NETHERLANDS: SV Rijssen (2021-)

Sportpark 't Opbroek, Rijssen (SV Rijssen)

Netherlands, province: Overijssel

2 VII 2022 / SV Rijssen - Heracles Almelo 0-12 / Pre-season friendly

Note: SV Rijssen is the result of a merger in 2019 between RKSV (Rooms-Katholieke Stormvogels, founded as vv Stormvogels in 1944 but renamed RKSV one year later) and vv Rijssen Vooruit, founded in 1909. For the first two years after the merger, first team football was played alternately at RKSV's Sportpark De Koele and RV's Sportterrein Stokmansveldweg. In 2021, the newly built Sportpark 't Opbroek was put into use, although the inauguration took place a full year later, in fact on the day of my match visit. RV's monumental wooden stand, dating back to 1928, was taken along from Stokmansveldweg, renovated, and painted in new colours at Sportpark 't Opbroek in the first half of 2022 - allegedly at a total cost of 1,3 million euros. The main pitch of the former Sportpark De Koele, which is immediately south of the new park, has remained in use as the new ground's pitch 3. 

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