FC Groningen

FC Groningen
Basic data
Surname	Football Club Groningen
Seat	Groningen , the Netherlands
founding	June 16, 1971
president	Bert Middel
Board	Wouter Gudde
Website	fcgroningen.nl
First soccer team
Head coach	Danny Buijs
Venue	Hitachi Capital Mobility Stadium
Places	22,579
league	Eredivisie
2019/20	9th place
home Away

Training of FC Groningen

The FC Groningen (pronounced [ɛf SE ɣroːnɪŋə (n)] ) is a football club in Groningen , The Netherlands . The first men's football team plays in the top Dutch league, the Eredivisie . FC Groningen plays its home games in the Hitachi Capital Mobility Stadium . The old Oosterpark stadium was demolished in 2006. The club and jersey colors are green and white.

history

FC Groningen was founded on June 16, 1971 and emerged from the outsourced professional football department of GVAV ( Groninger Voetbal en Atletiek Vereniging ). The club started in the Ehrendivision, but had to relegate to the Eerste Divisie three years later . In 1980 the Groningen champions of the Eersten Divisie were promoted again. In the season 1983/84 was first played in European Oosterpark. In the UEFA Cup , Atlético Madrid were first defeated before they had to admit defeat to Inter Milan in the second round . A total of 24 games were played in European competition. The 1990/91 season is considered to be the best playing time for FC Groningen, when they played for the national championship title up to four match days before the end of the season. In the end it was only enough for third place.

This was followed by a gradual decline in sport. In the 1997/98 season, FC Groningen rose to the Eerste Division after 18 years of honorary division . While Sparta Rotterdam had to give way in the first year of the second division , they were promoted again in 2000. In the 2006/07 and 2007/08 seasons you could again qualify for the UEFA Cup.

On May 3, 2015, FC Groningen celebrated the first success in the club's history when they won the Dutch Football Cup with a 2-0 win over defending champion PEC Zwolle . On June 27, 2020, the club announced that Arjen Robben would return to his youth club for the 2020/21 season .

Logo history

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  1970s

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  current

The interior of the Hitachi Capital Mobility Stadium

Sporting successes

• Dutch Cup Winner : 2015

Well-known former players

goalkeeper Marco Bizot Patrick Lodewijks Bas Roorda

Defender Daley blind Eric Botteghin Virgil van Dijk Mathias Florén Andreas Granqvist Johan de Kock Martin Koeman Ronald Koeman Wim Koevermans Michael Reiziger Gibreel Sankoh Bruno Silva Fredrik Stenman Adri van Tiggelen John de Wolf

midfield player Petter Andersson Leandro Bacuna Tjaronn Chery Thomas Enevoldsen Piet Fransen Danny Holla Maikel Kieftenbeld Andraž fair Erwin Koeman Goran Lovre Martijn Meerdink Johan Neeskens Tim Sparv

striker Fandi Ahmad Marcus Berg Mariano Bombarda Milko Djurovski René Eijkelkamp Peter Hoekstra Peter Houtman Ron Jans Jurrie Koolhof Filip Kostic Tim Matavž Erik Nevland Arjen Robben Luis Suarez Suk Hyun-jun Dušan Tadić Richairo Živković

Groningen's trainer

Term of office Nat. Trainer 1948-1962 Otto Bonsema - - - 1971-1975 Ron Groenewoud 1975-1976 Anton Goedhart 1976-1977 Jan Notermans 1977-1983 Theo desire 1983-1986 Han Berger 1986-1987 Rob Jacobs 1987-1988 Henk van Brussel 1988-1992 Hans Westerhof 1992-1993 Pim Verbeek 1993-1994 Leen Looijen

Term of office Nat. Trainer 1993-1994 Theo Vonk 1994-1997 Hans Westerhof 1997 Jan van Dijk (interim) 1997-1998 Wim Rijsbergen 1998-2001 Jan van Dijk 2001-2002 Dwight Lodeweges 2002-2009 Ron Jans 2009–2012 Pieter Huistra 2012-2013 Robert Maaskant 2013-2016 Erwin van de Looi 2016-2018 Ernest Faber Since 2018 Danny Buijs

Web links

• Official website of FC Groningen (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ARJEN ROBBEN MAAKT COMEBACK BIJ FC GRONINGEN fcgroningen.nl, accessed on June 27, 2020