FC Groningen

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FC Groningen
FC Groningen
Full name Football Club Groningen
Nickname(s) Trots van het Noorden
(Pride of the North), The FC
Founded June 16, 1971
Ground Euroborg,
Groningen
Capacity 20,000
Chairman Ed Zijp
Manager Ron Jans
League Eredivisie
2005-06 Eredivisie, 5th
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FC Groningen is a football club from Groningen in the Netherlands.

The club was founded in June 16, 1971 by the Groningen Football and Athletics Association (GVAV, founded January 26, 1921). They enjoyed top flight football for most of their existence, although the club was relegated to the second division after the third season.

The club was then propelled back into success by the Koeman brothers, Ronald Koeman and his elder brother Erwin Koeman together with defending midfielder Jan van Dijk resulting in qualification to European football for the first time in the 1982/83 season. Their best season in the Eredivisie was during the 1990/91 season when they finished third.

FC Groningen's home colors are green and white. The club plays its home games in the 20,000 seat Euroborg stadium. In December 2005, the club played its last match ever in the 12,500 seat Oosterpark Stadion after having played there for 72 years. The average attendance in 2004/05 was 12,500 people. This has risen to just below 20,000 people in the new stadium.

The 2005/06 season turned out to be one of the best in a long time for FC Groningen, with the club finishing 5th place in the league. This allowed Groningen to enter the play-off tournament for the UEFA Champions League third round qualification. However, they were beaten by Ajax in the finals who scored a goal two minutes before the final whistle.

By finishing fifth in the league, FC Groningen qualified for European football for the first time in 14 years, where they were defeated 4-3 on aggregate in the first round by Partizan Belgrade.

FC Groningen Ranking Graph 1976-2005
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FC Groningen Ranking Graph 1976-2005

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[edit] Current squad 2006/2007

No. Position Player
1 Netherlands GK Bas Roorda
2 Uruguay DF Bruno Silva
3 Sierra Leone DF Gibril Sankoh
4 Netherlands DF Arnold Kruiswijk
5 Sweden DF Mathias Florén
6 Netherlands MF Paul Matthijs
7 Serbia MF Goran Lovre
8 Ukraine MF Yevgeny Levchenko
9 South Africa FW Glen Salmon
10 Norway FW Erik Nevland
11 Netherlands FW Yuri Cornelisse
No. Position Player
12 Czech Republic DF Ondrej Svejdik
13 Netherlands FW Koen van de Laak
14 Netherlands MF Danny Holla
15 Netherlands MF Stefano Seedorf
16 Netherlands GK Brian van Loo
17 Netherlands DF Antoine van der Linden
20 Uruguay FW Luis Suárez
21 Sweden MF Rasmus Lindgren
22 Netherlands MF Mark-Jan Fledderus
32 Netherlands DF Tom Hiariej
-- Netherlands FW Robbin Kieft

[edit] Famous players

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