FC Eindhoven

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FC Eindhoven
Full name	Football Club Eindhoven
Nickname(s)	Blauw-witten (Blue-Whites)
Founded	November 16, 1909
Ground	Jan Louwers Stadion, Eindhoven
Capacity	4,600
Chairman	Peter van den Baar
Manager	Louis Coolen
League	Eerste Divisie
2005-06	Eerste Divisie, 17th
Home colours 　 Away colours

FC Eindhoven is a Dutch football club.

The club was founded on November 16, 1909 as EVV Eindhoven. In 1954, Eindhoven were the last Dutch league champions before the introduction of the professional league. After turning professional in 1954, the club played in the Eredivisie until 1957, when Eindhoven were relegated to the Eerste Divisie, where it would remain until 1969. Two years later, the club secured promotion back to the Eerste Divisie, and in 1975, Eindhoven were promoted to the Eredivisie. In 1977, Eindhoven were relegated back to the Eerste Divisie, where it have remained ever since.

FC Eindhoven's biggest rivalry is with neighbours PSV Eindhoven, against whom they contest the Lichtstad Derby ('Lightcity Derby'). Like football rivalries in some other cities, such as Glasgow, the rivalry between Eindhoven and PSV has its origins in religion. Having always been a Roman Catholic stronghold, FC Eindhoven used to be a bigger club than PSV in the period between 1930 and 1955. PSV on the other hand, were of a more Protestant background, being connected with the Philips company.

In 2004, FC Eindhoven contracted a co-operation deal with neighbours PSV Eindhoven, meaning the possibility of swapping youth players between the two clubs, that co-operation ended in 2005

[edit] Current squad 2006/2007

–– Dennis Duinslaeger –– Jurgen Hendriks –– Rick van den Oever –– Jim van Alst –– Theo Groeneveld –– Erik Schaeken –– Jens van Son –– Justin Tahapary –– Tim Nelemans –– Ilja van Leerdam –– Rens Wildschut –– Antoine Wellens

–– Yoann De Boer –– Erwin Isbouts –– Henny Noyen –– Roel van de Sande –– Sasa Stojanovic –– Christof Aelbrecht –– Thijs Engels –– Levi van der Heijden –– Rik van de Langenberg –– Dominggus Lim-Duan –– Hiep Le Minh –– Chris van der Weerden

[edit] Former managers

• Hans Alleman
• Piet Buter
• Jos Daerden
• Chris Dekker
• Rinus Gosens
• Hennie Hollink
• Ted Immers
• Rob Jacobs
• Jo Jansen
• Willem Leushuis
• Sandor Popovics
• Lesley Talbot
• Theo Verlangen
• Mario Verlijsdonk
• Ad Versluys
• Leon Vlemmings
• Jaques de Wit

[edit] External link

• (Dutch) Official website

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