Drachtster Boys is a football club from Drachten,

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. The female squads of the soccer club are extremely successful, winning national titles and cups. The male squad plays in the 2021–22 season in the Saturday

Eerste Klasse The Eerste Klasse ( en, First Class) started as the 1st tier of football in the Netherlands and is now the 6th tier. The league is divided into eleven divisions, six for Saturday clubs and five for Sunday clubs. These divisions correspond to the s ...

(6th flight) after relegation from the Hoofdklasse in 2016. It won section championships in 1973, 1981, 1989, 2005, 2009, and 2013. The squad won the District Cup for amateur clubs in the northern Netherlands three times, in 1983, 1987, 2001. In 1983 it went on to win the National Amateur Cup. This was a first and only among Frisian football clubs.

History

1970s–1980s: Local leagues and Vierde Klasse

Drachtster Boys was founded on 29 March 1948. Initially it played in local leagues. In 1957 the male first started playing in

KNVB The Royal Dutch Football Association (, ; KNVB ) is the governing body of football in the Netherlands. It organises the main Dutch football leagues (Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie), the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup, and the Dutch men's and wome ...

Vierde Klasse The Vierde Klasse ( en, Fourth Class) is the ninth tier of football in the Netherlands and the seventh tier of Dutch amateur football. This is the lowest league in the West II region. The league is divided into 64 divisions, 32 played on Saturday a ...

. In 1966 it promoted to the Derde Klasse from a second position in the Vierde.

1970s–1980s: Derde and Tweede Klasse

In 1973 Drachtster Boys won their first section championship, in Derde Klasse B, and promoted to the

Tweede Klasse The Tweede Klasse ( en, Second Class) is the seventh tier of football in the Netherlands and the fifth tier of Dutch amateur football. The league is divided into 22 divisions, 10 played on Saturday and 12 on Sunday. Each division consists of 14 t ...

. In 1978, after the first season that

Foppe de Haan Foppe Geert de Haan (, born 26 June 1943) is a Dutch association football, football coach. He is known for his long association with Friesland, Frisian club SC Heerenveen. De Haan was the manager of the Tuvalu national football team during 2011 ...

had managed Drachtster Boys, it relegated to the Derde Klasse. De Haan continued the coach the club another 2 years. One year after De Haan had left, in 1981, it promoted back to the Tweede Klasse. In 1983 Drachtster Boys won the KNVB Districtsbeker, after beating SC Erica 3–0. The same year it won the national amateur cup after beating VV Breskens 2–0. In 1987 it won another District Cup through a victory 3–1 over

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, in the extra time. In 1989 the Boys won a section championship in the Tweede Klasse and promoted to the

. During the 1970s and until 1984,

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played for the youth teams of Drachtster Boys. He started his professional career at nearby FC Groningen.

1990s–2010s: Eerste Klasse and Hoofdklasse

Since 1989 Drachtster Boys have been playing in the Eerste Klasse and Hoofdklasse, winning Eerste Klasse championships in 2005 and 2013. In 2001 it won 3–2 against VV Sneek and a third District Cup was a fact. Zabih Etemadi played in the first section 2011–12. In the 2016–17 season the women under 17 team won the championship of the Hoofdklasse. Women indoor soccer won the national title, the national cup and the supercup. In the 2016–17 season an

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played in the male selection of Drachtster Boys but disappeared after being denied

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. Ard Veenhof (transfer from Oranje Nassau Groningen) and Said Hassan (signed anew) will play in the Drachtster Eerste Klasse selection in 2017–18.http://www.drachtstercourant.nl/nieuws/84601/ard-veenhof-aanwinst-bij-drachtster-boys/

References

External links

Official site

Drachtster Boys
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