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Saturday, 15 March 2025

NETHERLANDS: HSV SOA (B) (2002-2006) / SV Wateringse Veld (B) (2006-2014) / SV Wateringse Veld GONA (B) (2014-2018) / HSV Celeritas (B) (2016-2018) / SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg (B) (2018-2021) / FC Skillz (2019-) / SSA FC Skillz-Wateringse Veld (2021-)

Sportpark Zonneveld veld 2, The Hague = Den Haag = 's-Gravenhage Wateringse Veld (SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld & FC Skillz, formerly B pitch of HSV SOA / SV Wateringse Veld / SV Wateringse Veld GONA / HSV Celeritas / SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg)

Netherlands, province: South Holland = Zuid-Holland

15 III 2025 / SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld - SC Monster 1-2 / Combined Sunday & Saturday League 1B (= NL level 6)

Timeline
  • 1919 / Foundation of a football club in The Hague, which is given the name DSS, an acronym of ‘Door Samenwerking Sterk’. The club settles on a pasture situated at Waldorpstraat.
  • 1922 / Applying for membership of the so-called Haagsche Voetbalbond (HVB), The Hague’s sub-branch of the Netherlands’ Football Association (NVB, later renamed KNVB), DSS is obliged to change its name due to the acronym already being in use by other clubs. Thereupon, the club is allowed to join with the new name HVV (Haagsche Voetbalvereeniging) SOA, Haagsche Voetbalvereeniging ‘Samenspel Overwint Alles’. Around this time, the club groundshares with vv VOGEL at Terrein Achterweg, at the crossroads with Parkweg, close to the Voorburg water tower.
  • 1926 / Remaining in Voorburg, HVV SOA moves to a newly laid-out pitch at Rodelaan.
  • 1929 / HVV SOA abandons its pitch at Rodelaan, settling on a pasture at Veurste Achterweg in Leidschendam.
  • 1934 / Having to abandon its pitch at Veurste Achterweg, HVV SOA spends the 1934-35 season as groundsharer with various other clubs.
  • 1935 / HVV SOA finds a new home, being given the opportunity to play its matches on the middle section of the so-called Rijswijkse Wielerbaan, a velodrome at Delftweg in Rijswijk.
  • 1939 / Being evicted from the Rijswijkse Wielerbaan, HVV SOA concludes a groundsharing agreement with CVS at Terrein Duinlaan.
  • 1940 / Moving away from Terrein Duinlaan, HVV SOA concludes a new groundsharing agreement with VDS, settling at that club’s pitch, situated at Fruitweg.
  • 1948 / Moving away from Terrein Fruitweg after eight years, HVV SOA settles on the newly laid-out Sportpark Ockenburgh.
  • 1950 / HVV SOA adapts its name to become HSV (Haagse Sportvereniging) SOA. 
  • 1974 / Moving away from Sportpark Ockenburgh, HSV SOA moves to a newly laid-out ground at Wijndaelerweg, also situated in the Ockenburgh neighbourhood. Confusingly enough, this ground is later renamed Sportpark Ockenburgh.
  • 2002 / HSV SOA leaves its ground, Sportpark Ockenburgh at Wijndaelerweg, after 28 years, settling at the newly laid-out Sportpark Zonneveld, situated at Guido de Moorstraat in the new housing estate Wateringse Veld on the southern outskirts of The Hague. The move was brought about due to the club’s ever-decreasing membership, with the hope being pinned on an influx of new youth members following the move to the new neighbourhood. The new park, consisting of a main pitch laid out in grass and a synthetic pitch, is inaugurated in August 2002.
  • 2006 / HSV SOA officially changes its name to become Sportvereniging (SV) Wateringse Veld, thus taking on the name of the neighbourhood in which the club settled four years previously. Another reason for the name change was the negative connotation of the acronym SOA, given that it had also become the way to refer to venereal diseases (in Dutch: Seksueel Overdraagbare Aandoeningen, SOA’s) since the late 1990s. As a result, the name (HSV) SOA had become a mark of derision, with youth members even walking away from the club for this reason.
  • 2013 / Foundation of a football academy in The Hague, which is given the name Voetbalschool SKILLZ, by the couple Benito & Sharon Marica. In order to allow the new academy, which is not affiliated to the Netherlands' Football Association, to organise training sessions and matches, the owners of the school conclude a groundsharing agreement with non-league club vv Verburch, enabling them to use Sportpark Verburch at Arckelweg in Poeldijk as their home base.
  • 2014 / SV Wateringse Veld concludes a merger with vv GONA, a club founded in 1941, resulting in the foundation of SV Wateringse veld GONA. With vv GONA abandoning its ground, Sportpark Escamp III at Beresteinlaan, all activities of the new club move to Sportpark Zonneveld in Wateringse Veld.
  • 2016 / SV Wateringse Veld GONA is joined at Sportpark Zonneveld by HSV Celeritas, a club which had been without a ground of its own since being evicted from its Sportpark Leyweg two years previously. 
  • 2018 / In mid-2018, one year after the merger between SV Wateringse Veld GONA and vv Kranenburg, the club takes on the name SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg. Meanwhile, HSV Celeritas moves away from Sportpark Zonneveld after two seasons, settling at Sportpark Prinses Irene in Rijswijk. Also in 2018, Voetbalschool SKILLZ, the football academy founded in 2013, moves away from Sportpark Verburch, settling at the aforementioned Sportpark Prinses Irene as well.
  • 2019 / Six years after forming their football academy Voetbalschool SKILLZ, Benito & Sharon Marica decide to join the Netherlands' FA in order to allow part of their academy players to compete in regular youth competitions under the name FC Skillz. Whereas Voetbalschool SKILLZ remains at Sportpark Prinses Irene in Rijswijk, FC Skillz plays its matches at Sportpark Zonneveld in Wateringse Veld, groundsharing with SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg.
  • 2020 / With Sportpark Prinses Irene being abandoned, all of the activities of Voetbalschool SKILLZ as well as its offshoot FC Skillz are brought together at Sportpark Zonneveld.
  • 2021 / SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg and FC Skillz conclude a partnership deal under the name SSA (Samenwerking Seniorenafdeling) FC Skillz Wateringse Veld. In practice, given that SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg hardly had any membership left at that point, this amounted to FC Skillz widening its activities to regular league football after eight years of ‘just’ being a youth academy. The club's first team as well as the U23 selection compete as SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld, while all other youth academy teams continue to use the name FC Skillz. After the withdrawal of SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg from Saturday League 2 in mid-2020, the new flagship team of SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld is allowed to start its life in Saturday League 3. The club is joined for the new season by Anthony Biekman, former professional league striker at FC Den Bosch, RKC Waalwijk, and FC Dordrecht. Whereas HSV SOA, SV Wateringse Veld, SV Wateringse Veld GONA, and SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg had always played their first team football on the grass pitch of Sportpark Zonneveld, SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld moves virtually all club activities, including first team football, to the synthetic side pitch of the park.
  • 2022 / Champions in District West II’s Saturday League 3B, 2 points ahead of runners-up SC Monster, SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld wins promotion to Saturday League 2. The decisive points are clinched in a 8-2 away win at HSV DUNO (three goals by Samir El Moussaoui, two by Yassin Chentouf, one each by Farid Overman, Joël Mayala, and Reda Reddam). The successful coach is Oussama Bekkaoui.
  • 2023 / Champions in Saturday League 2E, 3 points ahead of runners-up SV RKDEO, SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld manages its second promotion in a row, acceding to Combined Sunday & Saturday League 1. The decisive points are clinched in a 4-0 home win over RKVV Westlandia (za) (goals by Abdel Tufi, Chadian Melfor, Adam Bekkaoui, and Djurandy Swedo). The successful coach is Oussama Bekkaoui.
  • 2024 / In its first season in Saturday League 1, the ambitious flagship team of SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld manages a somewhat underwhelming eighth place in Combined Sunday & Saturday League 1C. In the summer of 2024, the club makes headlines by signing Eljero Elia, former professional league winger at ADO Den Haag, FC Twente, Hamburger SV, Juventus FC, SV Werder Bremen 1899, Southampton FC, Feyenoord Rotterdam, Istanbul Başakşehir FK, and FC Utrecht. Elia also won thirty caps for the Netherlands, notably being part of the Netherlands’ squad which won a silver medal in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Elia’s arrival does not bring SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld the hoped-for success, however, as the winger has a hard time coming to terms with non-league football. He left the club in the fall of 2024 after walking away angrily following being subbed.














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NETHERLANDS: HSV SOA (2002-2006) / SV Wateringse Veld (2006-2014) / SV Wateringse Veld GONA (2014-2018) / HSV Celeritas (2016-2018) / SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg (2018-2021) / FC Skillz (B) (2019-) / SSA FC Skillz-Wateringse Veld (B) (2021-)

Sportpark Zonneveld, The Hague = Den Haag = 's-Gravenhage Wateringse Veld (B pitch of SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld & FC Skillz, formerly HSV SOA / SV Wateringse Veld / SV Wateringse Veld GONA / HSV Celeritas / SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg)

Netherlands, province: South Holland = Zuid-Holland

March 2019 / no match visited

Timeline
  • 1919 / Foundation of a football club by a group of boys from the Schilderswijk neighbourhood in The Hague – more specifically the Van Ostadestraat – which is given the name DSS, an acronym of ‘Door Samenwerking Sterk’. The group gets together for kickabouts against other recreational teams, with home games being played on a pasture situated at Waldorpstraat.
  • 1922 / Applying for membership of the so-called Haagsche Voetbalbond (HVB), The Hague’s sub-branch of the Netherlands’ Football Association (NVB, later renamed KNVB), DSS is obliged to change its name due to the acronym already being in use by other clubs. Thereupon, the club is allowed to join with the new name HVV SOA, Haagsche Voetbalvereeniging ‘Samenspel Overwint Alles’. Around this time, the club groundshares with vv VOGEL at Terrein Achterweg, at the crossroads with Parkweg, close to the Voorburg water tower.
  • 1926 / Remaining in Voorburg, HVV SOA moves to a newly laid-out pitch at Rodelaan.
  • 1927 / In the first recorded success in club history, HVV SOA clinches the title in HVB (Sunday) Division 2H, acceding to HVB Division 1.
  • 1929 / Obtaining the title in HVB Division 1A, HVV SOA accedes to KNVB District West II’s (Sunday) Division 4 for the first time in club history. That same year, the club abandons its pitch at Rodelaan, settling on a pasture at Veurste Achterweg in Leidschendam.
  • 1930 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West II’s Sunday League 4A, HVV SOA avoids the drop back into the ranks of HVB following a successful round of promotion-relegation play-offs.
  • 1931 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West II’s Sunday League 4A, HVV SOA fails to avoid the drop in the promotion-relegation play-offs, thus being placed in HVB Division 1 for the new season.
  • 1934 / HVV SOA has to abandon its pitch at Veurste Achterweg. One source states this was because the location was destined for housing, while another claims the farmer renting the ground to SOA was so appalled by misconduct on the part of one or more board members that he no longer wished to have anything to do with the club. For the 1934-35 season, SOA groundshares with various other clubs.
  • 1935 / Clinching the title in HVB Division 1B, HVV SOA manages a return to District West II’s Sunday League 4. That same year, the club finds a new home, being given the opportunity to play its matches on the middle section of the so-called Rijswijkse Wielerbaan, a velodrome at Delftweg in Rijswijk with stands able to receive some 10,000 spectators. 
  • 1937 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West II’s Sunday League 4B, HVV SOA avoids the drop back into the ranks of HVB following a successful round of promotion-relegation play-offs.
  • 1939 / As the Netherlands’ armed forces mobilise in the face of the looming German attack on the Low Countries, many SOA members are called up to serve their country. Moreover, due to the fact that the velodrome in Rijswijk is situated in the immediate vicinity of the Ypenburg military airfield, all sporting activities at the ground are suspended at the behest of the Netherlands’ Army, as the airstrip would be an obvious target for air-raids. For the 1939-40 season, the club concludes a groundsharing agreement with CVS at Terrein Duinlaan. CVS would be absorbed into SVV Scheveningen in 1940.
  • 1940 / Moving away from Terrein Duinlaan, HVV SOA concludes a new groundsharing agreement with VDS, settling at that club’s pitch, situated at Fruitweg. That same year, the velodrome in Rijswijk is knocked down.
  • 1941 / Foundation of a new football club in The Hague, which is formed by a group of employees of the so-called Postcheque- en Girodienst, a sub-branch of the Netherlands’ Postal Services. As recreational football has been played for the past fifteen years, the step is made to apply for HVB membership. As the initial acronym GOC (meaning unclear) is turned down, the club joins as Giro Sport- en Ontspanningsvereniging ‘Gezonde Ontspanning Na Arbeid’, or, in short, GSV GONA. Apart from football, club activities comprise swimming and chess – and later handball as well. At some point, the club adapted its name to become vv GONA, but it is unclear when this name change came into effect. Being placed in HVB Sunday Division 3 for the 1941-42 season, GSV GONA settles on a pitch at Hoekwaterstraat in Voorburg.
  • 1943 / In the club’s best result in the 20th century, HVV SOA finishes in third place in District West II’s Sunday League 4D, 5 points behind champions VVP.
  • 1944 / vv GONA clinches the title in HVB Sunday Division 3A, but fails to win promotion in the ensuing play-off rounds.
  • 1946 / Clinching the title in HVB Sunday Division 3A, ahead of SV HMS which is defeated in a direct confrontation (3-0) on the last day of the season, vv GONA accedes to HVB Sunday Division 2. Also in 1946, a smaller club in The Hague, vv Ovenvoorde, folds, with the majority of its remaining membership joining HVV SOA.
  • 1947 / Runaway champions in HVB Sunday Division 2B, 14 points ahead of closest followers HVV Te Werve, vv GONA manages its second promotion in a row, acceding to HVB Sunday Division 1.
  • 1948 / Moving away from Terrein Fruitweg after eight years, HVV SOA settles on the newly laid-out Sportpark Ockenburgh, a large park consisting of 24 pitches laid out on a former airfield.
  • 1950 / Finishing in second-last place in District West II’s Sunday League 4B, HVV SOA drops back into HVB Sunday Division 1 along with bottom club KRVC. That same year, a handball branch sees the daylight at HVV SOA, as a result of which the club name is adapted to become HSV (Haagse Sportvereniging) SOA. The handball branch would hold out for seven years, folding in 1957. Later on, softball is added to the club’s myriad of activities.
  • 1952 / Obtaining the title in HVB Sunday Division 1A, 3 points ahead of runners-up SV HMS, HSV SOA fails to win promotion in the ensuing play-off rounds.
  • 1953 / Obtaining the title in HVB Sunday Division 1B, HSV SOA fails to win promotion in the ensuing play-off rounds, played at HVV Laakkwartier’s Terrein Jansoniusstraat and vv BMT’s ground at Fruitweg.
  • 1958 / Moving away from Sportpark Ockenburgh, vv GONA settles on a newly laid-out pitch at Beresteinlaan, later renamed Sportpark Escamp III, where a wooden clubhouse is erected. That same year, HSV SOA sees part of its membership, including the entire flagship team, break away to form a new club, vv Groen Wit ’58, which concludes a groundsharing agreement with KMD at Terrein Noordweg in Wateringen.
  • 1959 / In the 1958-59 season, HSV SOA finishes bottom of the table in HVB Sunday Division 1B, while vv GONA suffers the same fate in HVB Sunday Division 1A. As a result, both clubs descend into HVB Sunday Division 2.
  • 1960 / HSV SOA manages an immediate return to HVB Sunday Division 1. The club must have dropped back into Sunday Division 2 in one of the following six seasons, but no information is available on the matter.
  • 1962 / vv GONA finishes as runners-up in HVB Sunday Division 2A, 9 points behind champions SV BTC. The club would finish as runners-up in this same division once again in 1964.
  • 1965 / Finishing in joint first place in HVB Sunday Division 2B with TEDO and vv VOGEL, vv GONA meets both of these clubs in a three-way play-off – going on to defeat both. First, at vv JAC’s Terrein Buurtweg in Wassenaar, TEDO is brushed aside unceremoniously (5-0), upon which the encounter with vv VOGEL, played at TEDO’s Terrein Leyweg, finishes in a 1-0 win. The decisive goal in that match is scored by Piet Schijvenaars. As a result, vv GONA manages a return to HVB Sunday Division 1 after six seasons.
  • 1967 / Clinching the title in HVB Sunday Division 1A following a 2-1 defeat of HVV Cromvliet, vv GONA accedes to KNVB District West II’s Sunday League 4 for the first time. The successful coach is Aad Poons. The club makes its debut in Sunday League 4 with a 1-0 away win at vv VEP.
  • 1971 / Coached by Frits de Lange, vv GONA finishes in joint last place in District West II’s Sunday League 4A with SV Warmunda, going on to suffer defeat against that club in a tie-break match, played at RKAVV’s Terrein Van Ruysdaellaan (2-1). As a result, vv GONA drops back into the ranks of HVB after four years. Also in 1971, clinching the title in HVB Sunday Division 2A, HSV SOA wins promotion to HVB Sunday Division 1. The decisive points are clinched in a 5-1 home win over GDCPH (three goals by Huisman, one more each by De Weerd and Zegeling). The successful coach is Dick Tijssen. 
  • 1973 / At vv GONA’s Sportpark Escamp III, the wooden clubhouse is replaced by a successor in stone.
  • 1974 / Finishing bottom of the table in HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse, the new top division of the HVB pyramid, vv GONA, coached by Jan van Leeuwen, drops back into HVB Sunday Division 1. Moving away from Sportpark Ockenburgh, HSV SOA moves to a newly laid-out ground at Wijndaelerweg, also situated in the Ockenburgh neighbourhood. This ground, later renamed Sportpark Ockenburgh (confusingly enough) is shared with a smaller club, vv Nationale Nederlanden. The official inauguration of the clubhouse takes place on October 12th, 1974. One of the other pitches of the new park is taken over by SV Die Haghe, which abandons its old ground, Sportpark Escamp II.
  • 1975 / Champions in HVB Sunday Division 1B, HSV SOA wins promotion to HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse. The successful coach is Henk den Boer, former professional league player at RV&AV Sparta.
  • 1976 / Clinching the title in HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse, HSV SOA manages a return to Sunday League 4 after an absence of more than 25 years. The successful coach is Ben Wareman.
  • 1977 / Still coached by Ben Wareman, HSV SOA finishes in joint last position in District West II’s Sunday League 4D, going on to suffer defeat in a tie-break match against SV Nieuwkoop. As such, the club drops back into HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse. Meanwhile, vv GONA clinches the title in HVB Sunday Division 1B, 2 points ahead of HSV Westerkwartier, thus managing a return to HVB Hoofdklasse after three years.
  • 1978 / Clinching the title in HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse, HSV SOA manages an immediate return to Sunday League 4. The successful coach is Henk den Boer. Meanwhile, also in HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse, vv GONA finishes in joint last position with hvv HDV. Both clubs meet in a tie-break match, played at Sportpark Prinses Irene in Rijswijk, attended by some 800 spectators. With HDV walking away as 3-0 winners, vv GONA suffers relegation into HVB Sunday Division 1.
  • 1979 / Champions in HVB Sunday Division 1A following a 3-1 away defeat at HVV Zwart-Blauw, vv GONA manages an immediate return to HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse. The goals in the decisive match are scored by Hans Valkenburg (2) and Martin Nieuwdorp. The successful coach is John Rietveld.
  • 1980 / Coached by Tjoeman Chang, HSV SOA finishes rock bottom in District West II’s Sunday League 4B without managing a single win all season. As such, the club drops back into HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse.
  • 1982 / vv GONA suffers relegation from HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse to HVB Sunday Division 1.
  • 1983 / Coached by Cock Clavan, HSV SOA suffers relegation from HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse to HVB Sunday Division 1.
  • 1986 / Clinching the title in HVB Sunday Division 1B, vv GONA wins promotion to HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse. The decisive points are clinched in a 2-5 away win at HVV Paraat, with the goals being scored by Hans Valkenburg (2), Robert Bottinga (2), and Mick Mallander. The successful coach is Cees van Nierop.
  • 1987 / Obtaining the title in HVB Sunday Division 1B, HSV SOA wins promotion to HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse. The decisive point is clinched a 1-1 away draw at SV TAMUVONA, with SOA’s goal being scored by Madjo Dewus. In that same match, SOA’s Benny Schermer plays his 500th match for the club. The successful coach is Ben Wareman.
  • 1989 / Narrowly avoiding relegation from HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse, HSV SOA signs Tsjeu La Ling as its new player-coach. Ling had had a fourteen-year-long professional league career as a winger at FC Den Haag, AFC Ajax, Panathinaicos FC, Olympique Marseille, and Feyenoord Rotterdam, while also winning 14 caps for the Netherlands’ national team.
  • 1990 / Clinching the title in HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse A, 3 points ahead of closest rivals HSV SOA, vv GONA wins promotion to Sunday League 4. The decisive points are clinched in a 2-0 away win at HSV ESDO, with Hans Valkenburg scoring both goals. The successful coach is Hans Valkenburg. Thus being deprived of the longed-for return to Sunday League 4, HSV SOA decides to part ways with coach Tsjeu La Ling after one season.
  • 1991 / Champions in its first season back in District West II’s Sunday League 4C, 3 points ahead of runners-up DVV BEC, vv GONA accedes to Sunday League 3 for the first time in club history. The decisive points are clinched in a 2-0 win against BEC on the last day of the season, with the goals being scored by Hans Valkenburg and Jeffrey Zwarts. The latter crowned himself top scorer of the league with 26 goals. The successful coach is Hans van Laar. Meanwhile, down in HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse A, HSV SOA cruises to the title, finishing 9 points ahead of closest followers LVV De Postduiven and SC REMO. The decisive points are clinched in a 4-2 away win against SC REMO. As such, HSV SOA, coached by Puck Hofland, manages a return to Sunday League 4 after an absence of eleven years.
  • 1992 / Coached by Hans van Laar, vv GONA finishes in third-last place in District West II’s Sunday League 3B, suffering relegation to Sunday League 4 along with RKSV GDA and bottom club HVV Laakkwartier.
  • 1993 / Runners-up in District West II’s Sunday League 4C, 4 points behind champions RKSV RAVA, vv GONA qualifies for the promotion play-offs. After winning the group stage against HBS and SV BTC, the club goes on to defeat DSV Concordia in the final, played at vv Naaldwijk’s Sportpark De Hoge Bomen (Noord) (3-0, two goals by Kelton Manuela, one more by Edwin Vink). As a result, vv GONA manages an immediate return to Sunday League 3. The successful coach is Hans van Laar. Meanwhile, coached by Puck Hofland, HSV SOA finishes in second-last place in District West II’s Sunday League 4D, having to save its skin in the promotion-relegation play-offs. Following a win at vv Randstad Sport (3-2), but defeats against HVV Cromvliet (7-1) and vv Groeneweg (3-2), the club is retrograded to HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse. That same year, being faced with a serious depletion in its membership, HSV SOA sheds its youth academy.
  • 1994 / Clinching the title in HVB Zondag Hoofdklasse A, HSV SOA manages an immediate return to Sunday League 4 – with striker Joop Ludwig contributing considerably to the result with twenty goals. The successful coach is Tjoeman Chang.
  • 1996 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West II’s Sunday League 3B, vv GONA drops back into Sunday League 4 along with the club finishing in second-last place, RKVV Quick Steps. Coach Hans van Laar leaves the club after eight seasons.
  • 1997 / Finishing in third place in District West II’s Sunday League 4C, HSV SOA qualifies for the promotion play-offs, but is eliminated in the group stage against HVV Cromvliet and HVV Laakkwartier.
  • 1999 / Runaway champions in District West III’s Sunday League 4D, 11 points ahead of closest followers vv Quintus, vv GONA wins promotion to Sunday League 3 without suffering a single defeat all season. The decisive points are clinched in a 8-3 home win over RKSV RAVA. The successful coach is Henk Baggerman.
  • 2001 / Champions in District West II’s Sunday League 4C, 1 point ahead of closest rivals TEDO, HSV SOA wins promotion to Sunday League 3 for the first time in club history. The decisive points are clinched in a spectacular 9-4 away win at HMC. The successful coach is former SOA player Joop Ludwig.
  • 2002 / Champions in District West II’s Sunday League 3B, 1 point ahead of SVV Scheveningen (zo), vv GONA accedes to Sunday League 2 for the first time in club history. The decisive points are clinched in a mind-blowing 8-7 win over HVV, with Marty Teunissen scoring the winning goal in the fourteenth (!) minute of extra time. The successful coach is Henk Baggerman. Meanwhile, also in Sunday League 3B, HSV SOA qualifies for the promotion play-offs following a fourth place in the regular season. In the play-offs, SOA knocks out vv ESTO in R1 (3-3 aggr. & away goals) before being eliminated heavy-handedly by RKSV GDA in R2 (10-0 aggr.). Coach Joop Ludwig leaves the club. Following the 2001-02 season, HSV SOA leaves its ground, Sportpark Ockenburgh at Wijndaelerweg, after 28 years, settling at the newly laid-out Sportpark Zonneveld, situated at Guido de Moorstraat in the new housing estate Wateringse Veld on the southern outskirts of The Hague. The move was brought about due to the club’s ever-decreasing membership, with the hope being pinned on an influx of new youth members following the move to the new neighbourhood. The new park, consisting of a main pitch laid out in grass and a synthetic side-pitch, is inaugurated in August 2002. Halfway through the 2002-03 season, SOA hosts professional league side ADO Den Haag in a gala match to mark the move to the new location.
  • 2003 / Coached by Henk Baggerman, vv GONA finishes in tenth place in Sunday League 2D, resulting in the club descending into Sunday League 3 along with RVC Rijswijk and bottom club HV&CV Quick. 
  • 2005 / Coached by John Bodmann, vv GONA suffers its second relegation in three seasons, finishing bottom of the table in District West II’s Sunday League 3C and being retrograded to Sunday League 4 along with the club finishing in second-last place, vv Haagse Hout.
  • 2006 / Being placed in District West II’s Sunday League 3C for the 2005-06 season, HSV SOA withdraws its first team in the course of the year. In mid-2006, HSV SOA officially changes its name to become Sportvereniging (SV) Wateringse Veld, thus taking on the name of the neighbourhood in which the club settled four years previously. Another reason for the name change was the negative connotation of the acronym SOA, given that it had also become the way to refer to venereal diseases (in Dutch: Seksueel Overdraagbare Aandoeningen, SOA’s) since the late 1990s. As a result, the name (HSV) SOA had become a mark of derision, with youth members even walking away from the club for this reason.
  • 2007 / Finishing in third place in District West II’s Sunday League 4D, vv GONA qualifies for the play-offs, in which the club manages to defeat vv VEP in the final, played at GC&FC Olympia’s Sportpark Bodegraafsestraatweg in Gouda. The successful coach is Eki Korte.
  • 2008 / Finishing in third place in District West II’s Sunday League 3C, vv GONA qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in the final by RVV Kocatepe-Anadolu. Meanwhile, down in District West II’s Sunday League 4C, SV Wateringse Veld finishes as runners-up 6 points behind champions SV Erasmus, going on to obtain promotion via the ensuing play-off rounds. The successful coach is Madjo Dewus. That same year, SV Wateringse Veld also wins District West II’s Regional Cup (Group 2) following a victory over vv De Jonge Spartaan in the final, played at vv Alphense Boys’ Sportpark De Bijlen (West).
  • 2009 / Finding themselves in the same division, District West II’s Sunday League 3C, SV Wateringse Veld and vv GONA battle it out in a fierce fight for the title, with SV Wateringse Veld eventually finishing 1 point ahead of their closest rivals. The decisive points for the club from Sportpark Zonneveld are clinched in a home win against vv Verburch in the last match of the season. As such, SV Wateringse Veld wins promotion to Sunday League 2, a level never reached before by the club or its predecessor HSV SOA. The successful coach is Madjo Dewus. Also in 2009, faced with an ever decreasing membership, vv GONA holds merger talks, first with VCS, and later with HVV Te Werve, but the discussions remain fruitless. 
  • 2010 / SV Wateringse Veld manages a respectable eighth place in Sunday League 2C in its first-ever season at this level. Meanwhile, down in District West II’s Sunday League 3C, vv GONA clinches the title, 5 points ahead of runners-up HVV Laakkwartier. As such, the club accedes to Sunday League 2. The successful coach is John Baven.
  • 2011 / Coached by Martin Abbenhuis, former professional league midfielder at FC Den Haag (1988-92), SV Wateringse Veld finishes bottom of the table in Sunday League 2C, thus descending into Sunday League 3 along with the club finishing in second-last place, RKVV Teylingen. That same year, the club sees a welcome increase of its membership following the demise of vv Texas, with much of the remaining players of that club seeking affiliation with SV Wateringse Veld.
  • 2013 / In December 2013, Martin Abbenhuis is replaced at SV Wateringse Veld’s coach by another former professional league midfielder, Ferrie Bodde (ADO Den Haag, Swansea City FC). Also in 2013, a football academy sees the daylight in The Hague, which is given the name Voetbalschool SKILLZ, with the founders being the couple Benito & Sharon Marica. In order to allow the new academy, which is not affiliated to the Netherlands' Football Association, to organise training sessions and matches, the owners conclude a groundsharing agreement with non-league club vv Verburch, enabling them to use Sportpark Verburch at Arckelweg in Poeldijk as their home base.
  • 2014 / In April 2014, Ferrie Bodde suffers a lung infection, as a result of which the coach is placed in an artificial coma. As he has to leave the club due to his ailing health, SV Wateringse Veld finishes in second-last place in District West II’s Sunday League 3C, dropping back into Sunday League 4 along with KRSV Vredenburch and bottom club RVC Celeritas. Meanwhile, up in Sunday League 2C, vv GONA qualifies for the promotion play-offs in spite of finishing in a meagre ninth place. Edging past RKSV Spartaan ’20 in the sole play-off round (8-5 aggr. A.E.T.), the club manages a historic promotion to Sunday League 1. The successful coach is Madjo Dewus. Following the 2013-14 season, SV Wateringse Veld and vv GONA conclude a merger, resulting in the foundation of SV Wateringse veld GONA. With vv GONA abandoning its ground, Sportpark Escamp III at Beresteinlaan, which is taken over by rugby club WRC Te Werve, all activities of the new club move to Sportpark Zonneveld in Wateringse Veld. Thanks to GONA’s unexpected promotion, the new merger club starts its life in Sunday League 1.
  • 2015 / In its first season, SV Wateringse Veld GONA manages a respectable seventh place in Sunday League 1B.
  • 2016 / Coached by Patrick van Dullemen, SV Wateringse Veld GONA finishes in third-last place in Sunday League 1B. Having to save its skin in the promotion-relegation play-offs, the club suffers defeat in R1 at the hands of SV Hillegom (3-0 aggr.), resulting in the club suffering relegation to Sunday League 2 along with vv PFC and bottom club RKSV GDA. In the summer of 2016, SV Wateringse Veld GONA is joined at Sportpark Zonneveld by HSV Celeritas, a club which had been without a ground of its own since being evicted from Sportpark Leyweg, where it had been home since 1948, two years previously. After an unhappy groundshare with SVH at Sportpark Noordweg, the club moves in with SV Wateringse Veld GONA in 2016 with a view of a possible merger between the two clubs in the following year. For the 2016-17 season, HSV Celeritas did not have a first team following a withdrawal of its flagship team from Sunday League 4.
  • 2017 / Coached by Dinesh Manniesingh, who had replaced Patrick van Dullemen in the course of the season, SV Wateringse Veld GONA finishes in second-last place in Sunday League 2D, thus suffering its second relegation in a row, descending into Sunday League 3 along with vv Wilhelmus, OHVV, and bottom club SV Charlois. However, following the 2016-17 season, the club concludes a merger – not with HSV Celeritas, but with vv Kranenburg. This last-mentioned club had only been founded several months previously, in December 2016, by players and supporters of the former FC Kranenburg, founded as HSV Kranenburg in 1919 and absorbed into a merger with RVC Rijswijk in 2005, resulting in the foundation of vv Haaglandia, which had gone bankrupt in 2017. Due to vv Kranenburg not yet having reported at the Chamber of Commerce, an official merger is not on the table – and, as a result, the name SV Wateringse Veld GONA is retained for the 2017-18 season. For this new season, after a tradition of nearly 100 years of Sunday football, SV Wateringse Veld GONA chooses to withdraw from Sunday League 3 and make a new start in the bottom division of District West II’ Saturday pyramid, Saturday League 4 – with HSV Celeritas making the same choice and starting its life in the same division after one year without a flagship team.
  • 2018 / With its team bolstered by former professional league midfielder Ricky van den Bergh (formerly at Sparta Rotterdam, RKC Waalwijk, Heracles Almelo, and ADO Den Haag), SV Wateringse Veld GONA storms to the title in District West II’s Saturday League 4D, 14 points ahead of closest followers KRSV Vredenburch, thus winning promotion to Saturday League 3. The decisive points are clinched in a 2-0 home win over vv Quintus (goals by Erkan Sensoy and Fransesco Fens). The successful coach is Ger Fens. In mid-2018, one year after the merger between SV Wateringse Veld GONA and vv Kranenburg, the club takes on the name SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg. Meanwhile, being deprived of its prospective merger with SV Wateringse Veld GONA, HSV Celeritas moves away from Sportpark Zonneveld after two seasons, settling at Sportpark Prinses Irene in Rijswijk and adapting its name to become RVC (Rijswijkse Voetbalclub) Celeritas. Also in 2018, Voetbalschool SKILLZ, the football academy founded in 2013, abandons Sportpark Verburch, moving to the aforementioned Sportpark Prinses Irene as well.
  • 2019 / Champions in District West II’s Saturday League 3B, 1 point ahead of closest rivals SV KMD, SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg manages its second promotion in a row, acceding to Saturday League 2. Also in 2019, six years after forming their football academy Voetbalschool SKILLZ, Benito & Sharon Marica decide to join the Netherlands' FA in order to allow part of their academy players to compete in regular youth competitions under the name FC Skillz. Whereas Voetbalschool SKILLZ remains at Sportpark Prinses Irene in Rijswijk, FC Skillz plays its matches at Sportpark Zonneveld in Wateringse Veld, groundsharing with SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg - but virtually only using the synthetic side-pitch of the park.
  • 2020 / Finding itself in tenth place in Saturday League 2C in March 2020, when the 2019-20 season is cut short due to the first COVID lockdown, SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg withdraws its flagship team from the regular leagues due to a lack of players. Also in 2020, with Sportpark Prinses Irene being abandoned, all of the activities of Voetbalschool SKILLZ as well as its offshoot FC Skillz are brought together at Sportpark Zonneveld.
  • 2021 / After one year without first team football at Sportpark Zonneveld, SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg and FC Skillz conclude a partnership deal, with a new first team being formed under the name SSA (Samenwerking Seniorenafdeling) FC Skillz Wateringse Veld. In practice, given that SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg hardly had any membership left at that point, this amounted to FC Skillz widening its activities to regular league football after two years of ‘just’ being a youth academy. After the withdrawal of SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg from Saturday League 2 in mid-2020, SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld is allowed to start its life in Saturday League 3. Whereas HSV SOA, SV Wateringse Veld, SV Wateringse Veld GONA, and SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg had always played their first team football on the grass pitch of Sportpark Zonneveld, SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld moves virtually all club activities, including first team football, to the synthetic side-pitch of the park.








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NETHERLANDS: SV Geinoord (B) (1980-2023) / SV Parkhout (2023-)

Sportpark Parkhout, Nieuwegein (SV Parkhout, formerly pitch 4 of SV Geinoord)

Netherlands, province: Utrecht

15 III 2025 / SV Parkhout - gsv GJS 2-0 / Saturday League 2F (= NL level 7)

Timeline
  • 1926 / Foundation of a first football club in the village of Vreeswijk, closely to the south of Utrecht. The new club is given the name VSV (Vreeswijksche Sportvereeniging) Vreeswijk and joins the Sunday pyramid of Utrecht’s KNVB sub-branch UVB.
  • 1952 / Foundation of a new football club in Vreeswijk, which is specifically formed for the village’s Protestant community. The new club is given the name DVO (Door Vriendschap Overwinning), but has to change its name upon joining the UVB due to the chosen acronym already having been adopted by clubs in Sittard and Vlaardingen. Thereupon, DVO in Vreeswijk changes its name to become Sportvereniging (SV) Geinoord. Initially, the new club plays its home games on a pitch laid out on the farmland of a local smallholder, Mr Noordhoek. 
  • 1969 / Along with VSV Vreeswijk, SV Geinoord settles on a newly laid-out municipal park, Gemeentelijk Sportpark Hoog-Zandveld – later usually referred to simply as Sportpark Zandveld. Whereas VSV Vreeswijk uses the main pitch, SV Geinoord usually plays its first-team football on one of the side-pitches of the park.
  • 1971 / The communities of Vreeswijk and nearby Jutphaas merge into the planned town of Nieuwegein.
  • 1977 / As Sportpark Zandveld is extended with several pitches further to the north, a start is made on the construction of a clubhouse for SV Geinoord alongside the pitch situated the furthest to the northwest.
  • 1980 / Having played on one of the side-pitches of VSV Vreeswijk for the past eleven years, SV Geinoord now moves to the northwest of the park, which is given the name Sportpark Parkhout (sometimes referred to as Sportpark Parkhout-Zandveld, particularly in the early years), even though the clubhouse is not entirely ready yet. The pitch pictured in the photos below is Pitch/Veld 4 of the new park.
  • 1981 / On January 30th, 1981, the clubhouse of the newly laid-out Sportpark Parkhout is officially inaugurated by G.J. ter Stege, alderman of Nieuwegein’s town council.
  • 2023 / In its last season as an independent club, SV Geinoord finishes in seventh place in Saturday League 2B. Following the 2022-23 season, SV Geinoord concludes a merger with neighbour club VSV Vreeswijk, resulting in the foundation of Sportverening (SV) Parkhout. All activities move to SV Geinoord’s Sportpark Parkhout. A new clubhouse is constructed for SV Parkhout alongside the old Pitch/Veld 4 of Sportpark Parkhout, which is inaugurated in the fall of 2023. The new club starts its life in Saturday League 2, the level of the former SV Geinoord. Meanwhile, Sportpark Zandveld, former home of VSV Vreeswijk, is dismantled to make way for the new park of the local hockey club, MHC Nieuwegein. Due to the new clubhouse not being entirely ready yet by the fall of the 2023, SV Parkhout plays its first league game of the 2023-24 season, a 2-2 draw against vv Hardinxveld on September 30th, 2023, on SV Geinoord’s old main-pitch – Pitch/Veld 2 from now on – with the new clubhouse and main pitch being inaugurated for the match against wvv WSC (0-1) two weeks later. SV Geinoord’s old clubhouse at the southern end of the former main pitch is knocked down in the following months.
  • 2024 / In its first season, SV Parkhout manages a respectable fifth place in Saturday League 2G.
Note - Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: picture 1 = non-matchday visit, July 2023 / pictures 2-18 = match visit, March 2025.


















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NETHERLANDS: SV Geinoord (1980-2023) / SV Parkhout (2023) / SV Parkhout (B) (2023-)

Sportpark Parkhout veld 2, Nieuwegein (B pitch of SV Parkhout, formerly A pitch of SV Geinoord & SV Parkhout)

Netherlands, province: Utrecht

15 III 2025 / SV Parkhout Reserves - SV Faja Lobi KDS Reserves 5-3 / District West I, Saturday Reserves' League 2F

Timeline
  • 1926 / Foundation of a first football club in the village of Vreeswijk, closely to the south of Utrecht. The new club is given the name VSV (Vreeswijksche Sportvereeniging) Vreeswijk and joins the Sunday pyramid of Utrecht’s KNVB sub-branch UVB.
  • 1952 / Foundation of a new football club in Vreeswijk, which is specifically formed for the village’s Protestant community – with the founding fathers being Piet van Beest, Arie Verhoef, and Joop van Raay. The new club is given the name DVO (Door Vriendschap Overwinning), but has to change its name upon joining the UVB due to the chosen acronym already having been adopted by clubs in Sittard and Vlaardingen. Thereupon, DVO in Vreeswijk changes its name to become Sportvereniging (SV) Geinoord. As the Protestant community insists on respecting the Sabbath on Sunday, SV Geinoord joins the UVB’s Saturday pyramid, being placed in UVB Saturday Division 3. Initially, the new club plays its home games on a pitch laid out on the farmland of a local smallholder, Mr Noordhoek. 
  • 1954 / SV Geinoord absorbs another small Saturday club, vv De Lekboys from the nearby hamlet Tull en ‘t Waal, without changing its name as a result. It is unclear when vv De Lekboys saw the daylight – probably in the aftermath of World War II, around 1948. As IJFC from nearby IJsselstein withdraws its Saturday teams around the same time, the membership of SV Geinoord sees a considerable increase in these years. Probably, the club also moved to a new ground in the course of the 1950s, but no information is available on this matter.
  • 1956 / SV Geinoord manages its first tangible success, winning promotion to UVB Saturday League 2 from UVB Saturday Division 3. In one of the following four seasons, the club must have managed a second promotion, with the club acceding to UVB Saturday Division 1.
  • 1961 / Winning promotion from UVB Saturday Division 1, SV Geinoord accedes to KNVB District West I’s Saturday League 4 for the first time.
  • 1964 / SV Geinoord finishes as runners-up in District West I’s Saturday League 4C, 5 points behind champions COV DESTO.
  • 1965 / Champions in District West I’s Saturday League 4C, 8 points ahead of closest followers VVOP, SV Geinoord accedes to Saturday League 3 for the first time.
  • 1966 / SV Geinoord finishes as runners-up in District West I’s Saturday League 3, 1 point behind champions SSVU.
  • 1968 / Champions in District West I’s Saturday League 3B, 6 points ahead of closest rivals vv Altius, SV Geinoord accedes to Saturday League 2 – the top division of the Saturday pyramid at that time.
  • 1969 / Along with Sunday club VSV Vreeswijk, SV Geinoord settles on a newly laid-out municipal park, Gemeentelijk Sportpark Hoog-Zandveld – later usually referred to simply as Sportpark Zandveld. The park is inaugurated by Frits Schneiders, former mayor of Vreeswijk. Whereas VSV Vreeswijk uses the main pitch, SV Geinoord usually plays its first-team football on one of the side-pitches of the park. Also in 1969, Geinoord striker Jan Groenendijk signs a professional league contract with USV Elinkwijk – which merges with UA&VV Velox and vv DOS into FC Utrecht the following year. In the 1970-71 season, Groenendijk scores FC Utrecht’s first goal in an official match, away at RVV Feijenoord. Going on to score 18 goals that season, he crowns himself club top scorer. After spells with Go Ahead Eagles and WVV Wageningen, Groenendijk withdraws into non-league with GVVV in 1976. 
  • 1971 / SV Geinoord finishes as runners-up in Saturday League 2C, 4 points behind champions VVOG. Also in 1971, the communities of Vreeswijk and nearby Jutphaas merge into the planned town of Nieuwegein.
  • 1972 / SV Geinoord finishes as runners-up in Saturday League 2A, 9 points behind runaway champions CVV De Jodan Boys.
  • 1973 / Finishing in joint first place in Saturday League 2B with CSVD, SV Geinoord meets the club from Delft in a tie-break match, played at Gemeentelijk Sportpark Ridderkerk, with the tie finishing in a goalless draw after extra time. A second match is held at the same venue, with CSVD walking away as 3-1 winners. As such, SV Geinoord misses out on promotion to the top division of the Saturday pyramid.
  • 1976 / Finishing in second-last place in Saturday League 2A, SV Geinoord drops back into Saturday League 3 along with bottom club HSV De Zuidvogels. 
  • 1977 / As Sportpark Zandveld is extended with several pitches further to the north, a start is made on the construction of a clubhouse for SV Geinoord alongside the pitch situated the furthest to the northwest.
  • 1978 / Champions in District West I’s Saturday League 3B, 2 points ahead of runners-up vv NSC, SV Geinoord manages a return to Saturday League 2 after two years.
  • 1980 / Having played on one of the side-pitches of VSV Vreeswijk for the past eleven years, SV Geinoord now moves to the northwest of the park, which is given the name Sportpark Parkhout (sometimes referred to as Sportpark Parkhout-Zandveld, particularly in the early years), even though the clubhouse is not entirely ready yet.
  • 1981 / On January 30th, 1981, the clubhouse of the newly laid-out Sportpark Parkhout is officially inaugurated by G.J. ter Stege, alderman of Nieuwegein’s town council.
  • 1985 / Finishing in second-last place in District West I’s Saturday League 2C, SV Geinoord descends into Saturday League 3 along with bottom club vv SIZO. In the following years, the club is little more than an also-ran in Saturday League 3.
  • 1993 / Finishing in third-last place in District West I’s Saturday League 3B, SV Geinoord drops back into Saturday League 4 along with vv Jonathan and bottom club SC Hoevelaken. That summer, the club signs a new coach, Peter Boeve, a former Netherlands’ international defender who played at AVC Vitesse, AFC Ajax, and Beerschot VAC.
  • 1994 / Runaway champions in District West I’s Saturday League 4D, 10 points ahead of closest followers SV Veensche Boys, SV Geinoord manages a return to Saturday League 3. After this successful season, coach Peter Boeve leaves the club, signing a contract with vv DOVO.
  • 1995 / Finishing in third place in District West I’s Saturday League 3B, SV Geinoord wins promotion to Saturday League 2 following a successful round of play-offs.
  • 1996 / Finishing in ninth place in District West I’s Saturday League 2B, SV Geinoord is placed in Saturday League 1 for the new season due to extra promotion places being available following the introduction of Zaterdag Hoofdklasse as the new top division of the Saturday league pyramid.
  • 1998 / Former Geinoord youth player Rudy Jansen, who had joined FC Utrecht’s youth academy several years previously, makes his debut as a professional league defender at Heracles Almelo, going on to have spells at SBV Excelsior, Cambuur-Leeuwarden, SC Cambuur, and FC Zwolle before withdrawing into non-league with SV Spakenburg in 2011.
  • 2001 / SV Geinoord finishes as runners-up in Saturday League 1C, 9 points behind champions vv Roda Boys Bommelerwaard. Also in 2001, a covered stand is erected alongside SV Geinoord’s main pitch at Sportpark Parkhout. 
  • 2003 / Gerrit Plomp, former professional league defender at FC Utrecht, VfL Bochum, Feyenoord Rotterdam, and Fortuna Sittard, joins SV Geinoord as coach.
  • 2005 / Runners-up in Saturday League 1A, 20 points behind runaway champions GVVV, SV Geinoord accedes to Zaterdag Hoofdklasse for the first time following a successful round of play-offs. The successful coach is Gerrit Plomp.
  • 2006 / In the best season in club history, SV Geinoord finishes in eighth place in Zaterdag Hoofdklasse B – going on to repeat that result in 2008. Also in 2006, former Geinoord youth player Rob van der Sluijs, who had joined FC Utrecht’s youth academy several years previously, makes his debut as a professional league defender at FC Zwolle. Van der Sluijs goes on to have spells at Helmond Sport, FC Eindhoven, and AGOVV Apeldoorn before ending his professional career in 2012.
  • 2007 / After four years at the helm of the club, Gerrit Plomp leaves SV Geinoord, signing a contract as head coach at SV Huizen.
  • 2008 / After former SV Geinoord board member and ultimate clubman Ep van der Pol passes away, the stand alongside the club’s main pitch is named after him. That same year, former Geinoord youth player Sidney Schmeltz makes his professional league debut at Willem II. The winger goes on to have spells at Almere City FC, Sparta Rotterdam, SC Veendam, Oldham Athletic FC, Shrewsbury Town FC, Hartlepool United FC, and various clubs in the Middle East, ultimately returning to the Netherlands in 2018, joining non-league side Magreb ’90.
  • 2009 / Coached by Bert van Sas, SV Geinoord finishes bottom of the table in Zaterdag Hoofdklasse B, thus descending into Saturday League 1 along with the club finishing in second-last place, AFC Ajax (AV).
  • 2010 / SV Geinoord’s main pitch at Sportpark Parkhout is laid out anew as a 3G.
  • 2011 / Coached by Michael van den Berg, SV Geinoord finishes in joint second-last position in Saturday League 1A with SVL – going on to suffer defeat in a tie-break match against that club (3-1). As such, SV Geinoord drops back into Saturday League 2 along with bottom club SV Veensche Boys.
  • 2012 / Finishing in fifth place in Saturday League 2B, SV Geinoord qualifies for the promotion play-offs. Knocking out vv Aalsmeer in R1 (5-3 aggr.), the club is eliminated in R2 by vv Benschop (2-1 aggr.). However, due to an extra promotion place being available following the demise of Zaterdag Hoofdklasse club vv Young Boys, SV Geinoord gets to play a lucky loser round against AMVJ, played at Sportpark De Meern (Loenenseboslaan). Going on to win the tie (2-1), the club reaches Saturday League 1 via the backdoor. The successful coach is Ruud van de Geest.
  • 2013 / Coached by Ruud van de Geest, SV Geinoord finishes in eleventh place in Saturday League 1B, as a result of which the club has to save its skin in a promotion-relegation play-off against vv Haaglandia. Following a 5-3 aggregate defeat against the club from Rijswijk, SV Geinoord descends into Saturday League 2 along with CSV Vitesse Delft, DSVP, and bottom club vv Benschop.
  • 2014 / Former Geinoord youth player Sean Klaiber makes his debut as a professional league player at FC Utrecht. The defender goes on to have spells at FC Dordrecht, AFC Ajax, and Brøndby IF, while making his debut for the Surinam national team in 2021.
  • 2015 / Runaway champions in Saturday League 2F, 10 points ahead of runners-up vv GDC, SV Geinoord manages a return to Saturday League 1 after two seasons. The successful coach is former professional league player Rudy Jansen.
  • 2017 / Coached by Dick Kooijman, SV Geinoord finishes in eleventh place in Saturday League 1A, as a result of which the club has to save its skin in the promotion-relegation play-offs. However, the club is eliminated in R1 by SV Marken (5-4 aggr.). with relegation to Saturday League 2 along with LVV Roda ’46, local rivals JSV Nieuwegein, and bottom club VVZ ’49 being the result.
  • 2018 / Champions Saturday League 2B, 4 points ahead of runners-up HC&FC Victoria, SV Geinoord wins promotion to Saturday League 1. The successful coach is David Toxopeus.
  • 2019 / Coached by Charles Loots, SV Geinoord finishes in thirteenth place in Saturday League 1C, as a result of which the club has to save its skin in the promotion-relegation play-offs. Having the better of ZVV Pelikaan in R1 (1-0), the club is eliminated in the semis by vv Papendrecht (2-1 A.E.T.). As a result, the club drops back into Saturday League 2 after just one season, along with VVGZ and bottom club gsv GJS. After the 2018-19 season, Charles Loots is replaced as Geinoord’s coach by Gerrit Plomp, who returns to the club for a second spell, which would last four seasons.
  • 2023 / In its last season as an independent club, SV Geinoord finishes in seventh place in Saturday League 2B. Following the 2022-23 season, SV Geinoord concludes a merger with neighbour club VSV Vreeswijk, resulting in the foundation of Sportverening (SV) Parkhout. All activities move to SV Geinoord’s Sportpark Parkhout. A new clubhouse is constructed for SV Parkhout alongside the old Pitch/Veld 4 of Sportpark Parkhout, which is inaugurated in the fall of 2023. The new club starts its life in Saturday League 2, the level of the former SV Geinoord. Meanwhile, Sportpark Zandveld, former home of VSV Vreeswijk, is dismantled to make way for the new park of the local hockey club, MHC Nieuwegein. Due to the new clubhouse not being entirely ready yet by the fall of the 2023, SV Parkhout plays its first league game of the 2023-24 season, a 2-2 draw against vv Hardinxveld on September 30th, 2023, on SV Geinoord’s old main-pitch – Pitch/Veld 2 from now on – with the new clubhouse and main pitch being inaugurated for the match against wvv WSC (0-1) two weeks later. SV Geinoord’s old clubhouse at the southern end of the former main pitch is knocked down in the following months.
Note - Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: pictures 1-6 & 18 = non-matchday visit, July 2023 / pictures 7-17 = match visit, March 2025.


















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