Extreme Football Tourism: NETHERLANDS: vv Jonge Kracht (2021-)

Wednesday, 30 July 2025

NETHERLANDS: vv Jonge Kracht (2021-)

Sportpark De Rode Veste, Huissen Het Zand (vv Jonge Kracht)

Netherlands, province: Guelders = Gelderland

30 VII 2025 / Al Wasl FC - Khaleej Club 2-1 / Pre-season friendly (neutral venue)

Timeline

1932 / Foundation of a football club in Het Zand, a hamlet on the southern outskirts of the town of Huissen in Guelders. The new club, which is given the name SDV (probably meaning Sterk Door Vriendschap) joins the RKUVB, a sub-branch of Roman Catholic Football Federation RKF.
1938 / After an existence of six years, SDV folds, ceasing all activities.
1945 / Creation of a successor club of SDV in Het Zand, which is given the name Rooms-Katholieke Sportvereniging (RKSV) Jonge Kracht. The new club joins the Nijmegen sub-branch of the official Netherlands’ Football Association KNVB. The club settles on a pitch laid out at Polseweg, often being referred to locally as Terrein De Pol.
1970 / Moving away from Terrein De Pol at Polseweg after 25 years, RKSV Jonge Kracht settles at the newly laid-out Sportpark Schalkshof, only a stone’s throw away from the initial location.
1979 / Ten (!) years after the decision of the gathered membership of the club to drop the Roman Catholic prefix, the name changed is officialised in a notarial act, with RKSV Jonge Kracht now officially becoming vv Jonge Kracht.
2021 / Abandoning Sportpark Schalkshof after 41 years, vv Jonge Kracht moves into the newly laid-out Sportpark De Rode Veste, situated roughly on the same location as the club’s initial pitch, Terrein De Pol – which was partly located on the main pitch of the new park, partly on the third pitch (the pitch adjacent to Polseweg). The clubhouse and covered stand of the new park are still under construction at this stage.
2022 / Runners-up in District East’s Sunday League 4D, with an equal number of points as Sportclub Westervoort, but with an inferior goal difference (+72 vs. +78), vv Jonge Kracht has to try to break down to the door to Sunday League 3 in the promotion play-offs. Drawing a bye in R1, the club knocks out vv Angerlo Vooruit in R2 (3-0) and GSV ’38 in the final (2-1), played at RKVV Sprinkhanen’s Sportpark De Meikamer in Nieuw-Dijk. That same year, the clubhouse and grandstand of Sportpark De Rode Veste are inaugurated.
2024 / Finishing in third place in District East’s Sunday League 3C, vv Jonge Kracht qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club qualifies for the final following successive wins over vv Witkampers (3-0) and SV Schalkhaar (1-2). In the final, played at vv VIOD’s Sportpark Dichteren in Doetinchem, the club sees off vv Vorden in a spectacular match (5-4). As a result, vv Jonge Kracht finds its way back to Sunday League 2 after an absence of ten years.