FC Emmen

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FC Emmen
Full name	Football Club Emmen
Nickname(s)
Founded	August 21, 1925
Ground	Univé Stadion, Emmen
Capacity	8,600
Chairman	Ronald Lubbers
Manager	Jan van Dijk
League	Eerste Divisie
2005-06	Eerste Divisie, 6th
Home colours 　 Away colours

FC Emmen is a Dutch football club, playing in the country's Eerste Divisie

The club was formed on August 21, 1925. When the Dutch professional league was formed in 1954, FC Emmen decided to remain an amateur club. In 1985, FC Emmen finally joined the professional ranks. The amateur section of the club retained the name FC Emmen, but the professional section used the name BVO Emmen ( Betaald Voetbal Organisatie, professional football organisation). In 2005, the club decided to return to the name 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's Univé Stadion, more popularly known as De Meerdijk, was the scene of several matches of the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship.

[edit] Current squad 2006/2007

–– Raymond Beukeveld –– Christy Bonevacia –– Robin Demeijer –– Rachid El Khalifi –– Georg Geers –– Geoffrey Verweij –– Jordi Hoogstrate –– Laurens Huizenga –– Martijn Kamps –– Frank Karreman –– Niki Leferink –– Mark Bevaart

–– Mark Zegers –– Mourad Mghizrat –– Ronald Breinburg –– Roy Stroeve –– Stanley Tailor –– Brian Tevreden –– Bas van den Brink –– Sergio van Dijk –– Robert van Westerop –– Mark Veldmate –– Jannes Wolters

Dutch Eerste Divisie
AGOVV | Cambuur | Den Bosch | Dordrecht | Eindhoven | Emmen | Fortuna Sittard | Go Ahead Eagles | De Graafschap | HFC Haarlem | Helmond Sport | MVV | Omniworld | RBC | Stormvogels Telstar | TOP Oss | Veendam | Volendam | VVV | Zwolle
Royal Netherlands Football Association - edit