Netherlands, province: North Holland = Noord-Holland
8 III 2026 / RKSV DCG - RKSV Avesteyn 2-2 / Sunday League 2B (= NL level 7)
Timeline
- 1920 / A Roman Catholic football club sees the daylight in the Spaarndammerbuurt in Amsterdam, RKWSV DOSS (Roomsch-Katholieke Westelijke Sportvereeniging ‘Door Oefening Steeds Sterker’). DOSS joins the Roman-Catholic football association RKAVB (Roomsch-Katholieke Amsterdamsche Voetbalbond), being placed in Division 2 of the nationwide Catholic league IVCB (Interdiocesane Voetbalcompetitiebond). The new club’s first ground is laid out on a plot of land owned by a local smallholder, Mr Ruiter, at Hemweg in the so-called Amsterdamsche Polder.
- 1921 / Foundation of a new Roman Catholic club in Amsterdam; this club, which takes on the name RKSV (Roomsch-Katholieke Sportvereeniging) Constantius, joins the DHVB (Diocesaan Haarlemsche Voetbalbond), into which the RKAVB had been absorbed – being place in DHVB’s bottom tier, Division 4. In its first season, Constantius plays its football on a makeshift pitch in Watergraafsmeer,
- 1922 / Champions in DHVB Division 4, RKSV Constantius wins promotion to D3 of the said league system. Moreover, the club also concludes a groundsharing agreement with VIC at Kalfjeslaan. Some time later in the 1920s, Constantius acquires its own pitch at Kalfjeslaan, Terrein Boer Groot.
- 1923 / Winning back-to-back titles, RKSV Constantius now accedes to DHVB Division 2 – going on to win a further promotion to Division 1 in one of the following years.
- 1929 / Finishing in joint last place in IVCB Division 2 with city rivals Forward, RKWSV DOSS goes on to suffer defeat in a play-off against this club (4-3 A.E.T.) – going on to fail to save its skin in the relegation play-offs against GVO and Santpoort. However, due to the venue of the match against Forward, a pitch in Purmerend, turning out not to have had the correct dimensions, the decision is nullified – with DOSS being allowed to retake its place in IVCB D2 in February of the following year (!). Also in 1929, a new Roman Catholic football club sees the daylight in Amsterdam, RKVV (Roomsch-Katholieke Voetbalvereeniging) Gezellen Vier, which joins the DHVB league association, being placed in Division 4 – but going on to win two promotions in the first three years of its history. This club’s first ground is the so-called Katholiek Sportpark in Amsterdam-Watergraafsmeer.
- 1931 / RKWSV DOSS moves away from its ground at Hemweg to a newly laid out pitch at Uitweg.
- 1933 / Moving away from the Katholiek Sportpark after four years, RKVV Gezellen Vier moves to a newly laid-out pitch at Middenweg.
- 1934 / Following a win in a tie-break match for the title against ZPC, played at the ground of RKWSV DOSS, Terrein Uitweg, RKSV Constantius wins promotion from DHVB Division 1 to IVCB Division 2. Meanwhile, winning the third promotion in the club’s five-year-old history, RKVV Gezellen Vier accedes to DHVB Division 1.
- 1936 / Abandoning its old ground at Uitweg, RKWSV DOSS settles at the newly laid out Gemeentelijk Sportcomplex Velserweg, a huge municipal sports complex comprising forty football pitches – and accommodating dozens of clubs.
- 1937 / Moving away from Terrein Boer Groot at Kalfjeslaan, RKSV Constantius settles at Gemeentelijk Sportcomplex Velserweg.
- 1938 / Following the example of so many other clubs, RKVV Gezellen Vier moves to Gemeentelijk Sportcomplex Velserweg, where the club acquires its own main pitch, with the club concluding an agreement with RKSV Constantius, stipulating that the pitches required for the two clubs’ youth academies are rented in conjunction.
- 1940 / With RKWSV DOSS, RKSV Constantius, and RKVV Gezellen Vier all having spent their entire existence in the Roman Catholic Football Federation (IVCB / RKF) or its sub-branch DHVB, the three clubs are now constrained to make the step to the official Netherlands’ FA (KNVB, renamed NVB following the German oppression of the Netherlands, abandoning the royal epithet ‘koninklijk’ for obvious reasons) as all other football associations are abolished by German occupation authorities. For the 1940-41 season, DOSS and Constantius are placed in District West I’s Sunday League 4, while RKVV Gezellen Vier takes its place in Afdeling Amsterdam Sunday Division 1.
- 1941 / In spite of finishing rock bottom in District West I’s Sunday League 4E, with only 1 point obtained in the entire season, RKSV Constantius manages to stave off relegation in a subsequent play-off round. Also in 1941, the presidencies of RKWSV DOSS and RKSV Constantius conclude a merging agreement, but as DOSS’ membership votes down the proposal, further merger talks are stalled.
- 1943 / RKWSV DOSS finishes as runner-up in District West I’s Sunday League 4H, 5 points behind champions IVV. On the other hand, RKSV Constantius does not remotely do as well, finishing bottom of the table in Sunday League 4G and descending into Afdeling Amsterdam. Meanwhile, with the hardships of the German occupation of the Netherlands being felt ever more acutely, Gemeentelijk Sportcomplex Velserweg has to be vacated at the behest of German occupation authorities. The German oppressors plough up the entire Velserweg area, with most of the constructions situated on the sports fields – including, notably, the clubhouse of RKSV Constantius – being demolished.
- 1944 / New merger talks get underway between four Roman Catholic clubs: RKWSV DOSS, RKASV Wilskracht, RKVV Gezellen Vier, and RKSV Constantius. With no agreement being reached by the end of 1944, RKASV Wilskracht withdraws from the project due to the three other clubs refusing to grant Wilskracht’s demand to see its name retained in the name of the prospective merger club.
- 1945 / On September 11th, 1945, just in time for the start of the first post-war season, a merger agreement is concluded between RKWSV DOSS, RKSV Constantius, and RKVV Gezellen Vier, resulting in the foundation of RKSV DCG (Rooms-Katholieke Sportvereniging ‘Door Combinatie Groot’); note that the first letters of the three clubs were thus preserved in the acronym ‘DCG’. Beside engaging in football, the club also had branches for chess and checkers, with further sports being added to the set-up later on in the 1940s and 1950s; handball, softball, and baseball – but, ultimately, all activities other than football would either break away from the mother club or be stopped altogether. Returning to 1945, the new club’s first football team takes the place of RKWSV DOSS in District West I’s Sunday League 4. Due to the area having been devastated by Allied bombers in the previous two years, RKSV DCG cannot take its place at Gemeentelijk Sportcomplex Velserweg, which has to be rebuilt from scratch. In the 1945-46 season, RKSV DCG’s first team temporarily moves into a groundshare with AFC DWS at Spaarndammerdijk; the new club’s youth academy finds its place at the grounds of VIC (Kalfjeslaan), AVV BDK, and RKVVA.
- 1946 / RKSV DCG finishes in joint second place in District West I’s Sunday League 4G with SCA, 7 points behind champions RKSV Oranje Zwart.
- 1947 / Runaway champions in District West I’s Sunday League 4H, 10 points ahead of closest followers ODIZ, RKSV DCG goes on to have a successful round of championship play-offs, crowned with a 3-0 win over ASV JOS, resulting in the club gaining promotion to Sunday League 3 for the first time. Following the 1946-47 season, having had to subdivide its activities on the grounds of several other Amsterdam clubs in the two preceding years, RKSV DCG can finally return to Gemeentelijk Sportcomplex Velserweg in August 1947.
- 1955 / Champions in District West I’s Sunday League 3C, 6 points ahead of closest rivals HV&AV Donar, RKSV DCG wins promotion to Sunday League 2 for the first time – without having to go through the motions of a round of championship play-offs, with extra promotion places being available due to the introduction of professional league football, which draws away a considerable number of teams in Sunday Leagues 1 and 2.
- 1957 / Champions in District West I’s Sunday League 2B, 8 points ahead of closest followers vv Watergraafsmeer, RKSV DCG qualifies for the championship play-offs, in which the club takes on vv DCV, HSV VUC, and OSV for two spots in Sunday League 1. In the end, OSV wins the play-offs, with RKSV DCG and HSV VUC having to play a tie-break match for the second promotion place. In a match played at Sportterrein aan de Koningsweg, the ground of UA&VV Velox in Utrecht, DCG manages to defeat the opposition from The Hague (2-1, two goals by Drost), thus gaining promotion to Sunday League 1 – the top tier in non-league football at the time.
- 1958 / RKSV DCG finishes as runner-up in Sunday League 1A, 7 points behind champions UA&VV Velox – with the club from Utrecht going on to win the nationwide non-league title and making use of the possibility to follow this up with promotion to the professional divisions.
- 1959 / A covered stand is inaugurated on the touchline of the main pitch of RKSV DCG at Gemeentelijk Sportcomplex Velserweg, with the ensuing match resulting in a clear-cut 5-0 win over HVV Laakkwartier.
- 1961 / RKSV DCG finishes as runner-up in Sunday League 1A, 1 point behind champions Koninklijke HFC. Also in 1961, works get underway on a new sports facility in Amsterdam-Osdorp, Sportpark Ookmeer. On this new location, with more than thirty pitches having been projected for a host of football clubs, one of the pitches – pitch/veld 18 – becomes the main pitch of AVV ZSGO, a club which moved to the new park in the summer of 1961, abandoning Gemeentelijk Sportcomplex Velserweg.
- 1962 / Finishing in joint last place in Sunday League 1A with AVV OVVO, RKSV DCG goes on to defeat its city rivals in a tie-break match, played at HFC Haarlem’s Haarlemstadion / Jan Gijzenkade (2-0), thus staving off relegation.
- 1963 / Two years after AVV ZSGO, RKSV DCG also makes the leap from Gemeentelijk Sportcomplex Velserweg, which has to make way for an extension of the seaport of Amsterdam, to Sportpark Ookmeer. From this time on, AVV ZSGO shares its main pitch – pitch/veld 18 – with DCG, with DCG’s lower team football and training sessions taking place on the four southernmost pitches of the new park. A temporary wooden clubhouse is erected.
- 1964 / A small Saturday club, vv DEVO ’58 is allowed to move to Sportpark Ookmeer as well, where it becomes a groundsharer with RKSV DCG – however, not occupying one of that club’s principal pitches, but playing its football on the two pitches at the far southwestern end of the ground. In the following years, a former site hut is erected alongside these two pitches to serve as a makeshift clubhouse.
- 1965 / The first stone is laid for RKSV DCG’s new clubhouse, situated in the southeastern corner of DCG’s part of Sportpark Ookmeer, by the club’s honorary president A.B.J. de Ruyter on August 8th, 1965.
- 1966 / RKSV DCG finishes as runner-up in Sunday League 1A, 3 points behind champions ASV JOS. On May 21st, 1966, DCG’s new clubhouse, for which the foundation stone had been laid in the preceding year, is officially inaugurated.
- 1967 / RKSV DCG finishes as runner-up in Sunday League 1A, 1 point behind champions AFC.
- 1968 / In the most successful season in club history, RKSV DCG, coached by Harry Pelser, wins the title in Sunday League 1A, 2 points ahead of closest rivals ASC SDW. As such, the club qualifies for the nationwide non-league title championship with the winners of the other five Sunday League 1 divisions, UVS, vv Emmen, MV&AV Middelburg, RKVV Almania, and vv Rheden. In the last of its ten matches, the home tie against UVS, DCG has to obtain 1 point to obtain the title, but the encounter at Sportpark Ookmeer veld 18, attended by 7,500 spectators, finishes in a 2-3 win for the club from Leyden. As a result, DCG and UVS have to meet again in a tie-break match for the title at RCH’s Heemsteeds Sportpark, attended by a staggering 22,000 spectators; in that last encounter, DCG manages a 2-1 win, with striker Freddie Mulder scoring both goals for the club from Amsterdam. Following the historic 1967-68 season, RKSV DCG abandons pitch 18 of Sportpark Ookmeer, which it had shared as its main pitch with AVV ZSGO since 1963; DCG withdraws to a new main pitch at the southern end of Sportpark Ookmeer, where a new Elascon stand is inaugurated for the start of the 1968-69 season, although the club continues to make use of pitch/veld 18 occasionally for lower team football.
- 1969 / RKSV DCG finishes as runner-up in Sunday League 1A, 4 points behind champions AFC.
- 1970 / RKSV DCG finishes as runner-up in Sunday League 1A for the second year running, 4 points behind champions vv Uithoorn.
- 1971 / RKSV DCG finishes as runner-up in Sunday League 1A for the third year running, 6 points behind champions ASC SDW.
- 1972 / The Saturday team of RKSV DCG, which had spent its hitherto existence in Afdeling Amsterdam, wins promotion to Saturday League 4 for the first time – but would go on to drop back immediately in 1973.
- 1974 / Finishing in ninth place in Sunday League 1A, RKSV DCG misses out on promotion to the newly created top tier of the Sunday pyramid, Zondag Hoofdklasse. As such, the club ceases to play on the highest level of the non-league pyramid after seventeen years.
- 1977 / DCG’s goalkeeper, 21-year-old Ad Raven, earns himself a professional league contract at FC Amsterdam; Raven goes on to wear the colours of PEC Zwolle ’82, PEC Zwolle, SC Heerenveen, and Telstar – interrupted by two spells in non-league at RCH and SV Marken, ultimately joining the last mentioned club again from Telstar in 1991.
- 1985 / RKSV DCG stops making use of pitch 18 of Sportpark Ookmeer for lower team football, with this pitch being taken over by vv DEVO ’58, groundsharers at RKSV DCG for the past 21 years. That same year, AVV ZSGO moves all its activities away from pitch 18 as well, with pitch 14 of Sportpark Ookmeer being used as main pitch from this time onwards.
- 1990 / Having featured in League 1 for the past 33 (!) years, RKSV DCG now finishes in ninth place in Sunday League 1A with coach Hans Bergsma, going on to suffer defeat in a tie-break match against NFC (3-0), played at Sportpark aan de Dreef in Aalsmeer (att. 1,500); as a result, the club descends into Sunday League 2 along with AFC DWS and bottom club ASC SDW.
- 1992 / RKSV DCG wins District West I’s Regional Cup (Districtsbeker), defeating ASV DWV in the final, played at Sportpark Ookmeer veld 33 (2-0, goals by Saboyo & Wim Jansen). In spite of only finishing in fifth place (with six teams taking part) in the nationwide non-league cup competition, the club qualifies for the Netherlands’ Cup competition (KNVB-Beker) due to the bankruptcy of two professional league teams, FC Wageningen and VCV Zeeland. Knocking out SV Panningen in R1 (1-0), DCG sensationally manages to defeat professional leaguers NEC in R2 at Sportpark Ookmeer (1-0, goal by Ksikas). Drawing a home tie against FC Zwolle in R3, DCG bows out honourably following a 1-2 defeat (att. 2,100).
- 1993 / RKSV DCG finishes as runner-up in District West I’s Sunday League 2B, 1 point behind champions SV Argon.
- 1994 / Champions in District West I’s Sunday League 2A, 1 point ahead of closest rivals AVV Zeeburgia, RKSV DCG manages a return to Sunday League 1 after an absence of four seasons. The successful coach is Ton Ojers.
- 1995 / Finishing in third place in Sunday League 1A, RKSV DCG goes on to have a successful round of promotion play-offs, seeing off HRC in the semis and vv Nieuwenhoorn (3-2) in the final. As a result, the club wins promotion to Zondag Hoofdklasse, the top tier of the non-league pyramid, for the first time – going on to manage a respectable sixth place in Zondag Hoofdklasse A in the 1995-96 season, all under the leadership of coach Ton Ojers. Also in 1995, former DCG youth academy winger Dave van den Bergh makes his professional league debut at AFC Ajax at the age of nineteen. Van den Bergh goes on to have subsequent spells at Rayo Vallecano, FC Utrecht, Kansas City Wizards, New York Red Bulls, and FC Dallas, hanging up his boots in 2009; moreover, Van den Bergh also won two caps for the Netherlands under coach Marco van Basten (2004-05).
- 1997 / Finishing in third-last place in Zondag Hoofdklasse A, RKSV DCG drops back into Sunday League 1 after two years, along with OSV and bottom club vv Papendrecht. Coach Ton Ojers temporarily leaves the club, signing a deal with RFC Xerxes in Rotterdam, but he would return to DCG in 1998.
- 2001 / The Saturday team of RKSV DCG, which had led a languishing existence in the shadow of the Sunday team for the past three decades, finishes in joint first place in District West II’s Saturday League 3B with FC Türkiyemspor (za), going on to win a tie-break match and thus gaining promotion to Saturday League 2. The successful coach is René de Haan.
- 2002 / Coached by Ton Ojers, RKSV DCG finishes bottom of the table in Sunday League 1A, thus suffering relegation to Sunday League 2, along with the club in second-last place, IJVV Stormvogels.
- 2003 / RKSV DCG finishes as runner-up in Sunday League 2A, 1 point behind champions JOS Watergraafsmeer. Meanwhile, the club’s Saturday team wins the title in Saturday League 2A, 8 points ahead of closest followers WV-HEDW (za), thus gaining promotion to Saturday League 1. The successful coach is René de Haan.
- 2004 / Champions in Sunday League 2A, 2 points ahead of runner-up SO Soest, RKSV DCG manages a return to Sunday League 1 after two years. The successful coach is Rowdy Bakker.
- 2005 / After four years of works, DCG’s renovated clubhouse at Sportpark Ookmeer is re-inaugurated by Piet Janssen, alderman for sports affairs of Amsterdam’s sub-municipality of Osdorp.
- 2006 / Having held out in Saturday League 1 for three seasons, the Saturday team of RKSV DCG, coached by Lesley Hellings, now finishes bottom of the table in Saturday League 1A, descending into Saturday League 2 along with the club in second-last place, SV Marken. Following two more relegations in 2007 and 2008, the Saturday team would be wound up – making an ephemeral return in the lowest Saturday divisions in 2012-14 & 2015-18.
- 2007 / Coached by Herman Wijnands, RKSV DCG finishes bottom of the table in Sunday League 1A, thus descending into Sunday League 2 alongside the club in second-last place, VPV Purmersteijn. Also in 2007, former DCG youth academy defender Gregory van der Wiel makes his professional league debut with AFC Ajax at the age of nineteen. Van der Wiel would go on to have subsequent spells at Paris Saint-Germain, Fenerbahçe SK, Cagliari Calcio, and Toronto FC, hanging up his boots in 2019; moreover, Van der Wiel also won 46 caps for the Netherlands, representing his country in the 2010 World Cup (runner-up) and the 2012 European Championships.
- 2010 / Finishing bottom of the table in Sunday League 2B, RKSV DCG is somehow spared direct relegation, instead being given an opportunity to save its skin in the promotion-relegation play-offs; drawing a bye in R1, the club edges past FC De Bilt in R2 (2-2 aggr. & penalty shoot-out), eventually seeing off HSV Wasmeer in the final (3-1) – thus retaining its place in League 2.
- 2011 / Coached by Ron Niekerk, who replaced Ton Ojers in the course of the season, RKSV DCG finishes in second-last place in Sunday League 2B, thus dropping back into Sunday League 3 along with FC De Bilt, vv Sporting Martinus, and bottom club SV Kampong. It marks the return to Sunday League 3 after an absence of 56 years at this lowly level – meanwhile the fifth level of the non-league pyramid following the introduction of the Zondag Topklasse as a new level above Zondag Hoofdklasse in 2010. Also in 2011, former DCG youth academy striker Arsenio Valpoort makes his professional league debut at SC Heerenveen at the age of nineteen, going on to have an adventurous career with spells at PEC Zwolle, Ferencvárosi TC, RKC Waalwijk, Beitar Jerusalem FC, Almere City FC, Busan IPark, KSV Roeselare, SBV Excelsior, FC Dordrecht, Ermis Aradippou FC, KS Teuta, KS Egnatia, Persebaya Surabaya, and FK Hebar, withdrawing into non-league with SV TEC in 2022.
- 2012 / Former DCG youth academy winger Quincy Promes, who had joined the academy of AFC Ajax as a ten-year-old in 2002, makes his professional league debut at FC Twente; Promes goes on to have subsequent spells at Go Ahead Eagles, FK Spartak Moskva, Sevilla FC, AFC Ajax, and United FC (UAE) – until being imprisoned in 2025 following several breaks of the law. Promes also won 50 caps for the Netherlands (2014-21), being part of his country’s squad in the 2020 (2021) European Championships.
- 2013 / Runner-up in District West I’s Sunday League 3C, 16 points behind runaway champions RKVV Velsen, RKSV DCG qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by SV Nieuw Utrecht (5-3 aggr.).
- 2014 / Runaway champions in District West I’s Sunday League 3C, 13 points ahead of closest followers SV DSOV, RKSV DCG manages a return to Sunday League 2 after three years. The successful coach is John Limon. Also in 2014, former DCG youth academy winger Elton Acolatse makes his professional league debut with Jong AFC Ajax at the age of nineteen; Acolatse goes on to have subsequent spells at KVC Westerlo, Club Brugge KV, K Sint-Truidense VV, Hapoel Beersheva FC, Bursasport Kulübü, MS Ashdod, Diósgyőri VTK, and Ferencvárosi TC.
- 2015 / Runner-up in Sunday League 2B, 4 points behind champions AVV Zeeburgia, RKSV DCG qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out SV Nieuw Utrecht in R1 (5-2 aggr.), only to be eliminated in the final by AFC Quick 1890 (3-2 aggr.). Also in 2015, former DCG youth academy midfielder Abdelhak Nouri makes his professional league debut at Jong AFC Ajax at the age of eighteen, going on to earn a spot in the club’s first team – until being disabled by a heart-attack in the summer of 2017, effectively ending his career.
- 2017 / Finishing in eleventh place in Sunday League 2B, RKSV DCG has to save its skin in the promotion-relegation play-offs, going on to do so following successive wins over vv Sporting Martinus (4-3 aggr.) and VVZA (5-3 aggr. A.E.T.).
- 2018 / Coached by Danny van der Moot, RKSV DCG finishes in third-last place in Sunday League 2B, going on to suffer defeat in R1 of the promotion-relegation play-offs against vv Schoten (1-2); as such, the club drops back into Sunday League 3 after four years, alongside bottom finishers PVC.
- 2019 / Runner-up in District West I’s Sunday League 3C, 4 points behind champions RKSV HBC, RKSV DCG qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club eases past VVZA in R1 (6-1), going on to edge past IVV in the final (1-1 & penalty shoot-out). As such, the club manages an immediate return to Sunday League 2. The successful coach is Senel Cebar.
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