Extreme Football Tourism: NETHERLANDS: vv Noordwijk (2012-)

Sportpark Duinwetering II, Noordwijk (vv Noordwijk)

Netherlands, province: South Holland = Zuid-Holland

17 I 2026 / vv Noordwijk - SV Blauw Geel '38 4-0 / Derde Divisie B (= NL level 4)

Timeline

1933 / Foundation of a football club in Noordwijk, which takes on the name vv Noordwijk. Not having the luxury of its own accommodation as yet, the new club concludes a groundsharing agreement with the Sunday club in the village, RKVV SJC, which means it can use that club’s pitches at Lageweg on Saturdays.
1936 / Rescinding its groundsharing agreement with RKVV SJC, vv Noordwijk settles on a newly laid-out pitch at Achterweg, a plot of farmland which the club rents from the Count of Limburg-Stirum.
1945 / As Terrein Achterweg has been left abandoned in the course of the war, vv Noordwijk resumes its activities as a competitive club once again as groundsharers with RKVV SJC at Terrein Lageweg – not the same park as the pre-war SJC ground which had been demolished by German occupation forces, but two newly laid-out pitches elsewhere on that same road.
1946 / Moving away from Terrein Lageweg after one season, vv Noordwijk settles at the newly laid-out Terrein Duinweg – formerly a plot of farmland. As the sole pitch of the new park is insufficient to allow all other senior and youth teams to play their matches, vv Noordwijk additionally rents a pitch from KRV, a club in nearby Katwijk aan den Rijn.
1950 / Moving away from Terrein Duinweg after four years, vv Noordwijk moves to a newly laid-out pitch at Van Panhuysstraat, of which the entrance was later moved to the southern side, at Duinwetering – as a result of which the park was later renamed Sportpark Duinwetering.
2012 / In view of the prospective renovation of Sportpark Duinwetering as a whole, the main pitch of the park is given a quarter’s turn and laid out anew with a synthetic surface. The three old stands at the western touchline as well as the terracing opposite of it are removed completely. After playing the first two of its home matches on one of the side-pitches of the park, vv Noordwijk plays its first official match on the new main pitch, resulting in a 4-2 win over SV Spakenburg. Prior to this, the new 3G had been inaugurated by Noordwijk’s mayor, Mr Jan Pieter Lokker. As the works on the new clubhouse and main stand have yet to get underway, a truck trailer is put in place as a temporary covered stand.
2014 / Finishing in thirteenth place in Zaterdag Topklasse with coach Robbert de Ruiter, vv Noordwijk is knocked out in R1 of the promotion-relegation play-offs against AFC Ajax AV (8-7 aggr.). As a result, the club suffers its first relegation in sixty (!) years, dropping back into Zaterdag Hoofdklasse. Also in 2014, works get underway on the construction of a new clubhouse and main stand for vv Noordwijk at the northern touchline of the new main pitch. Works are carried out by contractor VBK Groep under the aegis of the Van Egmond architectural firm and the municipal authorities of Noordwijk.
2015 / vv Noordwijk signs Dogan Corneille as its new head coach. Corneille, a former professional league midfielder of VVV, SC Eindhoven, and SBV Eindhoven (1994-2001), stays on for three years at Sportpark Duinwetering. That same year, on August 29th, 2015, the renovated Sportpark Duinwetering (II), which includes two new sports halls, two canteens, and a covered stand, is officially inaugurated by Noordwijk’s mayor, Mr Jan Rijpstra.
2016 / Runners-up in Zaterdag Hoofdklasse B, 2 points behind champions KVV Quick Boys, vv Noordwijk qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club has to leave the honours to vv ASWH (5-3 aggr. A.E.T.). As a result, the club misses out on promotion to the newly created Saturday Division 3 – with Zaterdag Topklasse being renamed Saturday Division 2 – and, as such, the club now finds itself at the third tier of non-league football, and the fifth tier of the Netherlands’ football pyramid as a whole. In a bizarre moment during the season, former AFC Ajax and Netherlands’ international goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar makes a return to the vv Noordwijk goal in March 2016 at the age of 45 – and five years after having hung up his boots at Manchester United FC – 27 years after last having played for the club; Van der Sar had been called upon due to all other available goalkeepers being injured. In the home match against CVV De Jodan Boys, Van der Sar stops a penalty, with the match ending in 1-1. As if the season was not eventful enough as it was, vv Noordwijk also wins District West II’s Regional Cup by defeating HV&CV Quick in the final (1-0, goal by Emiel Wendt), played at Sportpark Kikkershoek in Oud-Beijerland. Subsequently, the club also reaches the final of the nationwide non-league cup competition following subsequent wins over vv HHC Hardenberg and Magreb ’90, but vv Noordwijk suffers defeat in the final at Sportpark Het Noorderslag against home side vv Staphorst (6-3 A.E.T.).
2017 / Finishing in third place in Zaterdag Hoofdklasse A, 3 points behind vv Spijkenisse and vv Ter Leede, vv Noordwijk qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is eliminated in the semis by vv DOVO (6-3 aggr. A.E.T.). On the upside, vv Noordwijk wins its second consecutive Regional Cup in District West II following a win over vv DHC in the final, played at Sportpark Zegersloot in Alphen aan den Rijn (2-1, goals by Tom Duindam & Samuel Tas).
2018 / Champions in Zaterdag Hoofdklasse A, 7 points ahead of closest followers vv Ter Leede, vv Noordwijk wins promotion to Saturday Division 3. The successful coach is Kees Zethof.
2019 / Winning back-to-back titles, vv Noordwijk clinches first place in Saturday Division 3, 8 points ahead of closest rivals KVV Quick Boys. As such, the club wins promotion to Saturday Division 3, heralding a return to the top level of the Saturday pyramid after an absence of five years. The successful coach is Kees Zethof.
2020 / vv Noordwijk signs former Jong Sparta Rotterdam and Sparta Rotterdam striker Youssef El Kachati. El Kachati would remain in Noordwijk for one season only, as he resumes his professional league career at KVC Westerlo in the summer of 2021, going on to have spells at KVV Quick Boys, SC Telstar, and NEC.
2025 / Coached by Kees Zethof, who had replaced Florian Wolf in the course of the season, vv Noordwijk finishes in fifteenth place in Combined Sunday & Saturday Division 2. Having to save its skin in the promotion-relegation play-offs, vv Noordwijk knocks out SV Blauw Geel ’38 (5-3 aggr.) and vv Harkemase Boys (5-3 aggr.) in the first two rounds, only to suffer defeat in the final against SV Kozakken Boys (4-1 aggr.). As such, the club descends into Division 3 along with bottom clubs SVV Scheveningen and vv ADO ’20.