NEC Nijmegen
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Surname | Nijmegen Eendracht Combinatie | |||
| Seat | Nijmegen , the Netherlands | |||
| founding | November 15, 1900 | |||
| Colours | Red-Green-Black | |||
| president | Ron van Oijen | |||
| Website | nec-nijmegen.nl | |||
| First soccer team | ||||
| Head coach | François Gesthuizen | |||
| Venue | Goffert Stadium | |||
| Places | 12,500 | |||
| league | First Division | |||
| 2019/20 | 8th place | |||
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The Nijmegen Eendracht Combinatie [ˈnɛi̯.ˌmeː.ɣə (n) ˈeːn.ˌdrɑxt ˈkom.bɪ.ˌnaː. (T) si] , generally known in German-speaking countries as NEC Nijmegen , is a Dutch football club from Nijmegen . The club colors are red-green-black.
General
The club colors of the club are red, green and black. The club's home shirt is based on this model. While the sleeves are black, the jersey is divided into two parts in the chest area, with red dominating on the left and green on the right. Pants and socks are completely black.
For away games, the team wears black jerseys. In addition, white trousers and socks are worn.
history
1900–1910: From road team to NEC
The association was founded on November 15th, 1900 in the poor areas of the city of Nijmegen . At that time football was played especially there, not on grass and appropriate fields, but on the street. A group of these street footballers finally made it their task to set up a club in order to be able to play football in a more organized manner. The name was first " Eendracht ". With a weekly contribution, money was raised in order to be able to buy balls first and later other things. In the first few years you played mainly against teams from other parts of the city. Even then, the club was considered a strong opponent for its neighbors. So Eendracht became the first champion of the Nijmegen Football Association, founded in 1903 . Thus the club rose to the Geldersche Football Association . Just two years later, they even made it into the second highest class of the KNVB . Football became more and more important in what was then the district. In April 1910, the name was changed to NEC , when it merged with a second Nijmeger team and agreed on the name Nijmegen Eendracht Combinatie (German: Nijmeger Spielgemeinschaft).
1911–1936: Eternal second division and promotion
After the merger, it took many years for the first major successes. Thereby one worried again and again how one could leave the club on sound financial feet. The club came from a poor area and consisted mostly of workers. You didn't have rich members. The main problem was the punctual payment of the contributions. This problem eased in the early 1920s. NEC bought a plot of land on Hazenkampseweg and set up a clubhouse. As a result, membership and supporters increased. In terms of sport, things also went well, but the club didn't make it into the top division. Although he was champions of the second division in 1928, 1929, 1931 and 1934, it was not granted to the club to be first class. This long-term goal was not reached until 1936. NEC won the relegation games and rose to the first division for the first time.
1937–1953: The Golden Years
Successful years followed the rise. Even the interruption caused by the Second World War couldn't stop the team from becoming one of the best teams in the Netherlands. As early as 1939, the Nijmegers were East Masters and were thus entitled to play for the national championship. The club came third behind Ajax Amsterdam and DWS Amsterdam . In 1946 the second Eastern Championship followed, which the team was able to defend the following year.
1954–1973: Introduction of professional football and establishment
After the introduction of professional football in the Netherlands, the club crashed. Besides internal there were financial problems. The club withdrew into the lower class amateur area to avoid dissolution. At the beginning of the 1960s, membership decreased as a result. In 1963, the city administration stepped in, which considered it important to have a football club in a professional league, and the NEC supported financially. The club rose just one season later. Three more years later, first division football was played again in Nijmegen. The audience numbers increased from then on. NEC attached great importance to good training in order to be able to sell its players to big clubs after some time in the first team. These include, for example, the future Dutch national players Frans Thijssen and Jan Peters . Despite the lack of major title successes, the club was one of the most popular clubs in the Netherlands at the time. 1969/70 they played internationally for the first time. In the UEFA Intertoto Cup they were in a group with Jednota Zilina (Slovakia), Örebro SK (Sweden) and AC Bellinzona (Switzerland). You could only win against Bellinzona, so that NEC took third place. In the mid-70s, however, the club took over and had economic problems again.
One of the greatest successes of this time was participation in the finals for the KNVB Cup in 1973. Against NAC Breda , the team headed by then coach Wiel Coerver was the favorite for the title. Teams like AZ'67 and Feyenoord Rotterdam have already been beaten on the way there . But things turned out differently: Breda won 2-0, giving NEC Nijmegen a deep blow.
1974–1994: Elevator team and economic bankruptcy
After the 1973/74 season, the club was relegated to the Eerste Divisie , but managed to get promoted again immediately. In the years to come, however, they regularly played against relegation. In 1983 he went back to the second division. However, they reached the final of the national cup in the same year. After the first and second leg, however, the team clearly lost with 2: 6 goals against Ajax Amsterdam. From then on you were considered the elevator crew. In 1985 the club rose, but immediately afterwards again. It took three years to get back to the Eredivisie . But after two seasons it was quickly over. It was not until 1994 that the repeated promotion to the Dutch House of Lords followed. In addition, there were always economic difficulties. In 1987 the club went bankrupt. Only for the reason that 80% of the creditors refrained from repayment, the club remained in existence. The then President Henk van de Water got some sponsors that gave NEC a financial cushion.
Although they were second class in 1993/94, the team reached the final of the KNVB Cup for the third time. In the semifinals they surprisingly beat Ajax Amsterdam. In the final, Feyenoord Rotterdam was waiting. There the club was finally defeated by 1: 2.
1995–2009: Centenary and constant performance
When NEC was on the verge of relegation three times between 1995 and 1997, they surprised the 1997/98 season when eighth place in the league was achieved. In the following years the club played more continuously and there were more spectators and new sponsors. For this reason one could afford to have a new stadium, the Goffertstadion , built. In 2000 the club celebrated its 100th anniversary. In the Eredivisie it was only enough for 15th place, but they moved back into the cup final. Against Roda JC Kerkrade there was a final defeat in the fourth attempt. In 2002/03, the team under coach Johan Neeskens achieved the best placement in the club's history with fifth place and thus qualified for the UEFA Cup competition for the first time . But already in the first round, the team was eliminated after two 1: 2 defeats against the Polish representative Wisła Krakow . In 2008/09 they managed to move into the UEFA Cup again. After the club survived the group phase and won their first UEFA Cup competitive games against Udinese Calcio (Italy) and Spartak Moscow (Russia), NEC was eliminated in the first round of the knockout phase against Hamburger SV . In 2009 successful coach Mario Been left the club for Feyenoord Rotterdam. He has been in charge of the team since 2006.
2009 – today: sporting relegation and promotion
Dwight Lodeweges , who was only hired as a coach before the 2009/10 season , announced his resignation at the end of October. His successor was in mid-November 2009 Wiljan Vloet , under whom the club placed in the middle of the Eredivisie in the following two years . After the voluntary departure from Vloet, Alex Pastoor was presented as the new coach for the 2011/12 season .
In the first year under Pastoor, I managed a good eighth place. In the second year, the club even finished the first half of the season in sixth, before a sporting crash began, which ended in the 2013/14 season with the club's first relegation in over 20 years. But already in the first season in the second-rate Eerste Divisie , the NEC managed to immediately rise again. Under coach Ruud Brood , the team finished the season with 101 points, setting a new record in this league. Brood left the club after that year at his own request. For the Eredivisie season 2015/16 , the club signed Ernest Faber , previously assistant coach at PSV Eindhoven , as a new coach.
On July 1, 2016, the German soccer coach Peter Hyballa was hired as the club's new coach by means of a two-year contract, but was dismissed shortly before the end of the season. At the end of the season, after two defeats in relegation against NAC Breda, NEC was relegated back to the second division.
European Cup balance sheet
| season | competition | round | opponent | total | To | Back |
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| 1983/84 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1 round |
 Brann Bergen
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2: 1 | 1: 1 (H) | 1: 0 (A) |
| 2nd round |
 FC Barcelona
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2: 5 | 2: 3 (H) | 0: 2 (A) | ||
| 2003/04 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
 Wisla Krakow
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2: 4 | 1: 2 (A) | 1: 2 (H) |
| 2004 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 2nd round |
 Cork City FC
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0: 1 | 0: 0 (H) | 0: 1 (A) |
| 2008/09 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
 Dinamo Bucharest
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1-0 | 1: 0 (H) | 0: 0 (A) |
| Group stage |
 Dinamo Zagreb
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2: 3 | 2: 3 (A) | |||
 Tottenham Hotspur
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0: 1 | 0: 1 (H) | ||||
 Spartak Moscow
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2: 1 | 2: 1 (A) | ||||
 Udinese Calcio
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2-0 | 2: 0 (H) | ||||
| Round of 16 |
 Hamburger SV
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0: 4 | 0: 3 (H) | 0: 1 (A) |
Overall record: 16 games, 4 wins, 3 draws, 9 defeats, 13:20 goals (goal difference −7)
Squad 2018/19
As of August 1, 2018
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useful information
player
- In the 1967/68 season, Hans Venneker scored 19 goals in one season. He set the record for the most successful NEC attacker, which was only broken in the 2010/11 season by Björn Vleminckx .
- On March 10, 1973 Cas Janssens scored four goals in a compulsory game, which no other NEC player has done so far.
- At 17 years and 25 days, Jan Peters holds the record as the youngest player in Nijmegen.
- Sije Visser holds the record for most games for NEC Nijmegen with 342 league games.
- Frans Janssen is the club's best striker with a total of 54 goals.
Record games
- The biggest win for Nijmegen was on August 9, 2008 in a friendly against Overasseltse Boys , when the team won 22-0. The greatest success in a competitive game was on March 10, 1973 with a 7-0 win against FC Den Bosch .
- The biggest defeat was on November 5, 1967 against Ajax Amsterdam . At that time the team lost 9-1. Ten months earlier, on January 4, 1967, the NEC players lost 7-3 to RBC Roosendaal . Both were also the highest-scoring games with Nijmeger participation.
- Between February 24, 2008 and September 21, 2008 the team remained undefeated in 31 games. This was the longest streak without a loss.
- Between January 22, 1978 and September 2, 1978, the longest negative series in the club's history took place. The team could not win for 16 games.
additional
- The best placement in the club's history came in 2002/03 when they finished fifth in the Eredivisie .
- The worst placement was a tenth place in the Eerste Divisie for the 1964/65 season.
Sponsors and outfitters
(incomplete)
Previous shirt sponsors
- 1998–2001: Plus Integration
- 2001/02: CSS
- 2002/03: Avaya
- 2004-2006: neovo
- 2004/05: Setpoint
- 2005/06: Telfort
- 2006-2008: Jiba
- 2008–2010: Curaçao (liqueur)
- 2012–2016: Scholten Awater
- 2016/17: Energy Flex
- 2017/18: Ouwehands Dierenpark
Previous clothing outfitters
- ?? - 2000: Puma
- 2000-2003: Fila
- 2003-2007: Lotto
- 2007-2011: Nike
- 2011–2014: JAKO
- 2014–2017: Partick
- 2017–2020: Legea
(As of September 2017)
Stadion
The club plays its home games in the Goffert Stadium . The sports facility was opened in 1939. In 2000 it was reopened after extensive renovation and many renovations. Today the stadium holds 12,500 spectators.
successes
- Winning the First Division : 1975, 2015
- Tweede Divisie Win : 1964
- Winning the Maritiem Toernooi : 2001, 2002, 2006, 2008
- Winning the Airmiles Cup (Hall Cup): 1997
Well-known former players
(Selection)
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Edgar Barreto (2004–2007; multiple national player for Paraguay)
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Dennis Gentenaar (1995–2005; 170 league games and former player for Borussia Dortmund )
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Danny Hesp (1997-2003; 167 league games for NEC Nijmegen)
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Gjorgji Hristov (2000-2003; multiple Macedonian national player)
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Cas Janssens , (1970–1973; four goals in one game and thus record holder for NEC Nijmegen)
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Frans Janssen (54 league goals and thus record holder for NEC Nijmegen)
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Jeffrey Leiwakabessy (1998–2006; former player for Alemannia Aachen )
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Jörg Sobiech (1996–1998; former player for SG Wattenscheid 09 , Stuttgarter Kickers and Chemnitzer FC etc.)
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Antti Sumiala (1995–1997; former player for SSV Reutlingen 05 )
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Hans Venneker (1967/68; 19 goals in one season and thus record holder for NEC Nijmegen)
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Sije Visser (342 league games and thus record holder for NEC Nijmegen)
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Peter Wisgerhof (2000–2008; 266 league games for NEC Nijmegen)
Nijmegen's trainer
(incomplete)
Since 1923 NEC Nijmegen has been coached in 36 coaching periods. Most of the time Dutch people held this position inside. The only Germans were Claus between 1931 and 1932 and Ferdi Silz for the 1956/57 season . The last foreign coach was the Scot Jimmy Calderwood , who headed the team for two years between 1997 and 1999. Few football instructors held the NEC coaching post for two or more years. The record holder since 1923 is Jan Bijl , who coached the Nijmeger team for five years from 1949 to 1954. The most famous coaches in the club's history were today's Chelsea scout Piet de Visser , the former national player Johan Neeskens and the later Feyenoord coach Mario Been .
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Nijmegen's President
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| Name of the President | Period |
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Henk van de Water
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Hans van Delft
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1997-2006 |
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Vincent Paes
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2006-2008 |
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Jan van Teeffelen
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2008–2012 |
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Ton van Gaalen
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2012-2017 |
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Ron van Oijen
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2017– |
Player of the year
Since the 2000/01 season, NEC Nijmegen has chosen the player of the season. The first title holder was the Dutchman Danny Hesp . In 2006/07 the Swede Jonas Olsson was the first foreigner to be honored with this title. To date (as of Nov. 2009) , only two non-Dutch nationals have been awarded the title of NEC Player of the Year . The only person who has been honored with it more than once is Rob Wielaert (2003, 2004). Dennis Gentenaar and Lorenzo Davids were the only people with this award who were also in the Bundesliga , i. H. in Germany.
| season | Name of the title holder |
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| 2000/01 |
Danny Hesp
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| 2001/02 |
Rob Wielaert
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| 2002/03 |
Rob Wielaert
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| 2003/04 |
Dennis Gentenaar
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| 2004/05 |
Peter Wisgerhof
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| 2005/06 |
Romano Denneboom
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| 2006/07 |
 Jonas Olsson
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| 2007/08 |
 Youssef El-Akchaoui
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| 2008/09 |
 Let Schøne
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| 2009/10 |
 Lorenzo Davids
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| 2010/11 |
Ramon Zomer
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| 2011/12 |
Rens van Eijden
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| 2012/13 |
 Gábor Babos
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| 2013/14 |
Rens van Eijden
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| 2014/15 |
Navarone Foor
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| 2015/16 |
Navarone Foor
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| 2016/17 |
 Dario Đumić
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| 2017/18 |
Arnaut Groeneveld
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Web links
- Official website of the association (Dutch)
- Profile of the club In: weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coach Dwight Lodeweges resigns from NEC Nijmegen on October 27, 2009 on goal.com
- ↑ Official: NEC Appoint Wiljan Vloet As New Head Coach from November 14, 2009 on goal.com (English)
- ↑ NEC wilts Peter Hyballa and Danny Hoekman | nec-nijmegen.nl. May 13, 2016, accessed July 1, 2016 (nl-NL).
- ↑ home kit on i199.photobucket.com
- ↑ a b c d Profile: Leen Looyen on weltfussball.de
