Netherlands, province: North Brabant = Noord-Brabant
16 IX 2025 / Helmond Sport - Jong FC Utrecht 2-1 / Eerste Divisie (= NL level 2)
Timeline
- 1916 / Foundation of a football club in Helmond, which takes on the name ADO, with the meaning of the acronym being unclear – possibly Alles Door Oefening or Aanhouden Doet Overwinnen. The roots of this club are firmly working-class. With no pitch being available, club members occupy a piece of wasteland situated between the Pronto and Wilma neighbourhoods on the northeastern outskirts of Helmond, referred to locally as De Broak or De Braak, situated at Bakelsedijk.
- 1919 / A new Roman Catholic club is founded in Helmond, RKSV Kolping – with Kolping expressly being a club for the town’s Catholic working-class. The need for such a club has arisen due to RKSV MULO, another Catholic club in Helmond, founded four years previously, making use of a ballot committee, thereby weeding out potential unwanted elements in an effort to sustain its higher middle-class character.
- 1924 / ADO changes its name to become Sportclub (SC) Helmondia.
- 1935 / Having played its home matches at Terrein De Braak from the foundation of the club in 1916 onwards, SC Helmondia now moves to a newly laid-out pitch only several dozens of yards down the same road, Bakelsedijk - the future Stadion De Braak.
- 1955 / With professional league football being introduced in the Netherlands, efforts are made in Helmond to bring about a merger between the four main clubs, RKSV MULO, SC Helmondia, HVV Helmond, and RKSV Kolping SDW, with the goal being to create a strong professional league club within the town’s borders. In the end, however, RKSV MULO chooses to remain in non-league, while HVV Helmond prefers to join the professional leagues independently. Thereupon, a merger deal is concluded between SC Helmondia and RKSV Kolping SDW, resulting in the foundation of RKSC (Rooms-Katholieke Sportclub) Helmondia ’55, which takes the place of SC Helmondia at Stadion De Braak.
- 1967 / Following the 1966-67 season, RKSC Helmondia ’55, marred by financial problems, withdraws into non-league, while its professional league licence - as well as its place at Stadion De Braak - is taken over by a new breakaway club, Helmond Sport. In the following years, the club eventually renamed SC Helmondia takes its place on the side-pitches of the stadium, as does RKSV MULO.
- 2023 / After long talks about building a new stadium for Helmond Sport on another location in the municipality – with the Berkendonk area in Helmond-Oost being mentioned particularly in this context – the decision is taken eventually by municipal authorities to commission a new stadium at Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Braak, directly to the north of the old stadium – on the side pitches of the former RKSV MULO.
- 2025 / On February 24th, 2025, Helmond Sport plays its last-ever match in Stadion De Braak. On March 7th, 2025, Helmond Sport's new stadium, Campus De Braak, officially called the GS Staalwerken Stadion for sponsorship reasons, is inaugurated with a 4-0 win against MVV Maastricht. Anthony van der Hurk become the first-ever player to score an official goal at the new ground. Stadion De Braak was knocked down between March and May 2025, having to make way for new side-pitches for Helmond Sport's youth academy as well as non-league club SV De Braak (a merger between SC Helmondia and RKSV MULO).
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