Ido's Football Club

Ido's Football Club, usually known as IFC, is a Dutch association football club from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht. Its grounds are at Sportpark Schildman.[1]

History

First years

Ido's Football Club was established on 20 October 1927, 2 years before its Saturday football rival ASWH, and initially played football only on Sundays. The establishment was a merger of street soccerclubs, HIVV, OVV and SDW.[2] Its members were for the most part left-oriented blue collar workers.[2] IFC's first ground was Den Dommes in Oostendam, later covered by a bridge and road over the Noord River.[2]

2010s

Since 2014 and occasionally before IFC also has a team for Saturday soccer. In 2016–2017 this team plays in the Derde Klasse of district South-I. IFC further features women teams,[3] youth teams, and senior teams. It engaged in women soccer already in the 1970s.

IFC's prime squad are male Sunday "amateurs" playing in the season 2016–2017 in Hoofdklasse B. Coach was Jack van den Berg, who was behind the promotion of the first squads of IFC and neighboring ASWH in the same season.[4]

In the 2017–2018 season, the first squads of Sunday and Saturday football are coached by Virgil Breetveld, who arrived in Ambacht after training SteDoCo.[1] Breetveld got sacked in March 2018. Gerard van der Mei replaces him as head coach of the Saturday football team, Robert Verbeek replaced him as head coach of the Sunday football team.

In 2019 the first male squad only just survived the relegation playoff from the Hoofdklasse. The first women squad won a section championship and promoted from the Derde Klasse to the Tweede Klasse.[5] In the summer of 2019, Jack van Berg is back as coach of IFC.[6]

References
  1. "Virgil Breetveld wordt trainer van IFC-zaterdag én IFC-zondag" [Virgil Breetveld will coach IFC Saturday and IFC Sunday]. Regio Voetbal. Goudriaan: Het Kontakt. 7 January 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2018. 'De club heeft de afgelopen jaren flinke sprongen gemaakt en ik hoop dat ze nog niet uitgesprongen zijn', glimlacht de komende zomer 50 jaar wordende oefenmeester. Hij volgt op sportpark Schildman Jack van den Berg (zondag) en Frank Zwakhals (zaterdag) op.
  2. "ifc-ambacht - Historie van IFC – intro". ifc-ambacht.nl. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  3. Lohman, Eline. "Steeds meer voetballende dames". De Kombinatie (Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht ed.). Retrieved 6 August 2020. Dan is er ook nog IFC Ambacht. Daar voetballen ongeveer 175 meiden/dames, vertelt Harry van der Graaf.
  4. "Jack van den Berg promoveert ook met ASWH" [Jack van den Berg promotes also with ASWH]. Barendrechts Dagblad. 5 June 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016. Jack van den Berg, de oud-trainer van BVV Barendrecht, levert dit seizoen een heel bijzondere prestatie, want een paar weken geleden werd hij kampioen met IFC (zo) en zaterdag promoveerde hij via de nacompetitie met ASWH.
  5. https://www.ifc-ambacht.nl/ifc-vr1-kampioen/
  6. https://www.voetbalrotterdam.nl/2019/06/jack-van-den-berg-tekent-voor-terugkeer-bij-ifc/
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