RKC Waalwijk

RKC Waalwijk

Full name	Rooms Katholieke Combinatie Waalwijk
Short name	RKC Waalwijk
Founded	August 26, 1940 (1940-08-26)
Ground	Mandemakers Stadion Waalwijk
Ground Capacity	7,500
Chairman	Remco Oversier
Manager	Peter van den Berg
League	Eerste Divisie
2015–16	Eerste Divisie, 18th
Home colours Away colours

RKC Waalwijk (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌɛrkaːˈseː ˈʋaːlʋɛi̯k]) is a football club currently playing in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. Its name is derived from 'Rooms Katholieke Combinatie' ('Roman Catholic Combination' in Dutch) and was a fusion club of HEC, WVB and Hercules.

History

The club was formed on 26 August 1940 and used to play its home games at Sportpark Olympia. Its new stadium, the 7500 seater Mandemakers Stadion was opened in 1996 and featured the home match against Roda JC. While considered as one of the Eredivisie's smaller clubs, it nevertheless maintained its top flight status for many years. Its home colors are yellow and blue.

At the end of the 2006–07 season, RKC Waalwijk were relegated from the Eredivisie after a defeat in play-offs against VVV-Venlo.

On 3 June 2009 they were promoted to the Eredivisie division after a win in the play-offs against De Graafschap. Though, their spell didn't last long ending in the last place with only 15 points. In the season followed they would finish first in the Eerste Divisie promoting back in the top flight of Dutch football.

After another relegation at the end of the 2013-14 season, RKC Waalwijk finished 20th (last) in the 2014-15 season of Eerste Divisie. However, they didn't relegate to Topklasse (amateurs) because both of the two Topklasse champions declined promotion into professionalism.

Results

RKC in Europe

• Group = group game
• 1R = first round
• 2R = second round
• 3R = third round
• 1/8 = 1/8 final

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Score	Goalscorers RKC
1989	Intertoto Cup
		Group	West Germany	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1–1, 2–2
		Group	Austria	First Vienna FC	3–4, 2–4
		Group	East Germany	Carl Zeiss Jena	2–0, 1–0
1989	Intertoto Cup
		Group	France	Caen	1–0, 0–2
		Group	Denmark	Lyngby BK	1–1, 0–2
		Group	Germany	FC Schalke 04	3–2, 4–2
2000	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3R	England	Bradford City	0–2, 0–1
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3R	Germany	TSV 1860 München	1–2, 1–3

Current squad

As of 21 July 2016

For recent transfers, see List of Dutch football transfers summer 2016

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

No. Position Player' 1 GK Tamati Williams 2 DF Gigli Ndefe 3 DF Nando Wormgoor 4 DF Serginho Greene 5 DF Mark Engberink 6 MF Steef Nieuwendaal (captain) 7 FW Moussa Sanoh 8 MF Roel van de Sande 9 FW Johan Voskamp 10 MF Kenny Anderson 11 FW Pieter Langedijk 12 DF Ingo van Weert

No. Position Player 14 FW Fred Benson 15 FW Adnan Bajić 16 GK Etienne Vaessen 17 DF Collin Seedorf 18 MF Philippe van Arnhem 19 FW Rob van Sonsbeek 21 MF Nikki Baggerman 23 MF Daan Rienstra 24 GK Martijn Bijdevier 25 MF Mohamed Mezghrani 26 DF Dwayne Green 27 FW Jan Verduijn

Honours

• Eerste Divisie (2):
  • 1987-88, 2010-11

Former managers

• Leen Looijen (1985–86)
• Leo van Veen (July 1, 1986–June 30, 1988), (July 1, 1989–June 30, 1993)
• Hans Verèl (July 1, 1993–Dec 18, 1993)
• Bert Jacobs (Dec 18, 1993–June 30, 1995)
• Leo van Veen (July 1, 1995–June 30, 1996)
• Cees van Kooten (July 1, 1996–Oct 12, 1996)
• Bert Jacobs (Oct 12, 1996–June 30, 1997)
• Peter Boeve (July 1, 1997–Oct 26, 1998)
• Martin Jol (Oct 26, 1998–June 30, 2004)
• Erwin Koeman (July 1, 2004–June 30, 2005)
• Adrie Koster (July 1, 2005–Nov 27, 2006)
• Mark Wotte (Nov 27, 2006–June 20, 2007)
• Željko Petrović (July 1, 2007–June 30, 2008)
• Ruud Brood (July 1, 2008–June 30, 2012)
• Erwin Koeman (July 1, 2012–June 30, 2014)
• Martin Koopman (July 1, 2014–February 11, 2015)

See also

• Dutch football league teams

External links

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