Netherlands, province: Guelders = Gelderland
January 2026 / no match visited
Timeline
- 1925 / Foundation of no fewer than three football clubs in Gaanderen; first, there is vv Gaanderen, a non-confessional club, which joins the so-called Geldersche Voetbalbond (GVB), the Guelders sub-branch of the official Netherlands’ Football Association (NVB, later KNVB). Furthermore, two Roman Catholic clubs see the daylight, GVV (Gaandersche Voetbalvereeniging) and GVC (Gaandersche Voetbalclub), with the later taking on the name Eendracht later on – probably already in 1925 or 1926. Both of these clubs join the RKUVB (Roomsch-Katholieke Utrechtsche Voetbalbond), one of the sub-branches of the Roman Catholic Football Federation (RKF).
- 1929 / Whereas GVV and Eendracht conclude a merger to form one Roman Catholic club, RKSV VVG, vv Gaanderen ceases its activities, renouncing its membership of the GVB after four years. Some members of vv Gaanderen join RKSV VVG in the following years.
- 1933 / As RKSV VVG wins a title in the Roman Catholic Federation, this club runs into problems due to one or two of its players turning out not to be members of the village’s Roman Catholic parish. This even leads to the title being withdrawn from the club. Thereupon, all non-Catholics are thrown out, which leads to the foundation of a new non-confessional club in Gaanderen. Initially named vv Gaanderen, just like its predecessor which had wound up in 1929, the club takes on the new name vv Gaandersche Boys in September 1933. Joining the GVB, vv Gaandersche Boys settles at Terrein Vlakweg, situated at the back of Café Mijnen.
- 1934 / vv Gaandersche Boys takes part in a GVB league championship for the first time.
- 1940 / Upon the outbreak of World War II and the occupation of the Netherlands, vv Gaandersche Boys is wound up, ceasing all activities.
- 1945 / Five years after the demise of vv Gaandersche Boys, the club is reformed under the slightly adapted name vv Gaanderense Boys. vv Gaanderense Boys settles on the old pitch at Vlakweg, with the club rejoining the KNVB – or rather, its Guelders sub-branch GVB.
- 1973-74 / In 1973 or 1974, simultaneously with village rivals VVG ’25, vv Gaanderense Boys settles at the newly laid-out Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Pol, with the club being given the luxury of two pitches at the western end of the new park; VVG ’25 settles at the eastern side.
- 1996 / Having spent fifty consecutive seasons in the ranks of the GVB, vv Gaanderense Boys is now placed in District East’s Sunday League 6F, the new bottom division in District East, following the abolition of the GVB and all other KNVB sub-branches.
- 2000 / In the best season the club had during the last ten years of its existence, vv Gaanderense Boys finishes in third place in District East’s Sunday League 6F, 16 points behind champions vv H en K.
- 2004 / In its last season, vv Gaanderense Boys, coached by Bart Beurskens, finishes bottom of the table in District East’s Sunday League 6C, with only 7 points (4 points less than the club in second-last place, SV Halle). As the club ceases all its activities, the two pitches at the western end of Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Pol are now added to the park of VVG ’25 as Pitch/Veld 4 and Pitch/Veld 5. The clubhouse of vv Gaanderense Boys is taken over by the local dog training club, Kringgroep Slingeland.
- 2016 / As Sportpark De Pol is thoroughly renovated, with a synthetic pitch being laid out as the new main pitch of VVG ’25 and the old main pitch being taken away, the park consists of just three pitches from now on, with the two old pitches of vv Gaanderense Boys still in use as Pitch/Veld 2 and Pitch/Veld 3.
- 2017 / Inauguration of the newly renovated Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Pol.
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