FC Utrecht

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Football Club Utrecht ( dutch pronunciation : [ ɛfˈseː ˈytrɛxt ] ) is a dutch professional football cabaret based in Utrecht. [ 1 ] The club competes in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, and plays its home matches at the Stadion Galgenwaard.

Reading: FC Utrecht

The club was formed in 1970 as a amalgamation between local clubs VV DOS, USV Elinkwijk and Velox. Since then, the club has won three national cup tournaments : in 1985, 2003 and 2004, besides winning the Johan Cruyff Shield in 2004 as the inaugural club outside the traditional Dutch Big Three. Utrecht is besides the entirely club outside the Big Three which has never suffered delegating from the top-flight Eredivisie. [ 2 ] Utrecht have competed in 15 european campaigns, reaching the group stages of the 2004–05 UEFA Cup and the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League, their best european results .

history [edit ]

1970–1979 : fusion and early years [edit ]

In the recently 1960s, the municipality of Utrecht initiated talks of a fusion between the professional departments of VV DOS, Velox and USV Elinkwijk with the aim of continuing to guarantee professional football at top horizontal surface in the city. DOS was the largest of the three clubs, and had won a national championship in 1958. [ 2 ] With stout defensive tactics, the club had narrowly escaped delegating for three consecutive years, and mismanagement had left the club on the brink of bankruptcy. A cynical comment from that time was : “ The club can do nothing, not even relegate. ” [ 3 ] amalgamation plans were experienced less positively at Velox and Elinkwijk. Velox had been promoted to the Eerste Divisie in the early 1960s and had been close to achieving promotion to the Eredivisie a few times. In 1968, however, the team relegated to the third-tier Tweede Divisie again. Elinkwijk had been more successful than Velox. A yo-yo club, Elinkwijk alternated seasons in the bed of the Eredivisie with seasons in the top of the Eerste Divisie. In addition, there was a sentiment in Elinkwijk that it was not in the first place an Utrecht-based club, but that it belonged more to the town of Zuilen which was an independent municipality until 1954. The club had no preference for the at hand fusion, but finally gave in to pressure from the municipality. During the amalgamation talks, Elinkwijk tried to secure a spot in the highest league of amateur football, but was rather placed in the Tweede Klasse. [ 4 ] The following season, the clubhouse won the championship and as a leave promoted to the Eerste Klasse. [ 5 ] On 1 July 1970, the amalgamation became a fact and FC Utrecht was founded. Since VV DOS had managed to avoid relegation from the Eredivisie in the season before, the modern cabaret could immediately play at the highest level in its inaugural season. FC Utrechts ‘s home labor became Stadion Galgenwaard, which had previously been the VV DOS home establish, the largest stadium of the three parent clubs. [ 2 ] The first director of Utrecht became Bert Jacobs, the then 29-year-old head coach of Velox, who was joined by 24-year-old Fritz Korbach from USV Elinkwijk as adjunct. [ 6 ] Their assignment was to forge one club with one culture from its three cores and three different identities. In the first temper, the FC Utrecht first-team team consisted about entirely of erstwhile players from DOS, Velox and USV Elinkwijk. only one outside player was recruited, as defender Co Adriaanse was signed for ƒ 125,000 from De Volewijckers from Amsterdam. The core of the team besides consisted of former DOS players Cor Hildebrand, Ed van Stijn, Piet van Oudenallen, Tom Nieuwenhuys and John Steen Olsen, erstwhile Elinkwijk players Joop Leliveld, Jan Blaauw, Dick Teunissen and Jan Groenendijk and former Velox player Marco Cabo. Their first official match was against defending european Cup winners Feyenoord. Groenendijk scored Utrecht ‘s first base finish, but despite the 0–1 spark advance, the team finally lost 4–1. [ 7 ] The club finished in 9th home in its inauguration season, a solid midtable finish up .

1980–1990 : approach bankruptcy and revival [edit ]

In the first ten years of its universe, FC Utrecht grew steadily. crucial players from that time period were Hans van Breukelen, Leo van Veen and Willem van Hanegem. In the early 1980s, it was decided to construct a modern stadium, which was called Nieuw Galgenwaard. [ 8 ] The tide turned in 1981 when the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service ( FIOD ) opened an investigation into the club. They could reveal a series of fiscal malpractices, including transfer and wage costs of versatile players being financed illegally. between 1976 and 1980, the club had not paid national insurance contributions and taxes on signing bonuses. In addition, there had been committed imposter with receipts. The clubhouse could not meet the stated extra tax and was placed under a debt moratorium. Bankruptcy, at that point, seemed inevitable. versatile campaigns were organised by players and supporters, and through a prayer, the club managed to collect 66,000 signatures for the memory of the cabaret. Under the leadership of goalkeeper Hans van Breukelen, first-team players went canvassing with FC Utrecht trade and recorded a single entitled “ We geven het niet op “ ( “ We do n’t give up ” ). The municipality of Utrecht finally decided to respond to the massive local support and covered expenses. [ 9 ] The early 1980s, under the leadership of pass coach and former musician Han Berger, were successful. The team finished in 5th place in 1980, 3rd in 1981 and fifth place in 1982 of the Eredivisie and in 1982 the club besides reached the KNVB Cup final examination, which was lost to AZ ’67. The team besides played European football for the first time in club history. The achiever was in big separate due to the large total of youth players that broke through to the first team during these years. Out of eighteen first-team players reaching the cup final in 1982, fourteen were academy players, including avant-garde Breukelen, Gert Kruys, Willy Carbo and Ton de Kruijk. Many of these players, such as Leo vanguard Veen, Frans Adelaar, Willem vanguard Hanegem, Ton du Chatinier and Jan Wouters, would late return to the cabaret as managers. Although the club went through a golden era results-wise, the club was far from healthy financially. To keep the clubhouse adrift, cardinal players were let go every season. Van Breukelen left for Nottingham Forest in 1982, Carbo for Club Brugge in 1983 and Rob de Wit for Ajax in 1983. As a resultant role, FC Utrecht dropped from a near-top side to more mid-table finishes in the Eredivisie table in the mid-1980s. On 1 April 1985, Utrechts Nieuwsblad published an article about an at hand takeover of the club. A consortium of, among others, the English newspaper baron Robert Maxwell, Philips, KLM and Johan Cruyff, were said to have plans to invest heavily in FC Utrecht and acquire a majority shareholding. The supporters of the club were powerfully against the takeover, however, specially due to the hindrance of Ajax caption, Cruyff. ultimately, the coup d’etat failed. [ 10 ]

1991–2005 : trouble oneself 1990s, success and tragedy [edit ]

detail from raw stadium in 2007 After a count of weaker years, FC Utrecht reached 4th place in the Eredivisie in 1990–91, led by director Ab Fafié and with players such as Johan de Kock, Jan Willem vanguard Ede and Rob Alflen and top goalscorer of the season, Włodzimierz Smolarek. [ 11 ] After this, however, things went declivitous for the club. Because Utrecht missed out on european qualification, incomes were lost. between 1989 and 1996, six managers led the team and there were precisely ampere many changes in the board of directors. Quarrels and fiscal issues arose, which again meant that key players had to be sold to close the holes in the budget. Alflen left for Ajax in 1991, de Kock left for Roda JC in 1994 and Ferdi Vierklau moved to Vitesse in 1996. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Main patron AMEV intervened in the desperate fiscal situation in 1996. The club received a fiscal injection in commute for a significant stockholder position. [ 15 ] The policy company appointed Hans Herremans as club president. [ 16 ] many investments were made immediately in 1996, as Errol Refos, Rob Witschge and former Utrecht player John vanguard Loen came over from Feyenoord, Reinier Robbemond from FC Dordrecht, Dick van Burik from NAC and Michael Mols from FC Twente. Ronald Spelbos was appointed coach with Jan Wouters as adjunct. [ 17 ] In 1998, a complete renovation of the Stadion Galgenwaard was initiated, designed by ZJA Zwarts & Jansma Architecten. Despite the capital injection, successes on the sales talk failed to materialise during the inaugural years, and a issue of managers were hired and fired in rapid sequence. In 1993, the team reached a relatively successful eighth set, but for the future eight years, until 2001, the club was unable climb to a higher put than 10th place in the mesa. In 1994 and 1996, the clubhouse flush finished 15th, barely above the relegation spots. In 1996, the team won only six matches, including an important 1–2 succeed at FC Twente, which meant that the promotion/relegation play-offs were avoided. merely in 2001, Utrecht managed to achieve european reservation again with a 5th-place ending, led by early actor Frans Adelaar, who had become coach. Utrecht finished with the same number of points as RKC Waalwijk, Roda JC and Vitesse, but secured fifth place on finish deviation. In 2002, the team lost the concluding of the KNVB Cup to Ajax, but in 2003 and 2004, the team, which had come under the leadership of Foeke Booy, managed to win the cup. important players in this period included Dirk Kuyt, Tom Van Mol, Jean-Paul de Jong, Pascal Bosschaart and Stijn Vreven. In 2004, the Johan Cruyff Shield was besides won at the expense of Ajax ( 2–4 ), as Hans Somers claimed a cardinal character with two crucial goals. [ 18 ] As a solution of, among early things, a new fiscal crisis and a lack of lucrative transfers, Utrecht was again on the verge of collapse in the spring of 2003. There was no more money to pay Midreth, the company responsible for constructing the renovation of the stadium. [ 19 ] At that time, the stadium was largely finished. Since the material for the construction had already been delivered, the construction company advanced the costs, about € 5.5 million. [ 20 ] however, this once again left the baseball club with a substantial debt. Bankruptcy was averted with a redress and the sale of all properties, including the stadium, to, among others, the municipality of Utrecht and Midreth. In the surveil years, FC Utrecht returned to the mid-table of the Eredivisie. On 29 November 2005, french defender and fan favored, David Di Tommaso died on the spur of the moment at the age of 26. [ 21 ] Di Tommaso had suffered a cardiac halt in his rest. [ 22 ] The club subsequently retired Di Tommaso ‘s kit phone number, 4. [ 23 ] At the end of each season, the David Di Tommaso Trophy is awarded to the musician who was considered of the most valuable that temper by fans ; the winner is determined by an internet poll. [ 24 ] Before his death, Di Tommaso had been the most recent winner of the FC Utrecht Player of the Year, and the award was named after him since then .

2005–2008 : Phanos takeover [edit ]

Exterior of Stadion Galgenwaard in 2007, with the Phanos logo visible After the debar bankruptcy of 2003, FC Utrecht, despite participating in the UEFA Cup in 2003 and 2004, was no longer able to get out of debt. In July 2007, real estate company Phanos first showed interest in taking over the club. For the symbolic measure of €1, Phanos wanted to take over the club, including all outstanding debts. The ship’s company then intended to demolish the existing stadium to make the site available for house. The company would then build a newly stadium near the new Leidsche Rijn district. Phanos besides wanted the baseball club to become a dangerous rival in the Eredivisie by means of fiscal injections. The plan was met with a distribute of resistance from supporters, as the Stadion Galgenwaard had seen a radical renovation recently. [ 25 ] subsequently, a dispute broke out between chair Jan Willem vanguard Dop, who had come over as conductor of Feyenoord in 2005, and the supervisory board. The board accused Van Dop of fiscal mismanagement, hapless communication and egotistic behavior, including the recruitment of director Willem avant-garde Hanegem and striker Kevin Vandenbergh. [ 26 ] On 3 September 2007, van Dop was relieved from his duties as president, but was put back in position three days late after compendious proceedings. As a consequence, the integral supervisory circuit board decided to step down. [ 27 ]

2008–present : Van Seumeren earned run average [edit ]

On 2 April 2008, the FC Utrecht display panel announced in a weigh conference that the cabaret had found a desirable coup d’etat campaigner in entrepreneur Frans vanguard Seumeren, former director of the Mammoet logistics party. Van Seumeren acquired 63 % of the shares of FC Utrecht bv for €16 million. [ 28 ] He promised to commit to the golf club for a period of at least 10 years and to reinvest any proceeds in the club. He set the goal that the club had to reconnect with the subtop of the league mesa within a few years, comparable to a club like SC Heerenveen. [ 29 ] Van Seumeren took plaza in the new supervisory board, of which Jacques van Ek became president. Despite the fact that previous takeover candidate Phanos had failed to comply with the agreement between FC Utrecht and avant-garde Seumeren, they remained affiliate with the baseball club as main shirt presenter until March 2011. In his function as new owner of the club, van Seumeren was actively involved in the club ‘s footballing policy. In the summer of 2008, against the wishes of forefront bus van Hanegem, he meddled with the composition of the technical foul staff by replacing adjunct coaches John avant-garde Loen and David Nascimento, force and condition passenger car Rob Druppers and goalkeeping coach Maarten Arts. At the end of 2008, he fired van Hanegem, after he had repeatedly expressed negative opinion on vanguard Seumeren. Technical director Piet Buter besides left afterwards. [ 30 ] They were replaced by the couple Ton du Chatinier and Foeke Booy as head coach and technical foul adviser, respectively. [ 31 ] In 2011, chair vanguard Dop left FC Utrecht. [ 32 ] In the lapp year, Wilco van Schaik was appointed as new director of the clubhouse. The change of routine endorsed the conversion of FC Utrecht from a football association to a vennootschap ( private limited caller ). [ 33 ] [ 34 ] In the summer of 2011, Du Chatinier was sacked and replaced by assistant Jan Wouters. Despite having a successful curriculum vitae in terms of actor sales and signings, Booy was besides permit go in 2012 after disappointing results on the gear. In the 2012–13 season, Utrecht would go on to have one its best seasons historical seasons, finishing 5th in the league board, winning the play-offs for european football and equaling the cabaret points record from 1981 ( 63 points ). [ 35 ] The follow season, however, turned out to be a reverse ; Utrecht was eliminated in the second qualify round off of the UEFA Europa League by FC Differdange 03 from Luxembourg. Utrecht finally finished 10th in the league. When Wouters decided not to renew his contract in 2014, after having been steer passenger car for three years, a new direction was taken in terms of technical policy. Co Adriaanse was appointed as technical adviser, a position that has been vacant since Booy ‘s deviation in 2012. Adriaanse obtained an advisory, but not ski binding, voice in actor policy, and was given powers in composing the golf club ‘s coach staff. Rob Alflen, assistant under Wouters, would provide the coach sessions. [ 36 ] The couple were hired with the determination of making Utrecht play more assail, attractive football. [ 37 ] Alflen disappointed, alone leading Utrecht to 11th locate in the league table, and he was let go after lone one season in charge in 2015. [ 38 ] Erik ten Hag was appointed as his substitution, coming from a place as Bayern Munich II director. Club icon Jean-Paul de Jong was appointed as his assistant. Adriaanse besides left the club, with Ten Hag taking the excess character as technical coach. The 2015–16 season proved to be highly successful, with Utrecht ending in 5th identify of the Eredivisie table and reaching the KNVB Cup final examination, which was lost 2–1 to Feyenoord. [ 39 ] Utrecht would besides lose the final examination of the play-offs for european football to Heracles Almelo. The reserves team of the club, Jong FC Utrecht, however, became champions of the Beloften Eredivisie in the 2015–16 season. With changes made to the Dutch football league system, Jong Utrecht was consequently promoted to the second-tier Eerste Divisie. [ 40 ] In the 2016–17 season, FC Utrecht secured a fourth-place complete with two match-days left to play. In the final of the play-offs for european football, they beat AZ Alkmaar was after an exciting diptych ( 0–3, 3–0, 4–3 after penalty shoot-out ). [ 41 ] As a result of Utrecht ‘s success, Ten Hag was appointed new head coach of Ajax with adjunct De Jong taking over as lead passenger car on 1 January 2018. [ 42 ]

stadium [edit ]

aeriform position of Stadion Galgenwaard FC Utrecht ‘s stadium is the Stadion Galgenwaard, previously named the Galgenwaard, then late the Nieuw Galgenwaard. It has a current capacity of 23,750 spectators. The attendance on modal was 19,600 people in 2004–05, while the average attendance rose to 20,004 in 2006–07. The stadium besides accommodates respective shops, offices, and the supporters home of the FC Utrecht fan golf club ( Supporters Vereniging F.C. Utrecht ) .

Honours [edit ]

FC Utrecht in european competition [edit ]

FC Utrecht ‘s first competitive european match, in the team ‘s current iteration ( not as DOS ), was on 17 September 1980, in the 1980–81 UEFA Cup, playing FC Argeş Piteşti to a 0–0 draw. Since then, the club has participated in fourteen UEFA competitions, advancing deoxyadenosine monophosphate far as the Group Stage in the 2004–05 UEFA Cup and the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League

Accurate as of 1 August 2019

Competition
Played
Won
Drew
Lost
GF

Cup Winners’ Cup
2
1
0
1
3
5

−2

0 50.00
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League
54

16
17
21
69
72

−3

0 29.63
UEFA Intertoto Cup
2
0
2
0
1
1

00 0.00
full
58
17
19
22
73
78

−5

0 29.31
source : UEFA.com
Pld = Matches played ; W = Matches won ; D = Matches absorb ; L = Matches lost ; GF = Goals for ; GA = Goals against ; GD = Goal Difference. Defunct competitions indicated in italics .

UEFA Current ranking [edit ]

As of 7 November 2021[43]

Rank
Country
Team
Points

144

Willem II
7.840

145

FC Utrecht
7.840

146

Vitesse
7.840

domestic results [edit ]

Below is a mesa with FC Utrecht ‘s results since the insertion of the Eredivisie in 1956 .

^ On 24 April 2020, the 2019–20 Eredivisie and KNVB Cup seasons were prematurely terminates as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. As such, the concluding of the 2019–20 KNVB Cup was canceled with no club being appointed as winners .

current squad [edit ]

As of 6 December 2021[44]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

On loan [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

retire numbers [edit ]

No.

Pos.

Player

From

Reason

4
DF
David Di Tommaso
2005
Posthumous honour

Records [edit ]

As of 17 May 2017[45]

Players in bold text are still active.

head coaches [edit ]

Kit manufacturers [edit ]

Period

Kit Manufacturer

1970–1983

Adidas

1983–1995

Puma

1995–2001

Reebok

2001–2009