FC Emmen

FC Emmen
Full name	Football Club Emmen
Nickname(s)	Emmen
Founded	August 21, 1925
Ground	De Oude Meerdijk; Emmen
Capacity	8,600
Manager	Dick Lukkien
League	Eredivisie
2017–18	Eerste Divisie, 7th (Promoted via play-offs)
Home colours	Away colours

FC Emmen is a Dutch football club based in Emmen, Drenthe, who play in the Eredivisie, the first tier of football in the Netherlands.

History

The amateur club Emmen was formed on August 21, 1925. When the Dutch professional league was formed in 1954,Emmen opted to maintain its amateur club status instead. ^[1]

In 1985, Emmen finally joined the professional ranks. In 1988 the club was split up in an amateur and a professional section. The latter was mostly called BVO Emmen ( Betaald Voetbal Organisatie, professional football organisation). In 2005, the professional club Emmen changed its name into FC Emmen, for two reasons. Firstly, it was hoped that the new name would better reflect the club's history, and secondly because many misunderstandings had arisen, among people who had grown to believe that BVO was an abbreviation similar to for instance PSV, RBC or ADO.

FC Emmen has reached the Eerste Divisie play-offs eleven times and on May 20th, 2018, they managed to clinch promotion to the Dutch Eredivisie for the first time in their history after beating Sparta Rotterdam 3-1 in the promotion/relegation play-off finals.^[2]

They played their first Eredivisie match on 12 August 2018 against ADO, and won the match by 1–2. Glenn Bijl made the first goal for FC Emmen in the Eredivisie. ^[3]

Stadium

FC Emmen's previous JenS Vesting, more popularly known as De Meerdijk, now as de, Oude Meerdijk was the scene of several matches of the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Results

Season	League	Rank	Games	Points	GF	GA	Manager	Topscorer	Goals
1985–86	Eerste divisie	18	36	24	30	54	Theo Verlangen	Henry Pelleboer	8
1986–87	Eerste divisie	16	36	26	41	59	Theo Verlangen	Rudy Metz	15
1987–88	Eerste divisie	18	36	22	29	59	Theo Verlangen	Gerrie Schaap	6
1988–89	Eerste divisie	18	36	20	39	91	Ben Hendriks	Willem Brouwer	13
1988–89	Eerste divisie	6	36	38	53	47	Ben Hendriks	Jan de Jonge	16
1990–91	Eerste divisie	12	38	36	54	67	Ben Hendriks	Michel van Oostrum	24
1991–92	Eerste divisie	18	38	29	37	56	Piet Buter	Jan de Jonge	13
1992–93	Eerste divisie	12	34	27	44	66	René Notten	Jan de Jonge	14
1993–94	Eerste divisie	9	34	36	49	58	René Notten	Jan de Jonge	14
1994–95	Eerste divisie	10	34	35	56	61	Leen Looyen	Antti Sumiala	9
1995–96	Eerste divisie	2	34	67	71	39	Azing Griever	Michel van Oostrum	26
1996–97	Eerste divisie	3	34	63	58	36	Azing Griever	Michel van Oostrum	25
1997–98	Eerste divisie	3	34	61	64	45	Azing Griever	Michel van Oostrum	18
1998–99	Eerste divisie	3	34	61	53	37	Azing Griever	Michel van Oostrum	11
1999-00	Eerste divisie	5	34	58	53	45	Jan de Jonge	Michel van Oostrum Peter Hofstede	13
2000–01	Eerste divisie	11	34	41	53	64	Jan de Jonge	Peter Hofstede	14
2001–02	Eerste divisie	5	34	59	53	43	Hennie Spijkerman	Paul Weerman	14
2002–03	Eerste divisie	2	34	75	66	33	Hennie Spijkerman	Donny de Groot	30
2003–04	Eerste divisie	8	36	61	65	54	Hennie Spijkerman	Dirk Jan Derksen	14
2004–05	Eerste divisie	18	36	30	38	71	Jan Olde Riekerink	Niki Leferink	11
2005–06	Eerste divisie	6	38	60	68	56	Jan van Dijk	Serginho van Dijk Mourad Mghizrat	18
2006–07	Eerste divisie	11	38	48	59	65	Jan van Dijk ^[4]	Serginho van Dijk	12
2007–08	Eerste divisie	9	38	53	61	74	Gerry Hamstra	Morten Friis Jensen Roy Stroeve	12
2008–09	Eerste divisie	13	38	47	48	68	Gerry Hamstra ^[5]	Roy Stroeve	13
2009–10	Eerste divisie	15	36	48	51	79	Harry Sinkgraven	Hans Denissen / Ruud ter Heide	12
2010–11	Eerste divisie	13	34	35	48	64	Azing Griever / René Hake	Ruud ter Heide	15
2011–12	Eerste divisie	18	34	17	24	73	René Hake	Ruud ter Heide	5
2012–13	Eerste divisie	12	30	32	38	52	Joop Gall	Ruud ter Heide / Wout Weghorst	8
2013–14	Eerste divisie	12	38	51	64	68	Joop Gall	Roland Bergkamp	14
2014–15	Eerste divisie	4	38	67	88	57	Joop Gall	Cas Peters	23
2015–16	Eerste divisie	7	38	51	58	57	Marcel Keizer / Gert Heerkes	Erixon Danso	14
2016–17	Eerste divisie	9	38	55	50	40	Dick Lukkien	Cas Peters	14
2017–18	Eerste divisie	7	38	58	58	50	Dick Lukkien	Cas Peters	17
2018–19	Eredivisie	0	0	0	0	0	Dick Lukkien

Current squad

As of 1 September 2018^[6]

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

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Peter van der Vlag
2	DF	Stef Gronsveld
3	DF	Tim Siekman
4	DF	Nick Bakker
5	DF	Gersom Klok (2nd vice-captain)
6	FW	Anco Jansen (vice-captain)
7	MF	Wouter Marinus
8	MF	Hilal Ben Moussa
9	FW	Nicklas Pedersen
10	MF	Alexander Bannink
11	MF	Reuven Niemeijer (on loan from Heracles Almelo)
12	GK	Kjell Scherpen
13	DF	Keziah Veendorp
14	MF	Jason Bourdouxhe
15	DF	Easah Suliman (on loan from Aston Villa)

No.	Position	Player
16	FW	Kasper Oldenburger
17	FW	Luciano Slagveer (on loan from Lokeren)
18	MF	Emil Bijlsma
19	DF	Stephen Warmolts
20	MF	Michael Chacón
21	DF	Kjelt Engbers
22	DF	Caner Cavlan
23	DF	Glenn Bijl
24	DF	Daniel Camara Bos
25	FW	Jafar Arias
26	GK	Dennis Telgenkamp (captain)
27	MF	Delano Grootenhuis
28	MF	Rob Deiman
30	MF	Henk Bos
32	MF	Robbert de Vos

Honours

Sunday amateur football title: 1

1974–75

Sunday Hoofdklasse C: 1

1974–75

Best performance in the Dutch Cup: two times in the quarterfinals (KNVB Cup 1989-90 and KNVB Cup 1998-99).

Former technical directors

Rob Groener
Gerard Somer

References

↑ "FC Emmen history" (in Dutch). FC Emmen.
↑ Sparta degradeert uit Eredivisie, historische promotie FC Emmen - NU (in Dutch)
↑ "Emmen-doelpuntenmaker Bijl: 'In de bus kijken of ik al op Wikipedia sta'". NOS. 12 August 2018.
↑ Van Dijk was fired on 2007-02-17 and replaced by former player Alfons Arts, who gave over the job on 2007-03-07 to Gerry Hamstra.
↑ Hamstra was fired on 2008-10-13 and replaced by Thiemo Meertens. He handed over his job on 2008-10-23 to Paul Krabbe.
↑ "FC Emmen 2017-2018 squad" (in Dutch). FC Emmen. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

External links

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[1] "FC Emmen history" (in Dutch). FC Emmen.

[2] Sparta degradeert uit Eredivisie, historische promotie FC Emmen - NU (in Dutch)

[3] "Emmen-doelpuntenmaker Bijl: 'In de bus kijken of ik al op Wikipedia sta'". NOS. 12 August 2018.

[4] Van Dijk was fired on 2007-02-17 and replaced by former player Alfons Arts, who gave over the job on 2007-03-07 to Gerry Hamstra.

[5] Hamstra was fired on 2008-10-13 and replaced by Thiemo Meertens. He handed over his job on 2008-10-23 to Paul Krabbe.

[6] "FC Emmen 2017-2018 squad" (in Dutch). FC Emmen. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

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