Sportverenging Honselersdijk is a football club from

Honselersdijk Honselersdijk is a town in the Netherlands, Dutch province of South Holland. It is home to the historic Huis Honselaarsdijk, former palatial estate of the Dutch Princes of Orange. Huis Honselaarsdijk was one of the finest examples of Baroque a ...

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. Since 2018 it plays in the

Eerste Klasse The Eerste Klasse () started as the 1st tier of football in the Netherlands and is now the 6th tier. The league is divided into ten divisions. These divisions correspond to the six districts of the Royal Dutch Football Association: each district i ...

. It plays at Sportpark de Strijphorst in an orange-white-blue kit. The club also has a successful futsal team.

History

20th century

Sportvereniging Honselersdijk was founded on 6 May 1964. In 1965–66 it beat the factory team of Van der Heem 12–0. In 1982 Honselersdijk joined the main leagues of the KNVB, starting in the

Vierde Klasse The Vierde Klasse () is the ninth tier of football in the Netherlands and the seventh tier of Dutch amateur football. This is the lowest league in the South I region. The league is divided into 55 divisions, 29 played on Saturday and 26 on Sunday ...

. Until 2018, Honselersdijk hovered between the Vierde, Derde and Tweede Klasse. It won a championship in the Vierde Klasse in 1988 and in the Derde Klasse in 1997.

21st century

In 2009–10 Honselersdijk beat VV Marine 9–0 and HSV Celeritas 12–0. In 2014, Honselersdijk had it biggest victory to-date, beating SC Zuiderpark 18–0 at De Strijphorst. Discontinuing this strike, it lost 0–8 against the first squad of

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. Feyenoord took on a handicap in this game, not replacing injured players. Eventually Feyenoord played 9 against 11 players. Since 2018 Honselersdijk plays in the Eerste Klasse, after entering the playoffs from the fourth position. In the second round of the playoffs Honselersdijk crushed Valken '68 7–0. Honselersdijk obtained fourth place in season one in the Eerste Klasse. Subsequent two seasons were impacted by the

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References

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