Valken '68 is a Dutch football club from

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. It was founded in 1968 and plays its home games at Sportpark 't Duyfrak. The colors of Valken '68 are red-yellow, which are the colors of Valkenburg. The first squad plays in the

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Saturday since 2020. With 600 active members, Valken '68 is the smallest of the

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municipality's five football clubs after

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and

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History

After the discontinuation of Valken Boys in the 1950s, a new football club for the village of Valkenburg was founded in 1968. It played for a while at the KRV grounds in Katwijk aan den Rijn, then a football field on the Zonneveldslaan in Valkenburg became the ground of Valken '68. Sportpark 't Duyfrak was opened in 1974. Until 1996, the first squad played in the

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or outside the main KNVB league system. Since 1996 it hovers between the

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, Tweede and

. Since 2012 only between the Tweede and Eerste. The football club has a covered grandstand from 2005, while the first two synthetic turf pitches were installed three years later. A third synthetic turf pitch was realized in 2015. In 2018, Valken '68 was crushed 7–0 by

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in the Tweede Klasse playoffs for promoting to the Eerste Klasse. Valken '68 promoted in 2020 without playoffs, as the

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was already ongoing.

Associated people

Coaches

* Alan Campfens (since 2019)

Notable players

* Selmo Kurbegović (2018–2019)

References

{{Eerste Klasse Football clubs in the Netherlands 1968 establishments in the Netherlands Association football clubs established in 1968 Football clubs in Katwijk