SV Spakenburg

The club was founded on 15 August 1931 as Stormvogels and soon renamed Windvogels. In 1947 it merged with a local gymnastics team to become Sportverening Spakenburg. It joined the Eerste Klasse in the 1970–71 season under coach Joop van Basten, father of legendary Dutch striker Marco van Basten, and clinched their first league title in 1974. It became champions again in 1985, also winning the overall Dutch amateur league title, and in 1987, 2000 and 2008.

It joined the Topklasse for its inaugural season in 2010. In its first season, Spakenburg was one of only three clubs (the other ones being Rijnsburgse Boys and FC Oss) to declare themselves eligible for promotion to Eerste Divisie; despite that, Spakenburg failed to qualify to the competition finals as they ended the regular season in second place behind city rivals IJsselmeervogels.

In the 2022–23 season, Spakenburg had an impressive run in the KNVB Cup competition. On 28 February, Spakenburg defeated FC Utrecht 1–4 away in the quarter-finals and became the third amateur team ever to qualify for the semi-finals.[1]

As of 11 April 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 Leon ter Wielen 2 DF  NED Jasper Beekhuis 3 DF  NED Barry Beijer (captain) 4 DF  NED Tom van der Neut 5 DF  NED Koos Werkman 6 MF  NED Roy Terschegget 7 DF  NED Nathaniël Will 8 MF  NED Mike Vreekamp 9 FW  NED Marlon Versteeg (on loan from De Graafschap) 10 MF  NED Roy Castien 11 MF  NED Tim Brinkman

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 FW  NED Jordi Bitter 17 FW  NED Kevin Sterling 20 FW  NED Robin Eindhoven 22 DF  NED Thomas van den Houten 23 GK  NED Jordy Deckers 24 DF  NED Marvin Renfurm 25 MF  NED Everton Pires Tavares 27 MF  NED Majid Ghaddari 28 MF  NED Jan van Diermen 29 MF  NED Youri Koelewijn 97 FW  NED Vince Gino Dekker

Out 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 10 MF  NED Jasper Waalkens (at DOVO until 30 June 2020) 31 MF  NED Wouter Beukers (at VV Eemdijk until 30 June 2020)

IJsselmeervogels and SV Spakenburg have been playing at the same level since they were founded. Over the years there an atmosphere had emerged around the derby matches which is unique in amateur football. The club of "the people and the fishermen" (IJsselmeervogels, also known as "The Reds") against the "farmers and clerks" (SV spakenburg, "the Blues"). Their rivalry reached boiling point in 1987, when during the second but last match a bomb made by a supporter of IJsselmeervogels exploded and a linesman was wounded. In the years that followed, until the mid-1990s, the clubs were separated. In 1999, however, the relationship between the two clubs cooled considerably when Spakenburg offered a much money to sign two star players from the "red championship team" (Gérard van der Nooij and Pascal de Bruijn) and have them play for "the Blues". The affair becomes so big that local government banned the derby for a few year. Since 2002 the peace has returned and IJsselmeervogels and Spakenburg are playing against each other again. It is estimated that the edition of 16 April 2011 was visited by almost 9,000 people. In the stands there are many crowd chants and there is always a great atmosphere. The media spend much time on the derby, which is covered in sports magazines like Voetbal International and Dutch National broadcaster NOS.

• (in Dutch) Official website