FC Den Bosch

FC Den Bosch

Full name	Football Club Den Bosch
Nickname(s)	The Blue White Dragons
Founded	August 18, 1965 (1965-08-18)
Ground	de Vliert, 's-Hertogenbosch (Capacity: 8,500)
Chairman	Bert Kersten
Manager	Alfons Groenendijk
League	Eerste Divisie
2010–11	Eerste Divisie, 8th
Home colours Away colours

FC Den Bosch (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛf ˈseː dɛmˈbɔs]) is a football club from 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

It was founded August 18, 1965 as FC Den Bosch/BVV. It is the successor of BVV (1906) and Wilhelmina (1890). Its stadium is called 'De Vliert', a 8,500 all-seater. Ruud van Nistelrooy started his professional career at this club. In 2005 they finished bottom of the Eredivisie and were relegated.

Honours

• Dutch Champion
  • Winner: 1948 (as BVV)

• Eerste Divisie
  • Winner: 1971, 1999, 2001, 2004

• KNVB Cup
  • Runners-up: 1991

• Tweede Divisie
  • Winner: 1966, 1971, 1999, 2001 and 2004

• Promoted to Eredivisie
  • Promotion: 1983, 1992

• Promoted to Eerste Divisie
  • Promotion: 1963

Current squad

As of 1 August 2011

For recent transfers, see List of Dutch football transfers summer 2011

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Kevin Begois 2 DF Kees van Buuren 3 DF Daan van Dinter 4 DF Jordens Peters (captain) 5 DF Tim Hofstede 6 MF Bart van Brakel 7 FW Jeffrey Vlug 8 MF Osama Rashid 9 FW Ralf Seuntjes 10 MF Benjamin van den Broek 11 FW Danny Verbeek 12 FW Tom van Weert 13 DF Jeffrey Buitenhuis

No. Position Player 14 FW Hasan Kiliç 15 FW Ronnie Reniers 16 GK Bruno Appels 17 MF Paco van Moorsel 18 DF Joey Brock 20 DF Jeffrey Fortes 21 DF Stijn de Looijer 22 FW Gevaro Nepomuceno 23 DF Nick Netten 24 DF Mike Scholten 25 MF Julian Willems 26 MF Maarten Boddaert

Managers

Ben Tap (1965–70) Jan Remmers (1970–74) Nol de Ruiter (1974–76) Ad Zonderland (1976–78) Rinus Gosens (1979–80) Ad Zonderland (1980) Hans Verèl (1981–84) Rinus Israel (1984–86) Theo de Jong (1986–89)

Rinus Israel (1989–90) Hans van der Pluijm (1990–95) Chris Dekker (1995–96) Kees Zwamborn (1996–98) Martin Koopman (1998-00) Mark Wotte (2000) André Wetzel & Jan van Grinsven (2000) Jan Poortvliet (2000–01) Wiljan Vloet (2001–02)

Gert Kruys (2002–04) Henk Wisman (2004–05) Jan van Grinsven, Fred van der Hoorn & Wim van der Horst (2005) Theo Bos (2005–09) Jan van Grinsven, Fred van der Hoorn & Wim van der Horst (2009) Marc Brys (2009–10) Alfons Groenendijk (2010-)

Notable players

Co Adriaanse Gerard Aichorn Regi Blinker Marcel Brands Ruud Brood Jack de Gier Hans Gillhaus Jan van Grinsven

Radjin de Haan Fred van der Hoorn Wim van der Horst Hans Kraay Jr. Hendrie Krüzen Harry van der Laan Theo Lucius Anthony Lurling

Ruud van Nistelrooy Fabian de Freitas Ton Patinama Arnold Scholten Usman Ghani Michel Vorm Otman Bakkal Željko Petrović

Statistics

SEASON	CLUBTOPSCORER	GOALS	DIVISION	ATTENDANCE	RANK	MANAGER
1965–66	Frans Olde Riekerink	17	Tweede Divisie	6.640	1	Ben Tap
1966–67	Frans Olde Riekerink	14	Eerste Divisie	6.895	5	Ben Tap
1967–68	Ben Tinus	17	Eerste Divisie	7.670	3	Ben Tap
1968–69	Eef Mulders	9	Eerste Divisie	5.350	9	Ben Tap
1969–70	Eef Mulders	10	Eerste Divisie	3.810	5	Ben Tap
1970–71	Leo Ouwens	11	Eerste Divisie	8.400	1	Jan Remmers
1971–72	Ilja Mitić	9	Eredivisie	11.870	16	Jan Remmers
1972–73	Dick Beek	5	Eredivisie	8.645	18	Jan Remmers
1973–74	Dick Beek	6	Eerste Divisie	2.895	17	Jan Remmers
1974–75	Jos Peltzer	10	Eerste Divisie	3.085	10	Nol de Ruiter
1975–76	Jos Peltzer	10	Eerste Divisie	2.210	10	Nol de Ruiter
1976–77	Jan Peters	18	Eerste Divisie	2.415	12	Ad Zonderland
1977–78	Jan Peters	19	Eerste Divisie	3.517	8	Ad Zonderland
1978–79	Bert Nijdam	9	Eerste Divisie	3.700	7	Rinus Gosens
1979–80	Arie Romijn	16	Eerste Divisie	4.700	4	Rinus Gosens / Ad Zonderland
1980–81	Arie Romijn	10	Eerste Divisie	2.355	6	Ad Zonderland / Hans Verèl
1981–82	Arie Romijn	16	Eerste Divisie	2.870	5	Hans Verèl
1982–83	Wim van der Horst	17	Eerste Divisie	2.788	3	Hans Verèl
1983–84	Wim van der Horst	14	Eredivisie	7.154	10	Hans Verèl
1984–85	Peter van der Waart	12	Eredivisie	5.406	6	Rinus Israël
1985–86	Hans Gillhaus	16	Eredivisie	6.367	6	Rinus Israël
1986–87	Hans Gillhaus	17	Eredivisie	5.309	10	Theo de Jong
1987–88	Hendrie Krüzen	12	Eredivisie	3.938	7	Theo de Jong
1988–89	Mart van Duren	15	Eredivisie	3.803	7	Theo de Jong
1989–90	Peter Barendse	7	Eredivisie	3.521	17	Rinus Israël
1990–91	Jack de Gier	23	Eerste Divisie	1.334	17	Rinus Israël / Hans van der Pluym
1991–92	Geert Brusselers	13	Eerste Divisie	2.007	2	Hans van der Pluym
1992–93	Dirk Jan Derksen	10	Eerste Divisie	3.231	19	Hans van der Pluym
1993–94	Stefan Jansen	14	Eerste Divisie	1.626	11	Hans van der Pluym
1994–95	Orpheo Keizerweerd	7	Eerste Divisie	1.198	18	Hans van der Pluym
1995–96	Anthony Lurling	19	Eerste Divisie	2.735	3	Chris Dekker
1996–97	Ruud van Nistelrooy	12	Eerste Divisie	2.034	7	Kees Zwamborn
1997–98	Thijs Waterink	14	Eerste Divisie	2.405	4	Kees Zwamborn
1998–99	Harry van der Laan	30	Eerste Divisie	3.245	1	Kees Zwamborn / Martin Koopman
1999-00	Henk Vos	11	Eredivisie	4.240	18	Martin Koopman / Mark Wotte
2000–01	Bart Van Den Eede	23	Eerste Divisie	3.330	1	Mark Wotte / Jan Poortvliet
2001–02	Bart Van Den Eede	14	Eredivisie	5.190	16	Wiljan Vloet
2002–03	Stefan Jansen	20	Eerste Divisie	3.919	5	Gert Kruys
2003–04	Stefan Jansen	25	Eerste Divisie	3.701	1	Gert Kruys
2004–05	Koen van de Laak	6	Eredivisie	5.790	18	Henk Wisman / Jan van Grinsven ao
2005–06	Berry Powel	19	Eerste Divisie	3.388	7	Theo Bos

See also

• Dutch football league teams

External links

• Official website