Extreme Football Tourism: NETHERLANDS: SC Helmondia (1935-1955) / RKSV Helmondia '55 (1955-1967) / Helmond Sport (1967-2024) / SV De Braak (2022-2023)

Stadion De Braak = Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Braak West, Helmond (Helmond Sport, formerly SC Helmondia / RKSC Helmondia '55 / SV De Braak)

Netherlands, province: North Brabant = Noord-Brabant

27 II 1993 / Helmond Sport - NAC 1-4 / Eerste Divisie (= NL level 2)
31 V 2005 / Helmond Sport - FC Zwolle 5-0 / Eerste Divisie, promotion play-off (= NL level 2)
19 III 2010 / Helmond Sport - Go Ahead Eagles 0-1 / Eerste Divisie (= NL level 2)

20 IX 2024 / Helmond Sport - FC Volendam 2-3 / Eerste Divisie (= NL level 2)

Timeline

1899 / Foundation of a first football club in Helmond, which takes on the name Helmondia.
1904 / Helmondia changes its name to become HVV Helmond – a club still existing today.
1911 / Foundation of a football club in Helmond, which takes on the name DOSB (probably meaning ‘Door Oefening Steeds Beter’). It is unclear where this club’s pitch was situated.
1912 / DOSB changes its name to become Helmondia.
1916 / Foundation of a football club in Helmond, which takes on the name ADO, with the meaning of the acronym being unclear – possibly Alles Door Oefening or Aanhouden Doet Overwinnen. The roots of this club are firmly working-class. With no pitch being available, club members occupy a piece of wasteland situated between the Pronto and Wilma neighbourhoods on the northeastern outskirts of Helmond, referred to locally as De Broak or De Braak, situated at Bakelsedijk. ADO joins the Helmond branch of the Roomsch-Katholieke Voetbalbond (RKVB) Bisdom Den Bosch, which later becomes a sub-branch of the RKF (Roomsch-Katholieke Federatie), a Roman-Catholic football association, which was a fierce rival of the official Netherlands’ Football Association (NVB, later KNVB) in the pre-war years.
1919 / A new Roman Catholic club is founded in Helmond, RKSV Kolping – with Kolping expressly being a club for the town’s Catholic working-class. The need for such a club has arisen due to RKSV MULO, another Catholic club in Helmond, founded four years previously, making use of a ballot committee, thereby weeding out potential unwanted elements in an effort to sustain its higher middle-class character.
1922 / The second Helmondia, founded in 1911 as DOSB, folds, ceasing all activities.
1924 / ADO changes its name to become Sportclub (SC) Helmondia.
1925 / While town rivals RKSV MULO establish themselves as one of the powerhouses in the RKF, winning four national titles in the Roman Catholic league in the course of the 1920s, the achievements of SC Helmondia are markedly more modest, with this club winning the title in RKF Division 2 in 1925.
1927 / Abandoning the Roman-Catholic football foundation RKF, SC Helmondia joins the official Netherlands’ FA, being placed in District South’s (Sunday) League 3C for the 1927-28 season. Meanwhile, also in 1927 – although another source mentions the year 1928 – RKSV Kolping concludes a merger with a smaller Roman-Catholic club, SDW (probably meaning ‘Sterk Door Wilskracht’, year of foundation unknown), resulting in the foundation of RKSV Kolping SDW.
1930 / SC Helmondia clinches the title in District South’s League 3D, 6 points ahead of runners-up Picusvereeniging, but fails to win promotion in the subsequent round of play-offs.
1935 / Having played its home matches at Terrein De Braak from the foundation of the club in 1916 onwards, SC Helmondia now moves to a newly laid-out pitch only several dozens of yards down the same road, Bakelsedijk. With the former pitch being notoriously uneven, the new Terrein De Braak is equipped with a better surface, which, moreover, has been levelled professionally. The inaugural match on this new pitch is played on August 25th, 1935, with SC Helmondia taking on WVVZ.
1936 / Champions in District South’s League 3F, 11 points ahead of closest followers SV Tivoli, SC Helmondia manages to make the leap to League 2 for the first time.
1946 / Champions in District South I’s Sunday League 2A, 1 point ahead of closest rivals vv De Valk, SC Helmondia goes on to win the subsequent round of play-offs, thus acceding to Sunday League 1, the highest level of the Netherlands’ league pyramid at the time.
± 1948 / A grandstand is constructed alongside the western side of Stadion De Braak, offering a covered seat to some 500 spectators.
1949 / In the Netherlands’ Cup (KNVB-Beker), SC Helmondia reaches the final after successively knocking out vv Velox, SV Limburgia, NAC, MVV, Willem II, and RVV Feijenoord. In the final, played at Eindhoven’s Philips Stadion (att. 13,000), Helmondia meets NC&VC Quick, with the tie ending in a draw and Quick winning the penalty shoot-out.
1951 / Finishing bottom of the table in Sunday League 1E, SC Helmondia drops back into League 2 after five years.
1952 / Champions in District South I’s Sunday League 2A, 9 points ahead of runners-up vv Veloc, SC Helmondia fails to clinch promotion to League 1 in the subsequent round of play-offs.
1954 / Champions in District South I’s Sunday League 2A, 3 points ahead of closest followers RKVV Wilhelmina, SC Helmondia fails to clinch promotion to League 1in the subsequent round of play-offs for the second time in three seasons.
1955 / With professional league football being introduced in the Netherlands, efforts are made in Helmond to bring about a merger between the four main clubs, RKSV MULO, SC Helmondia, HVV Helmond, and RKSV Kolping SDW, with the goal being to create a strong professional league club within the town’s borders. In the end, however, RKSV MULO chooses to remain in non-league, while HVV Helmond prefers to join the professional leagues independently. Thereupon, a merger deal is concluded between SC Helmondia and RKSV Kolping SDW, resulting in the foundation of RKSC (Rooms-Katholieke Sportclub) Helmondia ’55 – with the new merger club having a combined membership of 2,600. Taking the place of SC Helmondia at Stadion De Braak, the new club is placed in Professional Division 1C of the provisional professional league pyramid – i.e. the second-highest level. In an effort to create a competitive team, the RKSC Helmondia ’55 signs 32-year-old former Netherlands’ international striker André Roosenburg from Nîmes Olympique FC. By the time the club accedes the professional league pyramid, Stadion De Braak has an estimated capacity of 13,250 (1,250 seats, of which 500 covered / 12,000 uncovered standing places).
1956 / Runners-up in Professional Division 1C, 5 points behind champions KFC – which wins promotion to the new-to-be-formed Eredivisie, the top division of the national league pyramid – RKSC Helmondia ’55 is seeded in the Eerste Divisie (‘First Division’), the new second professional league tier.
1957 / RKSC Helmondia ’55’s striker Hennie Hollink signs a contract with top flight club Rapid JC, with Helmondia receiving the considerable fee of 50,000 guilders for the player.
1958 / After three years with RKSC Helmondia ’55, André Roosenburg ends his career as a professional league player.
1961 / Finishing in last place in Eerste Divisie A, RKSC Helmondia ’55 descends into the so-called Tweede Divisie, the third and lowest professional league division, along with the club finishing in second-last place, HFC EDO. The decisive defeat was suffered in an away match against RKSV Volendam at Terrein De Dijk (7-0). Also in 1961, floodlights are put in place at Stadion De Braak – though it has to be pointed out that these are only used for midweek training sessions, given that the installation is not powerful enough for evening matches.
1962 / RKSC Helmondia ’55 finishes in third place in the Tweede Divisie, 4 points behind champions vv Velox. That same year, HVV Helmond, the other club in Helmond which made the leap to the professional divisions in 1955, withdraws into non-league voluntarily. Also in 1962, Helmondia’s 17-year-old academy player Lambert Kreekels makes his debut in the club’s first team. Kreekels goes on to spend three different periods in his long professional league career with Helmondia and successor club Helmond Sport (1962-70, 1972-74 & 1978-81), interrupted by spells with top flight clubs FC Den Bosch ’67 (1970-72) and EVV Eindhoven (1974-78), scoring a total of 135 goals for Helmondia / Helmond Sport and 38 more for the two other clubs.
1964 / Having played elsewhere in Helmond in the first 49 years of its existence, RKSV MULO now settles at Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Braak. Henceforth, the club occupies the northern side of the park, with its main pitch being at the far northeastern end.
1965 / Runners-up in Tweede Divisie B, 4 points behind champions DFC, RKSC Helmondia ’55 qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club finishes in third place in a group of four, behind RFC Xerxes – the only club winning promotion to the Eerste Divisie – and DFC, with AGOVV finishing in last place. Following the 1964-65 season, the club loses its two best players, with centre-forward Leo van der Linden signing a contract with RKSV Sittardia, and winger Gerard van de Kerkhof moving away to RV&AV Sparta.
1967 / In its last season as a professional league club, RKSC Helmondia ’55 finishes in fourteenth place in the Tweede Divisie. Following the 1966-67 season, the club itself, marred by financial problems, withdraws into non-league, being placed in District South I’s Sunday League 4, while its professional league licence is taken over by a new breakaway club, Helmond Sport. For the time being, Helmond Sport and RKSC Helmondia ’55 are groundsharers at Stadion De Braak.
1968 / Runners-up in the Tweede Divisie, 2 points behind champions WVV Wageningen, Helmond Sport qualifies for a promotion play-off with vv Veendam and Fortuna Vlaardingen, which finished with an equal number of points as Helmond Sport. In these play-offs, Helmond Sport and vv Veendam finish in first and second place respectively, thus clinching promotion to the Eerste Divisie. The decisive goal is scored by Arie Meeuwsen in the away match in Vlaardingen (0-1). In the following year, Helmond Sport manages a respectable sixth place in the antechamber of the Netherlands’ football pyramid, but the following decade is one marred by bad results, with the club finding itself near the bottom of the table in most seasons. Only thanks to the abolition of the Tweede Divisie in 1971, Helmond Sport avoids relegation – given that the two professional divisions, Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie, are a closed shop, with no relegation to non-league being at stake.
± 1970 / After a couple of years of groundsharing with Helmond Sport at Stadion De Braak, RKSC Helmondia ’55, now a modest non-league club, is given the luxury of its own clubhouse and main pitch at the southeastern end of Sportpark De Braak.
1972 / The open terraces on the eastern side of Stadion De Braak, opposite the main stand, are replaced by a small set of covered terraces.
1981 / The 1961 floodlights at Stadion De Braak, used for training sessions only, are replaced with a much stronger installation, which also allows staging evening matches at the ground. The new facility is inaugurated with a gala match on February 18th, 1981, against PSV (3-3). Also in 1981, wingback Tonnie Beekmans, who had signed for Helmond Sport from RKSV MULO in 1968, hangs up his boots after thirteen consecutive seasons at the club, in the course of which he played in a staggering 383 official matches.
1982 / Sensationally, given that the club had finished in the second half of the Eerste Divisie table in the past seven seasons, Helmond Sport now clinches the title, 1 point ahead of runners-up Fortuna Sittard. As such, the club wins promotion to the top flight of the Netherlands’ professional league pyramid, the Eredivisie, for the first time. The team of coach Jan Notermans lacks real stardom, with Peter Alkemade, Harry Lubse, and top scorer Robert Cox (14 goals) being among the best-remembered players. Famously, in its first Eredivisie season, on December 5th, 1982, Helmond Sport’s goalkeeper Otto Versfeld had to suffer the humiliation of conceding a Johan Cruijff penalty in the away game against AFC Ajax (5-0), with Cruijff not aiming on target directly, but playing the ball to Jesper Olsen, who in turn passed it back to Cruijff, who then tapped in the ball behind the bewildered Versfeld. Also in 1982, a small open terrace is constructed at the northern end of Stadion De Braak. After the unexpected promotion of the club to the top flight, temporary covered stand are added to each side of the grandstand, later replaced by stone constructions – the southern one of which housed the away supporters.
1983 / With a team bolstered by some young players – most notably wingback Hans Meeuwsen and midfielder Hans Vincent, who had joined the club from HVV Helmond after being rejected by PSV – Helmond Sport manages to avoid relegation in its first Eredivisie season, finishing in fifteenth place, 1 point ahead of the drop zone. At the end of the 1982-83 season, Jan Notermans leaves the club, with Jan Brouwer taking over as his successor. One of the players to join the club in mid-1983 is former Netherlands’ international player Wim Rijsbergen, who joins the club from New York Cosmos (previously under contract with PEC Zwolle, SC Feyenoord, and SC Bastia / 28 caps, two World Cup tournaments).
1984 / Coached by Jan Brouwer – and in spite of the presence of Wim Rijsbergen as the leader of the club’s defence – Helmond Sport finishes in sixteenth place in the Eredivisie, 10 points adrift from a safe place, and thus dropping back into the Eerste Divisie after two seasons, along with Willem II and bottom club DS ’79. Wim Rijsbergen leaves the club, signing a deal with FC Utrecht – hanging up his boots two years later.
1985 / In its first season back at the Eerste Divisie level, Helmond Sport has a disappointing season in the league, finishing in thirteenth place, but, on the other hand, 36 years after SC Helmondia achieved the same feat, the club reaches the cup final after successively knocking out SC Heracles ’74, FC Den Haag, NAC, FC Den Bosch ’67, and FC Wageningen – with Helmond Sport’s striker René van Tilburg scoring six goals on the way. In the final against FC Utrecht, played at that club’s Stadion Galgenwaard (att. 18,000) a John van Loen goal in the last minute of regular play hands the trophy to the home side. For the 1985-86 season, Helmond Sport signs 33-year-old former Dutch international winger (47 caps) René van de Kerkhof, who had earned 47 caps for the Netherlands, representing his country in the 1974 and 1978 World Championships – reaching the final on both occasions – as well as the 1976 and 1980 European Championships. Prior to joining Helmond Sport, René van de Kerkhof, who originated from Helmond and had spent his youth academy years at non-league club RKSV MULO, had worn the colours of FC Twente ’65, PSV, GS Apollon Smyrnis, and Seiko SA (Hong Kong).
1986 / The grandstand of Stadion De Braak, which had been constructed in the latter part of the 1940s, is consumed in a fire on August 12th, 1986. A temporary stand is constructed by way of replacement. Also in 1986, after four years with the club, midfielder Hans Vincent leaves Helmond Sport; in the following eight years, Vincent goes on to wear the colours of MVV, Willem II, and VVV. That same year, Helmond Sport signs 26-year-old utility player Rob Landsbergen from South Korean club Hyundai Horang-i. Landsbergen, who had spent its youth academy years at Helmond Sport’s non-league neighbours RKSV MULO, had previously worn the colours of PSV and Willem II. Landsbergen went on to have two spells at Helmond Sport (1986 & 1988-90), with the intermediate period being spent at NAC. After hanging up his boots, Landsbergen goes on to train several non-league clubs – eventually succumbing to an incurable disease and passing away at the untimely age of 62 in 2022.
1987 / A young wingback, Marc van Hintum, joins Helmond Sport from non-league side RKSV Margriet. After only one year with the club, Van Hintum leaves, signing a contract with RKC – and going on to have a respectable career, wearing the colours of Willem II, SBV Vitesse, Hannover 96, RKC Waalwijk, and the Netherlands’ national team (8 caps), eventually ending his career in 2005.
1988 / After two seasons of having a temporary grandstand following the destruction of the old main stand in a fire two years previously, a replacement stand – a concrete construction with a steel roof – is finally erected and inaugurated. Also in 1988, after three years at Helmond Sport, René van de Kerkhof leaves the club, going on to play one more year for derby rivals SC Eindhoven before hanging up his boots in 1989.
1991 / After spending the past few years near the bottom of the league table, Helmond Sport now finishes in fifth place in the Eerste Divisie, with a team notably lacking star players, as coach Frans Körver formed a tight collective out of players such as Rein van Duijnhoven, Chris van den Dungen, John Heijster, and Jurgen Streppel. The club narrowly misses out on the promotion play-offs, though.
± 1992 / The ruinous open terrace at the southern side of Stadion De Braak is removed – and given that no more replacement is put in place than a small six-stepped terrace, many inhabitants of the houses at the back of that side of the ground make a habit of following Helmond Sport’s matches seated on the roofs of their sheds.
1993 / After the covered terraces on the eastern side of Stadion De Braak had been closed down after part of the roof had been destroyed in a storm in the second half of 1992, the construction is now demolished, with building works on a replacement starting straightaway.
1994 / After one year of construction works, the new east stand of Stadion De Braak is inaugurated, a covered stand over the full length of the pitch, offering 2,000 spectators a covered seat; behind them, there are skyboxes for the club’s sponsors. This new east stand becomes the stadium’s main stand. Helmond Sport reaches the quarterfinal of the Netherlands’ cup, in which the club is eliminated by AFC Ajax (7-1). Also in 1994, eight years after leaving Helmond Sport, Hans Vincent rejoins the club after a spell with VVV. Vincent stays with Helmond Sport for five more years until hanging up his boots in 1999. Also in 1994, former Netherlands’ international player (35 caps & part of the Netherlands’ squad which won the 1988 European Championships in West Germany) Berry van Aerle joins Helmond Sport after having played the first thirteen years of his professional league career at PSV and R Antwerp FC. Van Aerle, who played in HVV Helmond’s youth academy prior to moving to PSV, stays with Helmond Sport for two seasons before hanging up his boots in 1996.
1997 / Replacing the 1988 main stand and the two smaller covered stands on each side of it, a new west stand is inaugurated at Stadion De Braak, offering a seat to some 1,500 spectators as well as housing press facilities and the players’ dressing rooms underneath. In the 1996-97 season, Helmond Sport reaches the semifinal of the Netherlands’ cup, in which the club is eliminated by SC Heerenveen (5-0). Also in 1997, fifteen years after making his debut with the club – and having been away for only two seasons, 1990-92, when he wore the colours of Willem II – one of Helmond Sport’s ultimate club icons, wing back Hans Meeuwsen, hangs up his boots.
1998 / Former Netherlands’ international player John de Wolf (6 caps, 1994 World Cup) joins Helmond Sport from Hapoel Ashkelon FC. De Wolf had previously played his football at Sparta Rotterdam, FC Groningen, Feyenoord Rotterdam, Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, and VVV. He stays with Helmond Sport for two years, ending his professional league career in 2000.
1999 / After several disappointing seasons, Helmond Sport now finishes in fourth place in the Eerste Divisie, with former club player Louis Coolen guiding the club to the promotion play-offs. In those play-offs, however, the club finishes in last place in a group against Sparta Rotterdam, which clinches the Eredivisie ticket, FC Groningen, and SBV Excelsior. Also in 1999, former Netherlands’ international player Juul Ellerman (5 caps) joins Helmond Sport from NEC. Ellerman had previously played his football at Sparta Rotterdam, PSV, and FC Twente. He stays with Helmond Sport for three years, ending his professional league career in 2002.
2000 / The concrete terrace behind the northern end of Stadion De Braak is knocked down and replaced by an all-seater stand, offering a seat to some 700 spectators. As the terraces at the southern end of the ground are replaced around that same time, total capacity of the ground is now down to 4,200 (including 400 seats for away supporters on the western stand). Plans for a new south stand come to naught due to inhabitants of the houses on that side of the ground arguing successfully that the new construction would be too close to their gardens.
2003 / Coached by Jan van Dijk, Helmond Sport manages its best result in nearly twenty seasons, finishing in third place in the Eerste Divisie behind ADO Den Haag and BVO Emmen. In the promotion play-offs, the club misses out on the Eredivisie ticket, finishing in second place in a group behind FC Zwolle (and ahead of FC Den Bosch and Go Ahead Eagles).
2004 / Still coached by Jan van Dijk, Helmond Sport finishes in fifth place in the Eerste Divisie, qualifying for the promotion-relegation play-offs, in which the club finishes in last place in a group behind SBV Vitesse, VVV-Venlo, and Sparta Rotterdam.
2005 / Coached by Ruud Brood, Helmond Sport finishes in sixth place in the Eerste Divisie, qualifying for the promotion-relegation play-offs, in which the club misses out on the Eredivisie ticket, finishing in second place in a group behind Sparta Rotterdam (and ahead of BV De Graafschap and FC Zwolle).
2006 / Still coached by Ruud Brood, Helmond Sport finishes in fourth place in the Eerste Divisie, qualifying for the play-offs, in which the club is eliminated by FC Volendam (5-4 aggr.). Also in the 2005-06 season, Helmond Sport reaches the quarterfinal of the Netherlands’ cup, in which the club is knocked out by Roda JC (0-2).
2007 / The fences around the pitch at Stadion De Braak are removed, except in the away end.
2008 / Coached by former Netherlands’ international player Jan Poortvliet (who played in the 1978 World Cup final), Helmond Sport finishes in seventh place in the Eerste Divisie. Qualifying for the play-offs, the club knocks out TOP Oss in R1 (5-2 aggr.), before being eliminated by BV De Graafschap in R2 (6-3 aggr.). Also in 2008, Stadion De Braak hosts the cup tie between SV Deurne and Feyenoord Rotterdam, due to SV Deurne’s Sportpark Kranenmortel not being deemed fit for the occasion; the match, attended by a sell-out crowd (4,200), ends in a 0-4 win for the guests.
2010 / Coached by former club player Jurgen Streppel, Helmond Sport finishes in eighth place in the Eerste Divisie. Qualifying for the promotion-relegation play-offs, the club knocks out FC Den Bosch in R1 (3-3 aggr. & penalty shoot-out), before being eliminated by Sparta Rotterdam in R2 (3-2 aggr.). Also in 2010, in a sponsorship deal, Stadion De Braak is officially renamed Lavans Stadion.
2011 / Still coached by Jurgen Streppel, Helmond Sport finishes in third place in the Eerste Divisie, behind RKC Waalwijk and FC Zwolle. Qualifying for the promotion-relegation play-offs, the club knocks out BV Veendam (4-3 aggr.), only to lose the final against Eredivisie side SBV Excelsior (9-3 aggr.).
2012 / Coached by Hans de Koning, Helmond Sport finishes in fourth place in the Eerste Divisie. Qualifying for the promotion play-offs, the club knocks out derby rivals FC Eindhoven (3-0 aggr.), only to suffer defeat in the final yet again, this time against VVV-Venlo (4-3 aggr.).
2013 / Coached by Eric Meijers, Helmond Sport finishes in fourth place in the Eerste Divisie. Qualifying for the promotion play-offs, the club is eliminated by Sparta Rotterdam (5-3 aggr.).
2013 / The pitch of Stadion De Braak is equipped with a synthetic surface.
2017 / Having had several disappointing seasons, Helmond Sport, coached by Roy Hendriksen, now qualifies for the play-offs, in spite of only finishing in thirteenth place in the Eerste Divisie. Eliminating Almere City FC in R1 (6-2 aggr.), the club is knocked out in R2 by Roda JC Kerkrade (2-1 aggr.). In the following seasons, Helmond Sport steadfastly finds itself in the bottom half of the Eerste Divisie table.
2018 / After having worn the sponsorship name Lavans Stadion for the past eight years, Stadion De Braak is now officially renamed SolarUnie Stadion in a new commercial deal concluded by Helmond Sport. Also in 2018, Stadion De Braak hosts the cup tie between vv Gemert and Feyenoord Rotterdam, due to vv Gemert’s Sportpark Molenbroek not being deemed fit for the occasion; the match, attended by a sell-out crowd (4,200), ends in a 0-4 win for the guests.
2020 / The two non-league clubs sharing Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Braak with Helmond Sport, RKSV MULO and mother club SC Helmondia, conclude a merger, resulting in the foundation of Sportvereniging (SV) De Braak.
2022 / After having worn the sponsorship name SolarUnie Stadion for the past four years, Stadion De Braak is now officially renamed GS Staalwerken Stadion in a new commercial deal concluded by Helmond Sport. In the summer of 2022, the main pitch of SV De Braak’s (formerly SC Helmondia’s) park, Sportpark De Braak (Oost) is removed, with the covered stand being knocked down. A new pitch is laid out on the spot, which is given a quarter’s turn compared to the old situation. However, SV De Braak temporarily moves its first team football to Helmond Sport’s Stadion De Braak.
2023 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Saturday League 3A, SV De Braak (za) drops back into League 4 after just one season, along with the club finishing second from bottom, SV Blauw Geel ’55 (za). Also in 2023, after one year of playing its first team football at Stadion De Braak, SV De Braak moves away to the synthetic pitch which has been laid out at the northeastern most corner of the park, partly on the area previously occupied by RKSV MULO’s former main pitch – a situation likely to endure until further renovation works at Sportpark De Braak will have been completed. After long talks about building a new stadium for Helmond Sport on another location in the municipality – with the Berkendonk area in Helmond-Oost being mentioned particularly in this context – the decision is taken eventually by municipal authorities to commission a new stadium at Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Braak, directly to the north of the old stadium – on the side pitches of the former RKSV MULO. The new ground will include an indoor sports hall as well as a vocational school.

Note – Below, a compilation of photos of seven different visits: pictures 1, 4-8 & 11-13 = non-matchday visit, September 26th, 2024 / picture 2 = non-matchday visit, June 2014 / picture 3 = non-matchday visit, June 2024 / pictures 9-10 & 15-29 = match visit, September 20th, 2024 / picture 14 = non-matchday visit, June 2017 / picture 16 = match visit, May 2005 / picture 30-31 = match visit, February 2010.