FC Dordrecht

Football Club Dordrecht is a Dutch football club from the city of Dordrecht, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie.

Dordrecht
Full nameFootball Club Dordrecht
Nickname(s)Schapenkoppen (Sheep heads)
Founded16 August 1883 (1883-08-16)
GroundRiwal Hoogwerkers Stadion,
Dordrecht
Capacity4,235
ChairmanHans de Zeeuw
ManagerHarry van der Ham
LeagueEerste Divisie
2018–19Eerste Divisie, 17th
WebsiteClub website

History

DFC

Founded on 16 August 1883 as Dordrechtsche Football Club (DFC), it became a professional club in 1954 upon the introduction of professional football to the Netherlands. The next significant events were in 1972, at which time the professional branch of DFC was renamed FC Dordrecht, and In 1974 when the professionals and amateurs severed their ties.[1]

DS '79

Following their reorganisation in 1979 (which led to a change in name to Drechtsteden'79 (DS '79) – referring to the region Drechtsteden), the club was promoted to the Eredivisie in 1983. This however was not to last and was immediately followed by a relegation back to the Eerste Divisie. They went back up to the Eredivisie in 1988/1989 season.

Dordrecht '90

In 1990, another investor gave the club its third name of Dordrecht '90. The club just missed promotion to the Eredivisie in 1991, but was finally admitted when Dordrecht'90 surprisingly merged with neighbouring Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging (SVV) of Schiedam. The club used the name of SVV/Dordrecht'90 for two seasons, but in 1993, the 'SVV' was dropped and the club was renamed Dordrecht '90.

FC Dordrecht

Finally in 2002, the club was again renamed, to the name it bore from 1972 to 1979: FC Dordrecht and that is how the name stands today. For a number of years it was one of the clubs with the lowest average attendance of all Dutch professional teams.[2] Undoubtedly the most famous player to wear a Dordrecht shirt was Johan Cruijff, who played 3 friendly matches for the club in January 1981.

Honours

Results
Eerste DivisieEredivisie

Domestic results

Below is a table with FC Dordrecht's domestic results since the introduction of professional football in 1956.

Current squad
As of 22 January 2020

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  NED Petar Stošković
2 DF  NED Stef Gronsveld
3 DF  NED Daniël Breedijk (captain)
4 DF  NED Dylan de Braal
6 DF  BRA Fabian
7 FW  NED Jari Schuurman
8 MF  NED Jordy Wehrmann (on loan from Feyenoord)
9 FW  NED Danzell Gravenberch
10 MF  AUT Renny Smith
11 MF  NED Achraf el Bouchataoui (on loan from Feyenoord)
12 DF  NED Lewis Montsma
14 MF  GRE Savvas Mourgos (on loan from Norwich City)
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 DF  NED Dwayne Green
16 MF  NED Thomas Kok
18 MF  NED Kevin Vermeulen
19 FW  NED Thomas Schalekamp
24 DF  NED Ian Smeulers (on loan from Feyenoord)
25 MF  NED Quincy Hogesteger
26 MF  NED Nelson Amadin
27 FW  CUW Jaron Vicario
28 DF  GHA Robin Polley (on loan from ADO Den Haag)
30 FW  NED Amien Jeddaoui
31 GK  NED Mike Havekotte (on loan from ADO Den Haag)
32 GK  NED Andries Noppert

On loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
5 DF  ENG Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill (at Excelsior until 30 June 2020)
gollark: It's a network because there are two servers.
gollark: I got bored and decided to make (technically) an IRC network with a friend! So you can connect to irc.osmarks.tk port 6667 (I couldn't make SSL work properly due to some kind of protocol version mismatch).
gollark: 15:57:41 plus or minus a few seconds.
gollark: Sometimes you do actually want a laptop.
gollark: Optiplexen are desktops, no?

References
  1. Het Vrije Volk 8 May 1974: Scheiding DFC en FC Dordrecht
  2. Historical attendances Archived 2 February 2011 at WebCite

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.