Voetbalvereniging Pernis is a Dutch football club in Pernis,

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that emerged in 2011 from a technical merger between DOTO (founded 1933) and Excelsior Pernis (founded 1929). Its women's

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team, that won the national championship in 2016, plays in nearby

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. VV Pernis has three first squads; the women's futsal team plays in the

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. Both the men and women association football first squads play in their gender-specific

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. The male second squad plays in the Reserve Derde Klasse.

History

1929–2011: Excelsior Pernis

Excelsior Pernis was founded on 19 September 1929 as a merger of Volharding (founded 1925) and De Zwervers (founded 1926). It peaked in 1990–91 and again in 1996–99 when it played in the

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1933–2011: Door Ontwikkeling Tot Ontspanning

Door Ontwikkeling Tot Ontspanning (DOTO) was founded on July 26, 1933. It peaked in 2005–10 when it played in the

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. A year later it merged into Excelsior Pernis to become VV Pernis.

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played for DOTO starting in 2009.

2011–2014: VV Pernis merger and grounds change

At the 2011 merger, they continued under the new name vv Pernis. The combined club kept the official foundation date of Excelsior, 19 September 1929. The irregular "merger" also meant that the combined VV Pernis continued at the highest league of parent DOTO. VV Pernis played in the first merger year at Sportpark De Madroel, former home of Excelsior Pernis. Since January 2013, VV Pernis has moved to the former complex of DOTO and the members chose a new name for the sports park: Sportpark Pernis.

2014–2019: National championships women's futsal

In 2015, the male first squad relegated to the

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and in 2019 to the

. The Women's futsal team of VV Pernis plays in Schiedam and made history when, in season 2015–16, it won the Eredivisie championship. In 2017 the team participated in the

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along with the champions from Spain, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine and Italy. In 2018 the Women's Futsal Team won the national championship again, beating the women of

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after an extension, 1–2. It lost after the extension of the Cup finals to

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, 2–3. In the summer of 2018 the Pernis women became then female futsal branch of TPP Rotterdam, who won another national championship in 2019. Right after, TPP Rotterdam became the futsal branch of

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and won the Supercup.

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is among the team's players since 2018.

Since 2019: Vierde Klasse football

The 2019–20 season was broken off due to the

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with VV Pernis 1 exactly in the middle, the 7th place of 13 teams in

References

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