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Football Club Volendam is a Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 football club based in Volendam
Volendam
Volendam is a town in North Holland in the Netherlands, in the municipality of Edam-Volendam. The town has about 22,000 inhabitants .- History :...

, North Holland
North Holland
North Holland |West Frisian]]: Noard-Holland) is a province situated on the North Sea in the northwest part of the Netherlands. The provincial capital is Haarlem and its largest city is Amsterdam.-Geography:...

, Edam-Volendam
Edam-Volendam
Edam-Volendam is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland, consisting of the towns of Edam and Volendam, whose centres lie just 3 km apart.-Local government:...

. Founded on June 1, 1977, as a result of a split up with RKSV (founded 1920). It currently plays in the Eerste Divisie
Eerste Divisie
The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...

, holding home games at Kras Stadion
Kras Stadion
Kras Stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Volendam, Netherlands. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Volendam. The stadium is able to hold 6,984 people and was built in 1975....

, with a 6,260-seat capacity.

History


Football Club Volendam was founded as Victoria on June 1, 1920 by local fishermen. By 1923, the club had already been renamed to its most famous denomination. In 1977 RKSV Volendam split up in RKSV (non-pro) en FC Volendam (pro), this situation is still actual today.

Being from the piously catholic village of Volendam
Volendam
Volendam is a town in North Holland in the Netherlands, in the municipality of Edam-Volendam. The town has about 22,000 inhabitants .- History :...

, the club quickly joined the Catholic Football Association of the Netherlands. In 1935 and 1938, Volendam won that competition and, in the Second World War
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, was forced by the nazis to join the KNVB
Royal Dutch Football Association
The Royal Dutch Football Association is the governing body of football in the Netherlands. It organises the main Dutch football leagues , the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup, and the Dutch national football team. It is based in the municipality of Zeist.The KNVB came into being on 8 December 1889...

. In 1955, the club joined the professional football league, soon establishing its reputation as the Heen-en-weer club (the back-and-forth club) due to the many times the club was promoted and relegated throughout its history.

Throughout the years, Volendam spawned many talented players, such as Wim Jonk
Wim Jonk
Wilhelmus "Wim" Maria Jonk is a retired Dutch footballer. At the height of his career, he also played for the Netherlands national team....

, Edwin Zoetebier
Edwin Zoetebier
Eduard "Edwin" Andreas Dominicus Hendricus Jozef Zoetebier is a former football goalkeeper from the Netherlands, who started his professional career in the 1988-1989 season playing for FC Volendam. He later served Sunderland, Feyenoord, Vitesse, PSV Eindhoven and NAC Breda...

, Arnold
Arnold Mühren
Arnold Johannes Hyacinthus Mühren is a Dutch football manager and former midfielder. His older brother Gerrie, also a midfield player, won three European Cup titles with Ajax in the early 1970s...

 and Gerrie Mühren
Gerrie Mühren
Gerardus Demonicus Hyacinthus Mühren is a former Dutch international footballer.He started his career at FC Volendam, before moving to play for Ajax between 1968 and 1976...

. The club also has an accomplished scouting and youth system, which spreads across many different countries.

Honours

  • KNVB Cup
    KNVB Cup
    The KNVB Cup is a competition in the Netherlands organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association since 1899. It was based on the format of the English FA Cup. Outside of the Netherlands, it is often referred to as the Dutch Cup...
    • Runners-up: 1958, 1995

  • Eerste Divisie
    Eerste Divisie
    The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
    • Winner: 1959
      Eerste Divisie 1958-59
      The Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1958/1959 season was contested by 31 teams, divided in one group of sixteen teams and one of fifteen. One team less participated this year, due to the merger of Door Wilskracht Sterk with eredivisie-club BVC Amsterdam...

      , 1961
      Eerste Divisie 1960-61
      The Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1960/1961 season was contested by 36 teams, divided in two groups. FC Volendam and Blauw-Wit Amsterdam won the championship.-Group A:Promoted from the Tweede Divisie 1959–60:* EDO* Enschedese Boys...

      , 1967
      Eerste Divisie 1966-67
      The Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1966/1967 season was contested by 20 teams. Since there were only fifteen teams in the previous season, several new teams entered the competition...

      , 1970
      Eerste Divisie 1969-70
      The Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1969/1970 season was contested by 18 teams. FC Volendam won the championship.-New entrants:Promoted from the Tweede Divisie 1968–69:* Excelsior* Fortuna Vlaardingen* De Graafschap...

      , 1987
      Eerste Divisie 1986-87
      The Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1986/1987 season was contested by 19 teams. FC Volendam won the championship.-New entrants:Relegated from the Eredivisie 1985-86* SC Heracles* MVV* NEC Nijmegen-League standings:-Promotion competition:...

      , 2008
      Eerste Divisie 2007-08
      The 2007/2008 season of the Eerste Divisie began in August 2007 and will end in May 2008.-Relegated teams:These teams were relegated from the Eredivisie at the start of the season:*RKC Waalwijk...


  • Promoted to Eredivisie
    Eredivisie
    The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....
    • Promotion: 1977
      Eerste Divisie 1976-77
      The Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1976/1977 season was contested by 19 teams. Vitesse won the championship.-New entrants:Relegated from the Eredivisie 1975-76* Excelsior* MVV-League standings:-Promotion competition:...

      , 1983
      Eerste Divisie 1982-83
      The Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1982/1983 season was contested by 16 teams, two less than the previous season. This was due to the disbandment of FC Amsterdam at the end of last season and the disbandment of SC Amersfoort halfway this year...

      , 2003
      Eerste Divisie 2002-03
      The Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 2002/2003 season was contested by 18 teams. ADO Den Haag won the championship.-New entrants:Relegated from the Eredivisie 2001-02* FC Den Bosch* Fortuna Sittard* Sparta Rotterdam-League standings:...


Domestic Results


Below is a table with Volendam's domestic results since the introduction of the Eredivisie
Eredivisie
The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....

 in 1956.

Current squad


As of 1 August 2011

For recent transfers, see List of Dutch football transfers summer 2011

On loan


Former managers



  • Leen van Woerkom (1955-58)
  • Ger Stroker (1958-60) Bram Appel
    Bram Appel
    Abraham Leonardus Appel was a Dutch football player.Appel played for ADO Den Haag in the Dutch league in the 1930s. He was forced to work in a factory in Berlin, Germany in 1942...

     (1960-??)
  • Piet Dubbelman (19??-64) Ron Dellow
    Ron Dellow
    Ron Dellow is an English former footballer and coach. As a player, he was a right-winger who began his professional career at Blackburn Rovers, and later played for Mansfield Town, Manchester City and Tranmere Rovers in the years before World War II...

     (1964-69) Hans Croon
    Hans Croon
    Hans Croon was a Dutch football manager who won the 1976 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final with R.S.C. Anderlecht.As well as Anderlecht, Croon coached in the Netherlands and Belgium with DWS, VER, HVC, FC Volendam, K.S.V. Waregem, Lierse S.K. and NEC...

     (19??-??)
  • Joep Steur (19??-75)
  • Arie Stehouwer (1975-76)
  • Leo Steegman (1976-77)
  • Jan Mak
    Jan Mak
    -Career:He was caretaker at amateurside HVV Den Haag in 1971.After managing FC Volendam in his native Netherlands, Mak took charge of Swedish sides Halmstads BK between 1981 and 1984, IS Halmia, IK Brage and IF Elfsborg between 1988 and 1990...

     (1977-79)

  • Henk Ellens (1979-??)
  • Joep Steur (19??-??)
  • Dick Maurer (19??-??)
  • Joep Steur (19??-81)
  • Dick Maurer (1981-82) Fritz Korbach
    Fritz Korbach
    Fritz Korbach was a German professional football player and manager, active primarily in the Netherlands, where he died in 2011....

     (1982-83) Cor van der Hart
    Cor van der Hart
    Cor van der Hart was a Dutch footballer. He is known as one of the best defenders of the Dutch national team in history, who was physically strong, who read the game very well and who had a quality kicking technique....

     (1983-84)
  • Joep Steur (1984)
  • Simon Kistemaker (1984) Leo Beenhakker
    Leo Beenhakker
    Leo Beenhakker is an international Dutch football coach, who is the current Sports Director of Újpest FC.- Coaching career :...

     (1984-85)

Barry Hughes
Barry Hughes
Barry Hughes is a Welsh former professional football player and manager, active primarily in the Netherlands.-Playing career:...

 (1985-86) Jan Brouwer
Jan Brouwer
Jan Brouwer is a Dutch football manager who is the manager of Angolan side Sagrada Esperança, a position he undertook in April 2008.He previously managed the Zambia national team in 2001, Petro Atlético in 2004, and Primeiro de Agosto from 2004 to 2007, who he had led to the title in 2006, their...

 (1986-88)
  • Leo Steegman (1988-92) André Stafleu
    André Stafleu
    André Stafleu is a retired Dutch footballer who was active as a defender. Stafleu made his professional debut at Feyenoord and also played for Excelsior, Vitesse, Willem II and HFC Haarlem...

     (1992) Fritz Korbach
    Fritz Korbach
    Fritz Korbach was a German professional football player and manager, active primarily in the Netherlands, where he died in 2011....

     (1992-94) Wim Rijsbergen (1994-95) Bert Jacobs
    Bert Jacobs
    Bert Jacobs was a football manager from the Netherlands, who played for HFC Haarlem. Born in Zandvoort, he started a career as a football coach as a 27-year old when he became the head coach of Velox from Utrecht...

     (1995-96) Jan Brouwer
    Jan Brouwer
    Jan Brouwer is a Dutch football manager who is the manager of Angolan side Sagrada Esperança, a position he undertook in April 2008.He previously managed the Zambia national team in 2001, Petro Atlético in 2004, and Primeiro de Agosto from 2004 to 2007, who he had led to the title in 2006, their...

     (1996) (a.i.
    Ad interim
    The Latin phrase ad interim literally means "in the time between" denotes the meaning of "in the meantime", "for an intervening time" or "temporarily" in the English language...

    ) Hans van der Zee
    Hans van der Zee
    Hans van der Zee is a Dutch soccer manager and scout.He was a manager of two clubs in Holland on the highest level.From 1996 until 1997 he was manager of FC Volendam. From 1997 until 1999 he was manager of Sparta Rotterdam....

     (1996-97)
  • Dick de Boer (1997-99)

Andries Jonker
Andries Jonker
Andries Jonker is a Dutch football manager currently coaching Bayern Munich II. He came to Bayern as assistant to Louis van Gaal, and took over as head coach on an interim basis from April 2011 until the end of the 2010–11 season...

 (1999-00) Henk Wisman
Henk Wisman
Henk Wisman is a Dutch football manager, who was the coach of the Armenia national football team for around a year.Wisman began his career at AFC Ajax, having played in their youth system...

 (2000-04)
  • Johan Steur (2004) Job Dragtsma
    Job Dragtsma
    Job Dragtsma is a Dutch football manager, who was the coach of FC Volendam for around a year . He is the current manager of FC Inter Turku in Finland, with whom he won the national title in 2008, Finnish League Cup in 2008 and the Finnish Cup in 2009...

     (2004-05) Ernie Brandts
    Ernie Brandts
    Ernstus "Ernie" Wilhelmus Johannes Brandts is a former Dutch football defender, who played for PSV Eindhoven, Roda JC Kerkrade, MVV Maastricht and De Graafschap....

     (2005-06) Stanley Menzo
    Stanley Menzo
    Stanley Purl Menzo is a retired Dutch footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and a current coach.Most of his professional career was spent at Ajax , appearing in more than 300 official matches with the club and winning nine major titles.Menzo represented the Dutch national team in one World Cup...

     (2006-08) Frans Adelaar (2008-09) Edward Sturing
    Edward Sturing
    Edward Jeroen Sturing is former footballer defender from the Netherlands, who obtained three caps for the Dutch national team. He played for De Graafschap and Vitesse Arnhem . After his career he became a football manager, first as an assistant and later as head coach...

     (2009-10)
  • Johan Steur (2010) Gert Kruys
    Gert Kruys
    Gert Kruys is a former football midfielder from the Netherlands, who played his entire career for FC Utrecht with one short spell at RKC Waalwijk . He retired in 1988, and soon afterwards became a coach who worked for AGOVV Apeldoorn, Cambuur Leeuwarden, FC Den Bosch, De Graafschap, and FC...

     (2010-)


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