De Treffers

De Treffers
Full nameDe Treffers
Founded1 August 1919; 105 years ago (1919-08-01)
GroundSportpark Zuid, Groesbeek
Capacity4,700
ChairmanTheo Jochoms
ManagerLee-Roy Echteld
LeagueTweede Divisie
2023–24Tweede Divisie, 2nd of 18

De Treffers is an amateur football club from Groesbeek, Netherlands. The club plays in the Tweede Divisie, the highest amateur league of Dutch football.

History

It was founded in 1919, and its first chairman was Jan Piepenbreier. De Treffers has been a member of the Royal Dutch Football Association since around 1930. In the seasons 1935–1936 and 1936–1937 it was champion of the eastern district of the Eerste Klasse (First amateur league), at the time the highest league in Dutch amateur football. In both seasons De Treffers failed to win the national amateur championship.

After the Second World War De Treffers performed less well. In the 1961–1962 season De Treffers was promoted from Derde Klasse (Third amateur league) to Tweede Klasse (Second amateur league). From 1963 to 1974, with the exception of the 1971–1972 season, De Treffers played in the Eerste Klasse (First amateur league).

From 1974 to 2010, De Treffers participated in the Sunday Hoofdklasse. De Treffers were the only team to play so constantly in the Hoofdklasse during these years. The football club has won the district championship of the Hoofdklasse six times (in 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1998, and 2005). In 1988, 1991, and 1998 De Treffers also won the Sunday amateur championships, and in 1991 and 1998 De Treffers became champion of Dutch amateur football in general.

In 2010 it was promoted to the newly formed Topklasse, the highest amateur league. De Treffers has since qualified for the Tweede Divisie which, since 2016, has succeeded Topklasse as the highest amateur division in the Netherlands.

Current squad

As of 1 February 2024

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Netherlands NED Niels Kornelis
3 DF Netherlands NED Gino van den Berg
4 DF Netherlands NED Guus Joppen
5 DF Netherlands NED Bryan Sirvania
6 MF Netherlands NED Ricardo Ippel (captain)
8 DF Morocco MAR Azzedine Dkidak
9 FW Netherlands NED Jordy Thomassen
10 MF Netherlands NED Willem den Dekker
11 FW Netherlands NED Gavin Vlijter
12 DF Netherlands NED Jorn van Hedel
14 FW Netherlands NED Torino Hunte
16 FW Netherlands NED Levi Titulaer
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF Netherlands NED Ruben van Strien
19 FW Netherlands NED Tim Waterink
20 MF Netherlands NED Daan van Hees
21 MF Netherlands NED Tjeu Langeveld
22 MF Netherlands NED Justin Woudstra
23 MF Netherlands NED Teun Heijmans
24 DF Netherlands NED Dean van der Sluys
26 FW Netherlands NED Morad El Haddouti
27 FW Netherlands NED Oussama Bouyaghlafen
28 GK Netherlands NED Nick Borgman
30 FW Netherlands NED Yassin Hamdi

Wyke Wanderers Exchange

Each year the junior teams of De Treffers and Wyke Wanderers (an English amateur football club) take part in an event where the two teams meet each other and get to know one another. These take part in a series of activities followed by a football match this normally takes place for 4–5 days. One year the event will take place at De Treffers the following year it will take place at Wyke Wanderers.

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