Extreme Football Tourism: NETHERLANDS: RKVV Achilles (1918-1920) / KSV BWO (± 1932-2013) / KSV BWO (B) (2013-)

Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Noork - veld 2, Hengelo (KSV BWO, B pitch / former A pitch)

Netherlands, province: Overijssel

December 2022 / no match visited

Timeline

1918 / RKVV Achilles, a Roman-Catholic football club in Hengelo founded in 1912, moves to a newly laid-out pitch opposite Café Pentrop, abandoning its old pitch, Terrein Deurningerweg. The pitch near Café Pentrop occupied the location now taken by the westernmost pitch of Sportpark De Noork, i.e. the main pitch of the park until 2013.
1920 / Having played its football on the pitch across from Café Pentrop for two years, RKVV Achilles now moves to the so-called Twentsch Stadion at Deurningerstraat. Nothing is known about the use of the pitch near Café Pentrop in the following decade.
1929 / At the instigation of the local parish, a football club in the Noork district in Hengelo (Overijssel), which is given the name RKVV (Roomsch-Katholieke Voetbalvereeniging) Blauw-Wit. As most Roman-Catholic clubs in Twente, RKVV Blauw-Wit does not join the official Netherlands’ FA (KNVB), successfully applying for membership of the Roman-Catholic association RKUVB (Roomsch-Katholieke Utrechtsche Voetbalbond) instead. The RKUVB is a sub-branch of the RKF (Roomsch-Katholieke Federatie). Allegedly, the club’s first pitch was situated at Van Alphenstraat, roughly coinciding with the location of the modern-day ice-rink, although no definite sources are available on the subject.
± 1932 / Moving away from its original pitch at Van Alphenstraat, RKVV Blauw-Wit settles at Terrein De Noork – the former main pitch of RKVV Achilles in the years 1918-20 – although it has to be pointed out that there are no definite sources available on the subject. Also in 1932, a nationwide Roman-Catholic league pyramid is formed, the so-called IVCB (Interdiocesaan Voetbalcompetitiebond), with teams from RKF sub-branches having the opportunity to win promotion to the three IVCB divisions. RKVV Blauw-Wit is relatively successful in the 1930s, finding itself in IVCB Division 2B East by the 1937-38 season.
1940 / Having spent the first eleven years of its existence in the RKF (RKUVB & IVCB), RKVV Blauw-Wit is now constrained to make the step to the official Netherlands’ FA (renamed NVB following the German oppression of the Netherlands, abandoning the royal epithet ‘koninklijk’ for obvious reasons) as all other football associations are abolished by German occupation authorities. For the 1940-41 season, the club is placed in District East’s (Sunday) League 2. Due to a NVB member club from Amsterdam, future professional league club ASV Blauw-Wit, already having the right to the name ‘Blauw-Wit’, RKVV Blauw-Wit has to change its name – choosing to become ‘Blauw-Wit-Oost’ (BWO), or, officially, KSV (Katholieke Sportvereniging) BWO.
1942 / Finishing in last place in District East’s Sunday League 2A, KSV BWO descends into Sunday League 3.
1951 / Finishing in last place in District East’s Sunday League 3A, KSV BWO descends into Sunday League 4.
1953 / KSV BWO finishes as runners-up in District East’s Sunday League 4A, 7 points behind champions DOS ’19.
1954 / Champions in District East’s Sunday League 4A, 3 points ahead of closest followers ASVO – incidentally BWO’s first title since its forced affiliation with the official Netherlands’ FA fourteen years previously – KSV BWO goes on to win the championship play-offs, thus managing a return to Sunday League 3 after an absence of three seasons.
1964 / Finishing in second-last place in District East’s Sunday League 3A, KSV BWO drops back into Sunday League 4 along with bottom club GFC.
1965 / A group of disaffected BWO members forms a breakaway club, vv ATC ’65 (A Triginta Conditum 1965 – the literal translation of the Latin name being ‘Founded by Thirty (Men)’). The new club starts its life at a side-pitch of Stadion Veldwijk (later renamed Stadion) Fanny Blankers-Koen) - a pitch, in fact, later taken over by FC Twente's youth academy. vv ATC ’65 has been KSV BWO’s fiercest derby rival ever since.
1966 / Finishing in joint last place in District East’s Sunday League 4B with RKVV STEVO, KSV BWO meets the club from Geesteren in a tie-break match to determine which of the two stays up at that level. As the first match is broken off due to heavy rains at halftime (0-0), a second encounter is organised, which is won by RKVV STEVO (1-0). As such, KSV BWO suffers relegation to the ranks of the Twentse Voetbalbond (TVB), the league association organising football in the eastern parts of Overijssel below the level of League 4, for the first time in club history.
1967 / KSV BWO finishes as runners-up in TVB Division 1A, 7 points behind champions vv Haaksbergen.
1968 / Champions in TVB Division 1A after a tie-break match against vv Dolphia, KSV BWO manages a return to District East’s Sunday League 4 after an absence of two seasons at that level.
1972 / KSV BWO finishes as runners-up in District East’s Sunday League 4A, 2 points behind champions EV&AC De Tubanters 1897.
1975 / KSV BWO finishes as runners-up in District East’s Sunday League 4B, 9 points behind champions vv Reutum.
1980 / Champions in District East’s Sunday League 4A, 3 points ahead of closest rivals vv TAR, KSV BWO wins promotion to Sunday League 3 after an absence of sixteen years at that level.
1985 / Finishing in second-last position in District East’s Sunday League 3A, KSV BWO drops back into Sunday League 4 along with bottom club EV&AC De Tubanters 1897. Also in 1985, after one year of first team football at KSV BWO, 19-year-old goalkeeper Frank Ensink signs a professional league contract at FC Twente, going on to play not only for that club, but for Go Ahead Eagles and FC Dordrecht as well, eventually bowing out into non-league in 1994.
1988 / KSV BWo finishes as runners-up in District East’s Sunday League 4A, 3 points behind chmpions OV Avanti Wilskracht.
1992 / Former BWO youth academy player Daniël Nijhof makes his debut for FC Twente, going on to defend the colours of NEC before ending his professional league career in 1998.
1993 / Finishing in third place in District East’s Sunday League 4A, only 2 points behind champions vv Victoria ’28, KSV BWO manages to win promotion to Sunday League 3 via the play-offs.
1997 / Champions in District East’s Sunday League 3A, 1 point ahead of closest followers RKSV De Tukkers, KSV BWO accedes to Sunday League 2 after an absence of 55 years at that level. Also in 1997, former BWO youth academy player Martijn Abbenhues makes his debut as a professional league player at FC Twente, going on to defend the colours of FC Zwolle and Finnish side FC Jokerit.
1998 / Finishing bottom of the table in Sunday League 2J, KSV BWO drops back into Sunday League 3 after just one season, along with the club finishing in second-last position, SV Hector.
2000 / Finishing in second-last place in District East’s Sunday League 3A, KSV BWO drops back into Sunday League 4, along with bottom club RKSV EMOS.
2001 / Coached by Robert Steenbeek, KSV BWO finishes in joint first position in District East’s Sunday League 4B, along with AVC Luctor et Emergo, going on to defeat the club from Almelo in a tie-break match – thus managing an immediate return to Sunday League 3.
2002 / Coached by Freek van Oenen, KSV BWO finishes in second-last place in District East’s Sunday League 3A, thus suffering instant relegation to Sunday League 4, along with bottom club vv Oldenzaal.
2006 / Coached by Jos Kattenpoel Oude Heerink, KSV BWO clinches the title in District East’s Sunday League 4A, 8 points ahead of runners-up AJC ’96, thus winning promotion to Sunday League 3.
2009 / Finishing in second-last place in District East’s Sunday League 3A, KSV BWO drops back into Sunday League 4, along with bottom club RKSV De Tukkers. Following the 2008-09 season, coach Edwin Louwes leaves the club, being succeeded by Bert Stokkingreef, a former professional league player at FC Groningen (1995-96) and BV Veendam (1996-98). Stokkingreef would stay on as BWO’s head coach for the following three seasons.
2012 / Finishing in third place in District East’s Sunday League 4A, KSV BWO qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club defeats RKSV NEO in R1 (4-3 aggr.) before bowing out against GVV Eilermark in R2 (6-2 aggr.).
2013 / On January 18th, 2013, the new clubhouse at Sportpark De Noork, replacing an older construction which found itself roughly in the same place, is inaugurated by Hengelo’s alderman Erik Lievers and BWO’s chairman Peter Sinnema. As the balcony of the second tier of the clubhouse offers a fine view of pitch 2 of the park, the decision is taken to move first team football to this pitch. For a detailed history of KSV BWO from 2013 onwards, follow the link to the photo series of the park's new main pitch.