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NETHERLANDS: HPSV (1936-1950, 1951-2024, 2025, 2026)

Sportcomplex Zuiderpark West, The Hague = Den Haag = 's-Gravenhage Zuiderpark (formerly HPSV)

Netherlands, province: South Holland = Zuid-Holland

23 V 2026 / HPSV - SC REMO 6-2 / District West II, Saturday League 5C (= NL level 10)

Timeline

• 1919 / Foundation of a football club for the constabulary in The Hague, with the club being given the name Haagsche Politiesportvereniging – abbreviated as HPSV – with M. Spetter becoming the new club’s first chairman. Football is not the only sport practiced by club members, as branches for athletics, swimming, and fencing are also formed; in the following years, horse riding, walking sports, rifle shooting, and cycling are added to the myriad of activities. Upon its foundation, the football branch of HPSV joins the so-called Kantoren- en Veteranenelftallenbond (KEVEB), a football association for corporate teams in The Hague, with teams competing in the Kantoren- en Veteranenelftallenafdeeling (KEVEA). Initially, the club plays its home matches as groundsharer at various venues, notably Terrein Loosduinschweg of HSV VUC. Training sessions are held at Stokroosstraat, at the back of a secondary school, the Haagsch Lyceum.
• 1920 / In the club’s first documented match, HPSV manages a 3-1 away win against a team of Haarlem constables on March 6th, 1920.
• 1923 / HPSV wins the KEVEA Cup (KEVEA-Beker) for the first time.
• 1926 / The flagship team of HPSV joins the so-called Westelijke Politiesportbond (WPSB), which had been founded one year previously as the sports association for constabularies from the three western provinces (North Holland, South Holland, and Utrecht). The recreational teams of HPSV continue to compete in the KEVEA divisions. 
• 1929 / After ten years of groundsharing at various other clubs in The Hague, the football branch of HPSV acquires a pitch of its own on the eastern edge of the so-called Zuiderpark, a park area which is in the process of being laid out in those years. The club moves into the new location, situated to the north of the Zuiderparkstadion of ADO, in a ceremony, attended by the mayor of The Hague, Mr Patijn, chief constable Van ‘t Sant, and HPSV chairman Roza. 
• 1930 / Clinching the title in WPSB District South (Afdeeling Zuid), HPSV goes on to suffer defeat in the final against District North champions APGS (6-1 aggr.), thus missing out on the nationwide police title.
• 1931 / HPSV wins its second title in a row, clinching first place in WPSB District West following a 3-2 win against Delftsche Politie. No nationwide title competition is organised this season.
• 1934 / Clinching the title in WPSB District II, HPSV goes on to win the nationwide police title following positive results against the police team from Amersfoort (9-1 & 3-3) and PSV Hermandad (Rotterdam, 10-2).
• 1935 / HPSV wins the nationwide police title for the second time in a row, managing first place in WPSB Hoofdklasse following a win against Utrecht side UPS. Also in 1935, the club wins its second KEVEA Cup thanks to a convincing 5-0 win over SVV Scheveningen Veterans.
• 1936 / HPSV wins the nationwide police title for the third time in a row, managing first place in WPSB Hoofdklasse following a 3-1 home win over PSV Hermandad on May 19th, 1936. This win also happens to be the club’s first-ever match on its new pitch at the western edge of the Zuiderpark, where it was due to spend the remainder of its existence; the new location marked an improvement as compared to the old situation, as HPSV’s pitch on the other side of the park was often water-logged. Also in 1936, HPSV wins its third KEVEA Cup, defeating HSV Kranenburg Veterans in the final (1-0). 
• 1937 / HPSV wins its fourth KEVEA Cup, defeating ADO Veterans in the final (5-2).
• 1938 / HPSV wins the title in WPSB District West, but the ensuing title play-offs remain unfinished. Also in 1938, HPSV wins its fifth KEVEA Cup – and its fourth in a row – defeating ODIS in the final (3-2); following this fifth win, HPSV is allowed to keep the trophy in its cabinet for good. 
• 1939 / HPSV wins the title in WPSB District West B. No title play-offs are held at the end of the year, with the 1939-40 season being called off altogether following the mobilisation of the Netherlands’ armed forces in August 1939.
• 1940 / As all competitions except for the official Netherlands’ Football Association (KNVB, renamed NVB for the duration of the war) are abolished following the German occupation of the Netherlands, the flagship team of HPSV is placed in Sunday Division 2 of Afdeling Den Haag, as the (K)NVB sub-branch in The Hague is officially renamed; officiously, however, its old name, HVB (Haagse Voetbalbond) would remain in use almost universally.
• 1941 / Clinching the title in HVB Sunday Division 2A, HPSV wins promotion to Division 1 of the said league system.
• 1942 / Champions in HVB Sunday Division 1A without suffering a single defeat (11 wins, 1 draw), HPSV goes on to win the ensuing round of championship play-offs in a group against FZC, HVV Laakkwartier IV, KRVC, HV&CV Quick IV, and VSV Tonegido Reserves. As such, the club accedes to District West II’s Sunday League 4, the fourth tier of the Netherlands’ football pyramid at that time. Meanwhile, HPSV’s reserves’ team withdraws from the KEVEA competition due to a lack of players. Also in 1942, the pitch of HPSV is surrounded by concrete posts, allowing a rope to be tied between the pitch itself and the spectators’ area.
• 1943 / HPSV wins its third title in a row, finishing top of the table in District West II’s Sunday League 4F. The decisive points are clinched in a 3-1 win over runner-up vv Saturnus. Due to the war situation no championship play-offs are organised, with the club thus being deprived of the opportunity to try to win promotion to League 3.
• 1944 / Finishing in joint first place in District West II’s Sunday League 4F with vv Saturnus, HPSV goes on to win a tie-break match against the club from Rotterdam (6-1). Thus crowning themselves champions for the fourth time in a row, the club goes on to compete in the championship play-offs against SV Slikkerveer and vv Moordrecht, having to settle for second place behind the former and thus missing out on promotion. No league football is played in the 1944-45 season.
• 1945 / As regular football is resumed following the liberation of the Netherlands from the German yoke, the reserves’ team of HPSV resumes its activities after three years – not in the KEVEA competition, which was probably never resumed after the war, but in the WPSB – continuing to do so for the following 55 odd years, clinching various titles in WPSB Hoofdklasse.
• 1946 / Finishing in joint first place in District West II’s Sunday League 4C with RVC Celeritas, HPSV takes on the club from Rijswijk in a tie-break match, played at ADO’s Zuiderparkstadion in front of a crowd of 7,000 (!). However, the club has to leave the honours to its adversaries following a 2-1 (A.E.T.) defeat.
• 1947 / Finishing in joint first place in District West II’s Sunday League 4C with SMV, HPSV goes on to defeat this club in a tie-break match for the title (4-2). In the ensuing championship play-offs, HPSV suffers defeat against vv Texas (3-2), thus missing out on promotion.
• 1948 / Runaway champions in District West II’s Sunday League 4B, 11 points ahead of closest rivals VDS, HPSV goes on to win the ensuing round of championship play-offs against vv Alphia and SV ASC. As such, the club wins promotion to Sunday League 3 for the first time.
• 1949 / HPSV finishes as runner-up in District West II’s Sunday League 3D, 3 points behind champions The Rising Hope.
• 1950 / Besides a Sunday team in League 3, HPSV now enters with a second first team in the Saturday pyramid of Afdeling Den Haag, i.e. the HVB, with HPSV (za) being placed in HVB Saturday Division 3A for its first season. Also in 1950, HPSV’s Sunday team is placed under the tutelage of coach Wim Tap, former striker of ADO, who won 33 caps for the Netherlands (17 goals!) between 1925 and 1931. 
• 1951 / HPSV (za) wins the title in HVB Saturday Division 3, thus winning promotion to Division 2 of the said league system. In the second half of the 1950-51 season, HPSV has to play its home matches as groundsharer at Terrein Fruitweg of vv Ter Laak due to its own pitch at Zuiderpark being rendered unplayable due to heavy rainfall. The club returns to its ground following extensive drainage works in the summer of 1951.
• 1952 / Coach Wim Tap leaves the club after two seasons. Wim Tap would pass away in 1979 at the age of 75.
• 1954 / Finishing in joint last place in District West II’s Sunday League 3B with RKSV GDA and vv Hoek van Holland, HPSV goes on to meet these two clubs in a tie-break competition. Finishing in second place behind GDA, HPSV just saves its skin, with vv Hoek van Holland dropping back into League 4.
• 1955 / HPSV is joined by coach Ben Peeters, who takes charge of the club’s Sunday team in the following years beside his work for larger clubs HV&CV Quick (1953-56), HFC Haarlem (1956-59), and HBS (1959-60).
• 1956 / HPSV’s Saturday team finishes in joint first place in HVB Saturday Division 2 with vv BIZON, going on to suffer defeat against that club in a tie-break match (2-1 A.E.T.) and thus missing out on promotion.
• 1958 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West II’s Sunday League 3A with coach Ben Peeters, HPSV drops back into Sunday League 4 after ten years.
• 1961 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West II’s Sunday League 4B with only 6 points (1 win, 4 draws), HPSV drops back into HVB Sunday Division 1. Coach Ben Peeters leaves the club after six years to work as a youth academy coach at RVV Feijenoord. Peeters would go on to have spells as head coach at RVV Feijenoord (1967-69), NAC (1971-73), and RV&AV Excelsior (1973-75).
• 1962 / Finishing bottom of the table in HVB Sunday Division 1A, HPSV drops back into Division 2 of the said league system. However, following the 1961-62 season, HPSV withdraws from regular first team football in the Sunday divisions, continuing with just its Saturday team in HVB Saturday Division 2.
• 1963 / Champions in HVB Saturday Division 2A, HPSV wins promotion to Saturday Division 1 of the said league system.
• 1964 / The Sunday branch of HPSV is wound up, as all competitive activities of the football club take place on Saturdays from now on.
• 1971 / Finishing in the top half of HVB Saturday Division 1A, HPSV is placed in the newly created HVB Zaterdag Hoofdklasse.
• 1973 / Finishing bottom of the table in HVB Zaterdag Hoofdklasse A, HPSV descends into Saturday Division 1 of the said league system. Also in 1973, an indoor football branch is added to the set-up at HPSV. 
• 1975 / Finishing in joint first place in HVB Saturday Division 1A with SV De Jagers, HPSV goes on to meet that club in a tie-break match for the title. In spite of suffering defeat (3-2), HPSV wins promotion to HVB Zaterdag Hoofdklasse due to extra promotion places being available. The successful coach is Albert Boek.
• 1976 / After building works which took about a year, the new clubhouse and dressing rooms, erected in stone, are inaugurated at Sportcomplex Zuiderpark West, replacing a wooden predecessor as well as tents serving as changing rooms. That same year, a new floodlight installation is installed as well, replacing its weaker predecessor, which had been put in place in 1972. The new facility is inaugurated with a gala match against the third team of FC Den Haag, which included future FC Den Haag, FC Bayern München, FC Twente, West Bromwich Albion FC, Coventry City FC, and Netherlands’ international defender Martin Jol.
• 1977 / Finishing in joint first place in HVB Zaterdag Hoofdklasse with SEV, HPSV goes on to defeat that club in a tie-break match for the title (3-1, goals by Joop van der Krogt, Rob Bol, and Ron Baay). As such, the club wins promotion to District West II’s Saturday League 4. The successful coach is Sicco Kuiper. 
• 1978 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West II’s Saturday League 4A with coach Sicco Kuiper, HPSV drops back into HVB Zaterdag Hoofdklasse after just one season, along with the club in second-last place, HVV Te Werve.
• 1980 / Champions in HVB Zaterdag Hoofdklasse, 2 points ahead of closest rivals HVV Te Werve, HPSV wins promotion to Saturday League 4 after an absence of two years at that level. The successful coach is Sicco Kuiper. Also in 1980, a thorough renovation of Sportcomplex Zuiderpark West is undertaken, with the 38-year-old concrete posts around the pitch being replaced by iron fencing, as well as barrier nets and an entrance gate being added to the set-up.
• 1982 / Arie Pronk, part of the extremely successful first team of HPSV in the 1940s, succumbs to a heart-attack on the pitch in a veterans’ match on October 30th, 1982, passing away at the age of 62. In total, Mr Pronk wore the colours of HPSV in some 1,500 matches for the flagship team as well as recreational teams.  
• 1983 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West II’s Saturday League 4A with coach Willem van der Zant, HPSV drops back into HVB Zaterdag Hoofdklasse, along with the club in second-last place, vv DORR.
• 1985 / Runner-up in HVB Zaterdag Hoofdklasse, HPSV wins promotion to Saturday League 4 under the aegis of coach Frans Peeters. That same year, a corridor is constructed to connect the clubhouse and the dressing rooms at Sportcomplex Zuiderpark West. 
• 1986 / HPSV appoints Maarten Rog as its new head coach. Rog, a former professional league player of Feyenoord Rotterdam Reserves and SC Veendam, would be at the helm of the club’s first team in two long spells (1986-91, 2000-05).
• 1987 / Finishing in second-last place in District West II’s Saturday League 4A with coach Maarten Rog, HPSV descends into HVB Zaterdag Hoofdklasse alongside bottom club vv DORR.
• 1988 / Finishing in joint first place in HVB Zaterdag Hoofdklasse with RVV Semper Altius, HPSV goes on to win a tie-break match against the club from Rijswijk (3-2, two goals by Peter Vogelzang, one by Henk van der Woude). As such, HPSV manages an immediate return to Saturday League 4.
• 1989 / On the club’s seventieth anniversary, HPSV receives FC Den Haag in a gala match at Sportcomplex Zuiderpark West. In a rather unusual encounter, with the professional league side’s idiosyncratic coach Co Adriaanse letting his team play with ten (first half) and nine (second half) players, the final score is 2-3.
• 1991 / Coached by Maarten Rog, HPSV finishes bottom of the table in District West II’s Saturday League 4A, thus descending into HVB Hoofdklasse, with the other drop-out being the club in second-last place, SV DSO. 
• 1993 / As the constabulary of The Hague is incorporated into the Haaglanden Regional Police, Sportcomplex Zuiderpark West is purchased by this new entity from the municipality of The Hague. That same year, the clubhouse is renovated.
• 1995 / Finishing in third place in HVB Zaterdag Hoofdklasse, HPSV qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club finishes bottom of the table in a group with SV Duinoord, vv Postalia, and HVV BMT. Also in 1995, two years after the foundation of the Haaglanden Regional Police, HPSV officially changes its name from Haagse Politiesportvereniging to Haaglandse Politiesportvereniging – with the abbreviated name remaining untouched as a result.
• 1996 / Finishing in second-last place in HVB Zaterdag Hoofdklasse, HPSV is placed in the newly created Sunday League 5 of District West, with Afdeling Den Haag (HVB) and all other KNVB sub-branches being abolished.
• 1997 / Runner-up in District West III’s Saturday League 5C, 4 points behind champions RVV Semper Altius, HPSV qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is eliminated following defeats in the group stage against vv Schipluiden (1-4) and HVV Te Werve (1-0).
• 1998 / Champions in District West III’s Saturday League 5B, 1 point ahead of closest rivals vv PGS, HPSV wins promotion to Saturday League 4 after an absence of seven years at that level. The promotion is secured in large part thanks to 35 goals being scored by former vv DHC striker Weng Tung. The successful coach is Nico van der Meer.
• 2000 / Finishing in third place in District West III’s Saturday League 4B, HPSV qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club wins the group stage. In the final, a defeat is suffered against MVKV (4-0), but promotion to Saturday League 3 is secured nonetheless thanks to one extra promotion place turning out to be available. The successful coach is Nico van der Meer.
• 2001 / Finishing in joint eleventh place in District West III’s Saturday League 3B with SV Loosduinen, HPSV goes on to suffer defeat in a tie-break match against that club. Thus having to stave off relegation in a set of play-offs, HPSV ultimately manages to stay up, defeating SCS TAC ’90 in the final.
• 2002 / Finishing in tenth place in District West II’s Saturday League 3A, HPSV has to secure its place at that level in a set of promotion-relegation play-offs. Seeing off vv Koudekerk in R1, the club ultimately suffers defeat in R2 against RKSV Blauw-Zwart. As such, the team of coach Maarten Rog is retrograded into Saturday League 4.
• 2003 / Finishing in fifth place in District West II’s Saturday League 4B, HPSV qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in the final by PEC Den Haag.
• 2005 / Finishing in eighth place in District West II’s Saturday League 4C, HPSV qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in the final by PEC Den Haag.
• 2007 / Finishing in joint tenth place in District West II’s Saturday League 4C with Real Parbo, HPSV secures its place at that level in the promotion-relegation play-offs, defeating SCS TAC ’90 in the final.
• 2018 / The indoor football branch of HPSV is wound up after an existence of 45 years.
• 2020 / HPSV is joined by coach Winston Faerber, former professional league defender at FC Den Haag, ADO Den Haag, Cardiff City FC, and FC Den Bosch (1994-2004). Faerber would stay with the club for one year only, with the 2020-21 season being broken off due to the second COVID lockdown in October/November 2020.
• 2023 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West II’s Saturday League 4C, HPSV drops back in the newly resuscitated Saturday League 5 alongside RKVV Quick Steps and RVV Semper Altius.
• 2024 / Due to grubs – and birds preying on them – ravishing in the surface of HPSV’s sole pitch at Sportcomplex Zuiderpark West, the club has to move away home matches from its ground in early November 2024, playing the remainder of the season groundsharing with RKVV Quick Steps at Nijkerklaan.
• 2025 / Starting the 2025-26 season back at its home ground, HPSV sees its playing surface being destructed again for the same reason as the previous season, having to move away to RKVV Quick Steps from the fall of 2025 onward.
• 2026 / In a combined effort by the club and municipal authorities of The Hague, the pitch at Sportcomplex Zuiderpark West is rendered playable again for the last two home matches of HPSV in May 2026 (the last of which being the subject of the pictures below). Finishing in tenth place in District West II’s Saturday League 5C, the football branch of HPSV is wound up, ceasing all activities after an existence of 107 years. Other branches of the club, notably its fishing sport branch, continue their life unimpeded. It is as yet unclear what the future will hold for the football pitch in the Zuiderpark, still owned by the Haaglanden Regional Police.

Note – The main source of information for this write-up is a book, published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of HPSV:“Waakzaam, dienstbaar en 100 jaar aan de bal. Een eeuw HPSV Voetbal (1919-2019)”, by John Mulder, ed. Nederlandse Sportboekenclub: Voorburg 2019. Thanks to John Mulder for putting at my disposal a copy of this excellent book.

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

NETHERLANDS: RKVV Obbicht (1980-2019) / SV Argo (2019-2026)

Sportpark De Baendj, Obbicht (formerly RKVV Obbicht & SV Argo)

Netherlands, province: Limburg

17 V 2026 / SV Argo - vv Zwentibold 0-3 / District South II, Sunday League 5C (= NL level 10)

Timeline

• 1915 / A group of boys from Obbicht, a village hemmed in between the River Meuse and the Belgian border in the south of the Netherlands’ Province of Limburg, gets together to play improvised football matches in a pasture owned by Goswien Stoffers on the fringes of the village, with the small pitch being referred to locally as Sjteine Koel. In the following years, improvised football matches continue to be played on meadows elsewhere around Obbicht, locations with colourful names such as Op den Elleba, Op de Baandj, and Op de Greentj.
• ± 1918 / The group of youngsters from Obbicht, under the leadership of Willem van Mulken, decides to take the leap and form a football club, which is given the name De Stormvogels. They play recreational matches against teams from surrounding villages, with home games taking place on the so-called Wei van Knops.
• 1921 / De Stormvogels joins the so-called Roomsch-Katholieke Limburgsche Voetbalbond (RKLVB), the Limburg sub-branch of the Netherlands’ Roman Catholic Football Federation (RKF), probably under the official name RKVV Stormvogels.
• 1923 / (RKVV?) Stormvogels folds, ceasing all activities.
• 1924 / Foundation of a new football club in Obbicht, which takes on the name Roomsch-Katholieke Voetbalvereeniging (RKVV) Sparta, with Willem Munsters taking on the role of chairman. Initially, no membership of a football federation is sought, with activities taking place at Sjteine Koel.
• 1925 / Moving away from Terrein Sjteine Koel, RKVV Sparta settles on a newly laid-out pitch at Burgemeester Venckenstraat (with another entrance being created at Bornerweg later on) – a pitch which is in conformity with the rules of the RKLVB, which Sparta joins this same year, being placed in RKLVB Division 2D for the 1925-26 season.
• 1926 / Runner-up in RKLVB Division 2B, 2 points behind RVC (Stein) Reserves, RKVV Sparta wins promotion to RKLVB Division 1.
• 1928 / Finishing in third place in RKLVB Division 1 behind Roosteren and VVS, RKVV Sparta wins promotion to RKLVB Overgangsklasse.
• 1929 / Following a row, in which a priest attending a match noting that a Sparta player had used unbecoming language notified RKLVB authorities, RKVV Sparta withdraws its membership of the Roman Catholic Federation in December 1929.
• 1930 / RKVV Sparta joins the neutral, non-confessional Limburgsche Voetbalbond (LVB), the Limburg sub-branch of the official Netherlands’ Football Association (KNVB), being placed in LVB (Sunday) Division 1.
• 1931 / Clinching the title in LVB Division 1, RKVV Sparta wins promotion to KNVB District South II’s Sunday League 3.
• 1934 / RKVV Sparta finishes as runner-up in District South II’s Sunday League 3G, 3 points behind champions SV Staatsmijn Maurits.
• 1935 / Finishing in fifth place in District South II’s Sunday League 3G, RKVV Sparta renounces its membership of the KNVB and LVB following the 1934-35 season, returning into the fold of the RKLVB (RKF) under a new name, RKVV Obbicht, almost certainly due to another member club having older rights to the name ‘Sparta’. For the 1935-36 season, RKVV Obbicht is placed in Division 2 of the so-called IVCB, i.e. Interdiocesane Voetbalcompetitiebond, the nationwide RKF competition.
• 1939 / RKVV Obbicht finishes as runner-up in IVCB Division 2 South alongside RKVV DES (Swalmen), 4 points behind champions RKSV Minor.
• 1940 / Having spent the last five pre-war years in the ranks of the RKF / RKLVB, RKVV Obbicht is now constrained to make the step to the official Netherlands’ FA (renamed NVB following the German oppression of the Netherlands, abandoning the royal epithet ‘koninklijk’ for obvious reasons), as all other football associations are abolished by German occupation authorities. The club is placed in District South II’s Sunday League 3.
• 1949 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 3C, RKVV Obbicht saves its skin in the relegation play-offs, finishing in first place in a group of three, ahead of RKVV Havantia and RKVVH.
• 1950 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 3C for the second year running, RKVV Obbicht once again saves its skin in the relegation play-offs, finishing in first place in a group of four, ahead of SV Schuttersveld, vv Spaubeek, and VfR Tüddern (Tudderen).
• 1956 / Midfielder Jean Munsters, who had made the leap from RKVV Obbicht to the reserves’ team of Fortuna ’54 the previous year, now makes his professional league debut with the club from Geleen at the age of 23. Munsters would go on to stay with Fortuna ’54 for twelve seasons, playing a total of 326 matches, before ending his career in Belgium with KSC Hasselt in 1969.
• 1957 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 3C, RKVV Obbicht goes on to suffer defeat in a relegation play-off against PSV ’35, played at the ground of vv RIOS ’31 (2-1). As such, the club descends into Sunday League 4 for the first time.
• 1958 / RKVV Obbicht finishes as runner-up in District South II’s Sunday League 4D, 2 points behind champions RKVV IVS.
• 1962 / Finishing in joint first place in District South II’s Sunday League 4D with RKVV Buchten, RKVV Obbicht meets its rivals in a tie-break match, played at the ground of professional league side RKSV Sittardia (Sittardia-terrein aan de Baandert). Going on to win that encounter (2-1), RKVV Obbicht qualifies for the championship play-offs, in which the club finishes first in a group of four, ahead of SV Maasvogels, RKVV Rimburg, and vv Walram – with Frans Kitzen scoring no fewer than 11 goals for Obbicht in these six play-off encounters. As such, RKVV Obbicht wins promotion to Sunday League 3. The successful coach is J. Muyres. Also in 1962, floodlights are put in place at the main pitch of RKVV Obbicht at Burgemeester Venckenstraat.
• 1963 / Runner-up in District South II’s Sunday League 3A, 1 point behind champions RKHSV, RKVV Obbicht qualifies for a play-off for one additional promotion place against KVC Oranje, RKSV IVO, and vv SVM. However, with Obbicht finishing in third place – in spite of, again, 11 goals by centre-forward Frans Kitzen – KVC Oranje clinches the extra promotion ticket.
• 1964 / New dressing rooms are added to the set-up at the ground of RKVV Obbicht at Burgemeester Venckenstraat.
• 1965 / RKVV Obbicht finishes as runner-up in District South II’s Sunday League 3C, 2 points behind champions RKSV Laar.
• 1966 / Champions in District South II’s Sunday League 3C, 4 points ahead of closest followers PSV ’35, RKVV Obbicht wins promotion to Sunday League 2. The decisive points are clinched in a 3-2 win over vv Thorn.
• 1968 / Coached by Piet Hendrix, RKVV Obbicht finishes in second-last place in District South II’s Sunday League 2A, thus dropping back into Sunday League 3 after three years, alongside bottom club RKSV Haslou.
• 1971 / The floodlights at the main pitch of RKVV Obbicht at Burgemeester Venckenstraat are moved to the training pitch.
• 1972 / The ground of RKVV Obbicht at Burgemeester Venckenstraat is taken over by municipal authorities.
• 1973 / Finishing in second-last place in District South II’s Sunday League 3C alongside RKSVN and SV EMS, RKVV Obbicht meets those two clubs in a relegation play-off – and with all three teams finishing on two points (one win, one defeat), RKVV Obbicht draws the shorter straw due to having the worst goal difference of the three following its 5-1 defeat against RKSVN. As such, Obbicht descends into Sunday League 4, along with bottom club SV Altweerderheide. 
• 1975 / Finishing in joint first place in District South II’s Sunday League 4E with vv Limbricht, RKVV Obbicht meets its rivals in a tie-break match, played at the ground of RKSC Susteren. Thanks to a solitary goal by Math Toonen, Obbicht crowns itself champion, thus gaining promotion to Sunday League 3. The successful coach is Mr Pepels.
• 1979 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 3C, RKVV Obbicht drops back into Sunday League 4 alongside the club in second-last place, vv RIOS ’31.
• 1980 / Champions in District South II’s Sunday League 4E, 2 points ahead of runner-up RKVV Buchten, RKVV Obbicht manages an immediate return to Sunday League 3. The decisive points are clinched in a 6-1 away win at OVCS. The successful coaching duo consists of Mr Maas & Mr Hustinx. In the summer of 1980, moving away from their ground since the 1920s at Burgemeester Venckenstraat, RKVV Obbicht settles at a newly laid-out ground, consisting of three pitches, at Kasteelweg – with the new facilities, which are given the name Sportpark De Baandj (later usually spelled as Baendj), being officially inaugurated by Obbicht’s mayor, F.I.J. Loeffen.
• 1981 / RKVV Obbicht finishes as runner-up in District South II’s Sunday League 3C, 5 points behind champions vv (DES) Swalmen.
• 1983 / Finishing in joint first place in District South II’s Sunday League 3C with PSV ’35, RKVV Obbicht meets the club from Posterholt in a tie-break match, played at the ground of RKSC Susteren. Suffering a 2-1 defeat on the day, Obbicht has to make do with a place in a promotion competition, organised due to one extra promotion place being available. Going on to have the better of RKVV Heksenberg, vv Sparta ’18, and RKVVL, RKVV Obbicht succeeds in winning promotion to Sunday League 2.
• 1985 / In the best season in club history, RKVV Obbicht finishes in third place in District South II’s Sunday League 2B, only 3 points behind champions vv Sparta ’18.
• 1991 / Finishing in tenth place in District South II’s Sunday League 2B, RKVV Obbicht descends into Sunday League 3, along with MVC ’19 and bottom club vv Helden.
• 1994 / Finishing in second-last place in District South II’s Sunday League 3B, RKVV Obbicht is retrograded into Sunday League 4 alongside bottom club RKVV Heksenberg.
• 1995 / RKVV Obbicht finishes as runner-up in District South II’s Sunday League 4E, 1 point behind champions RKSC Susteren.
• 1996 / Champions in District South II’s Sunday League 4E, 5 points ahead of runner-up RKVV Maasbracht, RKVV Obbicht wins promotion to Sunday League 3.
• 1997 / Finishing in ninth place in District South II’s Sunday League 3C, RKVV Obbicht descends into Sunday League 4 alongside vv (DES) Swalmen and bottom club RKVV Eindse Boys.
• 1998 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 4E, RKVV Obbicht is retrograded into Sunday League 5 along with the club in second-last place, RKVV Juliana K.
• 2000 / RKVV Obbicht finishes as runner-up in District South II’s Sunday League 5C, 8 points behind champions vv MHD.
• 2001 / Champions in District South II’s Sunday League 5A, 6 points ahead of closest followers vv Partij ’33, RKVV Obbicht manages an immediate return to Sunday League 4.
• 2005 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 4D with coach Harrie Ubachs, RKVV Obbicht drops back into Sunday League 5, alongside the club in second-last place, vv Vlodrop.
• 2010 / Coached by former first team player Math Thoonen, RKVV Obbicht finishes bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 5C, thus descending into Sunday League 6, along with the club in second-last place, RKVV Doenrade.
• 2015 / Champions in District South II’s Sunday League 6B, 4 points ahead of closest rivals SV Egchel, RKVV Obbicht wins promotion – not to Sunday League 5, but to Sunday League 4, due to the League 6 level being abolished in the new season. The successful coach is Frans Korsten.
• 2016 / Finishing in fourth place in District South II’s Sunday League 4C, RKVV Obbicht qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by RKVV Haelen (6-1 aggr.).
• 2017 / Runner-up in District South II’s Sunday League 4C, 10 points behind runaway champions RKFC Lindenheuvel-Heidebloem Combinatie, RKVV Obbicht qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club eases past Oranje Blauw ’15 in R1 (9-1 aggr.), only to suffer elimination in the final at the hands of RKVB (2-1 aggr.).
• 2018 / Runaway champions in District South II’s Sunday League 4C, 10 points ahead of closest followers vv Roosteren, RKVV Obbicht wins promotion to Sunday League 3. The successful coach is Herman Vranken.
• 2019 / In its last season as an independent club, RKVV Obbicht finishes in eighth place in District South II’s Sunday League 3B. Following the 2018-19 season, the club concludes a merger with vv Armada from the neighbouring village of Grevenbicht, a club playing its football in Sunday League 5. The new merger club is given the name Sportvereniging (SV) Argo, with first team football being played at Sportpark De Baendj (Baandj) in Obbicht, and Sportpark Den Dreesj in Grevenbicht remaining in use for the youth academy. Underlining its ambitions, SV Argo signs Michel Broeders as its new head coach; Broeders is a former professional league defender, who defended the colours of Roda JC for seven years (1987-94).
• 2021 / Michel Broeders leaves SV Argo after two years, with his role as coach being taken over by his former teammate Eric van der Luer. This midfielder has a successful professional league career (1982-2004) at MVV, FC Assent, Roda JC, and Alemannia Aachen, moreover also winning 2 caps for the Netherlands (1995).
• 2022 / Eric van der Luer leaves SV Argo after one season as the club’s head coach.
• 2023 / Coached by André Boessen, SV Argo finishes in second-last place in District South II’s Sunday League 3A, thus descending into Sunday League 3 alongside bottom club SVC 2000. Also in 2023, Sportpark Den Dreesj in Grevenbicht is abandoned, with all of the activities of SV Argo henceforth taking place at Sportpark De Baendj.
• 2024 / Finishing in second-last place in District South II’s Sunday League 4C with coach Youssef Marouani, SV Argo is retrograded into Sunday League 5 alongside vv Zwentibold and bottom club vv SVM.
• 2025 / Runner-up in District South II’s Sunday League 5B, 2 points behind champions Sporting HAC, SV Argo qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club draws a bye in R1, only to be eliminated in R2 by RK BVV ’27 (1-4 A.E.T.).
• 2026 / Moving away from Sportpark De Baendj (Baandj), SV Argo settles at the newly laid-out Centrale Onderwijs- en Sportvoorziening (COS) at Kempenweg in Grevenbicht.

Note – Much of the information above has been derived from a booklet, published on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of RKVV Obbicht: “60 jaar vv Obbicht. Uitgegeven bij gelegenheid van het 60-jarig bestaan der RKVV Obbicht”, by Hans Smeets & Math Toonen (ed. RKVV Obbicht: 1984). Thanks to SV Argo for putting a copy of this booklet at my disposal.

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NETHERLANDS: vv SCKR (1981-2013) / vv Hellas (B) (2013-20??)

Terrein aan de Spoorstraat, Ransdaal (formerly vv SCKR & B ground of vv Hellas)

Netherlands, province: Limburg

May 2026 / no match visited

Timeline

• 1945 / Foundation of a football club in Ransdaal, a village in the south of the Netherlands’ Province of Limburg, which takes on the name vv SCKR, an abbreviation of Sportclub Klimmen-Ransdaal. As there is no football club in the neighbouring hamlet of Klimmen, the club draws its membership from both communities. It is unclear where vv SCKR played its football in the first 36 years of its existence; however, information could be found that there were four successive locations in this period.
• 1956 / As vv Klimmania is founded in Klimmen, the bulk of the membership from this village leaves vv SCKR.
• 1967 / vv SCKR wins promotion from the ranks of Afdeling Limburg to KNVB District South II’s Sunday League 4 for the first time.
• 1975 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 4C, vv SCKR drops back into Afdeling Limburg Division 1 after eight years.
• 1976 / vv SCKR manages an immediate return from the ranks of Afdeling Limburg to Sunday League 4.
• 1977 / Champions in District South II’s Sunday League 4B, 2 points ahead of closest rivals vv RVU, vv SCKR wins promotion to Sunday League 3 for the first and only time in its existence.
• 1978 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 3A, vv SCKR descends into Sunday League 4 after one season only, alongside the club in second-last place, SV Zwart Wit ’19.
• 1980 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 4B, vv SCKR drops back into Afdeling Limburg Division 1, along with the club in second-last position, SV Nyswiller. In one of the following four seasons, the club even descends into Division 2 of the said league system.
• 1981 / Having played at four successive locations following its foundation in 1945, vv SCKR now settles at the newly laid-out Terrein aan de Spoorstraat. 
• 1985 / Clinching the title in Afdeling Limburg Division 2, vv SCKR wins promotion to Division 1 of the said league system.
• 1992 / After twelve years in the ranks of Afdeling Limburg, vv SCKR now manages a return to Sunday League 4.
• 2001 / vv SCKR finishes as runner-up in District South II’s Sunday League 4B, 6 points behind champions FC Gulpen.
• 2004 / Finishing in second-last place in District South II’s Sunday League 4B, vv SCKR descends into Sunday League 5 – the successor of Afdeling Limburg Division 1 – alongside bottom club RKMVC.
• 2008 / Finishing in third place in District South II’s Sunday League 5B, 5 points behind joint champions RKVV Weltania and vv Passart, vv SCKR goes on to win the promotion play-offs, thus clinching promotion to Sunday League 4. The successful coach is Ramon Meesen.
• 2011 / Coached by René Flekken, vv SCKR finishes bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 4B, thus dropping back into Sunday League 5 after three years, alongside the club in second-last place, SV Nyswiller.
• 2013 / In its last season as an independent club, vv SCKR manages a fifth place in District South II’s Sunday League 5B. Following the 2012-13 season, a merger is concluded with Klimmania-TC – in itself a merger of vv Klimmania and vv Troja in 2001 – resulting in the foundation of vv Hellas. First team football moves to Sportpark De Schrub in Klimmen, with Terrein aan de Spoorstraat remaining in use for lower team football and training sessions.
• ± 2020 / vv Hellas abandons its B ground, Terrein aan de Spoorstraat in Ransdaal.
• 2022 / The clubhouse of the former vv SCKR at Spoorstraat is rebuilt to house a group of Ukrainian refugees. 

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

NETHERLANDS: RKVV Sibbe (1961-1971) / RKSV Sibbe (1971-)

Sportpark De Kleine Linde, Sibbe (RKSV Sibbe)

Netherlands, province: Limburg

17 V 2026 / SV Sibbe - RKVV Geertruidse Boys III 1-2 / District South II, Reserves' League 6-04

Timeline

• 1920 / Foundation of a first football club in Sibbe, a hamlet near Valkenburg in the far south of the Netherlands’ Province of Limburg; the new club takes on the name (RKVV?) Wilhelmina, but changes its name to (RKVV?) Sibbe that same year – probably upon joining the so-called Roomsch-Katholieke Limburgsche Voetbalbond (RKLVB), the Limburg sub-branch of the Netherlands’ Roman Catholic Football Federation (RKF). It is unclear where the pitch of this first club in Sibbe was situated.
• 1922 / (RKVV?) Sibbe folds after being expelled from the RKLVB due to debts owed to the federation. That same year, a successor club sees the daylight, (RKVV?) Zwart-Wit, which is allowed to join the RKLVB.
• 1923 / (RKVV?) Zwart-Wit is expelled from the RKLVB after one year.
• 1926 / Three years after the demise of Zwart-Wit, a new club is formed with members from Sibbe as well as the neighbouring hamlet of IJzeren; therefore, this club is given the name SIJ, i.e. Sibbe-IJzeren – probably officially RKVV SIJ. SIJ’s pitch is situated at Daelhemerweg, at the back of the Sibberhoes / Villartshof castle.
• 1927 / One year after its foundation, (RKVV?) SIJ joins the RKLVB.
• 1938 / After eleven years as a member club, (RKVV?) SIJ is barred from the RKLVB – officially due to being indebted to the federation, but in fact after several players and supporters beat up a referee in an away match against RKSV Kimbria Reserves in Maastricht. That same year, a successor club sees the daylight, Rooms-Katholieke Voetbalvereniging Sibbe, abbreviated as RKVVS. With Albert Rouwet taking on the role of chairman, the new club joins the RKLVB, with a new pitch being laid out at Daelhemerweg – opposite of the pitch previously used by SIJ.
• 1939 / RKVVS officially changes – or rather adapts – its name to become RKVV Sibbe. 
• 1940 / Having spent the first two years of its existence in the RKF / RKLVB, RKVV Sibbe is now constrained to make the step to the official Netherlands’ FA (renamed NVB following the German oppression of the Netherlands, abandoning the royal epithet ‘koninklijk’ for obvious reasons), as all other football associations are abolished by German occupation authorities. The club is placed in Division 2 of Afdeling Limburg, i.e. the sub-branch organising football in Limburg below the level of District South (II)’s (Sunday) League 4.
• 1944 / Suffering relegation from Afdeling Limburg Division 2, RKVV Sibbe descends into Division 3 of the said league system.
• 1947 / Clinching the title in Afdeling Limburg Division 2, RKVV Sibbe manages a return to Division 1 of the said league system – with the club thus having won a further promotion (or having been put forward one series) in 1945 or 1946.
• 1959 / Moving away from its ground at Daelhemerweg (Daalhemerweg), RKVV Sibbe settles on a newly laid-out pitch at Kleine Linde – on the site occupied nowadays by the Weusten farmstead (Kleine Linde 8).
• 1960 / Having suffered relegation into Afdeling Limburg Division 2 sometime in the course of the 1950s, RKVV Sibbe now clinches the Division 2 title, which heralds the club’s return in Division 1.
• 1961 / RKVV Sibbe moves away from its initial pitch at Kleine Linde, settling on the current location, only a stone’s throw westward from the original pitch.
• 1966 / Former RKVV Sibbe youth player Josef ‘Sef’ Geurten, who moved to the youth academy of MVV in 1964, wins the first of five caps for the Netherlands’ U19 team. After five years with MVV, Geurten would go on to wear the colours of vv DOS, FC Utrecht, AS Angoulême, AS Béziers, and SC Toulon.
• 1967 / RKVV Sibbe is retrograded from Afdeling Limburg Division 1 into Division 2.
• 1968 / Clinching the title in Afdeling Limburg Division 2, RKVV Sibbe manages an immediate return to Division 1 of the said league system.
• 1970 / RKVV Sibbe wins promotion from Afdeling Limburg Division 1 to District South II’s Sunday League 4 for the first time.
• 1971 / A handball branch for women is founded under the aegis of RKVV Sibbe, which is the moment when the football club changed its name to become RKSV (Rooms-Katholieke Sportvereniging) Sibbe - although universally referred to as SV Sibbe.
• 1972 / Having managed a tenth place in District South II’s Sunday League 4B the previous season, SV Sibbe now finishes bottom of the table in that same division, thus descending back into the ranks of Afdeling Limburg after two years.
• 1973 / Suffering back-to-back relegations, SV Sibbe drops out of Afdeling Limburg Division 1, thus finding itself in Division 2 of the said league system now.
• 1976 / SV Sibbe wins promotion from Afdeling Limburg Division 2 to Division 1.
• 1977 / After one season only, SV Sibbe drops back into Afdeling Limburg Division 2.
• ± 1978 / In 1978 or 1979, SV Sibbe acquires the luxury of a second pitch at Sportpark De Kleine Linde.
• 1982 / After building works which got underway in 1981, the clubhouse at SV Sibbe’s ground is inaugurated – replacing the very basic facilities, including dressing rooms erected in wood, which had been in place until that time.
• 1996 / As Afdeling Limburg and all other KNVB sub-branches are abolished, SV Sibbe is placed in District South II’s Sunday League 6.
• 1999 / Clinching the title in District South II’s Sunday League 6 (A?), SV Sibbe wins promotion to Sunday League 5. The successful coach is Bert Kessen.
• 2001 / Finishing in ninth place in District South II’s Sunday League 5A, SV Sibbe drops back into Sunday League 6 after two years, alongside RKVV Geertruidse Boys, vv Banholtia, and bottom club SC Biesland.
• 2015 / Finishing as runner-up in District South II’s Sunday League 6A, 9 points behind champions SVE, SV Sibbe is placed in Sunday League 5 in the following season – not via promotion play-offs, but because of the abolition of Sunday League 6 in District South II.
• 2018 / Coached by Willy Quaedvlieg, SV Sibbe finishes bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 5A. Following the 2017-18 season, the club withdraws from regular league football, sticking to playing at a recreational level. 

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