Quick 1888 (also referred to as Quick Nijmegen) is an amateur sporting club from

Nijmegen Nijmegen ( , ; Nijmeegs: ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and the ninth largest of the Netherlands as a whole. Located on the Waal River close to the German border, Nijmegen is one of the oldest cities in the ...

, Netherlands. It was founded in 1888 as a

cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...

club and currently plays football in the

Tweede Klasse The Tweede Klasse () is the seventh tier of football in the Netherlands and the fifth tier of Dutch amateur football. The league is divided into 21 divisions, 12 played on Saturday and nine on Sunday. Each division consists of 14 teams. The ch ...

, which is the fifth level of amateur football. As a football club, Quick reached its moment of fame in 1949 when it won the

Dutch Cup The KNVB Beker (; ), branded as the TOTO KNVB Beker for sponsorship reasons, is a competition in the Netherlands organised by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) since 1898. It was based on the format of the English FA Cup. Outside the N ...

of which a replica is on display in the club house. Afterwards the club lost the final of the

1949 Dutch Supercup The inaugural Dutch Supercup () was held on 25 June 1949 at the Goffertstadion in Nijmegen. The match featured the 1948–49 winners of the league title SVV, and, the winners of the 1948–49 KNVB Cup, Quick 1888. Both goals were scored ...

against

Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging SV SVV, short for Sportvereniging Schiedamse Voetbal Verenigingen, is a Dutch football club from Schiedam. Founded in 1904, the club won the Dutch national football title in 1949. In 1991, the professional branch of SVV and neighbouring Dordrec ...

. The club also has a

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and a

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

branch.

Dutch international football players

* Felix von Heijden 1 * Henk Steeman 1 * Piet Velthuizen 1

Cricket

As a cricket club, Quick has produced a number of national representatives in both men's and women's cricket. Most recently, two members represented the

Netherlands national women's cricket team The Netherlands women's national cricket team, nicknamed the ''Lionesses'', represents the Netherlands in international women's cricket. The team is organised by the Royal Dutch Cricket Association, which has been an associate member of the In ...

at the 2008 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier. The club is affiliated with the

Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond The Royal Dutch Cricket Association ( Dutch: Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond; KNCB) is the governing body of cricket in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was formed in 1890 and received a Royal charter in 1958. The KNCB is responsible for ...

. It currently has three teams, two senior men's and a veterans team, making it one of the larger cricket clubs in the east of the

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Tennis

Quick has two tennis courts.

External links

Official club website
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