Delfia Hollandia Combinatie, commonly known as DHC, is a football club from

Delft Delft () is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, and The Hague, to the northwest. Together with them, it is part of both the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan ...

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. DHC is currently playing in the Sunday

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A League (4th tier).

History

DHC played professional football from 1955 to 1968. The club played its first year in the Eerste Klasse, which was later changed to

Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie (, en, First Division) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie and with the third-level Tweede Divisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as th ...

. DHC finished bottom of the league in their first season of professional football and were relegated to the newly established Tweede Divisie. Three seasons later, DHC finished second in the Tweede Divisie and was promoted to the

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. DHC finished at second place twice in the Eerste Divisie. In 1967, DHC finished at last place in the

. Due to some financial problems, the club was forced to merge with the pro-section of Xerxes. Xerxes was playing in the

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, so one season later, Xerxes/DHC'66 also played in the

. The club however played its matches on the Xerxes ground in

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instead of playing in Delft. Xerxes/DHC'66 finished at 7th place, but was disbanded due to ongoing financial problems. Because of the merger with Xerxes, DHC started a new amateur section in 1966, which started to play in the Vierde Klasse (the seventh tier in Dutch football at the time). A little over a decade later, DHC played in the highest leagues of amateur football again. DHC won the 1979 KNVB District Cup for Sunday amateur clubs in the West 2 District. In 1983 and 1985, DHC became national champions of Sunday amateur football.

Coaching history

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(1922–) *

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(1931–1934) * Sam Wadsworth (1934–1935) * Bert Bellamy (1937–1938) *

(–1940) * Joop van Nellen (1940–1941) * Peter Dougall (1948–) * Coen Delsen (–1954) * Eef Ruisch (1954–1956) * Jan van Buitenen (1957–1960) * Friedrich Donenfeld (1961–1962) * Liest van der Geest (1962–1963) * Rinus Loof (1963–1965) * Liest van der Geest (1965–1967) * Guus Haak (1973–1990) * Rob de Lange (2008 – present)

References

External links

Official site
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