Netherlands, province: North Holland = Noord-Holland
8 XI 2025 / SV Olympia Haarlem - SV De Foresters 3-5 / Combined Sunday & Saturday League 1A (= NL level 6)
Timeline
- 1919 / Foundation of a Roman Catholic football club in Haarlem, which is given the name Roomsch-Katholieke Sportvereeniging (RKSV) Geel Zwart. Starting out on a pitch at Aerdenhout, the club would move on to various other locations in the following three decades; Terrein Molenwerf (at modern-day Cruquiusweg in Heemstede, a location coinciding with modern-day Sportpark De Toekomst, used by RKSV HBC since 1958), Terrein Vergierdeweg (in the neighbourhood known as Vondelkwartier nowadays), and Terrein Rijksstraatweg.
- 1924 / Having joined the so-called Diocesaan Haarlemsche Voetbalbond (DHVB), a sub-branch of the Netherlands’ Roman Catholic football federation RKF (Roomsch-Katholieke Federatie), RKSV Geel Zwart has to change its name at the behest of federation authorities, due to an older member club already using the name Geel Zwart. As such, the club takes on the name RKSV TYBB – the latter being an abbreviation standing for The Yellow Black Boys.
- 1940 / Playing its last pre-war season in RKF Division 1 Afdeling West, TYBB has to join the official Netherlands’ FA (KNVB, renamed NVB for the duration of the war) following the German occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940. All football associations except the (K)NVB are abolished. RKSV TYBB is placed in District West II’s Sunday League 3 for the 1940-41 season.
- 1947 / Champions in District West II’s Sunday League 3A, 1 point ahead of closest followers VCS, RKSV TYBB fails to win promotion to Sunday League 2 in the subsequent round of championship play-offs.
- 1948 / RKSV TYBB finishes as runners-up in District West II’s Sunday League 3A, 6 points behind champions RKSV HBC. That same year, TYBB moves away from Terrein Rijksstraatweg, settling on a newly laid-out pitch at Schalkwijkerweg (modern-day Schipholweg).
- 1949 / Champions in District West II’s Sunday League 3A, 4 points ahead of runners-up LFC, RKSV TYBB fails to win promotion to Sunday League 2 in the subsequent round of championship play-offs.
- 1954 / RKSV TYBB’s baseball branch reaches the top flight of the Netherlands’ baseball league system, managing to stay up at that level for the following three years.
- 1959 / Champions in District West II’s Sunday League 3A, 5 points ahead of runners-up RVC, RKSV TYBB fails to win promotion to Sunday League 2 in the subsequent round of championship play-offs.
- 1961 / Champions in District West II’s Sunday League 3A, 1 point ahead of closest rivals RKSV GDA, RKSV TYBB goes on to clinch promotion to Sunday League 2 in the following round of championship play-offs – thus ending a spell of 21 years at League 3 level.
- 1962 / RKSV TYBB finishes in seventh place in District West I’s Sunday League 2B, going on to repeat that exact result in the following two seasons – the best result recorded in club history.
- 1963 / Having to move away from Terrein Schalkwijkerweg after fifteen years following a decision by provincial authorities, which sees a road being laid out across the location of the pitch, RKSV TYBB moves to the newly laid-out Sportpark Overhout (Noord) at Noord Schalkwijkerweg, which comprises three pitches – i.e. the ground still used by SV Olympia Haarlem nowadays.
- 1965 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West I’s Sunday League 2B, RKSV TYBB drops back into Sunday League 3 after four seasons, along with the club in second-last place, ZSV Zandvoortmeeuwen.
- 1969 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West I’s Sunday League 3C, RKSV TYBB descends into Sunday League 4 for the first time in club history, along with the club in second-last place, VSV.
- 1975 / Champions in District West I’s Sunday League 4C, 2 points ahead of closest rivals SV Halfweg, RKSV TYBB manages a return to Sunday League 3 after six seasons.
- 1981 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West I’s Sunday League 3B, RKSV TYBB drops back into Sunday League 4, along with the club in second-last place, KIC.
- 1986 / 18-year-old TYBB defender Frank Verlaat leaves the club to sign a contract deal with AFC Ajax, where he makes his debut in the first team later that same year under coach Johan Cruijff. In the course of his years in Amsterdam, Verlaat plays in the 1987 and 1988 Cup Winners’ Cup final editions, against 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig (1-0) and KV Mechelen (0-1), with the respective finals being played at Athens’ Olympic Stadium and Strasbourg’s Stade de la Meinau. Following his departure from Amsterdam in 1988, Verlaat has subsequent spells at FC Lausanne-Sport, AJA Auxerre, VfB Stuttgart, SV Werder Bremen, FK Austria Wien, and SK Sturm Graz – hanging up his boots in 2007. Verlaat also won one cap for the Netherlands’ national side in 1995.
- 1989 / RKSV TYBB manages a second place in District West I’s Sunday League 4C, with an equal number of points as RKVV Velsen, 1 point behind champions SV DIO.
- 1994 / RKSV TYBB finishes as runners-up in District West I’s Sunday League 4C, 1 point behind derby rivals RKVV DSS.
- 1998 / Former TYBB youth academy defender Patrick Zwaanswijk makes his professional league debut at FC Utrecht, going on to have spells at Oita Trinita, NAC Breda, and Central Coast Mariners, ultimately hanging up his boots in 2013.
- 2001 / Former TYBB youth academy striker Jeroen Ketting makes his professional league debut at AZ. Following his time in Alkmaar, Ketting also had spells at HFC Haarlem, FC Volendam, Cambuur-Leeuwarden, Lommel United, FC Zwolle, withdrawing into non-league in 2012 at KVV Quick Boys and, later, HFC EDO.
- 2002 / Finishing in second-last place in District West I’s Sunday League 4D with coach Kees Schoo, RKSV TYBB descends into Sunday League 5 for the first time in club history, along with bottom team SV DIOS.
- 2006 / In its last season as an independent club, RKSV TYBB manages an eighth place in District West I’s Sunday League 5F. Following the 2005-06 season, the club concludes a merger with no fewer than three other football clubs: HFC DCO, DSC ’74, and disabled football club HIS. The result of this ‘monster merger’ is the foundation of vv Olympia Haarlem, with the new club settling at TYBB’s Sportpark Overhout (Noord). HFC DCO abandons its Sportpark Schalkwijk (Belgiëlaan, taken over subsequently by vv Young Boys), while Saturday club DSC ’74 – in itself the result of a merger of SAC and DSB, dating back to 1974 – leaves behind its ground at Boerhaavelaan. Whereas DCO had enjoyed spells in Sunday League 2, DSC ’74 had never reached a level higher than Saturday League 4. The new merger club vv Olympia Haarlem takes over the place of HFC DCO in Sunday League 4.
- 2007 / With the Sunday team playing in Sunday League 4, vv Olympia Haarlem now also enters a regular first team in the Saturday League pyramid, which starts out in District West I’s Sunday League 5.
- 2008 / Finishing in joint first place in District West I’s Sunday League 4D with SV United-DAVO, RKSV TYBB (zo) meets its derby rivals in a tie-break match, going on to suffer a heavy defeat in this encounter (5-1). As a result, the club misses out on promotion. That same year, Sportpark Overhout (Noord) is renamed Nol Houtkamp Sportpark in honour of the legendary Haarlem baseball player. Houtkamp himself, aged 79 at the time, is present at the inauguration of the refurbished park. In the summer of 2008, following the absorption of the baseball and softball branches of RKSV TYBB and DSC ’74 into the merger concluded two years previously, Voetbalvereniging (vv) Olympia Haarlem officially adapts its name to become SV (Sportvereniging) Olympia Haarlem.
- 2009 / SV Olympia Haarlem’s Sunday team finishes as runners-up in District West I’s Sunday League 4D, 5 points behind champions SV Concordia. Meanwhile, the club’s Saturday side only manages a modest fifth place in Saturday League 5B, but, in the subsequent round of promotion play-off, a ticket for Saturday League 4 is clinched.
- 2010 / Runaway champions in District West I’s Sunday League 4D, 12 points ahead of closest followers SV United-DAVO, SV Olympia Haarlem (zo) wins promotion to Sunday League 3. The successful coach is Rob Buchel.
- 2011 / Finishing in second-last place in District West I’s Sunday League 3B with coach John Eelman Jnr., SV Olympia Haarlem (zo) drops back into Sunday League 4 after just one season, along with SV Fortuna Wormerveer and bottom club RKVV Saenden.
- 2014 / Runners-up in District West I’s Saturday League 4C, 23 points behind runaway champions vv De Brug, SV Olympia Haarlem (za) qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the team is knocked out in R1 by IJVV Stormvogels (za) (6-2 aggr.).
- 2015 / Champions in District West I’s Sunday League 4D, 8 points ahead of closest followers SV Alliance ’22, SV Olympia Haarlem (zo) manages a return to Sunday League 3 after an absence of four years. The successful coach is Jeroen de Vries.
- 2016 / Finishing bottom of the table in District West I’s Saturday League 4B, SV Olympia Haarlem (za) withdraws from the regular non-league competition following the season.
- 2017 / Finishing in fifth place in District West I’s Sunday League 3C, SV Olympia Haarlem just misses out on the promotion play-offs. Following the 2016-17 season, one year after withdrawing its Saturday team, SV Olympia Haarlem also pulls out from regular first team football in the Sunday pyramid. For the 2017-18 season, the club only fields recreational teams.
- 2018 / After one year without first team football, SV Olympia Haarlem returns with a regular first team in Saturday League 4. Earlier that year, in February 2018, Nol Houtkamp, after whom Sportpark Overhout (Noord) had been named ten years previously, passed away at the age of 89.
- 2019 / Runaway champions in District West I’s Saturday League 4C, 13 points ahead of closest followers Atletico Club Amsterdam, SV Olympia Haarlem (za) wins promotion to Saturday League 3. The successful coach is Barry Tjeertes. In the summer of 2019, the club also enters a new regular first team in the Sunday divisions, which makes a start in Sunday League 5.
- 2020 / In the 2019-20 season, cut short due to the first COVID lockdown in March 2020, SV Olympia Haarlem (zo) finds itself in first place in Sunday League 5B after 12 of 20 matches played, 1 point ahead of runners-up HYS. On the basis, the team is admitted to Sunday League 4 for the new season.
- 2022 / Finishing in third place in District West I’s Saturday League 3A, SV Olympia Haarlem (za) qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the team knocks out FC Zaandam in R1 (0-4), only to be knocked out by IJVV Stormvogels in R2 (2-0). Following the 2021-22 season, SV Olympia Haarlem (zo), in spite of staying up in Sunday League 4D, withdraws from the regular non-league divisions for the second time in five years.
- 2023 / Champions in District West I’s Saturday League 3B, 7 points ahead of closest followers IJVV Stormvogels, SV Olympia Haarlem wins promotion to Saturday League 2 for the first time – 58 (!) years after RKSV TYBB had last featured at that level in the Sunday pyramid. The successful coach is Barry Tjeertes.
- 2024 / Finishing in third place in Saturday League 2A, SV Olympia Haarlem qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club draws a bye in R1, going on to knock out SV De Meer in R2 (2-1), only to be eliminated in R3 by SV Hoofddorp (2-1).
- 2025 / Finishing in third place in Saturday League 2A for the second year in succession, SV Olympia Haarlem qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club draws a bye in R1, going on to knock out FC De Bilt in R2 (3-6) and IJVV Stormvogels in the final (3-1). As such, SV Olympia Haarlem achieves a historic promotion to Combined Sunday & Saturday League 1. The successful coach is Barry Tjeertes.
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