Sunday 15 June 2014

NETHERLANDS: RKSV Helmondia '55 (1967-1985) / SC Helmondia '55 (1985-2001) / SC Helmondia (2001-2020) / SV De Braak (2020-2022)

Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Braak Oost, Helmond (SV De Braak, formerly RKSV Helmondia '55 / SC Helmondia '55 / SC Helmondia)

Netherlands, province: North Brabant

15 VI 2014 / SC Helmondia - vv Boekel Sport 1-1 / District South II, Sunday League 3 - promotion play-off (= NL level 7)

Note: SC Helmondia played their football at Stadion De Braak from their foundation in October 1916 onwards. In 1955, when professional football was introduced in the Netherlands, the club acceded to the ranks of the professional leagues; coincidentally, in that same year, SC Helmondia concluded a merger with Kolping SDW, becoming RKSV Helmondia '55. In 1967, the club was split into a professional league branch, henceforth playing their football under the name Helmond Sport, and an amateur branch which continued life using the old name, but moving to a pitch on the eastern side of the stadium - which is the pitch shown in the photos below. Two more name changed followed, as RKSV Helmondia '55 became SC Helmondia '55 in 1985; sixteen years later, the old name SC Helmondia was reinstated. Finally, in 2020, SC Helmondia merged with their neighbours RKSV MULO, forming SV De Braak. At that point, all football moved to SC Helmondia's pitches, as MULO's Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Braak Noord had to make way for a school campus. In the summer of 2022, SV De Braak's (formerly SC Helmondia's) premises underwent a thorough renovation, involving - amongst other things - giving the main pitch a quarter turn and knocking down the covered stand. 









All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author

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