Netherlands, province: Frisia = Friesland
30 XI 2024 / vv Heerenveense Boys - vv Winsum 0-1 / District North, League 1H (= NL level 6)
Timeline
- 1954 / In Heerenveen, the decision is taken to form a football club for the town’s protestant community exclusively – given that the non-confessional vv Heerenveen (the precursor of modern-day professional league club SC Heerenveen) is a Sunday League club, protestants, who are bound by their faith to observe the Sunday rest, did not feel welcome to play with that club. After the initial idea to form a Saturday league branch within vv Heerenveen had faltered, a new club, vv Heerenveense Boys, is founded at an inaugural meeting held on March 31st, 1954, at Hotel Vernimmen, with G. Lenderink being chosen as its first chairman. With some first practice matches among members being played on a makeshift pitch at the back of Hotel Tjarda, the club is accorded a pitch by Heerenveen’s municipal authorities at Rozenstraat, commonly referred to as ‘Rozenveld’ or ‘Rozenveldje’, before the start of the 1954-55 season. The club’s first team starts the 1954-55 at the bottom level, Saturday Division 3 of the so-called Friese Voetbalbond (FVB) – officially called KNVB Afdeling Friesland.
- 1955 / In its first competitive season, the first team of vv Heerenveense Boys wins promotion from FVB Division 3 to Division 2. In one of the following three years, a second promotion to FVB Division 1 must have followed, but the exact year is unknown.
- 1959 / Clinching the title in FVB Division 1, vv Heerenveense Boys wins promotion to District North’s Saturday League 4 for the first time. As the dimensions of the club’s pitch at Rozenstraat are not in accordance with KNVB regulations, first team football is played from this time onwards on one of the side-pitches of vv Heerenveen’s stadium, Sportpark Noord at J.H. Kruisstraat.
- 1963 / Champions in District North’s Saturday League 4A, 1 point ahead of runners-up vv Workum, vv Heerenveense Boys wins promotion to Saturday League 3 – the highest level of the Saturday pyramid in District North until the introduction of a Saturday League 2 in 1968.
- 1969 / Finishing bottom of the table in District North’s Saturday League 3A, vv Heerenveense Boys drops back into Saturday League 4 along with the club finishing in second-last place, ZMVV Zeerobben.
- 1970 / Abandoning its two playing sites at, Sportpark Noord and the so-called Rozenveld, vv Heerenveense Boys moves into a new, purpose-built ground, Sportcomplex De Akkers – situated in the new housing estate bearing the same name. The club shares the park with Sunday League 4 club vv Nieuweschoot, which abandons its old ground, Terrein Gaastra, in 1970 as well.
- 1971 / Champions in District North’s Saturday League 4A, 3 points ahead of closest followers VVI, vv Heerenveense Boys wins promotion to Sunday League 3. The successful coach is former vv Heerenveen professional league player Ido Bunnig. That same season, groundsharers vv Nieuweschoot, coached by Bertus van den Berg, wins promotion as well, clinching the title in District North’s Sunday League 4B, 3 points ahead of closest rivals vv Willemsoord; as such, vv Nieuweschoot accedes to Sunday League 3 for the first time in its history.
- 1972 / Coached by Bertus van den Berg’s successor, future SC Heerenveen trainer – and club icon – Foppe de Haan, vv Nieuweschoot finishes in second-last place in District North’s Sunday League 3A, thus dropping back into Sunday League 4 after just one season, along with bottom club vv WZS. Following the 1971-72 season, Foppe de Haan leaves the club.
- 1974 / Champions in District North’s Saturday League 3A, 3 points ahead of closest followers FC Meppel, vv Heerenveense Boys wins promotion to Saturday League 2 for the first time. Also in 1974, groundsharers vv Nieuweschoot wins the title in District North’s Sunday League 4B, 2 points ahead of runners-up FC Wolvega, thus winning promotion to Sunday League 3 with its trainer Hans Zwart.
- 1975 / After five seasons of groundsharing at Sportcomplex De Akkers with vv Heerenveense Boys, vv Nieuweschoot now moves into its new ground, Sportcomplex De Greiden, no more than several hundreds of yards further down the road.
- 1976 / Coached by Gerrit van der Schaaf, vv Heerenveense Boys finishes in second-last position in District North’s Saturday League 2D, resulting in the club being retrograded to Saturday League 3 along with bottom club vv Bergentheim.
- 1979 / Champions in District North’s Saturday League 3A, 6 points ahead of closest rivals vv Hielpen, vv Heerenveense Boys wins promotion to Saturday League 2 after an absence of three seasons at that level. The decisive point is clinched in a 1-1 home draw against VVT. The successful coach is Bé van Guldener.
- 1983 / Finishing bottom of the table in District North’s Saturday League 2E, vv Heerenveense Boys drops back into Saturday League 3.
- 1986 / vv Heerenveense Boys finishes as runners-up in District North’s Saturday League 3A, 5 points behind champions ONS Sneek.
- 1990 / Champions in District North’s Saturday League 3A, 11 points ahead of runners-up vv Workum, vv Heerenveense Boys wins promotion to Saturday League 2. The successful coach is Wieb Rodenhuis.
- 1996 / In its best season so far, vv Heerenveense Boys finishes in third place in Saturday League 2E. As a reorganisation of the Saturday League pyramid, involving the creation of a Zaterdag Hoofdklasse as the new top level above Saturday League 1, is brought into effect, more clubs win promotion to higher divisions to fill up the vacated places. As such, vv Heerenveense Boys, coached by Bertus van den Berg, wins direct promotion to Saturday League 1 for the first time in its history, along with no fewer than eight other clubs from Saturday League 2E, champions HZVV as well as ONS Sneek, CVV Broekster Boys, GSVV The Knickerbockers, CVV Oranje Nassau 1918, vv Harkemase Boys, CSV De Leeuwarder Zwaluwen, and CSV Be Quick Dokkum.
- 1998 / Coached by Dick Sangers, vv Heerenveense Boys finishes in second-last place in Saturday League 1E, resulting in the club suffering relegation to Saturday League 2 along with bottom club CVV Oranje Nassau 1918.
- 1999 / vv Heerenveense Boys finishes as runners-up in Saturday League 2K, 4 points behind champions vv Hardegarijp.
- 2000 / vv Heerenveense Boys finishes as runners-up in Saturday League 2K, 7 points behind champions vv Balk.
- 2002 / Champions in Saturday League 2K, 9 points ahead of closest rivals vv LTC, vv Heerenveense Boys manages a return to Saturday League 1 after an absence of four years. The successful coach is Jan Mulder.
- 2003 / Coached by André Onclin, vv Heerenveense Boys manages the best result in its history, finishing in third place in Saturday League 1E, behind CVV Oranje Nassau 1918 and ONS Sneek.
- 2005 / Coached by René Bakhuis, vv Heerenveense Boys finishes bottom of the table in Saturday League 1E, thus dropping back into Saturday League 2 along with the club finishing second from bottom, GSVV The Knickerbockers.
- 2012 / Finishing in third place in Saturday League 2I, vv Heerenveense Boys qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club has the better of vv Omlandia in R1 (5-2 aggr.) before being knocked out in R2 by SC Rouveen (3-1 aggr.).
- 2016 / Coached by Dick Krommenhoek, vv Heerenveense Boys drops back into League 3, finishing in eleventh place in Saturday League 2I and an unsuccessful round of promotion-relegation play-offs, in which the club defeats vv Marum (5-6), but is condemned to relegation by SC Stiens (4-2). The other League 2I drop-outs are vv ONT, vv ‘t Fean ’58, and bottom club vv Zwaagwesteinde.
- 2019 / Runners-up in District North’s Saturday League 3A, 1 point behind champions FC Wolvega, vv Heerenveense Boys qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is eliminated in R1 by vv Rijperkerk (5-3 A.E.T.).
- 2021 / After a first 3G pitch had already been put in place on the B pitch of Sportcomplex De Akkers in 2012, the main pitch of the park is now equipped with a synthetic surface as well – with the club’s steadily increasing membership having impelled Heerenveen’s municipal authorities to make this investment.
- 2022 / Finishing in third place in District North’s Saturday League 3A, vv Heerenveense Boys qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out vv Zwaagwesteinde in R1 (0-4) before being eliminated in R2 by vv Workum (1-0).
- 2023 / Runners-up in District North’s Saturday League 3A, 1 point behind champions SC Bolsward, vv Heerenveense Boys qualifies for the play-offs; following successive victories over vv DWP (3-1), SVM (4-0), and vv Hardegarijp (2-2 & penalty shoot-out), the club wins promotion to Saturday League 2. The successful coach is Klaas de Jong.
- 2024 / Still coached by Klaas de Jong, vv Heerenveense Boys clinches the title in Saturday League 2K, finishing 2 points ahead of closest followers SC Stiens. As such, the club manages a return to Saturday League 1 after an absence of nineteen years.
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