SBV Excelsior

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This article is about the dutch football club. For the Surinamese football baseball club, see S.V. Excelsior. For the women ‘s team, see SBV Excelsior ( women )
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Excelsior Rotterdam is a professional football club based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It was founded on 23 July 1902 and was once known as “ Rotterdamse Voetbal en Atletiek Vereniging Excelsior ” ( Rotterdam Football and Athletics Club Excelsior ). The club was relegated from the crown Dutch league, Eredivisie in 2007–08, and promoted back to the Eredivisie at the end of the 2009–10 season. After their relegation in 2012, the team returned to the Eredivisie two years later, but relegated again in 2019. Until 2005, Excelsior was a satellite baseball club of Feyenoord. As such, Feyenoord gave Excelsior money and players ( either on loan or free transmit ). In 2005, the yoke between the two clubs was severed. It was reinstated in 2009, resulting in the loanword of respective Feyenoord players to Excelsior for the 2009–10 season. Excelsior ‘s home stadium is the Stadion Woudestein – for sponsorship reasons known as the Van Donge & De Roo Stadion – which has a capacity of about 4,500, one of the smallest stadiums hosting professional football in the Netherlands. The chief rival of Excelsior is Sparta, another professional football team from Rotterdam .

history [edit ]

early history [edit ]

Excelsior were officially formed on 23 July 1902 as Rotterdamse Voetbal en Atletiek Vereniging Excelsior ( english : Rotterdam Football and Athletics Club Excelsior ). however, the initial founders of the club, a group of close friends located in the Kralingen district of Rotterdam, were already playing their football matches together on the fields of the eighteenth century buitenplaats Woudesteyn. After the actual administration of the club, the municipality officially gave permission to use the domain. [ 2 ] As football was still an elite sport at the beginning of the twentieth century, Excelsior became one of the first work class clubs in the Netherlands. [ 3 ] In the season 1945–46, Excelsior gained their first gear success by promoting to the Eerste Klasse, the highest grade of Dutch football before professional football was introduced in 1954. The deciding match against VUC was played in De Kuip and attracted 52.000 spectators. Excelsior relegated in the next season, but managed to promote for the second base time in the temper 1951–52. After the introduction of professional football, Excelsior won the Eerste Divisie championship three times ( 1974, 1979 and 2006 ) and promoted to the Eredivisie diverse times, normally to relegate not long afterwards. Excelsior once reached the KNVB Cup final examination in the season 1929–30, but lost the match to fellow Rotterdam club Feyenoord ( 0–1 ). Excelsior ‘s biggest pre-war accomplishment was the succeed of the Zilveren Bal trophy. Excelsior beat Feyenoord ( 5–0 ) in the finals of the highly rated pre-season tournament. [ 3 ]

Pioneering [edit ]

Besides Excelsior, there are two more professional club from Rotterdam ; Feyenoord and Sparta. Being the smallest professional club in Rotterdam, Excelsior always had to be creative to survive. This creativity made Excelsior play a pioneer role within Dutch football. In the mid-fifties, Excelsior were the leading club behind the presentation of professional football in the Netherlands. When the KNVB continued to refuse payments in football, Excelsior president Henk Zon and board member Aad Libregts managed to persuade affiliation president of the united states Hans Hopster, in cooperation with the directors of Feyenoord, Sparta and ADO Den Haag. In August 1954 the KNVB accepted the marriage proposal and professional football was introduced .
Excelsior in the 1963/64 Season In 1958 Excelsior became the first Dutch club with cover stands. late, in 1974, Excelsior besides were the first Dutch clubhouse with shirt advertise. Against the then existing rules, the clubhouse put an ‘A ‘ on the shirt. The character was supposed to stand for ‘Team A ‘, but in reality it stood for Akai, the company of main investor Rob Albers. The KNVB decided to ban the ‘A ‘ from the shirt and it would take until 1982 for shirt advertise to be introduced. Akai would adorn the shirts of Excelsior until the season 1999–00. [ 3 ]

Feyenoord partnership [edit ]

In 1979, Excelsior president Jaap Bontenbal and Feyenoord director Peter Stephan were at the start of the stopping point kinship between the two Rotterdam clubs Excelsior and Feyenoord. The finger tight relationship that existed between the two clubs since then was contractually sealed in 1996 with an official partnership. Excelsior became Feyenoord ‘s feeder club and provided have and train for young talented Feyenoord players. [ 3 ] On 20 December 2008, Feyenoord announced not to renew the partnership contract with Excelsior due to fiscal and flexibility reasons. [ 4 ] however, lone five months subsequently, Feyenoord and Excelsior agreed on an evening more across-the-board partnership. As partially of the new agreement, the clubs started a joint regional youth academy called Feyenoord Academy and merged the club ‘s reserve teams. besides, Excelsior continued to be Feyenoord ‘s self-feeder club. Excelsior ‘s managing film director Simon Kelder was pleased with the new extensive partnership : “ I already regretted the earlier secession of cooperation from Feyenoord, but now we get something better in return. It does n’t only reduces the costs, but I am besides convinced both clubs will benefit on sportive grounds. ” [ 5 ] A majority of the Excelsior fans have always been against a partnership with Feyenoord. Michel vanguard five hundred Neut, president of Excelsior ‘s supporters club, claimed : “ Excelsior sold her person with the extend partnership. Excelsior simply stops existing this way. ” [ 6 ]

holocene history [edit ]

In 2010 Excelsior returned to the highest tier of Dutch football, after defeating crosstown equal Sparta Rotterdam in the concluding of the Eredivisie promotion/relegation play-offs. The team was by and large composed by Feyenoord loanees and was coached by former Feyenoord youth bus Alex Pastoor. In the 2010–11 season Excelsior made a fly start in the Eredivisie, gaining ten points in its first five matches, including a home plate victory in the Rotterdam bowler hat against Feyenoord ( 3–2 ). In the remainder of the season, Excelsior upset some of the larger league teams at home, winning against AZ and getting draws against Groningen and eventual league champions Ajax. In the final peer of the unconstipated season, Excelsior got a 4–1 succeed away at Vitesse Arnhem, a leave that left them one goal short of staying up. Finishing 16th, Excelsior had to face FC Den Bosch and Helmond Sport in the relegation / promotion play-offs. A 4–2 home winnings against Helmond sport ensured another season of Eredivisie football for Excelsior.

stadium [edit ]

Excelsior ‘s family venue is Stadion Woudestein, which has a capacitance of 3,531 seats, one of the smallest stadiums hosting master football in the Netherlands. The club had two short spells at different locations. For the season 1907–08 Excelsior played on the Afrikaanderplein. After returning to Woudestein, Excelsior moved to the Toepad terrain for seasons 1922–39. When the dutch politics decided to build nautical barracks on the Toepad area right before the begin of the second world war, Excelsior moved back to the conversant Woudestein. [ 3 ] In the early nineties Excelsior went through a unmanageable period. The cabaret barely survived a fiscal crisis, but a newly appointed board under the chairmanship of Martin de Jager had one important goal ; a newly Excelsior stadium. versatile plans were made, one of them being a joint stadium for Excelsior and Sparta, but finally none of the plans were implemented. Due to fiscal pressure, Excelsior decided to take the dive and started renovating Woudestein themselves. The club built two new stands themselves and with the avail of the municipality the independent rack got renovated arsenic well, including occupation seats and office space. On 31 July 2000, the new stadium was opened with a friendly pit against Feyenoord. [ 7 ] When Excelsior promoted to the Eredivisie after the season 2009–10, the clubhouse decided to replace the grass airfoil with artificial turf. Main reason for the change was the miss of fiscal resources to install under-soil heating system, which is mandate for clubs participating on the highest level of Dutch football. [ 8 ]

Honours [edit ]

league [edit ]

domestic results [edit ]

Below is a table with Excelsior ‘s domestic results since the introduction of the Eredivisie in 1956 .

current team [edit ]

As of 19 September 2021

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

player of the year [edit ]

The Excelsior ‘Player of the Year ‘ award is voted for by the clubhouse ‘s supporters, in recognition of the best overall performance by an individual player throughout the football season. The annual election is organized by the supporters club Pro Excelsior since 1996. [ 9 ] [ 10 ]

Managers [edit ]

current staff [edit ]

former managers [edit ]

celebrated former players [edit ]

The players below had senior external cap ( mho ) for their respective countries. Players whose list is listed represented their countries while playing for Excelsior .