S.C.V. Bintang Lahir 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 located in

Groningen Groningen ( , ; ; or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen (province), Groningen province in the Netherlands. Dubbed the "capital of the north", Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of ...

, Suriname. Their home games are played at the

André Kamperveen Stadion André Kamperveen Stadium, formerly the National Stadion, is a multi-purpose stadium in Paramaribo, Suriname. Since its opening in 1953, the stadium has been the official home stadium of both football teams S.V. Transvaal and S.V. Robinhood and t ...

Paramaribo Paramaribo ( , , ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Suriname, located on the banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District. Paramaribo has a population of roughly 241,000 people (2012 census), almost half of Suriname's p ...

, and the division they play in is 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 highest tier in Surinamese football.

History

Bintang Lahir was founded in 1987. In the 2017–18 season, the club won the third tier of Surinamese football, the SVB Derde Divisie, and were promoted to the SVB Tweede Divisie. They achieved a consecutive promotion by finishing runners-up in the second division in the 2018–19 season, therefore securing a spot in the

2019–20 SVB Eerste Divisie The 2019–20 SVB Eerste Divisie was the 87th season of the SVB Eerste Divisie, the top division association football, football competition in Suriname. The season began on 6 December 2019 and prematurely ended on 13 March 2020 due to concerns surr ...

Honours

References

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