NETHERLANDS: RKVV HeVo (1965-1969) / SC Heino (1965-1969) / vv Heino (1969-)

Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Kampen, Heino (vv Heino, formerly RKVV HeVo & SC Heino)

Netherlands, province: Overijssel

13 V 2023 / vv Heino - GSV Be Quick 1887 0-3 / National Sunday Division 4A (= NL level 5)

Timeline

• 1915 / Foundation of a first football club in Heino, which is given the name Prinses Juliana - commonly abbreviated to PJ. It is rather doubtful if this club ever joined the Netherlands' official FA (NVB). PJ played its home games on the so-called Heinosche Veld, probably situated in the vicinity of modern-day Bendijksweg.
• 1922 / After an existence of 7 years, Prinses Juliana is wound up.
• 1923 / Foundation of a new, second football club in Heino, HSC (Heinosche Sportclub).
• 1925 / Foundation of another football club in Heino, which is given the name Heinosche Boys.
• 1926 / Dissolution of Heinosche Boys after just one year. HSC wound up in or around 1926 as well.
• 1927 / Refoundation of Heinosche Boys. Some time in the following years, this club managed to win promotion from Division 2 of Noord-Centrale Voetbalbond (NCVB, renamed Afdeling Zwolle in 1940, the association organising football below NVB League 4 in (mostly) the western half of the province of Overijssel), with the club thus acceding to NCVB Division 1.
• 1937 / For some reason, the board of Heinosche Boys took the decision to leave NCVB, seeking affilation to the Utrechtse Voetbalbond (UVB) instead. As a result, most of the membership walks out, leading to the dissolution of the club. That same year, a new football club sees the daylight, Rooms-Katholieke Sportvereniging (RKSV) Heino, with A.H. Leuverink being the first chairman. RKSV Heino's ground is situated at Paalsteeg (modern-day Paalweg).
• 1945 / RKSV Heino is renamed RKVV HeVo (Rooms-Katholieke Voetbalvereniging Heino Vooruit).
• 1947 / In the hamlet Liederholthuis, situated in the immediate vicinity of Heino, a football club is founded by the name of vv Salland. After a 5-year existence, marked mainly by an endless string of heavy defeats, vv Salland ceases its activities in 1952.
• 1948 / With RKVV HeVo serving Heino's Roman-Catholic community, a second football club is founded with a distinctly evangelical character, Sportclub (SC) Heino. Unusually, given the Netherlands' protestant-christian tradition of the observance of Sunday rest - with football taking place on Saturdays -, SC Heino is a Sunday league club, which goes to show that the brand of protestantism adhered to in Heino was not orthodox in character. SC Heino's first chairman is J. Jobse. Its ground, Terrein Schaarsbeek, is situated near the crossroads of Stationsweg and Bornweg. Some time in the course of the 1950s, the club moves to Terrein Baron van Ittersum, situated nearby on the opposite side of Stationsweg. For some time, most training sessions are held at Terrein Van der Capelleweg (later bulldozered and replaced by a girls' school).
• 1951 / RKVV HeVo wins the title in Afdeling Zwolle Division 1, but misses out on promotion to KNVB Sunday League 4 in the promotion play-offs.
• 1952 / Winning the title in Afdeling Zwolle Division 1 for a second time running, with the decisive points being obtained in an away match at vv Wapenveld (1-2), RKVV HeVo accedes to KNVB District East's Sunday League 4 for the first time. It is unclear for how long the club held out at this level, but relegation must have followed some time between 1953 and 1961.
• 1962 / For a second time, RKVV HeVo manages to climb out of Afdeling Zwolle Division 1, winning the title at this level in a match against vv IJsselboys.
• 1963 / One year after its village rivals, SC Heino also accedes to KNVB Sunday League 4 by winning the title in Afdeling Zwolle Sunday Division 1A. As SC Heino's pitch does not have the correct measurements for League 4 football, the club henceforth plays its home matches at HeVo's ground, Terrein Paalweg.
• 1964 / Finishing 11th and second-last in its first season in Sunday League 4H, SC Heino drops back into Afdeling Zwolle Division 1 immediately. Also in 1964, works get underway on a new municipal sports park for both football clubs at Stationsweg.
• 1965 / Repeating its performance of the 1962-63 season, SC Heino clinches the title in Afdeling Zwolle Sunday Division 1A, thus returning to KNVB Sunday League 4. In August 1965, the Gemeentelijk Sportpark Stationsweg is put into service by RKVV HeVo and SC Heino. The main pitch, shared by both clubs, has an open terrace over the full length of one of the sides. Given that no dressing rooms are available yet, players have to change clothes at pubs nearby; changing facilities are built in the course of the 1965-66 season by a common effort of volunteers of both clubs.
• 1966 / Finishing 11th and second-last in District East's Sunday League 4H, RKVV HeVo drops back into Afdeling Zwolle Division 1.
• 1967 / Finishing 10th in Afdeling Zwolle Sunday Division 1, RKVV HeVo suffers its second relegation in a row, descending into Division 2. In August 1967, all works having been completed, the park at Stationsweg, renamed Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Kampen, is inaugurated officially by Heino's mayor, Hans Verheijden. At the time of its inauguration, the park disposes of two pitches.
• 1969 / In their last seasons as independent clubs, SC Heino finishes in 9th place in Sunday League 4H, whilst RKVV HeVo only manages an 8th place in Afdeling Zwolle Sunday Division 2A. Following the 1968-69 season, a merger is concluded between the two clubs, resulting in the foundation of vv Heino. The club's first chairman is local veterinarian, P. van Egmond - who was not a member of either club, thus being a compromise figure. vv Heino's first team starts at the level of SC Heino, in Sunday League 4, with Harry Poppe taking over the role as coach of the club's first team. 
• 1971 / In order to fund the construction of a wooden clubhouse, several gala matches are organised at Sportpark De Kampen in the course of 1971, with vv Heino entertaining professional league sides from the region. Against Go Ahead Eagles, coached at the time by Welsh manager Barry Hughes (with Niels Overweg, Bert van Marwijk, and Peter Arntz being in his squad), vv Heino is defeated 1-5 (with Henk van der Bemd scoring the only Heino goal); against PEC Zwolle the scoreline is 0-4; and, lastly, FC Twente (manager: Kees Rijvers, with Willy van de Kerkhof, Theo Pahlplatz, Epi Drost, and Piet Schrijvers being among his best players) defeats the green-and-white club comprehensively, 7-0.
• 1973 / Coached by Henk Wessels, vv Heino is relegated from District East's Sunday League 4H, dropping into Afdeling Zwolle Division 1.
• 1975 / Guided by trainer Peter Reumer Sr., vv Heino returns to Sunday League 4 by clinching the title in Afdeling Zwolle Division 1A with an advantage of 5 points over OVC '21.
• 1977 / vv Heino finishes runners-up in Sunday League 4H behind champions OVC '21. 
• 1979 / vv Heino's 17-year old academy player Grads Fühler is taken over by PEC Zwolle. In Zwolle, Fühler, a defender, breaks into the first team the following year, going on to have a respectable career at PEC Zwolle '82, Go Ahead Eagles, 1. FC Bocholt, BV Emmen, SC Veendam, BV Veendam, and KVV Looi Sport. Hanging up his boots in 1995, Fühler continued working in professional league football as a talent scout for FC Groningen and Udinese Calcio.
• 1983 / The construction of a new clubhouse - the current clubhouse - getting underway in September 1982, with the foundation stone being laid by Frits van de Kolk, vv Heino's oldest member, the building works, overseen by Antoon Hoppen, are finished the following year. Around this same time, a third pitch, used for training sessions, is added to the park.
• 1985 / In Sunday League 4H, the title race goes to the wire, with the two remaining contestants, vv Heino and vv Lemelerveld, meeting head-to-head in the last match of the season. At Gemeentelijk Sportpark De Kampen, with a baffling attendance of 4,700, vv Heino has to win due to Lemelerveld having an advantage of 1 point over them. A Paul Eijkelkamp goal gives Heino a 1-0 lead, but due to an equaliser in the latter stages of the match, vv Lemelerveld walks away with the trophy - and promotion to League 3.
• 1990 / Finishing in joint-2nd place in Sunday League 4H with ABS, 6 points behind vv Daventria, vv Heino qualifies for the promotion play-offs; reaching the final, played at a neutral venue, ABS's Sportpark De Looënk in Bathmen, vv Heino keeps ASV Apeldoornse Boys to a 0-0 stalemate, upon which Apeldoornse Boys wins the penalty shoot-out (4-1). Thus, vv Heino misses out on promotion. Also in 1990, works get underway on the construction of a grandstand at Sportpark De Kampen. To this end, part of the terracing, put in place in 1965, is removed. The construction costs are covered largely by means of a sum of 45,000 guilders brought together with a lottery organised by the club. 
• 1991 / Inauguration of vv Heino's grandstand by the local mayor, Mr Van den Berg. Simultaneously, the remaining terracing gets an upgrade. 
• 1992 / Finishing in 3rd place in Sunday League 4H behind vv KHC and vv Hoonhorst, vv Heino misses out on promotion yet again, losing the play-off final against vv IJsselboys (1-0).
• 1994 / The club celebrates its 25th anniversary with a gala match between the U15 squads of The Netherlands and FR Germany. Larry Chimezie, a Nigerian footballer with a past as a professional league player in Greece (at Paniliacos AO) and Cyprus (at Anorthosis Ammochostou in Famagusta), settles in Heino, joining vv Heino for the 1994-95 season. In 20 matches, Chimezie scores 19 goals - of which 6 in a 9-2 win over SC Hanze). Chimezie, the first black player to represent vv Heino, is signed by SC Heracles '74 in the summer of 1995, but, due to a string of injuries, his spell at this club is markedly unsuccessful. Withdrawing into non-league at WHC in 1997, Chimezie hangs up his boots shortly afterwards. 
• 1995 / Helped by Larry Chimezie's goals, vv Heino finishes 3rd in Sunday League 4H behind SV Dedemsvaart and Wijhe '92. In the first round of the promotion play-offs, Heino is eliminated by ZAC.
• 1996 / Having had 21 consecutive seasons in District East's Sunday League 4H, vv Heino, finishing in joint-2nd place with Wijhe '92 behind champions vv Lemelerveld, qualifies for the promotion play-offs. Qualifying for the final, in which it entertains vv Brink & Orden (B&O) at vv Heerde's Sportpark De Molenbeek, vv Heino wins the match 3-1 with two goals by Roy Groteboer and one more by Coen Mulder. The coach guiding the club to this first tangible success in over 2 decades is Henny Krosman.
• 1997 / vv Heino has a hard time adapting to League 3 level. In an attempt to stop the rot, manager Henny Krosman is sacked in the course of the season, but his replacement René IJzerman cannot avoid the inevitable; finishing 12th and last in Sunday League 3B, the club descends back into League 4.
• 1998 / Finishing 3rd in Sunday League 4H, vv Heino, coached by Harry Poelhekke, qualifies for the promotion play-offs. Successively defeating SC Hanze (3-2), vv Diepenveen (4-2), and vv Beekbergen (2-1), the club reaches the final, in which it receives SV Eerbeekse Boys at Sportpark De Kampen. With Roy Groteboer, who came on as a substitute, scoring the only goal of the match, vv Heino manages an immediate return to Sunday League 3. In fact, the club has never dropped back into Sunday League 4 in its subsequent existence.
• 2001 / Still coached by Harry Poelhekke, vv Heino just misses out on the title in Sunday League 3B, finishing with an equal number of points as SV Schalkhaar, but losing the tie-break match, played at SV Heeten's Terrein Dorpsstraat, in the most dramatic of fashions (4-3 after a 1-3 lead). In the subsequent promotion play-offs, vv Heino defeats vv UD Weerselo (7-3 on aggregate) and SC Markelo (4-2 on aggregate), thus qualifying for the final, played at SV Epe's Sportpark De Wachtelenberg. In that match, vv Heino defeats League 2 side vv ATC '65 4-3 after extra time, with the goalscorers being Erwin Vonderman, Stefan Grotenhuis (2), and Ronald Schotman. As such, vv Heino accedes to Sunday League 2 for the first time in club history. Also in 2001, 12-year old youth academy player Joran Pot leaves for FC Twente, going on to have a professional league career at Jong FC Twente, RBC Roosendaal, FC Zwolle, and Go Ahead Eagles between 2008 and 2014.
• 2003 / Having held its own admirably well in Sunday League 2J in the 2001-02 season with a 6th place, vv Heino cannot repeat that performance the following year, finishing 10th and descending into League 3 via the relegation play-offs, in which WSV proves too strong in R1 (6-1 on aggregate).
• 2004 / Clinching the title in Sunday League 3B with a 5-point advantage on SC Brummen, vv Heino, guided along by manager Peter Reumer, Jr. (whose father had been vv Heino's coach in the 1970s), returns to Sunday League 2 at the first opportunity.
• 2005 / Finishing 6th in Sunday League 2J, vv Heino qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which it is eliminated by WAVV in R1. Also in 2005, a fourth pitch is added to Sportpark De Kampen - one of the first in the region to have a synthetic surface.
• 2006 / Coming tantalisingly close to the Sunday League 2J title, just 1 point behind RKOSV Avanti Wilskracht and runners-up SV Colmschate '33, vv Heino qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which it is defeated in R2 by vv SDOUC (after a penalty shoot-out).
• 2007 / vv Heino finishes in 2nd place in Sunday League 2J, the best result in club history up to that point. In the promotion play-offs, the club is eliminated by Sportclub Bemmel. Also in 2007, the terracing on the right-hand side of the main stand is removed to make way for a new set of dressing rooms, which are eventually put into use in December 2008.
• 2009 / Finishing dead-last in Sunday League 2J, vv Heino drops back into League 3 after 5 seasons.
• 2010 / Managing a 4th place in Sunday League 3B, vv Heino qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which it fails to force a return to League 2. In the summer of 2010, the main pitch at Sportpark De Kampen is equipped with a synthetic surface.
• 2011 / Clinching the title in District East's Sunday League 3B, a baffling 16 points ahead of closest followers vv Heerde, vv Heino, coached by Peter Reumer, Jr., and Timo Goudbeek, returns to League 2. The club's centre-forward Bas Jansen manages an impressive goal tally of 23.
• 2012 / In its first season back in Sunday League 2J, vv Heino manages a respectable 3rd place. In the preparatory stage of the 2012-13 season, vv Heino hosts PEC Zwolle at Sportpark De Kampen, losing the match 1-3.
• 2014 / Repeating its performance of the previous season, vv Heino finishes 3rd in Sunday League 2J, preceded only by RKSV De Zweef and HVV Tubantia. In R1 of the promotion play-offs, the club sees off vv Woezik (5-4 on aggregate) to qualify for the final, in which it encounters PH Almelo. Winning the home leg 2-1 (goals by Arjan Blom and Remco Beumer), the away match in Almelo goes to the wire, with the score after extra time being 3-3 (Heino goals scored by Remco Gerritsen, Rik Keijzer, and Arjan Blom). Thus, the team coached by Marc Lobbert accedes to Sunday League 1. It is the first time in vv Heino's club history that it is represented at this high level. In the following years, the club holds its own admirably at this level, steadily finishing in the middle part of the table.
• 2016 / As RKSV Rohda Raalte drops into Sunday League 1 from Zondag Hoofdklasse, vv Heino gets the opportunity to entertain its derby rivals in a league match for the first time since the creation of the merger between RKVV HeVo and SC Heino in 1969. In the first match of the season, at Sportpark De Kampen, 2,500 spectators witness a 1-4 Rohda victory.
• 2019 / vv Heino's 50th anniversary is marked by the publication of a commemorative book.
• 2022 / Finishing in 2nd place in Sunday League 1E, 8 points behind RKSV Rohda Raalte, vv Heino, coached by Martijn de Vogel, gets the opportunity to qualify for National Sunday Division 4, the 5th and lowest tier of the Netherlands' national league pyramid, via the play-offs. Defeating RKSV Sarto and RKSV Minor in the first two rounds, the club reaches the final played at SV Batavia 90's Sportpark De Doggersbank in Lelystad, where it defeats Amsterdam side vv AGB 4-2 after trailing 0-2; the goals opening the door to national league football in Heino for the first time are scored by Marius Deckers, Tim Leferink, Jesse Kruiper, and Stan Heetkamp. 
• 2025 / Finishing in fifth place in National Division 4D, vv Heino qualifies for the promotion-relegation play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by JOS Watergraafsmeer (1-0 aggr.).
• 2026 / Finishing in fourth place in National Division 4D, vv Heino qualifies for the promotion-relegation play-offs, in which the club bows out in R1 against SV TEC (2-0 aggr.).

Note - The main source of the information provided above is a book published by vv Heino on the occasion of the club's 50th anniversary in 2019: “vv Heino 50 jaar – 1969-2019”, written by Timo Bomhof, Eric van den Brink, Rudi Buitenkamp, Dorien Kouwert, René Mulder, Arjan Stegeman, and Peter Vervloet.

All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author

NETHERLANDS: vv Surhuisterveen (B) (1972-1979) / vv 't Fean '58 (B) (1972-1979) / vv Surhuisterveen (1980-2023) / FC Surhústerfean (B) (2023-)

Sportpark 't Ketting Oost, Surhuisterveen = Surhústerfean (FC Surhústerfean, formerly vv Surhuisterveen / B pitch of vv Surhuisterveen & vv 't Fean '58)

Netherlands, province: Frisia = Friesland

4 VI 2022 / vv Surhuisterveen - vv Drogeham 3-2 / District North, Saturday League 5C (= NL level 10)

13 V 2023 / vv Surhuisterveen - vv Donkerbroek 3-1 (game abandoned after 87 minutes due to away side refusing to play on) / District North, Saturday League 5C (= NL level 10) 

Timeline

• 1922 / On makeshift football pitches, created on meadows around Surhuisterveen, local youths try their hand at playing football - initially referred to simply als 'schoppen', kicking - for the first time. A first pitch is laid out at the back of a local pub, Café Eye Fokkinga. With most players wearing wooden shoes while playing, friendly matches are played against teams from surrounding villages, including De Zandhazen (from Houtigehage) and a prison team from Opende, just across the provincial border in Groningen.
• ± 1928 / Foundation of a first recreational football team in Surhuisterveen, SDO (= Samenspel Doet Overwinnen). In the following years, football is played at various 'pitches' around the village, including Terrein De Dobbe (owned by a local farmer, Boer Postma), Terrein Groningerstraat (Boer Nieuwland), Terrein Westerbouwing, Terrein Ate Kloosterman (1931), Terrein Brand Mulder, and back to Boer Nieuwland in 1934. SDO's team plays friendly matches and takes part in various short-running competitions, notably winning a tournament in Nij Beets after defeating a team from Oerterp in the final (some time between 1931 and 1934). 
• 1935 / SDO being wound up, a first football club is founded in Surhuisterveen which seeks affiliation to FVB (Friesche Voetbalbond), the Frisian branch of the official Netherlands' FA (KNVB). The new club, which is given the name vv Surhuisterveen, finds a first chairman in the shape of Jan Rinsma. vv Surhuisterveen starts its life as a Sunday league club in FVB's Sunday Division 3, making its debut in an away match at Westeinder Boys on September 8th, 1935 (being defeated 4-1). The club's first ground is Terrein Boer Nieuwland at Groningerstraat, previously used by SDO as well. 
• ± 1938 / In 1938 or 1939, vv Surhuisterveen wins the title in FVB Sunday Division 3, thus acceding to FVB Sunday Division 2. Some time during the German occupation of the Netherlands, the club must have managed promotion to FVB Sunday Division 1 as well, but accurate information regarding the club's early years is not available.
• ± 1945 / Shortly after the liberation of the Netherlands, vv Surhuisterveen, hitherto a Sunday league club, starts a Saturday league branch, allowing boys from the village's evangelical community to join the club as well. Possibly in 1946, for the first time, the club enters first teams in both Sunday and Saturday league football.
• 1948 / Winning the title in FVB Saturday Division 2, vv Surhuisterveen's Saturday league team accedes to FVB Saturday Division 1.
• 1950 / Coached by Willem Boomsma, vv Surhuisterveen's Sunday league team wins the title in FVB Sunday Division 1, obtaining the decisive points in a 3-1 win over vv Haulerwijk (2 goals by Sjoerd Pama and 1 by Johan Huitema). Although promotion being secured, the club takes part in a play-off competition against the winners of the two other FVB Sunday Division 1 branches, vv Kollum and vv Nicator II, to determine the over-all FVB champion - in which vv Kollum comes out on top. With the club now acceding to regular Sunday League 4 for the first time, a move to a new ground has become unavoidable, given that Terrein Boer Nieuwland (Groningerstraat) does not have the correct measurements for official football matches - leaving alone the fact that the ground does not dispose of a dressing room, which are obligatory for football clubs competing in regular KNVB divisions. A solution is found at Lauwersweg, where the club rent a plot of land from the local Reformed Church. The costs being covered in part by organising a lottery, a set of dressing rooms is constructed. Terrein Groningerstraat is later taken over by AVEK, a bedding factory.
• 1951 / In its first season in District North's Sunday League 4, vv Surhuisterveen manages a respectable 6th place (with 12 teams competing).
• 1952 / Clinching the title in FVB Saturday Division 1, vv Surhuisterveen's Saturday league team qualifies for a promotion play-off against vv Balk, but is defeated - although it takes a third match (played at a neutral venue, Oranjewoud) to determine the winner -, thus missing out on promotion.
• 1954 / Finishing as runners-up in FVB Saturday Division 1, vv Surhuisterveen's Saturday league branch is admitted to KNVB Saturday League 4 due to extra promotion places being available.
• 1955 / In its first year in Saturday League 4, vv Surhuisterveen's Saturday team finishes 7th, thus dropping back into FVB Division 1.
• 1957 / In District North's Regional Cup, vv Surhuisterveen's Sunday league team is drawn against a team from League 1, vv Sneek, for the first time; keeping up until 15 minutes before the end (3-3), Surhuisterveen eventually loses the match 6-3. In the 1957-58 season, the club's Sunday team has a good season, finishing runners-up in Sunday League 4 behind vv ONB.
• 1958 / Finishing in 5th place in FVB Saturday Division 1B in the 1957-58 season, vv Surhuisterveen's Saturday branch decides to break away and found a separate football club, which is given the name vv 't Fean '58. The two main reasons for the break-up are, firstly, disagreement among protestant-christian club members about a football pool being organised by the club; and, secondly, a more generally felt dissatisfaction about Saturday league football being treated disdainfully by the part of the membership dedicated to Sunday league football. Although emotions must have played a part in the break, both clubs continue to share the same pitch in the following years, with floodlights being added in 1958 to allow midweek training sessions being held.
• 1959 / Guided by trainer J. Hazeveld, vv Surhuisterveen clinches the title in Sunday League 4C, winning the decisive match away at vv Oerterp comprehensively (0-4). Yet, the club misses out on promotion, finishing last in a play-off competition for two available spots in Sunday League 3, with the winners of the other three Sunday League 4 branches in District North being the other participants (RKVV MKV '29, vv De Kooi, and vv Roden - with the two first-mentioned clubs gaining the tickets to League 3).
• 1960 / Still coached by J. Hazeveld, vv Surhuisterveen manages its second consecutive Sunday League 4C title, winning the decisive match at home against vv Bakkeveen, with the only goal being scored by Jan "Kanne" Huitema). In the ensuing promotion play-offs, vv Surhuisterveen gains access to League 3, along with vv Black Boys - at the expense of FC Oldemarkt and vv Roden. Also in 1960, a second pitch is added to Terrein Lauwersweg, commonly used by vv Surhuisterveen and vv 't Fean '58.
• 1961 / In its first year in KNVB Sunday League 3, vv Surhuisterveen manages a respectable 3rd place - with the title going to vv Hunsingo.
• 1963 / Having found its own at the League 3 level relatively easily in the past 3 seasons, vv Surhuisterveen, with manager Chris Pals, clinches the Sunday League 3B title, winning the decisive match 4-2 against vv Roden. Also in 1963, a practice pitch is added to Terrein Lauwersweg, bringing the total of available pitches at the park up to three.
• 1964 / Although there is talk of a new municipal sports park to be laid out elsewhere in Surhuisterveen in the near future, vv Surhuisterveen and vv 't Fean '58 build a new clubhouse with dressing rooms at Terrein Lauwersweg.
• 1966 / Finishing 6th in Sunday League 2A, vv Surhuisterveen manages its best result in club history - with two more 6th places at this level being recorded in 1968 and 1969. At Easter 1966, English non-league club Whitton United FC (from Ipswich) pays a visit to vv Surhuisterveen, playing a friendly against vv Surhuisterveen, with the British guests winning the encounter (2-4). In the following years, Whitton returns to Surhuisterveen regularly during the Easter days. Also in 1966, a start is made on the works to bring about a new municipal park, Sportpark 't Ketting.
• 1967 / In the final of District North's Regional Cup (Districtsbeker), played in Zuidlaren, vv Surhuisterveen is defeated comprehensively (5-1) by vv Emmen. Also in the 1966-67 season, skipper Jan 'Kanne' Huitema plays his 400th match in the club's first team.
• 1969 / After 3 years, the pitches at Sportpark 't Ketting having been laid out, the park is ready for use - were it not for the fact that there are no clubhouse and dressing rooms available yet. As long as this situation continues, no matches can be played in the new surroundings.
• 1970 / After 7 years at League 2 level, vv Surhuisterveen finishes last in Sunday League 2A, thus dropping back into League 3 along with vv Jubbega and SC Emmeloord.
• 1971 / In its first year back in Sunday League 3, vv Surhuisterveen nearly suffers a second relegation in a row, only saving its skin by winning a set of two play-off matches against Hellas VC. Also in 1971, after two decades of service to vv Surhuisterveen's first team, Jan 'Kanne' Huitema withdraws into one of the club's recreational teams. In a gala match, organised in his honour, vv Surhuisterveen hosts vv Harkema-Opeinde, with the guests - playing in Sunday League 1 at that time - winning the encounter 5-1. Huitema could take comfort in the fact that he scored Surhuisterveen's only goal on the day.
• 1972 / Along with vv 't Fean '58 - as well as the village's netball club and two gymnastic clubs -, vv Surhuisterveen moves into Sportpark 't Ketting, which has finally been adorned with a clubhouse, shared by all four clubs. On the inaugural day, with the ceremonies being performed by Surhuisterveen's mayor, Huib Ottevanger, vv Surhuisterveen and vv 't Fean 58 play a friendly match on the main pitch, which will be shared by both clubs for the time being. Meanwhile, Terrein Lauwersweg is abandoned after 22 years, later being taken over by Riemersma, a stroller factory.
• 1973 / In its first season at Sportpark 't Ketting, disastrously, vv Surhuisterveen finished 11th in Sunday League 3B, thus dropping back to League 4 level, along with rock bottom vv De Wilper Boys. It is the first time in 13 years the club finds itself in this division.
• 1975 / The club's 40th anniversary is celebrated with a gala match between veteran teams of vv Surhuisterveen and vv Harkema-Opeinde, won by the former (4-1).
• 1979 / A start is made on the construction of a new clubhouse and dressing rooms at the eastern end of Sportpark 't Ketting, to the south of the park's B pitch. The premises are intended to be made use of by vv Surhuisterveen, the netball club and the two gymnastic clubs - but not by vv 't Fean '58.
• 1980 / The new clubhouse being finished in December 1979, vv Surhuisterveen moves into the building in the early months of 1980. From now on, the club uses the park's B pitch as its main pitch, leaving behind vv 't Fean 58 on the (formerly shared) A pitch. Later in 1980, vv 't Fean 58 also replaces the original clubhouse with a new, more modern construction.
• 1982 / Losing a relegation play-off against vv De Wilper Boys, played at a neutral venue in Marum (3-0), vv Surhuisterveen, which finished 11th and second last in Sunday League 4C in the 1981-82 season, descends into the ranks of FVB, 32 seasons after having played at that lowly level for the last time.
• 1984 / Having narrowly staved off relegation into FVB Division 2 the previous season by finishing ahead of vv Oldeboorn and vv Tijnje, vv Surhuisterveen descends into this abyss, the lowest level of the football pyramid, in 1984 by finishing 11th and second last in FVB Division 1.
• 1985 / Finishing runners-up in FVB Division 2, vv Surhuisterveen just misses out on promotion back to the highest FVB level.
• 1987 / Winning the title in FVB Division 2A without a single defeat, but with an advantage of 'just' 4 points over vv Sparta '59, vv Surhuisterveen manages a return to FVB Division 1.
• 1988 / With extra promotion places being available that season, a 3rd place in FVB Division 1, behind vv De Blesse and vv TFS, suffices for vv Surhuisterveen to reclaim its place in Sunday League 4. The joy is short-lived, though, with a last place in Sunday League 4C in the 1988-89 season and an immediate return back into the ranks of FVB.
• 1993 / Finishing 5th in FVB Hoofdklasse, the new top level of Fries(ch)e Voetbalbond, vv Surhuisterveen, coached by Willem Weening, reclaims its place in Sunday League 4 by winning the promotion play-offs. That same year, the club takes over the old main stand of SV Urk's Sportpark De Vormt free of charge, with volunteers dismantling the construction in Urk and taking it to Sportpark 't Ketting piece by piece. The costs of the erection of the stand in Surhuisterveen amounting to 30,000 guilders, the construction is inaugurated in the summer of 1993 with a friendly match against professional league side Cambuur-Leeuwarden. 
• 1995 / Having finished runners up in District North's Sunday League 4C behind vv ONB the previous season, vv Surhuisterveen, coached by Dicky Olivier, now claims the title in this division with a comprehensive advantage of 9 points over closest followers vv Zuidlaren and vv Bergum - with the club suffering just one defeat the entire season. Captained by former SC Heerenveen and FC Zwolle player Eelke van der Heide, the club obtains the decisive point in an away match against vv Bakkeveen (2-2). In the following season, the club holds its own in League 3B with ease by finishing in 5th place.
• 2000 / Finishing in 10th place in Sunday League 3B, vv Surhuisterveen has to secure its place at that level by playing in a set of play-offs. Losing the first round against Bolsward side vv CAB, the club is given a second chance in a single-match tie-breaker against vv Akkrum, played at SVC LSC 1890's Gemeentelijk Sportpark Leeuwarderweg. Going under in this encounter as well (2-0), the club, coached by former SC Heerenveen and SC Cambuur player Thomas Haan, ultimately drops back into Sunday League 4. 
• 2001 / Finishing 12th and last in Sunday League 4B, vv Surhuisterveen suffers its second relegation in a row - now descending into League 5 for the first time, a level created following the abolition of FVB in 1996. The club's trainer Wim Huizing had been sacked after a 8-1 drubbing away at eventual title winners vv Bergum, but his replacement Lieuwe Brink finds himself unable to stop the rot.
• 2004 / Coached by Jan Boonstra, vv Surhuisterveen finishes in 2nd place in District North's Sunday League 5C, 9 points behind FC Grootegast. Due to extra promotion places being available, the club returns to League 4 directly, without having to go through the motions of playing a set of play-offs.
• 2005 / Guided by coach Reinder Jeemsma, vv Surhuisterveen finishes runners-up in its first year back in League 4, with a disadvantage of just 3 points behind champions vv Groninger Boys. In the ensuing promotion play-offs, Jeemsma's men edge past vv Siddeburen after a penalty shoot-out, the deciding kick being delived by Sipke 'Pake' De Jong.
• 2006 / After just one year in Sunday League 3B, vv Surhuisterveen drops back into League 3 after finishing 11th and second-last, with only vv Oerterp picking up fewer points.
• 2007 / A partnership is created with vv 't Fean '58, in which the upper half of the respective clubs' youth academies are merged to become SJO (Samenwerking Jeugdopleiding) Feanstars.
• 2009 / Alongside bottom club SV Marum, vv Surhuisterveen drops back into Sunday League 5 following a 13th place in Sunday League 4C.
• 2010 / In the year of the club's 75th anniversary, vv Surhuisterveen just misses out on promotion; after a 5th place in Sunday League 5C, the club is drawn in a play-off group with vv VIOS (O.) and vv Pekelder Boys - and this last club conquers the League 4 ticket, just ahead of vv Surhuisterveen.
• 2011 / Finishing runners-up in Sunday League 5D, vv Surhuisterveen wins promotion to L4 level by winning the promotion play-offs.
• 2014 / After 3 seasons in Sunday League 4, vv Surhuisterveen drops back into League 5 after an unsuccessful set of play-offs.
• 2015 / Confirming its role as one of District North's most irregular clubs since the 1980s, vv Surhuisterveen now wins the title in Sunday League 5C, thus managing an immediate return to League 4 level. Also in 2015, a complete merger is brought about between the youth academies of vv Surhuisterveen and vv 't Fean '58 under the umbrella of SJO Feanstars.
• 2019 / Claiming the title in Sunday League 4B, vv Surhuisterveen returns to Sunday League 3 after 12 years. 
• 2020 / The 2019-20 season being interrupted in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 lockdown, vv Surhuisterveen's membership votes for abandoning first team football on Sundays. As a result, the club has to restart at the bottom level of District North's Saturday pyramid, Saturday League 5.
• 2023 / Having failed to climb out of Saturday League 5 in the last 3 years of its existence as an independent club, vv Surhuisterveen concludes a merger with neighbours vv 't Fean '58, which had broken away exactly 65 years before. The merger was facilitated by vv Surhuisterveen's decision to move its senior team into the Saturday pyramid in 2020. As a result of this merger, FC Surhústerfean sees the daylight, with Jan Lammers being chosen as the new club's first chairman. In spite of initial plans to play first team football on the main pitch of vv Surhuisterveen with its covered stand, nothing comes of this in the end due to the board of the merger club not wanting to spend the money to move the advertising boards; as a result, first team football has since been played on the former main pitch of vv 't Fean.

Note 1 - The main sources for the information provided above are two anniversary books, published by vv Surhuisterveen on the club's 50th and 75th anniversary: 

• J. Boot / S. de Groot / A. Helfrich / O. Hoekstra / Sj. Postma / B. de Vries, “vv Surhuisterveen 50 jaar” (1985)
• Gerard Bos / Feike Wouda, “75 jaar vv Surhuisterveen. Periode 1985-2010” (2010)

Note 2 - Below, a compilation of photos of two different match visits: pictures 1-3, 5 & 11 = June 2022 / pictures 4, 6-10 & 12-17 = May 2023.

All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author

BELGIUM: Charneux FC (B) (1996-±2018) / R Charneux FC (±2018-)

Terrain du Cour Beaupré terr. 2, Charneux (R Charneux FC, formerly B pitch of Charneux FC)

Belgium, province: Liège = Luik

7 V 2023 / Charneux FC - R Herve FC B 0-0 - Herve won penalty shoot-out (1-3) / Liège, Provincial League 4F - promotion play-off, preliminary round

Timeline

• 1973 / Foundation of Charneux FC as a recreational club. In the first year of its existence, the club sticks to playing friendlies against teams from surrounding villages. The club disposes of just one pitch, situated at Cour Beaupré. A small clubhouse is constructed, situated on the northern end of the pitch. 
• 1974 / Applying for membership of the Belgian Football Association, Charneux FC obtains registration number 8152 and is placed in Liège's Provincial League 4.
• 1995 / Charneux FC wins promotion to Provincial League 3 for the 2nd time in club history; also in this case, it is unclear how long the club stayed up at this level, but relegation must have taken place some time between 1996 and 2002. Also in 1995, in a major renovation of Terrain Cour Beaupré, a start is made on building a new clubhouse on the western end of the main pitch. As this temporarily renders the pitch unusable, an emergency pitch is laid out at the northern end of the old clubhouse, while the club is given the luxury of a training pitch (current terrain 3) to the south of the main pitch.
• 1996 / In June 1996, the new clubhouse is inaugurated, as well as a new B pitch on its western end (the pitch pictured below). With the emergency pitch being given up, the ground now consists of two pitches suitable for matches as well as one training pitch.
• ± 2018 / First team football is moved from terrain 1 to terrain 2, which is situated on a hillside - and hence less vulnerable to flooding.
• 2020 / Having played in Provincial League 3C for over 10 consecutive years, Charneux FC is now placed in P3D, which includes many teams from the German-speaking eastern parts of Liège, for the 2019-20 season. In this strong division, the club finishes 16th and last, thus dropping back into Provincial League 4 after a 17-year spell in P3.
• 2023 / Finishing runners-up in Provincial League 4F behind KFC Eupen 1963 B, Charneux FC is eliminated in the first preliminary round of the promotion play-offs by R Herve FC B after a penalty shoot-out.
• 2024 / Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary as a Belgian Football Association member, Charneux FC acquires the royal epithet, thus officially becoming Royal Charneux Football Club. Moreover, the club wins the title in P4F, with an equal number of points as R Herve FC B, but with a better goal difference (+87 vs. +67). As such, R Charneux FC accedes to Provincial League 3.
• 2025 / Finishing in sixth place in Liège's Provincial League 3C, R Charneux FC qualifies for the promotion play-offs, knocking out JS Vivegnis in R1 (1-3) before being eliminated by RCS Bollandois (1-4).

All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author