The Asser Christelijke Voetbalvereniging, known as ACV, is a

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

club based in the town of

Assen Assen () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands, and is the capital (politics), capital of the province of Drenthe. It received City rights in ...

, Netherlands, that competes in the

Tweede Divisie Tweede Divisie (; ) is the highest amateur (and historically the lowest professional) football league in the Netherlands. It was established in 1956, together with the Eredivisie and the Eerste Divisie. Between 1956 and 1960 and between 1962 and 19 ...

, the third tier of the

Dutch football league system The Dutch football league system consists of two fully professional leagues (Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie) and eight levels of amateur football leagues. The three highest amateur leagues, the Tweede, Derde and Vierde Divisie play in nationwide ...

. Founded in 1939, the team plays its home matches at Het Stadsbroek.

History

The club was founded in 1939. In 2008, the club was relegated for the first time since 1974 from the

Hoofdklasse The Vierde Divisie (; "Fourth Division"), formerly known as Hoofdklasse () is the second-highest league of amateur football in the Netherlands, and the fifth tier in general. Background The league was divided into two sections: Saturday and Sunda ...

. After one successful

Eerste Klasse The Eerste Klasse () started as the 1st tier of football in the Netherlands and is now the 6th tier. The league is divided into ten divisions. These divisions correspond to the six districts of the Royal Dutch Football Association: each district i ...

season, in 2009 ACV was promoted back to the Hoofdklasse as unbeaten champions. In 2017–18 and in 2020–21 it played in the

Derde Divisie The Derde Divisie (; ), formerly known as Topklasse (; ), is the fourth tier of football in the Netherlands, which had its inaugural season as a third tier in 2010–11 and as a fourth tier in 2016–17. The league is placed between the Tweede D ...

. In the 2022–23 season, ACV got promoted to the

after winning the Derde Divisie Saturday title.

Current squad

Honours

division title: 9 :: 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1993–94, 2001–02. *Saturday

title: 3 :: 1977–78, 1985–86 en 1986–87 *National

title: 2 :: 1977–78, 1985–86 *

Saturday title: 1 :: 2022-23

External links

Official website
{{Tweede Divisie Football clubs in the Netherlands Association football clubs established in 1939 1939 establishments in the Netherlands Football clubs in Drenthe Sport in Assen Asser Christelijke Voetbalvereniging