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NETHERLANDS: SV De Paasberg

Sportpark De Paasberg, Arnhem (SV De Paasberg)

Netherlands, province: Guelders = Gelderland

22 III 2025 / SV De Paasberg - SV OSS '20 4-0 / Saturday League 3L (= NL level 8)

Timeline

• 1909 / Foundation of a football club in Arnhem, which takes on the name Arnhemsche Voetbalclub (AVC) Hercules, with M. Kattenbelt being the new club’s first chairman. A pitch is laid out near the River Rhine, Terrein Het Onderlangs. After its foundation, AVC Hercules applies for membership of the so-called Arnhemsche Voetbalbond or AVB, with the club having to play two trial games against AVB members Humanitas and Swift (Carolus-Swift). Although both encounters result in a defeat, the club is admitted to AVB (Sunday) Division 1. The AVB is a sub-branch of the Geldersche Voetbalbonfd (GVB), the association organising football below the level of District East’s (Sunday) League 3 of the Nederlandsche Voetbalbond (NVB, later KNVB).
• 1911 / After two years in the AVB, AVC Hercules applies for membership of the Geldersche Voetbalbond (GVB). Due to the name Hercules already having been adopted by another NVB member club, UC&VV Hercules from Utrecht, AVC Hercules has to change its name – but the new proposed name, Prinses Juliana, is also turned down, as this denomination has already been taken by member clubs from The Hague and Haarlem. Thereupon, the GVB suggests three names to the club: ‘Koningin Emma’, ‘Hertog Hendrik’, and the very simple and straightforward ‘Arnhem’. Picking the second option, AVC Hercules officially changes its name to become Arnhemsche Voetbal- en Athletische Club (AV&AC) Hertog Hendrik – a reference to Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince-Consort of the Netherlands as the husband of the reigning sovereign, Queen Wilhelmina. For the 1911-12 season, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik (often abbreviatedly referred to as ‘HH’) is placed in GVB (Sunday) Division 1. Abandoning Terrein Het Onderlangs, the club settles at Terrein Het Broek. The club’s first official match in the GVB ends in a disastrous 11-0 wipeout against DVS. 
• 1912 / In spite of its difficult start in the ranks of the GVB, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik manages a respectable third place in its first season in GVB Division 1. That same year, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik absorbs an older club from Arnhem, Gelria, which had played in NVB District East’s Sunday League 3 in the 1911-12 season – not to be confused with VV&AC Gelria, founded in 1916, which merged with vv Velpse Boys and SC Velp in 1992 to become SC Veluwezoom. Also in 1912, HH moves away from Terrein Het Broek after one year only, settling at Terrein De Geitenkamp, possibly Gelria’s old ground, situated at Rosendaalscheweg.
• 1913 / Bolstered by the membership of Gelria, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik clinches the title in GVB Division 1, thus acceding to NVB District East’s (Sunday) League 3 for the first time.
• 1914 / Clinching the title in District East’s League 3A, 1 point ahead of closest rivals vv Rhenen, AV&AV Hertog Hendrik qualifies for the championship play-offs against vv Zutphen, champions in League 3B, and League 2 bottom sides SC NEC and vv Daventria. Going on to win this competition, HH accedes to League 2, the second tier of the Netherlands’ league ladder, for the first time. This amounts to the club’s second promotion in a row.
• 1916 / Moving away from Terrein De Geitenkamp, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik settles at the newly laid-out Terrein Valkenhuizen.
• 1917 / Clinching the title in District East’s League 2 (A?), 2 points ahead of runners-up SC NEC, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik qualifies for the championship play-offs against DC&FC UD, EFC Prinses Wilhelmina, and PEC – but, this time, the club does not achieve promotion and stays put in League 2.
• 1920 / Moving away from Terrein Valkenhuizen after four seasons, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik settles at Arnhem’s municipal sports park or, in Dutch, Gemeentelijk Sportpark – the location of modern-day Sportpark ‘t Cranevelt, the ground of RKVV VDZ since 1964.
• ± 1923 / Moving away from the Gemeentelijk Sportpark after three years, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik settles at the newly laid-out Terrein Zonneweelde, situated at modern-day Lange Water, to the east of the city-centre.
• 1925 / Moving away from Terrein Zonneweelde, AV&AV Hertog Hendrik settles at the newly laid-out Terrein De Waterberg in the Alteveer neighbourhood, to the north of the city-centre. After the inaugural ceremony, performed by Arnhem’s mayor, Mr De Monchy, the club plays its opening match on the new location against vv Apeldoorn, going on to win the encounter 3-0. However, due to the pitch having become unplayable after this first game, HH has to groundshare with vv Arnhemsche Boys for some time before being able to return to Terrein De Waterberg.
• 1927 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s League 2B, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik drops back into League 3 after thirteen years. 
• 1929 / Clinching the title in District East’s League 3D, 4 point ahead of closest followers vv Rhenus, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik fails to achieve a return to League 2 in the subsequent round of championship play-offs. Also in 1929, HH moves away from Terrein De Waterberg after four seasons, settling at the newly laid-out Terrein Valkenhuizen; it is unclear if this was the same location where the club played between 1916 and 1920.
• 1935 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s League 3C, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik descends into League 4 for the first time in club history.
• 1937 / Conquering the title in District East’s League 4D, 6 points ahead of closest followers vv Transforma, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik fails to achieve a return to League 3 in the subsequent round of championship play-offs.
• ± 1938 / A sports field is laid out at Vondellaan, in the shadow of the St. Joseph’s Church (Sint-Jozefkerk), itself constructed in the late 1920s. This is the future location of Sportpark De Paasberg. Most probably, no competitive football is played in first decades of the existence of the park, which is mainly used by local schools. 
• 1944 / Having to move away from Terrein Valkenhuizen, which is commandeered by the German Wehrmacht in the last year of German occupation of the Netherlands, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik moves back to the Gemeentelijk Sportpark, which had also hosted the club’s home matches in the early 1920s. At the facility, HH takes the place of football club (vv?) Giro, which had ceased its activities for the time being.
• 1956 / Foundation of a new sports club in Arnhem, GOVA (Giro Ontspanningsvereniging Arnhem), with the founding fathers including Piet Meyer, Bas Drinkwaard, and Ron van de Berg. Initially, there are branches for bridge, table-tennis, walking sports, and boxing, but football is not part of the myriad of activities yet. GOVA serves as the leisure club of the so-called Postcheque- en Girodienst (PCGD), a sub-branch of the Netherlands’ postal services. As such, GOVA is the successor of two previous clubs, both simply called Giro (1923-33 & 1934-50). Initially open to PCGD employees only, GOVA starts accepting membership from other parts of Arnhem society some years after its foundation.
• 1957 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 4G, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik descends into the ranks of Afdeling Arnhem (as the GVB had been renamed in 1940) after 44 years. That same year, the club abandons the Gemeentelijk Sportpark after thirteen seasons, settling at the newly laid-out Sportcomplex Valkenhuizen, a new facility situated at Beukenlaan, used by various other sports clubs as well. With HH disposing of a pitch of its own, the club’s membership lays the foundation for a clubhouse in situ.
• 1959 / Three years after its foundation, GOVA adds football to the myriad of its activities. Initially, GOVA’s football team takes part in a recreational local league only. Also in 1959, the new clubhouse of AV&AC Hertog Hendrik at Sportcomplex Valkenhuizen is inaugurated, with the facility including three dressing rooms (one for the referee) as well as a small canteen.
• 1960 / Winning the title in Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik manages a return to District East’s Sunday League 4 after two years.
• 1961 / AV&AC Hertog Hendrik finishes as runners-up in District East’s Sunday League 4F, 4 points behind champions vv OAB. That same year, under the chairmanship of Co van de Werken, vv GOVA, GOVA’s football branch, joins the Netherlands’ Football Association (KNVB), being placed in Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 2. The club becomes a groundsharer of RKJC at Terrein Lange Water, a location taken by garden-centre Intratuin nowadays – in fact, only a stone’s throw away from Sportpark Elsweide, home ground of vv Elsweide.
• 1967 / Clinching the title in Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 2, 4 points ahead of vv OAB, vv GOVA wins promotion to Afdeling Arnhem Division 1. The successful coach is Joop Gabriël.
• 1969 / Still coached by Joop Gabriël, vv GOVA conquers the title in Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1, thus acceding to District East’s Sunday League 4 for the first time. By that time, the club no longer groundshares with RKJC at Terrein Lange Water, having moved in as groundsharers of ESA and HH at Sportcomplex Valkenhuizen.
• 1970 / AV&AC Hertog Hendrik wins the first-ever edition of the so-called Arnhem Cup, defeating ESA in the final (2-1).
• 1971 / Having groundshared with BVH for the 1970-71 season at that club’s ground, Terrein De Del at Velperweg in Rozendaal, also used by SV Sempre Avanti and corporate club Coop, vv GOVA is now given the opportunity to finally have its own pitch following BVH giving up its second pitch. This pitch is the former main pitch of SC Velp, which had moved away some time before. While a clubhouse is being built in situ, vv GOVA uses the dressing rooms and training facilities of Coop and SV Sempre Avanti in the 1971-72 season.
• 1972 / AV&AC Hertog Hendrik sees its new clubhouse inaugurated at Sportcomplex Valkenhuizen. Meanwhile, also at Terrein De Del, vv GOVA moves into its newly finished clubhouse, inaugurated in the presence of Rozendaal’s mayor, Ms Flugi van Aspermont d’Hangest, Baroness d’Yvoy.
• 1973 / In the best season in club history, vv GOVA finishes in eighth place in District East’s Sunday League 4E.
• 1974 / AV&AC Hertog Hendrik wins its second Arnhem Cup, defeating vv Arnhemse Boys in the final (1-0).
• 1976 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 4D, vv GOVA drops back into Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1 after seven years. 
• 1979 / vv GOVA finishes as runners-up in Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1, 1 point behind champions AV&AC Eendracht Arnhem, thus missing out on promotion to Sunday League 4 by a whisker. The club would never come closer to a return to District East football in the remaining years of its existence. 
• 1981 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 4E, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik drops back into Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1. That same year, HH sees the inauguration of its renovated clubhouse at Sportcomplex Valkenhuizen. Also in 1981, vv GOVA drops back from Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1 to Division 2.
• 1983 / Finishing in joint first place in Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1 with vv Arnhemia, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik meets its local rivals for a tie-break match, played at VDZ’s Sportpark ‘t Craneveld. With the first encounter finishing in a 2-2 draw, the two clubs meet again on the same location a few days later. With an attendance of some 3,000 spectators, HH walks away as 2-1 winners, as Ron Visser scores the decisive goal two minutes before the end of regular play from a penalty. As such, HH manages a return to Sunday League 4 after an absence of two years. The successful coach is former AFC Ajax and AGOVV professional league player Jan Bodde.
• 1984 / Clinching the title in Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 2, vv GOVA wins promotion to Division 1. The successful coach is Jan van Duren.
• 1988 / Coached by John Rutten, vv GOVA suffers relegation from Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1 to Division 2.
• 1989 / Conquering the title in Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 2, vv GOVA manages an immediate return to Division 1. The successful coach is John Rutten.
• 1990 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 4F, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik drops back into Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1 along with the club finishing in second-last place, vv Uchta. That same season, vv GOVA drops back from Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1 to Division 2.
• 1991 / As the membership of AV&AC Hertog Hendrik has dropped below 200, Arnhem’s municipal authorities order the club away from Sportcomplex Valkenhuizen. Thereupon, HH files a lawsuit against the townhall, with the judge forbidding the City of Arnhem to drive the club out of its ground.
• 1992 / Clinching the title in Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik manages a return to Sunday League 4 after two seasons.
• 1993 / Finishing bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 4F, AV&AC Hertog Hendrik drops back into Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1 along with the club finishing in second-last place, vv Wivos. In that division, the club meets vv GOVA, which has just won promotion from Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 2.
• 1994 / In their last season as independent clubs, the flagship teams of AV&AC Hertog Hendrik and vv GOVA play in Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1B, with HH finishing in fifth place and vv GOVA two points behind them. Following the 1993-94 season, the two clubs conclude a merger, resulting in the foundation of Sportvereniging (SV) de Paasberg – named after the new location for the merger club, Sportpark De Paasberg at Vondellaan. The park, which, apart from school sports, had hosted training sessions of SBV Vitesse’s youth academy teams in the preceding years, is laid out anew, with two pitches situated on the southside of Vondellaan and one more to the north of it. The facility includes a sports hall, which proves very practical, as vv GOVA takes with it its table-tennis branch, which shares the premises with a local boxing club. SV De Paasberg starts its existence with a first team in Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1.
• 1996 / SV De Paasberg suffers relegation from Afdeling Arnhem Sunday Division 1 to Division 2 – which is renamed District East’s Sunday League 6 following the abolition of Afdeling Arnhem and all other KNVB sub-branches.
• 1997 / Champions in District East’s Sunday League 6I, 2 points ahead of closest rivals vv Dodewaard, SV De Paasberg wins promotion to Sunday League 5. The decisive goal was scored in extra time against SC Valburg in the last match of the season. The successful coaching duo is Frans Tuk and Wim Lafors, who had succeeded Hans Span in the course of the season. Also in 1997, SV De Paasberg enters a first team in the Saturday pyramid, which starts its life in the lowest Saturday division in District East, Saturday League 4.
• 1998 / Coached by Paul van Koppenhagen, SV De Paasberg’s Sunday squad finishes in second-last place in District East’s Sunday League 5D, thus dropping back into League 6 along with bottom club vv Stokkum. Meanwhile, the club’s Saturday team fares better, winning promotion from Saturday League 4 to League 3 with coach Paul Witjes. However, SV De Paasberg probably withdrew from first team football on Saturdays in 1999 or 2000.
• 2000 / SV De Paasberg finishes as runners-up in District East’s Sunday League 6I, 2 points behind champions FC Jeugd ’90.
• 2001 / Champions in District East’s Sunday League 6D, 8 points ahead of closest followers SV Zutphen, SV De Paasberg wins promotion to Sunday League 5. The successful coach is Herman van Amersvoort.
• 2002 / SV De Paasberg finishes as runners-up in District East’s Sunday League 5D, 5 points behind champions Sportclub Doesburg.
• 2009 / As AVC Vitesse 1892 is erased from the Netherlands’ FA’s membership list, SV De Paasberg officially becomes Arnhem’s oldest football club – given that the club traces its origins to the foundation of AVC Hercules in 1909.
• 2010 / Finishing in sixth place in District East’s Sunday League 5E, SV De Paasberg qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which it is drawn in a group with GSV ’38 and vv AD ’69. Suffering a 1-0 defeat away at vv AD ’69, the club does not manage more than a goalless draw in its home game against GSV ’38 – insufficient for first place in the group, as a result of which the club misses out on promotion.
• 2012 / Finishing as runners-up in District East’s Sunday League 5F, 2 points behind champions vv Ewijk, SV De Paasberg qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out RVW in R1 (8-2 aggr.) before being eliminated in R2 by FC Jeugd ’90 (5-4 aggr.).
• 2014 / Finishing in joint first place in District East’s Sunday League 5G with vv DVE-Trajanus, SV De Paasberg meets the club from Nijmegen in a tie-break match, played at SV Spero’s Sportpark De Pas in Elst, with vv DVE-Trajanus walking away as 4-3 winners. Nonetheless, due to extra promotion places being available, SV De Paasberg wins promotion to Sunday League 4 without having to compete in the play-offs. The successful coach is Badr Azoum. However, in December 2014, following a brawl which involved misconduct on the part of players as well as supporters in a match against RKVV HAVO on November 23rd, with five players having been red-carded, SV De Paasberg’s first team is withdrawn from Sunday League 4F as a punishment by the Netherlands’ FA, resulting in automatic relegation to Sunday League 5 for the 2015-16 season.
• 2016 / Finishing in fourth place in District East’s Sunday League 5F, SV De Paasberg qualifies for the play-offs, in which a 4-2 aggregate win over local rivals AV&AC Eendracht Arnhem is sufficient for promotion to Sunday League 4. The successful coach is Paul van Koppenhagen. Also in 2016, after a break of some fifteen years, the club decides to enter the Saturday pyramid with a first team as well, which is placed in District East’s Saturday League 4 for the 2016-17 season. As a result, SV De Paasberg now has two flagship teams. Meanwhile, the club’s table-tennis branch, which had won the 2007 and 2010 Netherlands’ title for corporate clubs, breaks away from SV De Paasberg, concluding a merger with Sportclub Velp.
• 2017 / Coached by Paul van Koppenhagen, SV De Paasberg Sunday team finishes bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 4F, thus dropping back into Sunday League 5 along with AV&AC Eendracht Arnhem and SV SDOO.
• 2019 / Having finished its 2018-19 campaign in sixth place in District East’s Sunday League 5D, SV De Paasberg withdraws from regular Sunday league football, thus continuing life with just its first team in Saturday League 4.
• 2022 / Runners-up in District East’s Saturday League 4A, 10 points behind runaway champions SV Juliana ’31 (za), SV De Paasberg qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is eliminated by SV De Treffers (za) (0-0 A.E.T. & penalty shoot-out).
• 2023 / Runners-up in District East’s Saturday League 4B, 5 points behind champions SV DFS, SV De Paasberg qualifies for the play-offs. Successively eliminating vv Alverna (za) (3-0) and vv Veenendaal (4-1) in the first two rounds, the club goes on to defeat WZC (2-1) in the final, played at ZVV ’56’s Sportpark Zevenhuizen, with Jesse ter Beek and Mohammed Saeidi scoring the all-important goals. As such, the club accedes to Saturday League 3. The successful coach is Pim Scholten.
• 2024 / Finishing in third place in District East’s Saturday League 3A, SV De Paasberg qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is eliminated by vv Zwart-Wit ’63 (6-1). 

Note – Thanks to Paul van Koppenhagen of SV De Paasberg for providing me with useful information about the history of the club as well as allowing me to use a booklet released on the occasion of the club’s 90th anniversary in 1999.

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NETHERLANDS: HBV

Sportpark Calbroek, Beers (HBV)

Netherlands, province: North Brabant = Noord-Brabant

16 III 2025 / HBV - vv Heijen 2-2 / District South II, Sunday League 4H (= NL level 9)

Timeline

• (To be published later)

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NETHERLANDS: HSV SOA (B) (2002-2006) / SV Wateringse Veld (B) (2006-2014) / SV Wateringse Veld GONA (B) (2014-2018) / HSV Celeritas (B) (2016-2018) / SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg (B) (2018-2021) / FC Skillz (2019-) / SSA FC Skillz-Wateringse Veld (2021-)

Sportpark Zonneveld veld 2, The Hague = Den Haag = 's-Gravenhage Wateringse Veld (SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld & FC Skillz, formerly B pitch of HSV SOA / SV Wateringse Veld / SV Wateringse Veld GONA / HSV Celeritas / SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg)

Netherlands, province: South Holland = Zuid-Holland

15 III 2025 / SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld - SC Monster 1-2 / Combined Sunday & Saturday League 1B (= NL level 6)

Timeline

• 1919 / Foundation of a football club in The Hague, which is given the name DSS, an acronym of ‘Door Samenwerking Sterk’. The club settles on a pasture situated at Waldorpstraat.
• 1922 / Applying for membership of the so-called Haagsche Voetbalbond (HVB), The Hague’s sub-branch of the Netherlands’ Football Association (NVB, later renamed KNVB), DSS is obliged to change its name due to the acronym already being in use by other clubs. Thereupon, the club is allowed to join with the new name HVV (Haagsche Voetbalvereeniging) SOA, Haagsche Voetbalvereeniging ‘Samenspel Overwint Alles’. Around this time, the club groundshares with vv VOGEL at Terrein Achterweg, at the crossroads with Parkweg, close to the Voorburg water tower.
• 1926 / Remaining in Voorburg, HVV SOA moves to a newly laid-out pitch at Rodelaan.
• 1929 / HVV SOA abandons its pitch at Rodelaan, settling on a pasture at Veurste Achterweg in Leidschendam.
• 1934 / Having to abandon its pitch at Veurste Achterweg, HVV SOA spends the 1934-35 season as groundsharer with various other clubs.
• 1935 / HVV SOA finds a new home, being given the opportunity to play its matches on the middle section of the so-called Rijswijkse Wielerbaan, a velodrome at Delftweg in Rijswijk.
• 1939 / Being evicted from the Rijswijkse Wielerbaan, HVV SOA concludes a groundsharing agreement with CVS at Terrein Duinlaan.
• 1940 / Moving away from Terrein Duinlaan, HVV SOA concludes a new groundsharing agreement with VDS, settling at that club’s pitch, situated at Fruitweg.
• 1948 / Moving away from Terrein Fruitweg after eight years, HVV SOA settles on the newly laid-out Sportpark Ockenburgh.
• 1950 / HVV SOA adapts its name to become HSV (Haagse Sportvereniging) SOA. 
• 1974 / Moving away from Sportpark Ockenburgh, HSV SOA moves to a newly laid-out ground at Wijndaelerweg, also situated in the Ockenburgh neighbourhood. Confusingly enough, this ground is later renamed Sportpark Ockenburgh.
• 2002 / HSV SOA leaves its ground, Sportpark Ockenburgh at Wijndaelerweg, after 28 years, settling at the newly laid-out Sportpark Zonneveld, situated at Guido de Moorstraat in the new housing estate Wateringse Veld on the southern outskirts of The Hague. The move was brought about due to the club’s ever-decreasing membership, with the hope being pinned on an influx of new youth members following the move to the new neighbourhood. The new park, consisting of a main pitch laid out in grass and a synthetic pitch, is inaugurated in August 2002.
• 2006 / HSV SOA officially changes its name to become Sportvereniging (SV) Wateringse Veld, thus taking on the name of the neighbourhood in which the club settled four years previously. Another reason for the name change was the negative connotation of the acronym SOA, given that it had also become the way to refer to venereal diseases (in Dutch: Seksueel Overdraagbare Aandoeningen, SOA’s) since the late 1990s. As a result, the name (HSV) SOA had become a mark of derision, with youth members even walking away from the club for this reason.
• 2013 / Foundation of a football academy in The Hague, which is given the name Voetbalschool SKILLZ, by the couple Benito & Sharon Marica. In order to allow the new academy, which is not affiliated to the Netherlands' Football Association, to organise training sessions and matches, the owners of the school conclude a groundsharing agreement with non-league club vv Verburch, enabling them to use Sportpark Verburch at Arckelweg in Poeldijk as their home base.
• 2014 / SV Wateringse Veld concludes a merger with vv GONA, a club founded in 1941, resulting in the foundation of SV Wateringse veld GONA. With vv GONA abandoning its ground, Sportpark Escamp III at Beresteinlaan, all activities of the new club move to Sportpark Zonneveld in Wateringse Veld.
• 2016 / SV Wateringse Veld GONA is joined at Sportpark Zonneveld by HSV Celeritas, a club which had been without a ground of its own since being evicted from its Sportpark Leyweg two years previously. 
• 2018 / In mid-2018, one year after the merger between SV Wateringse Veld GONA and vv Kranenburg, the club takes on the name SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg. Meanwhile, HSV Celeritas moves away from Sportpark Zonneveld after two seasons, settling at Sportpark Prinses Irene in Rijswijk. Also in 2018, Voetbalschool SKILLZ, the football academy founded in 2013, moves away from Sportpark Verburch, settling at the aforementioned Sportpark Prinses Irene as well.
• 2019 / Six years after forming their football academy Voetbalschool SKILLZ, Benito & Sharon Marica decide to join the Netherlands' FA in order to allow part of their academy players to compete in regular youth competitions under the name FC Skillz. Whereas Voetbalschool SKILLZ remains at Sportpark Prinses Irene in Rijswijk, FC Skillz plays its matches at Sportpark Zonneveld in Wateringse Veld, groundsharing with SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg.
• 2020 / With Sportpark Prinses Irene being abandoned, all of the activities of Voetbalschool SKILLZ as well as its offshoot FC Skillz are brought together at Sportpark Zonneveld.
• 2021 / SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg and FC Skillz conclude a partnership deal under the name SSA (Samenwerking Seniorenafdeling) FC Skillz Wateringse Veld. In practice, given that SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg hardly had any membership left at that point, this amounted to FC Skillz widening its activities to regular league football after eight years of ‘just’ being a youth academy. The club's first team as well as the U23 selection compete as SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld, while all other youth academy teams continue to use the name FC Skillz. After the withdrawal of SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg from Saturday League 2 in mid-2020, the new flagship team of SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld is allowed to start its life in Saturday League 3. The club is joined for the new season by Anthony Biekman, former professional league striker at FC Den Bosch, RKC Waalwijk, and FC Dordrecht. Whereas HSV SOA, SV Wateringse Veld, SV Wateringse Veld GONA, and SV Wateringse Veld Kranenburg had always played their first team football on the grass pitch of Sportpark Zonneveld, SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld moves virtually all club activities, including first team football, to the synthetic side pitch of the park.
• 2022 / Champions in District West II’s Saturday League 3B, 2 points ahead of runners-up SC Monster, SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld wins promotion to Saturday League 2. The decisive points are clinched in a 8-2 away win at HSV DUNO (three goals by Samir El Moussaoui, two by Yassin Chentouf, one each by Farid Overman, Joël Mayala, and Reda Reddam). The successful coach is Oussama Bekkaoui.
• 2023 / Champions in Saturday League 2E, 3 points ahead of runners-up SV RKDEO, SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld manages its second promotion in a row, acceding to Combined Sunday & Saturday League 1. The decisive points are clinched in a 4-0 home win over RKVV Westlandia (za) (goals by Abdel Tufi, Chadian Melfor, Adam Bekkaoui, and Djurandy Swedo). The successful coach is Oussama Bekkaoui.
• 2024 / In its first season in Saturday League 1, the ambitious flagship team of SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld manages a somewhat underwhelming eighth place in Combined Sunday & Saturday League 1C. In the summer of 2024, the club makes headlines by signing Eljero Elia, former professional league winger at ADO Den Haag, FC Twente, Hamburger SV, Juventus FC, SV Werder Bremen 1899, Southampton FC, Feyenoord Rotterdam, Istanbul Başakşehir FK, and FC Utrecht. Elia also won thirty caps for the Netherlands, notably being part of the Netherlands’ squad which won a silver medal in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Elia’s arrival does not bring SSA FC Skillz Wateringse Veld the hoped-for success, however, as the winger has a hard time coming to terms with non-league football. He left the club in the fall of 2024 after walking away angrily following being subbed.

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