HVV (Haagse Voetbal Vereniging;
Dutch for The Hague Football Club) is an amateur
football
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club in
The Hague
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,
Netherlands
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.
[
] It was founded in 1883 as an extension of HCC, (The)'' Hague
Cricket
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Club''. In 1978, on the occasion of the club's centenary,
Queen Juliana
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Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Duke ...
granted the club
royal patronage, with prefix ''Koninklijke'' ("Royal"), because of its pioneering role in sport,
including in the formation of the
Royal Dutch Football Association
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(KNVB) in 1889. Since then it has been called Koninklijke Haagse Cricket & Voetbal Vereniging (Royal The Hague Cricket & Football Club), abbreviated KHC&VV. The club's grounds since 1898 have been at the 1,200-capacity "De Diepput", on the border between
Benoordenhout and
Wassenaar
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An affluent suburb of The Hague, Wassenaar lies north of that city on the N44/A44 highway near the Nort ...
. It now also plays tennis,
squash and judo and has around 1750 members.
History
HVV was the most successful Dutch football club prior to
World War I
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, winning ten
Dutch championships between 1890 and 1914.
Two of its players won
bronze medal
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s with
the Dutch side in the
1912 Olympic football tournament. Subsequently, it was superseded as top club in the Hague by
HBS and then
ADO.
Its last season in top-flight football was 1932.
The introduction of
professionalism
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by the KNVB in 1954 did not affect lower division clubs such as HVV.
Former players
National team players
''The following players were called up to represent their
national teams in
international football and received
caps
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during their tenure with HVV Den Haag:
*
Law Adam
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(1925–1927; 1933)
*
Jan van Breda Kolff (1910–1913)
*
Joop Campioni (1918–1921)
*
Lo La Chapelle (1906–1908)
*
Constant Feith (1903–1920)
*
Dolf Heijnen (1914–1923)
*
John Heijning (1906–1912)
*
Karel Heijting (1904–1913)
*
Boelie Kessler (1918–1922)
*
Dé Kessler (1904–1920)
*
Dolf Kessler (1900–1907)
*
Tonny Kessler (1904–1923)
*
Miel van Leijden (1902–1912)
*
Guus Lutjens (1906–1911)
*
Dick MacNeill (1919–1921)
*
Miel Mundt (1899–1909)
*
Jan Noorduijn (1910–1916)
*
Marius Sandberg (1924–1931)
*
Jan Schoemaker (1902–1908)
*
Guus de Serière (1909–1912)
*
Albert Snouck Hurgronje (1898–1909)
*
Eetje Sol (1898–1909)
*
Rens Vis (1924–1928)
* ''Years in brackets indicate careerspan with HVV Den Haag.''
Current status
HVV is now an amateur football club. The main squad, HVV 1, was promoted after the 2006–2007 season, and again in 2008–2009 season, and is now playing in the
Sunday Tweede Klasse C, the seventh tier of
football in the Netherlands
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, in KNVB District West 2.
Honours
Football
In May 2007, the KNVB endorsed a scheme for teams to wear one
gold star on their shirts for every ten national championships won; HVV are one of four teams eligible for a star, alongside
Ajax
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,
Feyenoord
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, and
PSV, three former
European champions. The first shirt emblazoned with the gold star will be sold at an
auction
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on 24 November 2007 to mark the opening of the club's new clubhouse.
*Eerste Klasse West &
Dutch national champions:
[
] 10
::
1890–91,
[
The West division was the only league in the Netherlands prior to 1896–7; subsequent National titles were won in playoffs against the champions of other regional leagues.
] 1895–96,
,
1900–01,
1901–02,
1902–03,
1904–05
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* One of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019
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* '' D ...
,
1906–07,
1909–10,
1913–14
*
KNVB Cup
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:
[
] 1
:: 1902–03
*KNVB Cup Runner-up:
3
:: 1898–99, 1903–04, 1909–10
[Performance achieved by the second team]
Cricket
HCC is the most successful cricket team in Dutch history. It won the first, unofficial, national championship in 1884.
Its first XI is still in the top division. It was so dominant after
World War I
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that its
second XI was allowed into the top division in 1925.
The following year these two sides shared the national title, and the second XI won it outright on several occasions.
:
*Dutch champions: 49
:: 1895, 1899, 1900(jt.), 1903, 1910(jt.), 1912, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926 (HCC and HCC(II) shared), 1927, 1928(II), 1929(II), 1930(II), 1931, 1932(II jt.), 1933, 1934, 1935(II), 1936, 1940(jt.), 1941, 1947, 1952(II), 1955(II), 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961(II), 1963, 1964, 1965 (jt.), 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973(II), 1976, 1985, 2008, 2020, 2022
Coaching history
Source:
*
Jimmy Yates (1904)
*
Fred Coles (1908–1913)
*
Fred Warburton (1913–1935)
*
Fred Pagnam (1935), interim
*
Bert Bellamy (1935–1937)
*
Thomas Clay (1937–1939)
*
Bernard Oxley (1939–1940)
*
Gerrit van Wijhe (1940–1943)
*
Jan Wolf (1943–1945)
*
Gerrit van Osch (1945–1964)
*
Zoltan Szalai (1964), interim
*
Gerrit van Osch (1964–1966)
*
Cock Kroon (1966–1968)
*
Theo Creemers (1968–1969)
*
Harry de Vos (1969–1971)
*
Jan Mak (1971), interim
*
Geoffrey Burch (1971–1981)
*
Ab Aalberts (1981–1983)
*
Geert van Vugt (1983–1986)
*
Rob Wijnstok (1986–1989)
*
Frank Bijloos (1989–1992)
*
André Wetzel (1992–1997)
* Kees Mol (1997), interim
* Frank Kuyl (1997–2000)
* Wim Visser (2000–2003)
* Jan van der Laan (2003–2005)
* Harold Tjaden (2005–2007)
* Kees Mol (2007–2010)
* Faisal Soekhai (2010–2011)
* Hans Bal en Steven Faber (2011–2012), interim
* Albert van der Dussen (2012–2015)
* Edmund Vriesde (2015), interim
* Edmund Vriesde (2015–2018)
*
André Wetzel (2018 – present)
References
*Originally based on the
Dutch Wikipedia articles:
*
this version of the "HVV (Den Haag)" article*
this version of the "HCVV" article
Notes
External links
Official website for KHC&VV
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Multi-sport clubs in the Netherlands
Cricket teams in the Netherlands
Football clubs in the Netherlands
Football clubs in The Hague
Association football clubs established in 1883
1883 establishments in the Netherlands
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