Gemeentelijk Sportpark-Soestdijkerstraatweg, Hilversum (formerly HVV 't Gooi / FC Hilversum / HC&FC Victoria / SC Gooiland)
Netherlands, province: North Holland
December 2009 & March 2019 / no match visited
Note 1: Hilversum's Gemeentelijk Sportpark is one of the Netherlands' most remarkable football grounds. Commissioned by the local town council, architect Willem Dudok designed a Amsterdam School-style multi-purpose stadium, of which the main stand - constructed in 1920 (which makes it the country's oldest stand), renovated in the mid-1990s - still exists today. For some seventy years, the ground hosted matches of several Hilversum's football clubs: Victoria, FC Hilversum and HVV 't Gooi-Sportclub Gooiland (the two last-mentioned clubs also played professional league football here between 1955-1968 and 1955-1971 respectively). Away from football, the Gemeentelijk Sportpark hosted the equestrian disciplines of the 1928 Olympic Games. Nowadays, the stadium is home to GAC, the local athletics club; the building opposite the grandstand is Nike's headquarters in the Netherlands. Since 1989, no official football matches have been hosted at the ground.
Note 2: On a sad note, the stadium was perused by the German oppressors in October 1944 to huddle together a group of several thousand boys and men from Hilversum and surroundings (including dozens of radio musicians, most notably arranger and conductor Dolf van der Linden) who were subsequently deported to German labour camps; a monument at the entrance of the ground honours the memory of those amongst them who did not make it back alive.
Note 3: below, a compilation of photographs of two different visits: pictures 1-16 = March 2019 / picture 17 = December 2009.
All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author
Netherlands, province: North Holland
December 2009 & March 2019 / no match visited
Note 1: Hilversum's Gemeentelijk Sportpark is one of the Netherlands' most remarkable football grounds. Commissioned by the local town council, architect Willem Dudok designed a Amsterdam School-style multi-purpose stadium, of which the main stand - constructed in 1920 (which makes it the country's oldest stand), renovated in the mid-1990s - still exists today. For some seventy years, the ground hosted matches of several Hilversum's football clubs: Victoria, FC Hilversum and HVV 't Gooi-Sportclub Gooiland (the two last-mentioned clubs also played professional league football here between 1955-1968 and 1955-1971 respectively). Away from football, the Gemeentelijk Sportpark hosted the equestrian disciplines of the 1928 Olympic Games. Nowadays, the stadium is home to GAC, the local athletics club; the building opposite the grandstand is Nike's headquarters in the Netherlands. Since 1989, no official football matches have been hosted at the ground.
Note 2: On a sad note, the stadium was perused by the German oppressors in October 1944 to huddle together a group of several thousand boys and men from Hilversum and surroundings (including dozens of radio musicians, most notably arranger and conductor Dolf van der Linden) who were subsequently deported to German labour camps; a monument at the entrance of the ground honours the memory of those amongst them who did not make it back alive.
Note 3: below, a compilation of photographs of two different visits: pictures 1-16 = March 2019 / picture 17 = December 2009.
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