Blauw Wit Amsterdam

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Blauw-Wit versus Feyenoord, 1959

Blauw Wit ( Dutch for blue white ; the name Blauw Wit was recorded in the registry of the NVB in 1911; since 1924 it has been officially called Amsterdamsche voetbal- en athletiekvereeniging Blauw Wit (“Amsterdamer Fußball- und Athletikvereinigung Blau Weiß”); also known as Amsterdamse Sport Vereniging (or ASV ) Blauw-Wit , also known as Blauw-Wit Amsterdam in Germany ) is a Dutch football club from Amsterdam that has existed since 1902. The first team of the Dutch club was runner-up three times. The professional department was renamed in 1963 into a Stichting Betaald Voetbal ("Foundation Professional Football") and was run under the name Blauw Wit BV until 1972 , before it merged with DWS to form FC Amsterdam . The amateur department was retained as a club. After several other mergers, the club has been called FC Blauw-Wit Amsterdam since 2003 and plays under-class in amateur football.

history

The early years

The club was created in 1907 through the merger of the Amsterdam clubs Victoria from 1902 and Holland . Since there was already a club in the NVB called Victoria en Holland at that time, Blauw Wit was chosen as the name for the fusion club from the west of the capital . The first team competed in the derde class , the third division. The jerseys were held in horizontal blue and white stripes, which earned the club the nickname "Zebras". In 1910 he was promoted to the tweede class ; At that time, the game was played on various courses near the Hembrug , a railway bridge over the Noordzeekanaal in today's port area, which was replaced by the Hemtunnel in the mid-1980s . In 1911 the game was relocated to the east of Amsterdam, in the Watergraafsmeer district , where the club rented a sports field. In 1915 there were the first derbies in the league against the AFC Ajax ; both games ended with a 2-1 victory for the away team. In the following year, Blauw Wit became the undefeated second-class champion and successfully fought for promotion with Ajax , Haarlem and DVS from Rotterdam. In its statutes of 1917, “the training and promotion of the football game” was set as the club's objective, and with the name change in 1924, this was supplemented by athletics.

Era of excellence

As a first division club, Blauw Wit first made its home in the Nederlandsch Sportpark . Here the club won the title in the Eerste Klasse West for the first time in 1922 and was only relegated to second place in the championship finals in a playoff from Go Ahead . In the 1920s, Jack Reynolds was one of the first-team coaches for three years before returning to AFC Ajax . After the Olympic Games , the competition business moved to the neighboring Olympic Stadium in 1928 ; A new clubhouse was also built on the site. In 1930, the team took part in the finals of the Dutch championship again as champions of the first class , District West II - as well as the now more successful local rival Ajax as the champions of District West I and finished in fifth and last place. From 1933 to 1935 the club was only second class, but in 1940 Blauw Wit qualified again as district champion for the finals and was second behind Feijenoord for the second time, although a large number of players had been mobilized after the outbreak of war - the "war championship" was because of the Mobilization this season, however, unofficially played out. In June 1940, Blauw Wit trainer Booth was interned as a British citizen by the German occupying forces and did not return to Amsterdam until 1945. For a time, players were posted to the Reich to strengthen German clubs. Blauw-Wit striker Gerrie Stroker voluntarily went to Potsdam in September 1940 because he could not find a job in Amsterdam , where he found both a job and a friend and - from January 1943 together with Ajax player Jaap Hordijk - at SV Potsdam 03 initially acted as a player, then as a player-coach. Nevertheless, there was a fourth place for Blauw Wit in the championship finals in 1942. Even after the war ended, Blauw Wit initially remained a leading force in the West: the team reached the championship finals three more times (1947, 1950 and 1951); but she could not win the title - another runner-up in 1950 was the highest ranking.

Blauw-Wit in paid football

“Hands off Blauw-Wit” protest in the run-up to the merger with DWS, March 1971

When professional football was introduced in 1955, Blauw Wit was initially unable to qualify for the top division. The best players like Ferry Mesman switched to the newly founded BVC ( Beroepsvoetbalclub , i.e. professional football club) Amsterdam . Not until 1957 did the rise from the Eerste divisie to the Eredivisie followed , three years later the second descent. A completely renewed team around the Welshman Barry Hughes secured in 1961 as champions with 61 points and 110: 34 goals the direct promotion; in the Eredivisie followed a successful season, Blauw Wit finished third behind Feijenoord and PSV and qualified for the International Football Cup . In 1963 the professional department of the club was converted into a Stichting Betaald Voetbal ; a year later Blauw Wit BV went back to the Eerste divisie . Since fewer and fewer spectators wanted to see the matches in the second division, the home games were relocated from the Olympic Stadium, which could hold 60,000 people, to an adjacent square that offered space for around 6,000 people; In addition to a roofed steel grandstand with 1,200 seats, a canteen and changing rooms have been set up there. Official opening of the Blauw-Wit -Geländes was before the local derby against De Volewijckers on September 10, 1967. By 1972, the team remained in the second division before it - by merging with local rivals - although many fans protested against DWS for FC Amsterdam was disbanded ; this took over the Eredivisie place from DWS

Mergers save the club

Blauw Wit continued to exist as an amateur club after the merger; the first team shuttled until 1995 between the Hoofd class and the Eerste class , the two highest amateur leagues. In the 1990s, the team played for the first time three years in fifth class. In 2001, Blauw Wit first merged with the neighboring club Osdorp-Sport to form asv Blauw-Wit Osdorp ; Two years later, a further merger was necessary for financial and personnel considerations: KBV , Neerlandia / SLTO and Sparta Amsterdam were merged to form FC Blauw-Wit Amsterdam . The club has been at home in the Sloten Sports Park in south-west Amsterdam since 1965 . In the 2014/15 season the first team plays in the Eerste klasse (the fifth division at that time).

successes

  • 1910 Promotion to the Tweede class
  • 1916 champion and promotion to first class
  • 1922 Champion Eerste Klasse West , Dutch runner-up after the play-off
  • 1930 Champion Eerste Class West II , fifth in the championship finals
  • 1940 Champion Eerste Klasse West I , second in the championship finals (unofficial game round due to mobilization)
  • 1942 Champion Eerste Class West II , fourth in the championship finals
  • 1947 Champion Eerste Klasse West II , sixth in the championship finals
  • 1950 Champion first class West I , second in the championship finals
  • 1951 Champion Eerste Class C , fourth in the championship finals
  • 1957 Champion Eerste Divisie B and promotion to the Eredivisie
  • 1961 Master Eerste Divisie B and promotion to the Eredivisie
  • 1962 3rd place Eredivisie , participation in the International Football Cup

Former players

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b Database of the Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis , data sheet Blauw Wit
  2. ↑ a b cf. Dutch sports clubs at RSSSF
  3. ↑ as its founding date, today's FC Blauw-Wit Amsterdam gives May 10, 1902, on this day Victoria is said to have been founded; see. Website of FC Blauw-Wit Amsterdam ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2013 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. ; June 1, 1902 is noted in the Huygens data sheet, but May 10, 1902 is mentioned as an alternative. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blauwwitamsterdam.nl
  4. ↑ Susan Smit, De bal bleef roll. Ajax within voetballend Amsterdam tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. , 1.6 De mobilisatiejaren , University of Amsterdam 1997; with reference to D. Hagen ea, Blauw-Wit. "A zebra van bijna 100 jaar". 90 jaar 1902-1992 springlevend , Amsterdam 1992, p. 37
  5. ↑ Susan Smit, De bal bleef roll. Ajax within voetballend Amsterdam tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. , 6.1 Trainers en training , University of Amsterdam 1997
  6. ↑ Susan Smit, De bal bleef roll. Ajax within voetballend Amsterdam tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. , 6.5 Ajacieden 'buitenspel' , University of Amsterdam 1997; with reference to Barend en Van Dorp, 'Bezet Nederland in de greep van het bruine monster' in: Vrij Nederland 1979, p. 31 ff.
  7. ↑ Frits Barend et al. Henk van Dorp, Voetbal in den oorlog ; Publisher supplement to Vrij Nederland No. 17 of May 5, 1979, p. 31f .; Copying online ( memento of the original from May 5, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.vn.nl
  8. ↑ Stroker also obtained several diplomas in training work and massage in Germany. After returning to the Netherlands, he moved to AFC Ajax. See Susan Smit, De bal bleef roll. Ajax within voetballend Amsterdam tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. , 6.5 Ajacieden 'buitenspel' , University of Amsterdam 1997; with reference to Barend en Van Dorp, 'Bezet Nederland in de greep van het bruine monster' in: Vrij Nederland 1979, p. 31 ff.
  9. ↑ Ferry Reurink: Het stadium complex, Amsterdam Hoofdstuk 12 Olympic Stadium ; De Arbeiderspers / Het Sporthuis, Amsterdam / Antwerp 2007, ISBN 978-90-295-6474-8 , p. 78ff.
  10. ↑ Pancratius Blauw Wit Amsterdam ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 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. , Boekje des RKSV Pancratius of September 30, 2012, p. 3 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hansies.nl
  11. ↑ all placements according to RSSSF, first class west , championship finals , professional football in the Netherlands (since 1954)