Extreme Football Tourism: NETHERLANDS: RKVV Sibbe (1961-1971) / RKSV Sibbe (1971-)

Sportpark De Kleine Linde, Sibbe (RKSV Sibbe)

Netherlands, province: Limburg

17 V 2026 / SV Sibbe - RKVV Geertruidse Boys III 1-2 / District South II, Reserves' League 6-04

Timeline

1920 / Foundation of a first football club in Sibbe, a hamlet near Valkenburg in the far south of the Netherlands’ Province of Limburg; the new club takes on the name (RKVV?) Wilhelmina, but changes its name to (RKVV?) Sibbe that same year – probably upon joining the so-called Roomsch-Katholieke Limburgsche Voetbalbond (RKLVB), the Limburg sub-branch of the Netherlands’ Roman Catholic Football Federation (RKF). It is unclear where the pitch of this first club in Sibbe was situated.
1922 / (RKVV?) Sibbe folds after being expelled from the RKLVB due to debts owed to the federation. That same year, a successor club sees the daylight, (RKVV?) Zwart-Wit, which is allowed to join the RKLVB.
1923 / (RKVV?) Zwart-Wit is expelled from the RKLVB after one year.
1926 / Three years after the demise of Zwart-Wit, a new club is formed with members from Sibbe as well as the neighbouring hamlet of IJzeren; therefore, this club is given the name SIJ, i.e. Sibbe-IJzeren – probably officially RKVV SIJ. SIJ’s pitch is situated at Daelhemerweg, at the back of the Sibberhoes / Villartshof castle.
1927 / One year after its foundation, (RKVV?) SIJ joins the RKLVB.
1938 / After eleven years as a member club, (RKVV?) SIJ is barred from the RKLVB – officially due to being indebted to the federation, but in fact after several players and supporters beat up a referee in an away match against RKSV Kimbria Reserves in Maastricht. That same year, a successor club sees the daylight, Rooms-Katholieke Voetbalvereniging Sibbe, abbreviated as RKVVS. With Albert Rouwet taking on the role of chairman, the new club joins the RKLVB, with a new pitch being laid out at Daelhemerweg – opposite of the pitch previously used by SIJ.
1939 / RKVVS officially changes – or rather adapts – its name to become RKVV Sibbe.
1940 / Having spent the first two years of its existence in the RKF / RKLVB, RKVV Sibbe is now constrained to make the step to the official Netherlands’ FA (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. The club is placed in Division 2 of Afdeling Limburg, i.e. the sub-branch organising football in Limburg below the level of District South (II)’s (Sunday) League 4.
1944 / Suffering relegation from Afdeling Limburg Division 2, RKVV Sibbe descends into Division 3 of the said league system.
1947 / Clinching the title in Afdeling Limburg Division 2, RKVV Sibbe manages a return to Division 1 of the said league system – with the club thus having won a further promotion (or having been put forward one series) in 1945 or 1946.
1959 / Moving away from its ground at Daelhemerweg (Daalhemerweg), RKVV Sibbe settles on a newly laid-out pitch at Kleine Linde – on the site occupied nowadays by the Weusten farmstead (Kleine Linde 8).
1960 / Having suffered relegation into Afdeling Limburg Division 2 sometime in the course of the 1950s, RKVV Sibbe now clinches the Division 2 title, which heralds the club’s return in Division 1.
1961 / RKVV Sibbe moves away from its initial pitch at Kleine Linde, settling on the current location, only a stone’s throw westward from the original pitch.
1966 / Former RKVV Sibbe youth player Josef ‘Sef’ Geurten, who moved to the youth academy of MVV in 1964, wins the first of five caps for the Netherlands’ U19 team. After five years with MVV, Geurten would go on to wear the colours of vv DOS, FC Utrecht, AS Angoulême, AS Béziers, and SC Toulon.
1967 / RKVV Sibbe is retrograded from Afdeling Limburg Division 1 into Division 2.
1968 / Clinching the title in Afdeling Limburg Division 2, RKVV Sibbe manages an immediate return to Division 1 of the said league system.
1970 / RKVV Sibbe wins promotion from Afdeling Limburg Division 1 to District South II’s Sunday League 4 for the first time.
1971 / A handball branch for women is founded under the aegis of RKVV Sibbe, which is the moment when the football club changed its name to become RKSV (Rooms-Katholieke Sportvereniging) Sibbe - although universally referred to as SV Sibbe.
1972 / Having managed a tenth place in District South II’s Sunday League 4B the previous season, SV Sibbe now finishes bottom of the table in that same division, thus descending back into the ranks of Afdeling Limburg after two years.
1973 / Suffering back-to-back relegations, SV Sibbe drops out of Afdeling Limburg Division 1, thus finding itself in Division 2 of the said league system now.
1976 / SV Sibbe wins promotion from Afdeling Limburg Division 2 to Division 1.
1977 / After one season only, SV Sibbe drops back into Afdeling Limburg Division 2.
± 1978 / In 1978 or 1979, SV Sibbe acquires the luxury of a second pitch at Sportpark De Kleine Linde.
1982 / After building works which got underway in 1981, the clubhouse at SV Sibbe’s ground is inaugurated – replacing the very basic facilities, including dressing rooms erected in wood, which had been in place until that time.
1996 / As Afdeling Limburg and all other KNVB sub-branches are abolished, SV Sibbe is placed in District South II’s Sunday League 6.
1999 / Clinching the title in District South II’s Sunday League 6 (A?), SV Sibbe wins promotion to Sunday League 5. The successful coach is Bert Kessen.
2001 / Finishing in ninth place in District South II’s Sunday League 5A, SV Sibbe drops back into Sunday League 6 after two years, alongside RKVV Geertruidse Boys, vv Banholtia, and bottom club SC Biesland.
2015 / Finishing as runner-up in District South II’s Sunday League 6A, 9 points behind champions SVE, SV Sibbe is placed in Sunday League 5 in the following season – not via promotion play-offs, but because of the abolition of Sunday League 6 in District South II.
2018 / Coached by Willy Quaedvlieg, SV Sibbe finishes bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 5A. Following the 2017-18 season, the club withdraws from regular league football, sticking to playing at a recreational level.