NETHERLANDS: RKSV Cito

Sportpark De Rooijen, Oss (RKSV Cito)

Netherlands, province: North Brabant = Noord-Brabant

14 IX 2025 / RKSV Cito - RKSV WEC 1-6 / District South II, Regional Cup - group stage, group 2-05

Timeline

• 1946 / Awaiting the resumption of regular league football, various recreational clubs sprang up in Oss, a town in North Brabant, in the aftermath of the liberation of the Netherlands from the German yoke. Teams such as SDO, DEVO, and DES took part in a makeshift league organised by the short-lived Osse Voetbalfederatie. Players from several of these teams got together to form a Roman Catholic football club – and with the first suggested names of the new club all being turned down by the Netherlands’ football federation (KNVB), the founding fathers finally settle on a KNVB suggestion to take on the name ‘Cito’ (Latin for ‘swift’) – heralding the birth of Rooms-Katholieke Sportvereniging (RKSV) Cito. The first pitch of the new club is situated at the crossroads of modern-day Hagelkruisstraat and Iman van den Boschstraat.
• ± 1948 / Moving away from its initial location, RKSV Cito settles on a newly laid-out pitch at Landweerstraat.
• ± 1950 / Moving away from its pitch at Landweerstraat, RKSV Cito settles on a newly laid-out pitch at Hescheweg (at the crossroads with modern-day Bremlaan). 
• 1958 / Moving away from Terrein Hescheweg, RKSV Cito settles at Sportpark De Rooijen, where the club is accorded the luxury of two full pitches as well as a training corner.
• 1961 / Following a 4-0 home win over RKSV HVCH Reserves, RKSV Cito clinches its first title, in Afdeling Noord-Brabant Sunday Division 2, under the leadership of coach Jo van Tilburg. The club is deprived of promotion to D1 of the said league system due to suffering defeat in a set of promotion matches against VOW.
• 1964 / Finishing in joint first place in Afdeling Noord-Brabant Sunday Division 2 with EVVC, RKSV Cito meets the club from Vinkel in a tie-break match, played at Terrein Zwarte Molenweg in Nistelrode, home of RKSV Prinses Irene. Going on to win the match comprehensively (4-1, two goals each by Gerrit van Bergen & Rinie van der Putten) in front of a crowd of some 2,000, RKSV Cito wins promotion to Afdeling Noord-Brabant Division 1 for the first time. The successful coach is Herman van Meurs.
• 1971 / Clinching the title in Afdeling Noord-Brabant Sunday Division 1 following a 2-1 home win over RKSV Avesteyn in the last game of the season (both goals by Nico van den Berg), RKSV Cito wins promotion to District South I’s Sunday League 4 for the first time. The successful coach is former BVV professional league player Toon Coort. Also in 1971, a new clubhouse is inaugurated at Sportpark De Rooijen.
• 1974 / Coached by J. van Balsfoort, RKSV Cito finishes bottom of the table in District South I’s Sunday League 4A, thus dropping back into the ranks of Afdeling Noord-Brabant after three seasons.
• 1981 / In April 1981, Tonnie Janssen plays his 400th match in RKSV Cito’s first team. At the end of the season, the club descends into Afdeling Noord-Brabant Sunday Division 2. That same year, the clubhouse at Sportpark De Rooijen undergoes a thorough renovation.
• 1987 / Former RKSV Cito youth academy player Marc van Hintum makes his professional league debut at Helmond Sport. Van Hintum had joined Cito as an eight-year-old in 1975, staying with the club for four years, following which he had spells in the academies of SV Ruwaard, TOP, and RKSV Margriet. Following his debut at Helmond Sport, the wingback went on to have spells at RKC, Willem II, SBV Vitesse, Hannover 96, and RKC Waalwijk, as well as winning 8 caps for the Netherlands (1998-2001).
• 1989 / Clinching the title in Afdeling Noord-Brabant Sunday Division 2, RKSV Cito wins promotion to D1 of the said league system.
• 1991 / Coached by Giel van Orsouw, RKSV Cito manages a return to District South I’s Sunday League 4 after an absence of seventeen years.
• 2000 / Coached by Henk Bosch, RKSV Cito finishes in second-last place in District South I’s Sunday League 4G, thus descending into Sunday League 5 along with bottom club RKSV Achilles Reek.
• 2003 / RKSV Cito finishes as runners-up in District South II’s Sunday League 5H, 13 points behind runaway champions WHV. 
• 2004 / Champions in District South II’s Sunday League 5H, 8 points ahead of runners-up RKSV Juliana, RKSV Cito wins promotion to Sunday League 4. The successful coach is Gaby Kuijpers.
• 2005 / Finishing in third place in District South II’s Sunday League 4H with coach Gaby Kuijpers, RKSV Cito goes on to win back-to-back promotions by winning the subsequent round of play-offs. As such, the club wins promotion to Sunday League 3 for the first and only time in its existence.
• 2006 / In the best season in club history, RKSV Cito manages a fifth place in District South II’s Sunday League 3D with coach Peter van Orsouw.
• 2007 / Coached by Peter van Orsouw, RKSV Cito finishes bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 3D, thus dropping back into Sunday League 4 along with the club in second-last place, vv Nooit Gedacht.
• 2010 / RKSV Cito signs Maikel van Orsouw, former professional league player at TOP (1991-93), as its new coach. Van Orsouw stays with the club for two seasons.
• 2012 / Finishing in third place in District South II’s Sunday League 4H, RKSV Cito qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out SV Milsbeek in R1 (4-1 aggr.), only to bow out in R2 following defeat at the hands of vv MVC (5-3 aggr.).
• 2014 / Finishing in third place in District South II’s Sunday League 4H, RKSV Cito qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by vv Bavos (9-1 aggr.).
• 2015 / Finishing in fourth place in District South II’s Sunday League 4H, RKSV Cito qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is eliminated in R1 by RKVV Vianen Vooruit (4-2 aggr.).
• 2016 / Finishing in third place in District South II’s Sunday League 4H, RKSV Cito qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club bows out in R1 following defeat against RKVV Excellent (5-2 aggr.).
• 2022 / Finishing in third place in District South II’s Sunday League 4H, RKSV Cito qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by vv EWC ’46 (2-6).
• 2023 / Finishing in third place in District South II’s Sunday League 4H, RKSV Cito qualifies for the promotion-relegation play-offs, in which the club is eliminated in R1 by RKGSV (1-4).
• 2024 / Coached by Nick van Hoorn, RKSV Cito finishes bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 4I, thus dropping back into Sunday League 5 after an absence of twenty years at that level, along with vv Boskant and SCMH.
• 2025 / Runners-up in District South II’s Sunday League 5G, 4 points behind derby rivals RKVV DESO, RKSV Cito qualifies for the promotion-relegation play-offs, in which the club is eliminated in R1 by vv Sambeek (1-2).

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