Extreme Football Tourism: NETHERLANDS: RKVV HeVo (1965-1969) / SC Heino (1965-1969) / vv Heino (1969-)

Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Kampen, Heino (vv Heino, formerly RKVV HeVo & SC Heino)

Netherlands, province: Overijssel

13 V 2023 / vv Heino - GSV Be Quick 1887 0-3 / National Sunday Division 4A (= NL level 5)

Timeline

1915 / Foundation of a first football club in Heino, which is given the name Prinses Juliana - commonly abbreviated to PJ. It is rather doubtful if this club ever joined the Netherlands' official FA (NVB). PJ played its home games on the so-called Heinosche Veld, probably situated in the vicinity of modern-day Bendijksweg.
1922 / After an existence of 7 years, Prinses Juliana is wound up.
1923 / Foundation of a new, second football club in Heino, HSC (Heinosche Sportclub).
1925 / Foundation of another football club in Heino, which is given the name Heinosche Boys.
1926 / Dissolution of Heinosche Boys after just one year. HSC wound up in or around 1926 as well.
1927 / Refoundation of Heinosche Boys. Some time in the following years, this club managed to win promotion from Division 2 of Noord-Centrale Voetbalbond (NCVB, renamed Afdeling Zwolle in 1940, the association organising football below NVB League 4 in (mostly) the western half of the province of Overijssel), with the club thus acceding to NCVB Division 1.
1937 / For some reason, the board of Heinosche Boys took the decision to leave NCVB, seeking affilation to the Utrechtse Voetbalbond (UVB) instead. As a result, most of the membership walks out, leading to the dissolution of the club. That same year, a new football club sees the daylight, Rooms-Katholieke Sportvereniging (RKSV) Heino, with A.H. Leuverink being the first chairman. RKSV Heino's ground is situated at Paalsteeg (modern-day Paalweg).
1945 / RKSV Heino is renamed RKVV HeVo (Rooms-Katholieke Voetbalvereniging Heino Vooruit).
1947 / In the hamlet Liederholthuis, situated in the immediate vicinity of Heino, a football club is founded by the name of vv Salland. After a 5-year existence, marked mainly by an endless string of heavy defeats, vv Salland ceases its activities in 1952.
1948 / With RKVV HeVo serving Heino's Roman-Catholic community, a second football club is founded with a distinctly evangelical character, Sportclub (SC) Heino. Unusually, given the Netherlands' protestant-christian tradition of the observance of Sunday rest - with football taking place on Saturdays -, SC Heino is a Sunday league club, which goes to show that the brand of protestantism adhered to in Heino was not orthodox in character. SC Heino's first chairman is J. Jobse. Its ground, Terrein Schaarsbeek, is situated near the crossroads of Stationsweg and Bornweg. Some time in the course of the 1950s, the club moves to Terrein Baron van Ittersum, situated nearby on the opposite side of Stationsweg. For some time, most training sessions are held at Terrein Van der Capelleweg (later bulldozered and replaced by a girls' school).
1951 / RKVV HeVo wins the title in Afdeling Zwolle Division 1, but misses out on promotion to KNVB Sunday League 4 in the promotion play-offs.
1952 / Winning the title in Afdeling Zwolle Division 1 for a second time running, with the decisive points being obtained in an away match at vv Wapenveld (1-2), RKVV HeVo accedes to KNVB District East's Sunday League 4 for the first time. It is unclear for how long the club held out at this level, but relegation must have followed some time between 1953 and 1961.
1962 / For a second time, RKVV HeVo manages to climb out of Afdeling Zwolle Division 1, winning the title at this level in a match against vv IJsselboys.
1963 / One year after its village rivals, SC Heino also accedes to KNVB Sunday League 4 by winning the title in Afdeling Zwolle Sunday Division 1A. As SC Heino's pitch does not have the correct measurements for League 4 football, the club henceforth plays its home matches at HeVo's ground, Terrein Paalweg.
1964 / Finishing 11th and second-last in its first season in Sunday League 4H, SC Heino drops back into Afdeling Zwolle Division 1 immediately. Also in 1964, works get underway on a new municipal sports park for both football clubs at Stationsweg.
1965 / Repeating its performance of the 1962-63 season, SC Heino clinches the title in Afdeling Zwolle Sunday Division 1A, thus returning to KNVB Sunday League 4. In August 1965, the Gemeentelijk Sportpark Stationsweg is put into service by RKVV HeVo and SC Heino. The main pitch, shared by both clubs, has an open terrace over the full length of one of the sides. Given that no dressing rooms are available yet, players have to change clothes at pubs nearby; changing facilities are built in the course of the 1965-66 season by a common effort of volunteers of both clubs.
1966 / Finishing 11th and second-last in District East's Sunday League 4H, RKVV HeVo drops back into Afdeling Zwolle Division 1.
1967 / Finishing 10th in Afdeling Zwolle Sunday Division 1, RKVV HeVo suffers its second relegation in a row, descending into Division 2. In August 1967, all works having been completed, the park at Stationsweg, renamed Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Kampen, is inaugurated officially by Heino's mayor, Hans Verheijden. At the time of its inauguration, the park disposes of two pitches.
1969 / In their last seasons as independent clubs, SC Heino finishes in 9th place in Sunday League 4H, whilst RKVV HeVo only manages an 8th place in Afdeling Zwolle Sunday Division 2A. Following the 1968-69 season, a merger is concluded between the two clubs, resulting in the foundation of vv Heino. The club's first chairman is local veterinarian, P. van Egmond - who was not a member of either club, thus being a compromise figure. vv Heino's first team starts at the level of SC Heino, in Sunday League 4, with Harry Poppe taking over the role as coach of the club's first team.
1971 / In order to fund the construction of a wooden clubhouse, several gala matches are organised at Sportpark De Kampen in the course of 1971, with vv Heino entertaining professional league sides from the region. Against Go Ahead Eagles, coached at the time by Welsh manager Barry Hughes (with Niels Overweg, Bert van Marwijk, and Peter Arntz being in his squad), vv Heino is defeated 1-5 (with Henk van der Bemd scoring the only Heino goal); against PEC Zwolle the scoreline is 0-4; and, lastly, FC Twente (manager: Kees Rijvers, with Willy van de Kerkhof, Theo Pahlplatz, Epi Drost, and Piet Schrijvers being among his best players) defeats the green-and-white club comprehensively, 7-0.
1973 / Coached by Henk Wessels, vv Heino is relegated from District East's Sunday League 4H, dropping into Afdeling Zwolle Division 1.
1975 / Guided by trainer Peter Reumer Sr., vv Heino returns to Sunday League 4 by clinching the title in Afdeling Zwolle Division 1A with an advantage of 5 points over OVC '21.
1977 / vv Heino finishes runners-up in Sunday League 4H behind champions OVC '21.
1979 / vv Heino's 17-year old academy player Grads Fühler is taken over by PEC Zwolle. In Zwolle, Fühler, a defender, breaks into the first team the following year, going on to have a respectable career at PEC Zwolle '82, Go Ahead Eagles, 1. FC Bocholt, BV Emmen, SC Veendam, BV Veendam, and KVV Looi Sport. Hanging up his boots in 1995, Fühler continued working in professional league football as a talent scout for FC Groningen and Udinese Calcio.
1983 / The construction of a new clubhouse - the current clubhouse - getting underway in September 1982, with the foundation stone being laid by Frits van de Kolk, vv Heino's oldest member, the building works, overseen by Antoon Hoppen, are finished the following year. Around this same time, a third pitch, used for training sessions, is added to the park.
1985 / In Sunday League 4H, the title race goes to the wire, with the two remaining contestants, vv Heino and vv Lemelerveld, meeting head-to-head in the last match of the season. At Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Kampen, with a baffling attendance of 4,700, vv Heino has to win due to Lemelerveld having an advantage of 1 point over them. A Paul Eijkelkamp goal gives Heino a 1-0 lead, but due to an equaliser in the latter stages of the match, vv Lemelerveld walks away with the trophy - and promotion to League 3.
1990 / Finishing in joint-2nd place in Sunday League 4H with ABS, 6 points behind vv Daventria, vv Heino qualifies for the promotion play-offs; reaching the final, played at a neutral venue, ABS's Sportpark De Looënk in Bathmen, vv Heino keeps ASV Apeldoornse Boys to a 0-0 stalemate, upon which Apeldoornse Boys wins the penalty shoot-out (4-1). Thus, vv Heino misses out on promotion. Also in 1990, works get underway on the construction of a grandstand at Sportpark De Kampen. To this end, part of the terracing, put in place in 1965, is removed. The construction costs are covered largely by means of a sum of 45,000 guilders brought together with a lottery organised by the club.
1991 / Inauguration of vv Heino's grandstand by the local mayor, Mr Van den Berg. Simultaneously, the remaining terracing gets an upgrade.
1992 / Finishing in 3rd place in Sunday League 4H behind vv KHC and vv Hoonhorst, vv Heino misses out on promotion yet again, losing the play-off final against vv IJsselboys (1-0).
1994 / The club celebrates its 25th anniversary with a gala match between the U15 squads of The Netherlands and FR Germany. Larry Chimezie, a Nigerian footballer with a past as a professional league player in Greece (at Paniliacos AO) and Cyprus (at Anorthosis Ammochostou in Famagusta), settles in Heino, joining vv Heino for the 1994-95 season. In 20 matches, Chimezie scores 19 goals - of which 6 in a 9-2 win over SC Hanze). Chimezie, the first black player to represent vv Heino, is signed by SC Heracles '74 in the summer of 1995, but, due to a string of injuries, his spell at this club is markedly unsuccessful. Withdrawing into non-league at WHC in 1997, Chimezie hangs up his boots shortly afterwards.
1995 / Helped by Larry Chimezie's goals, vv Heino finishes 3rd in Sunday League 4H behind SV Dedemsvaart and Wijhe '92. In the first round of the promotion play-offs, Heino is eliminated by ZAC.
1996 / Having had 21 consecutive seasons in District East's Sunday League 4H, vv Heino, finishing in joint-2nd place with Wijhe '92 behind champions vv Lemelerveld, qualifies for the promotion play-offs. Qualifying for the final, in which it entertains vv Brink & Orden (B&O) at vv Heerde's Sportpark De Molenbeek, vv Heino wins the match 3-1 with two goals by Roy Groteboer and one more by Coen Mulder. The coach guiding the club to this first tangible success in over 2 decades is Henny Krosman.
1997 / vv Heino has a hard time adapting to League 3 level. In an attempt to stop the rot, manager Henny Krosman is sacked in the course of the season, but his replacement René IJzerman cannot avoid the inevitable; finishing 12th and last in Sunday League 3B, the club descends back into League 4.
1998 / Finishing 3rd in Sunday League 4H, vv Heino, coached by Harry Poelhekke, qualifies for the promotion play-offs. Successively defeating SC Hanze (3-2), vv Diepenveen (4-2), and vv Beekbergen (2-1), the club reaches the final, in which it receives SV Eerbeekse Boys at Sportpark De Kampen. With Roy Groteboer, who came on as a substitute, scoring the only goal of the match, vv Heino manages an immediate return to Sunday League 3. In fact, the club has never dropped back into Sunday League 4 in its subsequent existence.
2001 / Still coached by Harry Poelhekke, vv Heino just misses out on the title in Sunday League 3B, finishing with an equal number of points as SV Schalkhaar, but losing the tie-break match, played at SV Heeten's Terrein Dorpsstraat, in the most dramatic of fashions (4-3 after a 1-3 lead). In the subsequent promotion play-offs, vv Heino defeats vv UD Weerselo (7-3 on aggregate) and SC Markelo (4-2 on aggregate), thus qualifying for the final, played at SV Epe's Sportpark De Wachtelenberg. In that match, vv Heino defeats League 2 side vv ATC '65 4-3 after extra time, with the goalscorers being Erwin Vonderman, Stefan Grotenhuis (2), and Ronald Schotman. As such, vv Heino accedes to Sunday League 2 for the first time in club history. Also in 2001, 12-year old youth academy player Joran Pot leaves for FC Twente, going on to have a professional league career at Jong FC Twente, RBC Roosendaal, FC Zwolle, and Go Ahead Eagles between 2008 and 2014.
2003 / Having held its own admirably well in Sunday League 2J in the 2001-02 season with a 6th place, vv Heino cannot repeat that performance the following year, finishing 10th and descending into League 3 via the relegation play-offs, in which WSV proves too strong in R1 (6-1 on aggregate).
2004 / Clinching the title in Sunday League 3B with a 5-point advantage on SC Brummen, vv Heino, guided along by manager Peter Reumer, Jr. (whose father had been vv Heino's coach in the 1970s), returns to Sunday League 2 at the first opportunity.
2005 / Finishing 6th in Sunday League 2J, vv Heino qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which it is eliminated by WAVV in R1. Also in 2005, a fourth pitch is added to Sportpark De Kampen - one of the first in the region to have a synthetic surface.
2006 / Coming tantalisingly close to the Sunday League 2J title, just 1 point behind RKOSV Avanti Wilskracht and runners-up SV Colmschate '33, vv Heino qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which it is defeated in R2 by vv SDOUC (after a penalty shoot-out).
2007 / vv Heino finishes in 2nd place in Sunday League 2J, the best result in club history up to that point. In the promotion play-offs, the club is eliminated by Sportclub Bemmel. Also in 2007, the terracing on the right-hand side of the main stand is removed to make way for a new set of dressing rooms, which are eventually put into use in December 2008.
2009 / Finishing dead-last in Sunday League 2J, vv Heino drops back into League 3 after 5 seasons.
2010 / Managing a 4th place in Sunday League 3B, vv Heino qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which it fails to force a return to League 2. In the summer of 2010, the main pitch at Sportpark De Kampen is equipped with a synthetic surface.
2011 / Clinching the title in District East's Sunday League 3B, a baffling 16 points ahead of closest followers vv Heerde, vv Heino, coached by Peter Reumer, Jr., and Timo Goudbeek, returns to League 2. The club's centre-forward Bas Jansen manages an impressive goal tally of 23.
2012 / In its first season back in Sunday League 2J, vv Heino manages a respectable 3rd place. In the preparatory stage of the 2012-13 season, vv Heino hosts PEC Zwolle at Sportpark De Kampen, losing the match 1-3.
2014 / Repeating its performance of the previous season, vv Heino finishes 3rd in Sunday League 2J, preceded only by RKSV De Zweef and HVV Tubantia. In R1 of the promotion play-offs, the club sees off vv Woezik (5-4 on aggregate) to qualify for the final, in which it encounters PH Almelo. Winning the home leg 2-1 (goals by Arjan Blom and Remco Beumer), the away match in Almelo goes to the wire, with the score after extra time being 3-3 (Heino goals scored by Remco Gerritsen, Rik Keijzer, and Arjan Blom). Thus, the team coached by Marc Lobbert accedes to Sunday League 1. It is the first time in vv Heino's club history that it is represented at this high level. In the following years, the club holds its own admirably at this level, steadily finishing in the middle part of the table.
2016 / As RKSV Rohda Raalte drops into Sunday League 1 from Zondag Hoofdklasse, vv Heino gets the opportunity to entertain its derby rivals in a league match for the first time since the creation of the merger between RKVV HeVo and SC Heino in 1969. In the first match of the season, at Sportpark De Kampen, 2,500 spectators witness a 1-4 Rohda victory.
2019 / vv Heino's 50th anniversary is marked by the publication of a commemorative book.
2022 / Finishing in 2nd place in Sunday League 1E, 8 points behind RKSV Rohda Raalte, vv Heino, coached by Martijn de Vogel, gets the opportunity to qualify for National Sunday Division 4, the 5th and lowest tier of the Netherlands' national league pyramid, via the play-offs. Defeating RKSV Sarto and RKSV Minor in the first two rounds, the club reaches the final played at SV Batavia 90's Sportpark De Doggersbank in Lelystad, where it defeats Amsterdam side vv AGB 4-2 after trailing 0-2; the goals opening the door to national league football in Heino for the first time are scored by Marius Deckers, Tim Leferink, Jesse Kruiper, and Stan Heetkamp.
2023 / In its first season at national league level, vv Heino manages to stay up relatively easily, finishing 10th in National Sunday Division 4A.

Note - The main source of the information provided above is a book published by vv Heino on the occasion of the club's 50th anniversary in 2019: “vv Heino 50 jaar – 1969-2019”, written by Timo Bomhof, Eric van den Brink, Rudi Buitenkamp, Dorien Kouwert, René Mulder, Arjan Stegeman, and Peter Vervloet.