Excelsior Rotterdam

Excelsior Rotterdam
Basic data
Surname	Betaald Voetbal Excelsior Foundation
Seat	Rotterdam , Netherlands
founding	1902
president	Albert de Jong
Website	sbvexcelsior.nl
First soccer team
Head coach	Marinus Dijkhuizen
Venue	Van Donge & De Roo Stadium
Places	4,400
league	First Division
2019/20	7th place
home Away

Stichting Betaald Voetbal Excelsior , SBV Excelsior for short and generally known in German-speaking countries as Excelsior Rotterdam , is a Dutch professional football club that comes from the Kralingen-Crooswijk district of Rotterdam . The home games are played at the Van Donge & De Roo Stadium , which can accommodate 4,400 spectators. With Excelsior, Sparta and Feyenoord , Rotterdam is the only city in the Netherlands that has three professional football clubs.

From 1997 to 2005 Excelsior Rotterdam was a farm team for the neighboring Rotterdam association Feyenoord. This means that Feyenoord had loaned young players to Excelsior for a certain period of time so that they could gain lower-level competition experience there.

The greatest success in the club's history was in 1930 reaching the finals for the Dutch Cup. The club lost the final 1-0 to Feyenoord Rotterdam .

The greatest success of the last few years was the promotion to the honor division in 2002. This year Excelsior Rotterdam also celebrated the 100th anniversary of the club. After one season, however, the club rose again and made it back to the Eredivisie in 2006 and 2010 . Due to the small budget and the very small stadium, Excelsior Rotterdam continues to play against relegation.

successes

• Champion of the Eerste Divisie (2nd division): 1974, 1979, 2006

Current squad 2018/19

As of May 6, 2019

No. position Surname 1 TW Alessandro ladies 2 FROM Sieve Horemans 3 FROM Hervé Matthys 4th FROM Thomas Oude Kotte 5 FROM Robin van der Meer 6th MF Jerdy Schouten 7th MF Anouar Hadouir 8th MF Ryan Koolwijk 9 ST Elías Mar Ómarsson 10 MF Luigi Bruins 11 ST Dennis Eckert 14th MF Ali Messaoud

No. position Surname 15th FROM Jurgen Mattheij 17th FROM Desevio Payne 18th MF Marcus Edwards 19th ST Mikael Anderson 20th TW Sonny Stevens 21st MF Dogucan Haspolat 22nd MF Jeffry Fortes 23 TW Maarten de Fockert 24 ST Denis Mahmudov 28 FROM Lorenzo Burnet 34 ST Mounir El Hamdaoui

Well-known former players

• Michel Bastos
• Mario Been
• George Boateng
• Winston Bogarde
• Luigi Bruins
• Thomas Buffel
• Jordy Clasie
• David Connolly
• Royston Drenthe
• Christian Gyan
• Ferry de Haan
• Mounir El Hamdaoui
• Rinus Israel
• Salomon Kalou
• Glenn Loovens
• Oscar Moens
• Robin van Persie (youth)
• Andwelé Slory
• Gill Swerts
• Gaston Taument

Coach history

• 1988–1990: Joop van Daele
• 1990–1990: Martin van der Kooy
• 1990-1992: Sandor Popovics
• 1992-1994: Cor Pot
• 1994-1995: Rob Baan
• 1995–1996: Hans van der Pluym
• 1996-1996: John Metgod
• 1996–2003: Adrie Koster
• 2003-2004: Henk van Stee
• 2004-2005: John Metgod
• 2005-2006: Mario Been
• 2006–2009: Ton Lokhoff
• 2009–2011: Alex Pastoor
• 2011–2012: John Lammers
• 2012–2013: Leon Vlemmings
• 2013–2013: Jon Dahl Tomasson
• 2013–2015: Marinus Dijkhuizen
• 2015–2016: Alfons Groenendijk
• 2016–2018: Mitchell van der Gaag
• 2018– 0000: Adrie Poldervaart

Web links

• Excelsior Rotterdam website (Dutch)