DHC Delft
DHC ( Delfia Hollandia Combinatie ) is a football club from the Dutch city of Delft , which played nineteen seasons in the top division from 1932 to 1953.
history
DHC Delft was founded on March 17, 1910 and experienced its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, when the club's first team played in what was then the highest Eerste class . The most important player of the team in these years was the left winger of the Dutch national team , Joop van Nellen . In 1953 the team was relegated, and with the introduction of paid football and the Eredivisie , the DHC was sorted into the third-rate Tweede divisie ; In 1959 he was promoted to the Eerste divisie . With the Austrian Friedrich Donnenfeld , who had previously coached the Dutch national team for a while, the DHC hired a renowned coach for the first time in 1961. With him, DHC failed twice in the promotion round to the Eredivisie and only lost the cup final against Sparta Rotterdam in extra time with 0: 1 in 1962 .
In 1966, the professional department was outsourced from the club as DHC'66 . But in the midst of the large clubs from the neighboring cities of Rotterdam and The Hague, the club quickly lost its attractiveness and economic power. Even a merger with XerxesDZB to Xerxes / DHC'66 , through which the national players Wim van Hanegem and Eddy Treijtel came into the team in 1967 , could not save the professional football team. At the end of the 1968 season, the club went bankrupt. For a short time there were considerations to merge with Excelsior Rotterdam , but ultimately both Xerxes and DHC continued in amateur football. In the Hoofd class DHC became the Sunday Amateurs champion in 1983 and 1985 . In 2008, the first team of DHC played within the fourth highest league, the Eerste class B .
successes
- Promotion to the top division Eerste klasse 1932, 1951
- KNVB Cup finalist 1950, 1962
- Sunday Amateurs Masters 1983, 1985
player
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Joop van Nellen (1928–1937), 27 games for DHC in the national team.
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Piet Lagarde (19 ?? - 1962), a game for DHC in the national team.