to the Eredivisie in the third year in the summer of 2017 as a second division champion and direct promoter. The team quickly found their way around the first class, occupied a midfield position almost consistently, but decreased a bit towards the end of the season, but that was enough to keep them up.

Sponsors and outfitters

The main sponsor of the association has been Seacon Logistics since 2009 . The company is owned by the current Venlo President Hai Berden .

Period	Outfitter	sponsor
2006-2008	Erima	Imago Group
2009–		Seacon Logistics

Stadion

Since 1972, the stadium is De Koel (German pit ) the home ground of the club, since a restructuring in 2009, it has a capacity of 8,000 spectators. The logistics company Seacon acquired the naming rights to the sports facility in 2004 and renamed it Seacon Stadion - De Koel . Between April and June 2018, the stadium was briefly named Van der Valk Stadion - De Koel - .

In order to remain competitive in the Eredivisie in the long term, the stadium is to be expanded and modernized. The previous president, Hai Berden, is in charge of planning.

The plans to build a new stadium were abandoned.

Cooperations

Since October 2015 there has been a cooperation between VVV-Venlo and the English Premier League team West Ham United . The two clubs will work together particularly in the field of training young players.

successes

• KNVB Cup: 1959
• Champion First Division: 1993, 2009, 2017
• Master Second Class South: 1923, 1933, 1940
• 3rd Eredivision: 1961
• Promotion to the Eredivisie : 1976, 1985, 1991, 1993, 2007, 2009, 2017
• Winning the Herman Teeuwen Memorial Cup: 2006, 2008, 2009

Well-known former players

(Selection)

Name of the player	Period	comment
Dick Advocaat	1976-1979	former coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach
Tijani Babangida	1991-1993	former Nigerian international
Bep Bakhuys	1937	former Dutch international
Kevin Begois	2002–2006 2007–
Andreas Brandts	1983-1984	former player of SC Fortuna Köln , Alemannia Aachen and others
Robert Boehm	2008-2010	in the youth of FC Schalke 04 and Borussia Moenchengladbach active
Marc Eberle	2002-2003	Active for Lierse SK and Roda JC Kerkrade , among others
Maurice Graef	1988-1994 1996-2002	over 250 league games for VVV-Venlo
Dennis Gentenaar	2009–	in the Bundesliga for Borussia Dortmund active
Keisuke Honda	2007-2010	current Japanese international
Dylan Hughes	2007	former player of 1. FC K'lautern II and SSV Jahn Regensburg
Jan Klaassens	1948-1959 1964-1967	former national player of the Netherlands
Coy Koopal	1954-1956	former national player of the Netherlands
Edwin Linssen	1998-2003 2004-2008	over 250 league games for VVV-Venlo
Jos Luhukay	1978-1989	former coach of Borussia M'gladbach and FC Augsburg
Jan van der Meij	1958-1960 & 1964-1965
Patrick Paauwe	2009–	former player from Borussia Mönchengladbach
Gerald Sibon	1994-1996	former player of 1. FC Nürnberg
Ernest Stewart	1988–1990 2005	former US international
Herman Teeuwen	1954-1961
Stan Valckx	1983-1988	former national player of the Netherlands
Vampeta	1994-1995	former national player of Brazil
Faas Wilkes	1956-1958	former national player of the Netherlands

Venlos trainer

(incomplete)

Sef Vergoossen , three-time coach of VVV-Venlo

Jan Reker (1986–1988)

Adrie Koster (2004-2005)

Term of office Nat. Trainer 1954-1956 Ferdi Silz 1956-1960 Wilhelm Kment 1960-1961 Josef Horesj 1961-1963 Ferdi Silz 1963-1964 Fritz Kleinheuer 1964-1965 Josef Gesell 1966-1968 Jean Janssen 1968-1969 Bas Paauwe 1969 Theo Breukers 1969 Sef Basten (Interim) 1969-1972 Josef Gesell 1972-1988 Rob Baan 1978-1979 Hans Croon 1979 Sef Vergoossen (Interim) 1979-1981 Jan Morsing 1981-1986 Sef Vergoossen 1986-1988 Jan Reker 1988-1989 Leo van Veen 1989 Sef Vergoossen (Interim)

Term of office Nat. Trainer 1989-1990 Doeke Hulshuizen 1990-1992 Henk Rayer 1992-1994 Frans Körver 1994-1995 Remy Reynierse 1995-1996 Jan Versleijen 1996-1998 Henk van Stee 1998-2000 Hennie Spijkerman 2000-2001 Jan Versleijen 2001-2004 Wim Dusseldorp 2004-2005 Adrie Koster 2005-2006 Herbert Neumann 2006-2008 André Wetzel 2008-2010 Jan van Dijk 2010-2011 Willy Boessen 2011 Glen de Boeck 2011-2013 Ton Lokhoff 2013-2014 Rene consolation Since 2014 Maurice Steijn

Venlos President

(incomplete)

• Jo van Daalen (? To 1953; 11/1954 to?)
• Jeu Sprengers (1981 to 1990)
• Hai Berden (2003 to 2018)
• Ineke Gutterswijk (since 2018)

More teams

Women's team

On March 10, 2010, the club founded a women's soccer team. For the 2010/11 season this will play in the Eredivisie for women . This makes them one of a total of seven teams in the Dutch women's professional football league. Rick de Rooij became the first coach . The club was formed through a merger with the lower class club SV Venray . The best-known players from the very beginning are the Dutch national team players Sandra Swinkels and Kika van Es . See: VVV-Venlo (women's football)

Youth teams

Venlo trains its own players in youth teams. Teams from F to A youth are looked after. Via the U-23, the Jong VVV-Venlo, the step from the youth teams to the professional squad is prepared. Talented junior players will be displayed and honored on the VVV Venlo talent wall. The current trainer of the U-23 is Jay Driessen .

Web links

• Official website
• Profile on fussballdaten.de
• VVV-Venlo in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile on transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Winnaar KNVB-beker ( Memento of the original dated August 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on vvv-venlo.nl (Dutch) ; ADO list according to game statistics at ADOstats.nl  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and newspaper report from June 18, 1959 . ADOstats names Wim beers instead of Cock Clavan, which in turn is explicitly mentioned in the newspaper article. Since it is unlikely that goalkeeper Biere played in the field, he has been exchanged for Cock Clavan here.   
2. ↑ Venlo achieves promotion from April 25, 2009 on transfermarkt.de
3. ↑ VVV-Venlo wants to play in Germany. ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from January 16, 2010 on weltfussball.de 
4. ^ German-Dutch business evening organized by VVV-Venlo on April 26, 2010 on reinercalmund.de
5. ^ VVV-Venlo: Transfers 2010/2011 on weltfussball.de
6. ↑ Trainer Wil Boessen te gast bij De Aftrap ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Homepage of VVV-Venlo from December 15, 2011. 
7. ↑ VVV-Venlo for the third time in history Champion in the Jupiler League , nu.nl, April 22, 2017.
8. ↑ Seacon Logistics - The extended arm of the container ports ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 183 kB) on businessviewmedia.com 
9. ↑ Ermia grew strongly: significantly more sales and an additional 40 employees from January 23, 2008 on erima.de
10. ↑ Home shirt 2006/07
11. ↑ Away shirt 2006/07
12. ↑ Alternative shirt 2006/07
13. ↑ VVV-Venlo enters into cooperation with West Ham United - NOS.nl, October 13, 2015 (Dutch)
14. ↑ West Ham United confirms cooperation with VVV-Venlo ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - WHUFC.com, October 13, 2015 (English) 
15. ↑ Profile on weltfussball.de
16. ↑ Profile on weltfussball.de
17. ↑ History 1953–1959 ( Memento of the original dated August 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Association homepage VVV 
18. ↑ Jeu Sprengers ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Association homepage VVV