Helmond Sport

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Helmond Sport
Full name	Helmond Sport
Founded	July 27, 1967
Ground	Stadion De Braak, Helmond
Capacity	4,100
Chairman	Theo van Kroonenburg
Manager	Gerald Vanenburg
League	Eerste Divisie
2005-06	Eerste Divisie, 4th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Helmond Sport is a Dutch football club, playing in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. The club was founded on July 27, 1967, as a breakaway from the local professional club Helmondia '55, which had gone bankrupt.

[edit] Helmond Sport in the Dutch League

Helmond Sport started in the Dutch Second Division. After only a year, the club was promoted to the First Division, where they won the title in 1982 and were promoted to the Eredivisie. There, they would play for two seasons, before being relegated back to the Eerste Divisie. The first season back in the Eerste Divisie saw Helmond Sport reach the cup final, which was lost to FC Utrecht in injury time. Helmond Sport was close to promotion to the Eredivisie in the play-offs of the 2004/05 Eerste Divisie season. They came up 1-0 against Sparta due to a 59th minute Nuelson Wau goal, but in the last 20 minutes Riga Mustapha (73') and Rachid Bouaouzan (90+1') scored 1-1 and 1-2 and Sparta was promoted instead.

[edit] Current squad 2006/2007

–– Martijn Barto –– Kevin Begois –– Ricky Bochem –– Maurice Buys –– Sandro Calabro –– Mark van Dijk –– Ivar van Dinteren –– Driss El Akchaoui –– Roy Hendriksen –– Patrick Hobbelen –– Sergio Kawarmala –– Amos Letwory

–– John Nieuwenburg –– René Paardekoper –– Bernard Quainoo –– Esad Razic –– Orlando Smeekes –– Remond Strijbosch –– Erik van der Ven –– Stijn Vangeffelen –– John Vos –– Apdeloehap Yahia –– Ned Zelic

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
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