Netherlands, province: North Brabant
27 IX 2025 / vv Irene '58 - TVC/Breda 1-5 / District South I, Saturday League 5D (= NL level 10)
Timeline
- 1958 / Foundation of a football club in Den Hout, a village to the west of Oosterhout in North Brabant, with the new club taking on the name Voetbalvereniging (vv) Irene ’58. The new club, which settles on a pitch laid out at Achterstraat, takes its place in the Sunday divisions of Afdeling Noord-Brabant (alternately referred to as Brabantse Voetbalbond, BVB), the North Brabant feeder league system of KNVB District South I’s Sunday League 4.
- ± 1960 / Moving away from Terrein Achterstraat, vv Irene ’58 moves to a newly laid-out pitch at Herstraat.
- ± 1961 / Moving away from Terrein Herstraat, vv Irene ’58 settles at Terrein Het Gat, at the back of Café Verweijmeren, to the east of the village.
- ± 1963 / Moving away from Terrein Het Gat, vv Irene ’58 settles on a newly laid-out pitch at Bankenweg.
- ± 1965 / Moving away from Terrein Bankenweg, vv Irene ’58 settles on a newly laid-out pitch at Ruiterspoor, close to the village centre. Here, the club has the luxury of a training pitch nearby, first to the northeast of the main pitch (area now taken by the village school), later to the west of the pitch (area hemmed in between the pitch and the windmill).
- ± 1980 / With the training pitch near the windmill being given up, the training facilities of vv Irene ’58 are now moved to Terrein Hoge Akker, two streets away, on the southern outskirts of the village.
- 1996 / Following a reorganisation of the non-league pyramid in the Netherlands, which sees the abolition of all feeder leagues and the clubs playing in them being integrated into the regular league system, vv Irene ’58, which had never reached the level of Sunday League 4 in the first 38 years of its existence, is placed in the newly created District South I’s Sunday League 6.
- 2001 / With Sunday League 6 being abolished in District South I, vv Irene ’58 is placed in Sunday League 5.
- 2008 / Finishing in fourth place in District South I’s Sunday League 5D, vv Irene ’58 goes on to win the promotion play-offs, thus acceding to Sunday League 4 for the first time in its existence. That same year, as the club celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, vv Irene ’58 is given the anniversary medal of the City of Oosterhout.
- 2013 / Finishing in fifth place in District South I’s Sunday League 4D, vv Irene ’58 qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out vv Dubbeldam (zo) in R1 (4-3 aggr.), only to be eliminated in R2 by VVR (3-0 aggr.).
- 2016 / The training pitch of vv Irene ’58 at Den Akker is laid out anew with a synthetic surface.
- 2018 / Clinching the title in District South I’s Sunday League 4C, 9 points ahead of closest followers SC Hoge Vucht, vv Irene ’58 manages an unprecedented promotion to Sunday League 3. The successful coach is Tijs van Bragt.
- 2019 / In the best season in club history, vv Irene ’58 finishes in eleventh place in District South I’s Sunday League 3B, just 1 point ahead of the drop zone.
- 2020 / vv Irene ’58 signs Jack Beusenberg, former NAC professional league defender (1974-82), as its head coach. However, Beusenberg only stays until the fall of 2020 before leaving the club voluntarily.
- 2022 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South I’s Sunday League 3B, vv Irene ’58 drops back into Sunday League 4 after four years. However, the club chooses to switch from the Sunday to the Saturday pyramid, thus taking its place in Saturday League 4 for the new season.
- 2024 / Finishing in ninth place in District South I’s Saturday League 4F, vv Irene ’58 descends into the newly created Saturday League 5, along with vv PCP, SSC ’55, vv Olympia ’60, DVVC, and bottom club UVV ’40.
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