Netherlands, province: Utrecht
15 III 2025 / SV Parkhout - gsv GJS 2-0 / Saturday League 2F (= NL level 7)
Timeline
- 1926 / Foundation of a first football club in the village of Vreeswijk, closely to the south of Utrecht. The new club is given the name VSV (Vreeswijksche Sportvereeniging) Vreeswijk and joins the Sunday pyramid of Utrecht’s KNVB sub-branch UVB.
- 1952 / Foundation of a new football club in Vreeswijk, which is specifically formed for the village’s Protestant community. The new club is given the name DVO (Door Vriendschap Overwinning), but has to change its name upon joining the UVB due to the chosen acronym already having been adopted by clubs in Sittard and Vlaardingen. Thereupon, DVO in Vreeswijk changes its name to become Sportvereniging (SV) Geinoord. Initially, the new club plays its home games on a pitch laid out on the farmland of a local smallholder, Mr Noordhoek.
- 1969 / Along with VSV Vreeswijk, SV Geinoord settles on a newly laid-out municipal park, Gemeentelijk Sportpark Hoog-Zandveld – later usually referred to simply as Sportpark Zandveld. Whereas VSV Vreeswijk uses the main pitch, SV Geinoord usually plays its first-team football on one of the side-pitches of the park.
- 1971 / The communities of Vreeswijk and nearby Jutphaas merge into the planned town of Nieuwegein.
- 1977 / As Sportpark Zandveld is extended with several pitches further to the north, a start is made on the construction of a clubhouse for SV Geinoord alongside the pitch situated the furthest to the northwest.
- 1980 / Having played on one of the side-pitches of VSV Vreeswijk for the past eleven years, SV Geinoord now moves to the northwest of the park, which is given the name Sportpark Parkhout (sometimes referred to as Sportpark Parkhout-Zandveld, particularly in the early years), even though the clubhouse is not entirely ready yet. The pitch pictured in the photos below is Pitch/Veld 4 of the new park.
- 1981 / On January 30th, 1981, the clubhouse of the newly laid-out Sportpark Parkhout is officially inaugurated by G.J. ter Stege, alderman of Nieuwegein’s town council.
- 2023 / In its last season as an independent club, SV Geinoord finishes in seventh place in Saturday League 2B. Following the 2022-23 season, SV Geinoord concludes a merger with neighbour club VSV Vreeswijk, resulting in the foundation of Sportverening (SV) Parkhout. All activities move to SV Geinoord’s Sportpark Parkhout. A new clubhouse is constructed for SV Parkhout alongside the old Pitch/Veld 4 of Sportpark Parkhout, which is inaugurated in the fall of 2023. The new club starts its life in Saturday League 2, the level of the former SV Geinoord. Meanwhile, Sportpark Zandveld, former home of VSV Vreeswijk, is dismantled to make way for the new park of the local hockey club, MHC Nieuwegein. Due to the new clubhouse not being entirely ready yet by the fall of the 2023, SV Parkhout plays its first league game of the 2023-24 season, a 2-2 draw against vv Hardinxveld on September 30th, 2023, on SV Geinoord’s old main-pitch – Pitch/Veld 2 from now on – with the new clubhouse and main pitch being inaugurated for the match against wvv WSC (0-1) two weeks later. SV Geinoord’s old clubhouse at the southern end of the former main pitch is knocked down in the following months.
- 2024 / In its first season, SV Parkhout manages a respectable fifth place in Saturday League 2G.
Note - Below, a compilation of photos of two different visits: picture 1 = non-matchday visit, July 2023 / pictures 2-18 = match visit, March 2025.
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