Extreme Football Tourism: NETHERLANDS: RKSV Sportlust (B) (1975-1976) / vv Vroomshoopse Boys (B) (1975-1976) / RKSV Sportlust (1976-) / vv Vroomshoopse Boys (1976-)

Sportpark De Bosrand, Vroomshoop (RKSV Sportlust & vv Vroomshoopse Boys, formerly B ground of both aforementioned clubs)

Netherlands, province: Overijssel

3 IX 2016 / vv Vroomshoopse Boys - vv Berkum 1-3 / Saturday League 1D (= NL level 6)

29 VIII 2026 / vv Vroomshoopse Boys - RKSV De Tukkers 0-0 / District East, Regional Cup - group stage, group 1-17

Timeline

1912 / Foundation of a first football club in Vroomshoop, which takes on the name vv Voorwaarts. The founding fathers of the club are K. Timmer, M. Gerrits, J. Zandbergen, and W. Brinkman – the latter being pub owner Willem Brinkman, who was to become the driving force behind all footballing activities in Vroomshoop until the German occupation in 1940. The club settles on a pitch laid out on a plot of land in the hamlet of Linde, to the west of the village centre, referred to locally as Terrein De Belt. It is located at the back of Brinkman’s café at Hammerweg.
1914 / vv Voorwaarts joins the so-called Twenthsche Voetbalbond (TVB), the Twente sub-branch of the Netherlands’ Football Association (NVB, later renamed KNVB). Also in 1914, apart from the non-confessional Voorwaarts, a Roman Catholic club sees the daylight in Vroomshoop, Roomsch-Katholieke Voetbalvereeniging Vroomshoop (RKVVV), with Dries Haverkort taking on the role of chairman. RKVVV settles on Terrein De Belt at the back of Café Brinkman as well, thus becoming groundsharers with Voorwaarts.
1915 / With vv Voorwaarts withdrawing from the TVB, footballing activities come to a standstill in Vroomshoop. Many young men were called up to perform their military service, as the Netherlands’ armed forces mobilised after the outbreak of World War I in 1914, in which the Netherlands remained neutral.
1918 / vv Voorwaarts is re-established after the end of World War I and the demobilisation of the Netherlands’ armed forces. The club settles at Terrein De Belt again.
1920 / Like its predecessor, vv Voorwaarts joins the TVB.
1929 / With activities grounding to a halt, vv Voorwaarts abandons its TVB membership, with the club effectively winding up.
1930 / Sixteen years after its foundation, RKVVV joins the Roman Catholic Football Federation RKUVB (Roomsch-Katholieke Utrechtsche Voetbalbond), a sub-branch of the Roomsch-Katholieke Federatie (RKF), but with a different name, RODA (probably meaning ‘Recht Op Doel Af’), as the name RKVVV was already in use by another RKF member club. By this time, the Roman Catholic club no longer plays at Terrein De Belt, but on a pitch laid out at Stationsstraat.
± 1931 / Two years after the club’s demise, vv Voorwaarts is re-established for a second time. The club settles on its old pitch, Terrein De Belt at the back of Café De Sport, owned by Willem Brinkman.
1932 / For the first time, the largest religious denomination in Vroomshoop, the Netherlands Reformed community, founds its own football club, which is given the name vv Vroomhoopsche Boys. vv Vroomshoopsche Boys settles on Terrein De Belt, groundsharing with vv Voorwaarts.
1933 / With large parts of its membership walking away to vv Vroomshoopsche Boys, vv Voorwaarts folds, ceasing all activities for good. Before long, the club also starts a Sunday branch for non-confessional members, which is given the unofficial name De Zwaluwen. To accommodate the growing membership, a second pitch is laid out at the back of a local chip shop, Cafetaria Moddejongen, at the instigation of Willem Brinkman.
1934 / vv Vroomshoopsche Boys joins the so-called NCVB, Nederlandsche Christelijke Voetbalbond (sometimes referred to as CNVB), an association for clubs of the protestant denomination unwilling to play their matches on Sundays for religious reasons.
1935 / After five years of playing its football in the RKUVB association, RODA sees its membership of renounced due to being indebted to the federation. Activities are continued locally under the old name RKVVV.
1939 / As the Netherlands’ armed forces mobilise in the summer of 1939 in the face of a looming German invasion, many small football clubs have to cease their activities due to not being able to field a competitive team at the start of the new season. In Vroomshoop, both RKVVV and vv Vroomshoopsche Boys fall victim to the international political situation, having to cease their activities altogether.
1944 / With the end of World War II and German occupation of the Netherlands being nigh, vv Vroomshoopse Boys – note the changed orthography – is re-established, with Henk Middeljans taking on the chairmanship. Settling on the old pitch, Terrein De Belt, the club decides to join the Netherlands’ FA (the Roman Catholic and Protestant football federations would never be re-established after the war) – more specifically its sub-branch in Twente, the TVB. Doing away with football on Saturdays, the club joins the Sunday pyramid of this federation.
± 1948 / As the disgruntled Protestant majority of the club’s membership threatening to form a breakaway club, the board of vv Vroomshoopse Boys sees itself left with little other option but to swap from the TVB Sunday pyramid to the Saturday divisions instead, being placed in TVB Saturday Division 3 for the new season.
1950 / Clinching the title in TVB Saturday Division 3, vv Vroomshoopse Boys wins promotion to Saturday Division 2 of the said league system. Meanwhile, former RKVVV members who had joined the ostensibly neutral vv Vroomshoopse Boys in 1944, decide to form a breakaway club, as they are not reconciled to the decision to play football on Saturdays rather than on Sundays. The new Roman Catholic club sees the daylight in a foundation meeting at Café De Vriendschap, where the name Rooms-Katholieke Voetbalvereniging (RKVV) Sportlust is adopted. Dries Haverkort, the man who had been RKVVV chairman from its foundation in 1914 onwards, takes on the same role at the phoenix club as well. RKVV Sportlust, which henceforth shares Terrein De Belt with Vroomshoopse Boys, starts its existence as a competitive club in TVB Sunday Division 4 in the 1950-51 season.
1952 / Clinching the title in TVB Sunday Division 4, RKVV Sportlust wins promotion to Division 3 of the said league system. Village rivals vv Vroomshoopse Boys are equally successful, winning the title in TVB Saturday Division 2 following an emphatic 7-1 win over its sole remaining competitor, vv DES Reserves; as such, Vroomshoopse Boys wins promotion to TVB Saturday Division 1.
1955 / vv Vroomshoopse Boys wins promotion from TVB Saturday Division 1 to KNVB District East’s Saturday League 4 – at the time the second-highest tier of the nascent Saturday non-league divisions.
1958 / Finishing as joint runners-up in District East’s Saturday League 4C with vv DETO, 4 points behind champions CVV Oranje Nassau Almelo, vv Vroomshoopse Boys gets to play a tie-break match against the club from Vriezenveen for an extra promotion place; however, on the pitch of vv Voorwaarts V in Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk, vv DETO walks away with a 3-2 win and the promotion ticket.
1959 / vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes as runner-up in District East’s Saturday League 4C, 3 points behind champions CVV Achilles. That same year, RKVV Sportlust and vv Vroomshoopse Boys abandon Terrein De Belt, settling on a newly laid-out municipal sports facility at the back of the local non-confessional primary school, the Openbare Koningin Julianaschool. The new facilities, commonly referred to as MCC-velden (MCC being the abbreviation of Maatschappelijk-Cultureel Centrum, the community centre of Vroomshoop, adjacent to the sports park), initially comprises two pitches, with a third one being added later on. The main pitch sports a small covered stand.
1960 / Champions in District East’s Saturday League 4C, 4 points ahead of closest rivals vv Voorwaarts V, vv Vroomshoopse Boys, coached by Mr Van Wijlick, qualifies for the championship play-offs. Being drawn against CSV VIOS and Elburger SC, the club finishes bottom of the three-way competition, thus missing out on promotion to Saturday League 3. Meanwhile, at RKVV Sportlust, a branch for gymnastics is added to the myriad of activities, with the club thus becoming a sports club rather than (solely) a football club – and a name change from RKVV (Rooms-Katholieke Voetbalvereniging) to RKSV (Rooms-Katholieke Sportvereniging) Sportlust resulting. Later on, gymnastics is given up in favour of ladies’ football – with walking sports being added later on.
1961 / Clinching the title in TVB Sunday Division 3, RKSV Sportlust wins promotion to Division 2 of the said league system. Meanwhile, vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes as runner-up in District East’s Saturday League 4C, 4 points behind champions vv Voorwaarts V.
1962 / Coached by Henny de Ruiter, vv Vroomshoopse Boys clinches the title in District East’s Saturday League 4C, 3 points ahead of closest followers SVVN; the decisive points are clinched in a 6-1 away win against BCSV. In the ensuing championship play-offs, the club once again draws the short straw, with vv Bennekom and CSV Be Quick ’28 proving too strong.
1963 / Champions in District East’s Saturday League 4C, 5 points ahead of closest followers CVV Oranje Nassau Almelo, vv Vroomshoopse Boys finally wins promotion to Saturday League 3 – with the championship play-offs having been abolished. The decisive point is obtained in a 2-2 home draw against vv Hulzense Boys. The successful coach is Henny de Ruiter.
1964 / Vroomshoopse Boys midfielder Jan Veneberg joins professional league side AVC Heracles, staying faithful to that club and its successor SC Heracles ’74 until at least 1976.
1966 / Another Vroomshoopse Boys talent, centre-forward Jan Witzand, signs a professional league deal, with Witzand moving to SV Zwolsche Boys. Witzand would go on to have subsequent spells at vv DOS, FC Utrecht, and AVV HVC, bowing out into non-league in 1972.
1970 / vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes as runner-up in District East’s Saturday League 3B, 2 points behind champions vv Bergentheim.
1971 / Finishing in joint first place in District East’s Saturday League 3B with vv Flevo Boys, vv Vroomshoopse Boys meets the club from Emmeloord in a tie-break match for the title, played at Sportpark De Boshoek in Hardenberg in front of an estimated crowd of 3,000. However, the club loses the tie (2-1), thus missing out on promotion.
1972 / After extensive deliberation, an initial plan for a shared sports complex for RKVV Sportlust, vv Vroomshoopse Boys, and vv Den Ham, to be located midway between Den Ham and Vroomshoop, is rejected by the two Vroomshoop clubs. Subsequently, a design is drawn up by municipal authorities for a new sports complex for Sportlust and the Boys on Flierdijk, outside the built-up area on the western side of Vroomshoop.
1973 / Champions in District East’s Saturday League 3B, 2 points ahead of closest rivals vv Voorwaarts V, vv Vroomshoopse Boys wins promotion to Saturday League 2 for the first time. The decisive points are obtained in a 3-2 away win at AZSV. The successful coach is Menny ‘Mans’ de Witte.
1974 / With extra promotion places being at stake in TVB Sunday Division 2B, the joint third place of RKSV Sportlust with SV Zenderen Vooruit leads to a tie-break match. Hosted by RKSV MVV ’29 at their Sportpark Frielinkpark in Harbrinkhoek, the tie ends in a 1-1 draw (A.E.T.), with the replay at the same venue leading to a 3-1 win for Zenderen, which thus wins promotion with the top two finishers, vv Twenthe and RKSV MVV ’29, at the expense of Sportlust. Meanwhile, vv Vroomshoopse Boys celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with a gala match against AFC Ajax of coach Hans Kraay Snr., which lures an estimated 5,000 spectators to the MCC-velden. Against the likes of Piet Schrijvers, Ruud Krol, and Piet Keizer, the Boys keep the score down to a respectable 0-4. Later that summer, the club also entertains professional league side PEC Zwolle at the MCC-velden (1-5).
1975 / Although the clubhouse at the new Sportpark De Bosrand is not finished yet, some youth matches and training sessions of RKSV Sportlust as well as vv Vroomshoopse Boys are already moved to the new facility from December 1975 onwards in addition to the three pitches at the MCC-velden. The new facilities initially consist of four full-frame pitches as well as a training pitch and a pitch for youth matches.
1976 / In the last season at the MCC-velden, vv Vroomshoopse Boys narrowly misses out on the title in District East’s Saturday League 2C, finishing as runner-up, only 2 points behind champions vv Voorwaarts V. In the summer of 1976, both Vroomshoop clubs move into their new Sportpark De Bosrand, which is inaugurated on August 28th of the year by mayor Arnold van Walsum. As before at the MCC-velden, both clubs share the main pitch, which sports a covered stand, but RKSV Sportlust has to pay a rent to vv Vroomshoopse Boys for the use of the canteen.
1977 / Champions in TVB Sunday Division 2B, 3 points ahead of closest rivals SV Haarle, RKSV Sportlust wins promotion to TVB Sunday Division 1 for the first time. The decisive point is obtained in a draw away at VC Fleringen. The successful coach is Martin Nijstad - incidentally the grandfather of FC Twente star defender Ruud Nijstad.
1978 / Champions in District East’s Saturday League 2D, 6 points ahead of closest followers vv Hollandscheveld, vv Vroomshoopse Boys achieves a historic promotion to Saturday League 1, by now the top tier of the Saturday non-league pyramid. The decisive points are obtained in a 2-0 away win at CVV Oranje Nassau 1918. The successful coach is Wim Sollart.
1979 / Unable to cope with the level of Saturday League 1B, vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes in second-last place in this division, thus being retrograded into Saturday League 2 after just one season, alongside bottom club Go-Ahead Kampen. A 1-0 defeat away at SV Huizen proved the death knell for the Boys.
1980 / vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes as runner-up in District East’s Saturday League 2D, 7 points behind champions vv AVW ’66. Meanwhile, RKSV Sportlust refuses to pay rent to their groundsharing neighbours any longer for the use of the canteen, resulting in a decision to build an adjacent clubhouse of their own at Sportpark De Bosrand.
1982 / Finishing in second-last place in TVB Sunday Division 1B, RKSV Sportlust drops back into Division 2 of the said league system after five years, alongside bottom club WVV Wierden. That same year, on March 2nd, the new Sportlust clubhouse at Sportpark De Bosrand, erected by club volunteers, is inaugurated by mayor Arnold van Walsum.
1983 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Saturday League 2D, vv Vroomshoopse Boys descends into Saturday League 3.
1985 / Coached by Joop Elferink, vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes bottom of the table in District East’s Saturday League 3B, thus descending into Saturday League 4 along with the club in second-last place, vv Daarlerveen. A 1-1 draw against vv DES leads to the inevitable downfall of the Boys, who suffer relegation to a level of the non-league pyramid where the club had last featured 22 years ago.
1986 / vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes as runner-up in District East’s Saturday League 4D, 1 point behind champions vv Daarlerveen.
1987 / vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes as runner-up in District East’s Saturday League 4D, 1 point behind champions VABO.
1988 / Finishing in joint first place in District East’s Saturday League 4D with vv ASC ’62, vv Vroomshoopse Boys meets the club from Dalfsen in a tie-break match, hosted at Sportpark De Boshoek in Hardenberg. In front of an estimated crowd of 2,000, the Boys manage a 4-2 win (two goals by Hans de Jonge, one each by Henk Meinderink and Marinus Jurjens), resulting in the club finding the way back to Saturday League 3 after an absence of three years.
1989 / In its first season back in Saturday League 3B, vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes in a joint second place with SVZW and vv Berkum, only 1 point behind champions SV Excelsior ’31. In the summer of 1989, the Boys entertain the Netherlands’ champions PSV in a gala match at Sportpark De Bosrand. Guus Hiddink’s PSV, which includes the likes of Hans van Breukelen, Gerald Vanenburg, Berry van Aerle, Kalusha Bwalya, Stan Valckx, Wim Kieft, and Josef Chovanec, eases to a 10-0 win, with five goals for the Eindhoven side being scored by Hans Gillhaus.
1990 / Champions in District East’s Saturday League 3B, 4 points ahead of closest followers SVZW, vv Vroomshoopse Boys wins promotion to Saturday League 2. The decisive points are obtained in a 1-0 home win over vv DOS ’37. The successful coach is Cees Smid.
1991 / Coached by Cees Smid, vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes in second-last place in District East’s Saturday League 2D, thus descending into Saturday League 3 after just one season, along with bottom club ESA.
1992 / Coached by Cees Smid, vv Vroomshoopse Boys now suffers back-to-back relegations, finishing in third-last place in District East’s Saturday League 3B and thus descending into Saturday League 4 along with ZZVV and bottom club HVV De Blauwwitters. A 2-1 defeat against vv Hulzense Boys makes relegation inevitable.
1993 / vv Vroomshoopse Boys signs Herman Morsink as its new head coach; Morsink is a former professional league striker at AVC Heracles (1959-72).
1996 / Coached by Herman Morsink, who leaves the club at the end of the season, vv Vroomshoopse Boys manages a fourth place in District East’s Saturday League 4B, which leads to the club gaining promotion to Saturday League 3 automatically in a reorganisation of the Saturday non-league pyramid, which involves the introduction of a Zaterdag Hoofdklasse as the new top level of the pyramid. Meanwhile, RKSV Sportlust, who had sat at TVB Sunday Division 2 level for the past fourteen years, is now placed in District East’s Sunday League 6, as all sub-branches of the Netherlands’ FA are abolished.
1997 / Finishing in fourth place in District East’s Sunday League 6A, RKSV Sportlust qualifies for the promotion play-offs; following successive wins over SV Mediterraneo (away) and ASVO (home) in the first two rounds, the club goes on to defeat vv Emst and SC Wesepe in the three-way final play-off, leading to the club gaining promotion to Sunday League 5. The successful coach is Addy Arjaans. Meanwhile, vv Vroomshoopse Boys is equally successful, easing to the title in Saturday League 3C, 8 points ahead of closest followers vv DEO and SCD ’83 and thus acceding to Saturday League 2. The successful coach is Willem Bastiaannet.
1998 / Finishing in second-last place in District East’s Sunday League 5B, RKSV Sportlust drops back into Sunday League 6 after just one season, alongside bottom club vv EMMS.
2000 / Finishing as runner-up in District East’s Saturday League 6C, 10 points behind runaway champions SV Turkse Kracht, RKSV Sportlust qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is unable to defeat DVV Labor and vv WWV, thus missing out on promotion.
2001 / Joint runners-up in District East’s Sunday League 6A with SV Mediterraneo, 17 points behind runaway champions AVC Heracles, RKSV Sportlust qualifies for the promotion play-offs, being drawn into a group with SV Mediterraneo and ASVO. Following wins against both of their opponents, the club wins promotion to Sunday League 5, the successful coach being Jos Besselink. Meanwhile, in Saturday League 2J, vv Vroomshoopse boys, coached by Jan Breukelman, finishes bottom of the table, thus descending into Saturday League 3 along with the club in second-last place, vv Juliana ’32.
2002 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 5A, RKSV Sportlust drops back into Sunday League 6 after one season only, alongside the club in second-last place, OSV ’31. Meanwhile, vv Vroomshoopse Boys narrowly misses out on promotion, finishing as joint runners-up in District East’s Saturday League 3C with vv SVI and SV Gramsbergen, 1 point behind champions vv DES.
2004 / Runner-up in District East’s Saturday League 3C, 5 points behind champions vv Mariënberg, vv Vroomshoopse Boys goes on to win the promotion play-offs, leading to the club retracing its steps to Saturday League 2. The successful coach is Willem Bastiaannet.
2005 / Finishing in fourth place in District East’s Sunday League 6A, RKSV Sportlust qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is drawn in a group with SV Mediterraneo and vv UDI. Managing an emphatic away win against the former (1-5), the club is unable to capitalise on its goal difference in the second encounter, against vv UDI, suffering a home defeat (0-1) and thus missing out on promotion.
2009 / Coached by Arjan Paters, who replaced Tom Beumer in the course of the season, vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes in second-last place in Saturday League 2H, thus descending into Saturday League 3 along with vv Enter Vooruit and bottom club vv De CJV’ers.
2010 / Finishing in fourth place in District East’s Sunday League 6A, RKSV Sportlust goes on to win its sole play-off tie against vv UHC (7-2 aggr.), leading to the club gaining promotion to Sunday League 5. The successful coach is Jan Rost. Meanwhile, in Saturday League 3C, vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes top of the table, 8 points ahead of closest followers SV Zwolsche Boys and thus clinching promotion to Saturday League 2. The successful coach is Ben Sepp.
2011 / RKSV Sportlust officially becomes an omnisports club; although the club does not officially changes its name, it is referred to almost universally by now as Sportlust Vroomshoop rather than as RKSV Sportlust.
2012 / Finishing in fourth place in Saturday League 2H, vv Vroomshoopse Boys qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by vv Hierden (5-3 aggr.).
2013 / Finishing in third place in Saturday League 2H, vv Vroomshoopse Boys qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club eliminates vv KHC in R1 (4-3 aggr.), only to suffer defeat in the final against FC Horst (5-4 aggr. A.E.T.).
2014 / Champions in District East’s Sunday League 5I, 2 points ahead of closest rivals FC Ulu Spor, RKSV Sportlust wins promotion to Sunday League 4 for the first time in club history. The successful coach is Robert Harperink. Meanwhile, in Saturday League 2H, vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes in joint first place with CSV Be Quick ’28, leading to a tie-break match against the club from Zwolle, played at Sportpark Tijenraan in Raalte. With the Boys managing a 3-1 win, the title is eventually obtained as well as promotion to Saturday League 1 – a return to that level after an absence of 35 years. The successful coach is Henk Harmens.
2015 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 4A with coach Robert Harperink, RKSV Sportlust drops back into Sunday League 5 after just one season.
2016 / Finishing in joint first place in District East’s Sunday League 5A with FC Ulu Spor, RKSV Sportlust faces the club from Zwolle in a tie-break match, played at Sportpark Raalte of SV Raalte. With the club easing to a 5-2 win, Sportlust manages a return to Sunday League 4 after a one-season absence. The successful coach is Roy Bouck.
2017 / In the best season in club history, RKSV Sportlust manages an eighth place in District East’s Sunday League 4A. Meanwhile, vv Vroomshoopse Boys signs Karlo Meppelink as its new head coach; Meppelink is a former professional league player of SC Heracles ’74.
2018 / Coached by Karlo Meppelink, vv Vroomshoopse Boys finishes in second-last place in Saturday League 1D, thus descending into Saturday League 2 after four years, along with bottom club FC Zutphen.
2019 / Karlo Meppelink leaves his position as head coach at vv Vroomshoopse Boys after two years.
2023 / Finishing in ninth place in District East’s Sunday League 4A with coach Jos Lamberink, RKSV Sportlust fails to avoid relegation in the promotion-relegation play-offs, slipping to a 3-4 defeat against vv Langeveen in R1; as such, the club drops back into Sunday League 5 along with SV Almelo, AVC La Première, and bottom club vv Manderveen. However, following the 2022-23 season, after a tradition of 73 years in Sunday non-league, Sportlust makes the step to the Saturday divisions, being placed in Saturday League 5 for the new season.
2024 / Finishing in third place in Saturday League 2I, vv Vroomshoopse Boys qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club bows out in R1 against vv Hulzense Boys (1-1 A.E.T. & penalty shoot-out). Meanwhile, down in District East’s Saturday League 5C, RKSV Sportlust wins the title, 3 points ahead of runner-up vv Lemele, and thus gaining promotion to Saturday League 4. The decisive points were clinched in a 5-3 away win at vv Kampen. In June 2024, the main stand at Sportpark De Bosrand is knocked down, with the first stone for the new stand annex Vroomshoopse Boys clubhouse being laid by a longtime volunteer of that club, Stef van Laar. Van Laar, already gravely ill at the time, would pass away four months later at the age of 79.
2025 / Runner-up in Saturday League 2H, 5 points behind derby rivals vv Den Ham, vv Vroomshoopse Boys qualifies for the promotion-relegation play-offs; defeating FC Horst in R1 (2-1), the club goes on to have the better of FC Zutphen in the final (4-2). As a result, the team of coach Robert Bosma manages a return to the League 1 level after an absence of seven years.
2026 / In the best season in club history so far, vv Vroomshoopse Boys manages a respectable seventh place in Combined Sunday & Saturday League 1. Meanwhile, in June 2026, the new clubhouse annex main stand at Sportpark De Bosrand is inaugurated; the stand can be used by supporters of both RKSV Sportlust and vv Vroomshoopse Boys, with the clubhouse being exclusively owned by the latter. Sportlust retains its own clubhouse, dating back to 1982, while the old clubhouse of the Boys is knocked down later in 2026.

Note 1 – Many thanks to vv Vroomshoopse Boys club historian Hans Nieboer for putting at my disposal a copy of his club history, published in 1994: “Hart voor blauw & geel. 50 jaar Vroomshoopse Boys 1944-1994”. Thanks also due to RKSV Sportlust board member Wilson Spoor for providing some essential additional information regarding the history of his club.

Note 2 – Below, a compilation of photos of two different matchday visits to Sportpark De Bosrand: pictures 1-12 = September 2016 (old grandstand) / pictures 13-29 = August 2026 (new grandstand).