football club
VVV-Venlo ( dutch pronunciation : [ ˌveːveːˈveː ˈvɛnloː ], VVV stands for Venlose Voetbal Vereniging [ ˈvɛnloːzə ˈvudbɑl vəˈreːnəɣɪŋ ] meaning “ Venlo Football Association ” ) is a dutch football clubhouse from Venlo, a town on the boundary line with Germany. They play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football, following relegation from the Eredivisie in the 2020–21 season. The clubhouse plays its home games in the Covebo Stadion – De Koel stadium, which is named after one of the club ‘s sponsors Covebo Uitzendgroep. VVV ‘s home colors are yellow and black .
history [edit ]
basis and first decades ( 1903–1952 ) [edit ]
VVV originated from the association football club De Gouden Leeuw, which was founded by a group of friends in Venlo at the end of the nineteenth century. A few more name changes would occur, and the team was besides known as Valuas for some clock time. finally, it was decided on 7 February 1903 to change the name to Venlose Voetbal Vereniging ( VVV ), the current name of the club. VVV wrote itself into the history books as one of the oldest clubs in Dutch professional football. In 1909, the clubs VITOS and THOR merged and became share of VVV. Quick followed in 1910. [ 1 ]
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During the foremost years of its being, VVV could not enter the highest league of Dutch football. This was ascribable to the fact that before the 1911–12 season, there was no first-tier Eerste Klasse in the southern Netherlands, but only Eastern and a western Eerste Klasse. From the 1912–13 temper, the South besides competed in its own Eerste Klasse. VVV has been part of this since its introduction into Dutch football, with varying degrees of success. After the 1921–22 season, the club suffered relegation to the second-tier Tweede Klasse. Afterwards, the team played for some time in the Tweede Klasse, in which they won the championship during several seasons. They, however, failed to reach promotion to the Eerste Klasse again afterwards. After the end of World War II, the number of Eerste Klasse team was expanded, which besides included VVV. From 1948 to 1952, the club achieved fourth-place finishes in the Eerste Klasse .
holocene years ( 2006–present ) [edit ]
VVV returned to the Eredivisie, the highest league in the Netherlands, by defeating RKC Waalwijk ( 3–0 ) in the promotion/relegation play-offs in the 2006–07 season. After one season in the Eredivisie, VVV-Venlo were relegated binding to the Eerste Divisie. After a single season, VVV-Venlo won the 2008–09 Eerste Divisie style and returned to the Eredivisie. In the 2009–10 season, the team booked its best league solution since 1988 after finishing 12th in the Eredivisie. Another noteworthy event was the transportation of star musician Keisuke Honda to CSKA Moscow. They besides signed toddler Baerke vanguard five hundred Meij on a emblematic ten-year contract, after a video featuring him scoring a hat trick into a play box became democratic. [ 2 ] Honda was replaced by Gonzalo and the cabaret signed Japanese player Maya Yoshida. The passing of Honda turned out to be a key point in the baseball club ‘s season. In the second half of the temper, the team was not able to win matches and barely escaped from relegation. At the end of the season, key players Ruben Schaken and Adil Auassar both signed with Feyenoord on a dislodge transfer. Gonzalo returned to his employer Groningen, while Sandro Calabro signed with Swiss side St. Gallen. The club contracted Ruud Boymans and the Nigerian Ahmed Musa to strengthen the squad for the 2010–11 season. They avoided relegation, but it was a coarse season in which Jan van Dijk was fired and early international Patrick Paauwe terminated his sign after losing the competition from his competitors. belgian coach Glen De Boeck was signed for the next temper, but failed to improve the results. As a result of that, he resigned in December 2011. Ton Lokhoff was recruited as the new director and succeeded in avoiding delegating by winning the post-season play-offs. however, in the 2012–13 season, the club was relegated after losing the promotion/relegation play-offs against Go Ahead Eagles. The club finished fifth in its first Eerste Divisie season since its promotion in 2009. But again, the club bounced back and returned to the Eredivisie in 2017, after clinching promotion by defeating RKC Waalwijk. [ 3 ] On 24 October 2020, VVV-Venlo suffered the biggest get the better of in Eredivisie history [ 4 ] by losing to Ajax at home plate 13–0. [ 5 ]
japanese players [edit ]
Since Keisuke Honda transferred from Nagoya Grampus in 2008, a skid of japanese players have played at VVV-Venlo, including Maya Yoshida, Robert Cullen and Yuki Otsu. Sef Vergoossen, a legendary coach of the club, and japanese agent Tetsuro Kiyooka were a bridge between the japanese players and the golf club. [ 6 ]
Community subscribe [edit ]
The official clubhouse mascot since 1 July 2004 is a frump named “Koelie” (English: Coolie). The Jan Klaassens Museum, set up in 2003 is located in the city center of Venlo and is operated by the Limburgs Museum. Since 2005, VVV has per annum presented the Jan Klaassens Award to the greatest talent from its own youth academy. [ 7 ] The Herman Teeuwen Memorial, named after the clubhouse picture who died suddenly in 2003, since 2004 has been organised by the club, normally with well-known extraneous clubs participating on an invitational basis. VVV announced in July 2015 that they would be retiring the count 28 shirt in memory of youth player Beau Vilters, who had previously worn that count but was killed in a traffic accident on June 14, 2015, at the old age of 18. [ 8 ]
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In April 2011, after a viral video recording of a local toddler, Baerke van five hundred Meij, grandson of VVV player Jan avant-garde five hundred Meij, showing him scoring a hat trick into his toy box, the golf club gave the 18 calendar month old an honorary sign. [ 9 ]
stadium [edit ]
VVV-Venlo presently play at De Koel in Venlo. The stadium holds 8,000 people and was built in 1972. It is named after its main presenter, hence its current name, Covebo Stadion De Koel .
Results [edit ]
Players [edit ]
stream team [edit ]
- As of 19 September 2021[10]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
retire numbers [edit ]
28 — 
Beau Vilters, defender ( 2014–15 ) — posthumous honour
luminary players [edit ]
domestic results [edit ]
Below is a table with VVV-Venlo ‘s domestic results since the introduction of the Eredivisie in 1956 .