Thursday, 11 December 2025

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NETHERLANDS: RKDSO

Sportpark 't Wiltlandt, Lomm (RKDSO)

Netherlands, province: Limburg

11 XII 2025 / RKDSO - SV Vitesse '08 0-2 / District South II, Sunday League 5F (= NL level 10)

Timeline
  • 1933 / Foundation of a football club in Lomm, a village not far from Venlo in Limburg. The new club is given the name Lommsche Voetbalclub, abbreviated as LVC. The local headmaster, Mr Linssen, is chosen as the club’s first chairman. Not taking part in any competition as yet, LVC settles on a pitch laid out on the land of a local smallholder, Mr Verbeek, at Vosberg, to the southeast of the village centre.
  • 1934 / One year after its foundation, LVC joins the Roomsch-Katholieke Limburgsche Voetbalbond (RKLVB), the Limburg sub-branch of the Netherlands’ Roman Catholic Football Federation (RKF). For the 1934-35 season, the club is placed in RKLVB Division 3.
  • 1935 / LVC wins automatic promotion to RKLVB Division 2 due to the club entering a reserves’ team in Division 3 of the said league system. Also in 1935, moving away from Terrein Verbeek, LVC settles on a newly laid-out pitch situated slightly further to the east (modern-day Spikweien, Lomm Industrial Estate).
  • 1936 / Clinching the title in RKLVB Division 2 following a 3-3 draw away at RKSV Brughusia, LVC wins promotion to Division 1 of the said league pyramid.
  • 1938 / LVC finishes as runners-up in RLVB Division 1, thereby just missing out on promotion to the nationwide RKF (IVCB) divisions. This performance marks the highlight in the club’s pre-war history.
  • 1940 / Having spent the first years of its existence in the ranks of the RKLVB (RKF), LVC is now constrained to make the step to the official Netherlands’ FA (KNVB, renamed NVB following the German oppression of the Netherlands in May 1940, with the royal epithet ‘koninklijk’ being withdrawn for obvious reasons) as all other football associations cease their activities permanently in the face of German pressure. Doing away with its old name LVC and taking on the new name ‘Lomm’ (vv Lomm or, more probably, RKVV Lomm) to avoid confusion with older (K)NVB member clubs using the same abbreviation, the club from Lomm is now placed in Afdeling Limburg (Sunday) Division 1, the top tier of the Limburg sub-branch of the Netherlands’ FA – one step below District South (II)’s Sunday League 4. 
  • 1945 / vv Lomm or RKVV Lomm changes its name to become RKDSO, i.e. Rooms-Katholieke ‘Door Samenwerken Overwinnen’ (literally translated in English: Victory Through Teamwork).
  • 1947 / RKDSO finishes as runners-up in Afdeling Limburg Division 1. 
  • 1948 / Clinching the title in Afdeling Limburg Division 1, RKDSO goes on to win the promotion play-offs against VCH and RKVV Baarlo, thus acceding to Sunday League 4 for the first time, along with the club from Boekend. The decisive points are clinched in a 4-0 away win in Baarlo.
  • 1951 / Moving away from Terrein Spikweien, RKDSO settles on a newly laid-out pitch, situated next to a local pub, Hotel-Café Pingen, at Rijksstraatweg.
  • 1961 / 18-year-old RKDSO midfielder Theo Appeldoorn is signed by Eredivisie side SC VVV '04 from Venlo. 
  • 1962 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 4G, RKDSO drops back into the ranks of Afdeling Limburg after fourteen years.
  • 1963 / Clinching the title in Afdeling Limburg Division 1, RKDSO manages an immediate return to Sunday League 4.
  • 1964 / After three seasons at SC VVV '04 (18 first-team matches), Theo Appeldoorn withdraws into non-league with at IVO in Velden.
  • 1965 / Moving away from Terrein Pingen after fourteen years, RKDSO settles on a newly laid-out pitch, Terrein ‘t Brook, to the north of the village.
  • 1967 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 4H, RKDSO drops back into Afdeling Limburg Division 1 after four years. Also in 1967, following three years at IVO, Theo Appeldoorn returns to his mother club RKDSO, defending the blue-and-white colours for two more years, eventually hanging up his boots in 1969.
  • 1970 / As Terrein ‘t Brook suffers from a bad playing surface, resulting matches being called off regularly, plans are made to move to a new ground. Works on the projected Sportpark ‘t Wildlandt get underway at Bosbergstraat in 1970.
  • 1973 / After three years of works, Sportpark ‘t Wildlandt at Bosbergstraat is inaugurated on July 29th, 1973. Terrein ‘t Brook is abandoned.
  • 1978 / Clinching the title in Afdeling Limburg Division 1 with coach Sef Siero, RKDSO manages a return to Sunday League 4 after eleven seasons.
  • 1979 / Sportpark ‘t Wildlandt is augmented, as a second pitch is laid out, mainly used for training sessions.
  • 1980 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 4G, RKDSO descends into Afdeling Limburg Division 1.
  • 1982 / A clubhouse is inaugurated at Sportpark ‘t Wildlandt, with the inaugural ceremony being performed by Mr P.L.J. Willems, chairman of KNVB Afdeling Limburg, on August 6th, 1982. 
  • 1985 / Obtaining the title in Afdeling Limburg Division 1 following a decisive 3-0 win against SV Merselo, RKDSO wins promotion to Sunday League 4. The successful coach is Geert Driessen.
  • 1992 / Finishing in second-last place in District South II’s Sunday League 4H, RKDSO drops back into Afdeling Limburg Division 1 along with bottom club SV Oostrum.
  • 1993 / Finishing in joint first place in Afdeling Limburg Division 1 with RK BVV ’27, RKDSO goes on to suffer a 2-1 defeat against the club from Blitterswijck in a tie-break match, played at a neutral venue, SVEB’s Sportpark ‘t Venneke in Broekhuizenvorst (att. 800). In the subsequent round of promotion play-offs against SV Oostrum and vv RESIA '42, RKDSO has to leave the honours to the club from Wellerlooi, thus missing out on promotion altogether. 
  • 1994 / Cruising to the title in Afdeling Limburg Division 1H without suffering a single defeat all season, RKDSO manages a return to Sunday League 4 after an absence of two years.
  • 1995 / RKDSO finishes as runners-up in District South II’s Sunday League 4H, 9 points behind champions RKOSV Achates.
  • 1997 / RKDSO merges its youth academy with RKDEV (modern-day DEV-Arcen), an arrangement which has persisted until the present day.
  • 1999 / Runners-up in District South II’s Sunday League 4H, 1 point behind champions RKOSV Achates, RKDSO goes on to win a historic promotion to Sunday League 3 in the subsequent play-off round. The successful coach is Huub Verheijden.
  • 2000 / Coached by Bram Hoogveld, RKDSO finishes in second-last place in District South II’s Sunday League 3D, thus dropping back into Sunday League 4 after just one season, along with bottom club KVC. 
  • 2004 / Coached by Tom Kochanowski, RKDSO finishes bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 4F, thus descending into Sunday League 5 along with the club in second-last place, vv Belfeldia. Following the 2003-04 season, RKDSO merges its flagship team to be absorbed by neighbour club RKDEV, allowing its second team to officially become RKDSO 1 in District South II’s Sunday Reserves’ League 6.
  • 2005 / Rescinding the partnership deal with RKDEV, RKDSO sees its former first team players return to Lomm; however, no first team is entered into the regular leagues for the 2005-06 season, as the club prefers to compete only with lower teams.
  • 2006 / RKDSO makes a new start as a competitive club with a regular first team in Sunday League 6.
  • 2013 / Finishing in fifth place in District South II’s Sunday League 6D, RKDSO wins automatic promotion to Sunday League 5 as one of the period champions (i.e. winners in a virtual table of a quarter of the season) of its division. The successful coaching duo consists of John Houben & Rob Simons.
  • 2014 / Finishing bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 5F with coaches John Houben & Rob Simons, RKDSO is retrograded into Sunday League 6 after just one season, along with the club in second-last place, SV Merselo. 
  • 2015 / Finishing in sixth place in District South II’s Sunday League 6C, RKDSO wins automatic promotion to Sunday League 5 due to League 6 being abolished.
  • 2021 / RKDSO’s only-ever player to have made it to the professional leagues, Theo Appeldoorn, passes away at the age of 77. 
  • 2023 / In a disastrous 2022-23 campaign, RKDSO finishes bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 5D with only 7 points (1 win, 4 draws).














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Sunday, 7 December 2025

NETHERLANDS: vv Gilze (2011-)

Sportpark Verhoven, Gilze (vv Gilze)

Netherlands, province: North Brabant = Noord-Brabant

7 XII 2025 / vv Gilze - vv De Bataven 2-2 / Combined Sunday & Saturday League 1D (= NL level 6)

Timeline
  • ± 1919 / A group of friends from Gilze, a village in North Brabant halfway between Breda and Tilburg, gets together to form a football team, which they give the name Gilsche Voetbalclub, abbreviated as GVC. They find a plot of land to lay out a pitch, Terrein Boskant. Sticking to playing friendly matches against other recreational teams for the moment, GVC does not join any league association.
  • 1920 / GVC changes its name to become AVM, standing for Altijd Vol Moed (‘Always Full Of Courage’)
  • 1925 / AVM takes on a new name, Roomsch-Katholieke Voetbalvereeniging (RKVV) Gilze.
  • 1932 / Moving away from Terrein Boskant, RKVV Gilze settles on a newly laid-out pitch at Lange Wagenstraat – destined to stay at that location for the following 79 years. 
  • 1957 / RKVV Gilze changes its name to become Sportvereniging (SV) Gilze in preparation of branches for other sports being incorporated in the womb of the club.
  • 1991 / The football branch of SV Gilze breaks away from the omnisport club, continuing its existence as Voetbalvereniging (vv) Gilze.
  • 2011 / 79 years after the ground’s inauguration, Sportpark aan de Lange Wagenstraat is abandoned in the summer of 2011, as vv Gilze settles at the newly laid-out Sportpark Verhoven, to the west of the village – although the new park has not been completed yet. In the following years, the old park has to make way for housing. 
  • 2012 / Finishing in fifth place in District South I’s Sunday League 3B, vv Gilze qualifies for the promotion play-offs. Knocking out vv Internos in R1 (4-4 aggr. & away goals), the club goes on to suffer defeat in the final at the hands of RSC Alliance (4-2 aggr.), thus missing out on an unprecedented promotion to Sunday League 2. Also in 2012, on September 18th, more than a year after vv Gilze moved into the new park, Sportpark Verhoven is officially inaugurated by Gilze-Rijen’s caretaker mayor Osterloh.
  • 2014 / Finishing in second-last place in District South I’s Sunday League 3B with coach Emiel Heefer, vv Gilze drops back into Sunday League 4 along with RKSV RCD, vv SSW, and bottom club BSV Boeimeer. 
  • 2015 / Runaway champions in District South I’s Sunday League 4D, 20 (!) points ahead of closest followers VVR, vv Gilze manages an immediate return to Sunday League 3. The successful coach is Emiel Heefer.
  • 2019 / Finishing in third place in District South I’s Sunday League 3B, vv Gilze qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is eliminated in R1 by vv Zundert (3-2).
  • 2020 / Finding itself in second place in District South I’s Sunday League 3B after 15 of 24 matches played, 2 points behind leaders vv Bavel, vv Gilze narrowly misses out on promotion to Sunday League 2 in the 2019-20 season, cut short by the first COVID lockdown in March 2020.
  • 2022 / Runners-up in District South I’s Sunday League 3B, 1 point behind champions vv Trinitas Oisterwijk, vv Gilze qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club qualifies for the final following successive defeats of vv Steen in R1 (7-1) and vv Bavel in R2 (4-1). In the final, the club has the better of RKSV Groen-Wit (3-1), thus achieving a historic promotion to Sunday League 2. The successful coach is Jeremy Buchly. In the summer of 2022, former professional league player Joep van den Ouweland takes over the role of head coach at vv Gilze, staying on in that capacity for the following two seasons.
  • 2023 / Finishing in third place in its first season in Sunday League 2D, vv Gilze qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by vv Geldrop (1-0).
  • 2025 / Finishing in third place in Sunday League 2C, 11 points behind champions vv Bladella, vv Gilze qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out SV Parkhout in R1 (4-3) and vv TSC in R2 (0-3) to reach the final. In an encounter played at Sportpark Almkerk (Sportlaan), the club edges past vv NIVO Sparta (4-3 A.E.T.), thus achieving an unprecedented promotion to Combined Sunday & Saturday League 1. The successful coach is Jurgen Arnouts. 
















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Saturday, 6 December 2025

NETHERLANDS: FC Omniworld (B) (2001-2010) / Almere City FC (B) (2010-)

Sportpark Fanny Blankers-Koen terr. 4 "Academy-veld", Almere Almere-Stad (B pitch of Almere City FC, formerly B pitch of FC Omniworld)

Netherlands, province: Flevoland

6 XII 2025 / Jong Almere City FC (U23) - Excelsior Maassluis 1-1 / Tweede Divisie (= NL level 3)

Timeline
  • 2001 / FC Omniworld, a club hailing from Amsterdam – originally named vv De Zwarte Schapen, but having been renamed AZS, FC De Sloterplas, back to vv De Zwarte Schapen, and Sporting Flevoland – which had settled in Almere in 1995, winning promotion to Zondag Hoofdklasse, the top non-league level, in 1997, moves from Sportpark Bok de Korver at Havendreef to the newly laid-out Sportpark Fanny Blankers-Koen, where several football pitches are laid out in the early months of 2001. The pitch pictured below is not the main pitch, where a small covered stand is erected, but the pitch directly to its western side – officially pitch 4 – which is used for lower team football and training sessions.
  • 2005 / After several botched attempts, FC Omniworld finally realises its ambition to join the professional leagues, being placed in the so-called Eerste Divisie, the second and lowest tier of the league pyramid. In a sponsorship deal, the main pitch of Sportpark Fanny Blankers-Koen, which is upgraded to a small stadium with a capacity of just under 3,000, is renamed Mitsubishi Forklift-Stadion.
  • 2010 / FC Omniworld changes its name to become Almere City FC.
  • 2013 / As the sponsorship deal with Mitsubishi is terminated, Almere City FC renames its stadium from Mitsubishi Forklift-Stadion to simply Almere City-Stadion.
  • 2015 / Almere City FC concludes a new sponsorship deal, causing its stadium to be officially renamed Yanmar-Stadion.
  • 2016 / The U23 team of Almere City FC, mostly referred to as Jong Almere City FC, is allowed into the regular football pyramid, taking its place in Saturday Division 3A, the fourth tier of the national league system. Home matches are played on the (main) pitch of the Yanmar-Stadion.
  • 2018 / Finishing in fourth place in Saturday Division 3A, Jong Almere City FC qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out vv UNA in R1 (2-2 aggr. & penalties) and JVC Cuijk in R2 (5-2 aggr.), resulting in the team gaining promotion to National Division 2 (Tweede Divisie), the top non-league level and third tier of the national league pyramid as a whole. Also in 2018, the synthetic surface of the playing field in the stadium is replaced with a natural grass pitch. The old 3G is laid out anew on the first side pitch of the ground, pitch 4, which has been the venue for home matches of Jong Almere City FC since. The club refers to pitch 4 as the ‘Academy-veld’, i.e. Academy Pitch. A small open all-seater (prefab) stand is erected on the eastern touchline of this pitch.
  • 2019 / Finishing in third-last place in the Tweede Divisie, Jong Almere City FC descends into National Division 3 (Derde Divisie) along with VVSB, FC Lienden, and bottom club vv Barendrecht.
  • 2020 / In spite of finishing in a safe mid-table position in National Division 3A, Jong Almere City FC is taken out of the regular divisions due to a reorganisation of the non-league pyramid, which involves a reduction of the number of academy teams being allowed into the competition. Also in 2020, the main pitch of Sportpark Fanny Blankers-Koen, i.e. the Yanmar-Stadion, is thoroughly renovated and extended. In that same renovation, the small open stand alongside pitch 4 is equipped with a roof construction.
  • 2021 / Coached by former FC Omniworld youth academy player Hedwiges Maduro, a former Netherlands’ international midfielder, Jong Almere City FC wins the nationwide U21 title, seeing off Feyenoord Rotterdam U21 in the final. Subsequently, the team gets to play a promotion-relegation play-off against Tweede Divisie team Jong FC Volendam for one place in the top non-league division. However, suffering a 3-1 (aggr.) defeat, Jong Almere City FC misses out on promotion to the regular non-league level.
  • 2023 / Conquering the title in the nationwide U21 competition with coach Anoush Dastgir, Jong Almere City FC is placed in the Tweede Divisie for the 2023-24 season.

















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