Helmond Sport is a professional

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club based in the city of

Helmond Helmond (; called ''Héllemond'' in the local dialect) is a city and municipality in the Metropoolregio Eindhoven of the province of North Brabant in the Southern Netherlands. Helmond is home to several textile and metal companies. The Vlisco fa ...

North Brabant North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the we ...

, Netherlands, that competes in the

Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie (, en, First Division) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie and with the third-level Tweede Divisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as the ...

, the second tier of the

Dutch football league system The Dutch football league system consists of two fully professional leagues (Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie) and eight levels of amateur football leagues, the highest of which is called Tweede Divisie, formerly Topklasse. All the leagues are connect ...

. The club was founded on 27 June 1967, as a breakaway from the local professional club Helmondia '55, which had gone bankrupt.

History

The club was founded in 1967, after the professional license was taken over from RKSV Helmondia '55 in order to keep professional football in Helmond. Helmond Sport started in the

Tweede Divisie Tweede Divisie ( en, Second Division) is the highest amateur (and historically the lowest professional) football league in the Netherlands. It was established in 1956, together with the Eredivisie and the Eerste Divisie. Between 1956 and 1960 and b ...

. After only a year, the club was promoted to the First Division after winning the promotion matches against

Fortuna Vlaardingen Fortuna Vlaardingen was a Dutch football club which was founded in 1904 in Vlaardingen. The club played its matches in the Floreslaan stadium. History The club entered the Eerste Divisie in 1956. Fortuna never made it towards the Eredivisie and co ...

and

SC Veendam Sportclub Veendam () was a Dutch professional association football club based in Veendam, province of Groningen. Founded on 4 September 1894 as Look-Out, it became P.J. Veendam in 1909, Veendam in 1910, SC Veendam in 1974, BV Veendam in 1997 an ...

. In 1982, the team were promoted to the

Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; ''"Honour Division"'' or ''"Premier Division"'') is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is c ...

. There, they would play for two seasons, before being relegated back to the

. The first season back in the

saw Helmond Sport reach the cup final, which was lost to FC Utrecht in injury time. Helmond Sport was close to promotion to the

in the play-offs of the 2004–05

season. They came up 1–0 against

Sparta Sparta ( Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, ''Spártā''; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, ''Spártē'') was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (, ), while the name Sparta referre ...

due to a 59th minute Nyron Wau goal, but in the last 20 minutes

Riga Mustapha Rahamat Riga Mustapha (born 10 October 1981) is a Ghanaian-born Dutch professional footballer who last played as a striker for Pune F.C. in the Indian I-League. Club career Born in Accra, Ghana, Mustapha began his career with Eredivisie sid ...

(73') and

Rachid Bouaouzan Rachid Bouaouzan (; born 20 February 1984) is a Dutch-Moroccan former professional footballer who played as a winger. Club career Sparta Rotterdam and The Kokmeijer case Born in Rotterdam to Moroccan parents, Bouaouzan started out his footb ...

(90+1') scored 1–1 and 1–2 and Sparta was promoted instead. In the 2010–11 season Helmond finished 3rd in the Eerste Divisie but were beaten in the play-off final for promotion to the

Honours

KNVB Cup The KNVB Beker (; en, KNVB Cup), branded as the TOTO KNVB Beker for sponsorship reasons, is a competition in the Netherlands organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) since 1898. It was based on the format of the English FA Cup. Ou ...

** Runners-up: 1985 *

** Winner: 1982 * Promoted to

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Domestic results

Below is a table with Helmond Sport's domestic results since the introduction of professional football in 1956.

Current squad

Former players

Jeremias Carlos David Jeremias Carlos David (born 7 April 1993) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a forward. He most recently played for NWC Asten. Career Carlos David started his senior career with Helmond Sport in the Dutch Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie ...

Remco Torken Remco Torken (born 3 January 1972 in the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = B ...

* Ricky Bochem

Management

Former managers

* Frans Debruijn (1967–1968) * Jacques de Wit (1968–1972) * René van Eck (1972–1974) *

Co Prins Jacobus Theodorus Wilhelmus "Co" Prins (5 June 1938 – 26 September 1987) was a Dutch former association football player. He played 184 matches for football club Ajax Amsterdam from 1959 to 1966 where he scored 60 goals. He played for the Germ ...

(a.i.) (1974) * Evert Mur (1974–75) * Ron Dellow (1975–77) * Harrie van Tuel (1977–1978) * Jacques de Wit (1978–1979) *

Jan Notermans Willem II may refer to: People *William II, Prince of Orange (1626–1650), stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands *William II of the Netherlands (1792–1849), King of the Netherlands Other uses *Willem II (football club) Wille ...

(1979–83) *

Jan Brouwer Jan Brouwer (born 1939/1940) is a Dutch former football manager who was the manager of Angolan side Sagrada Esperança, a position he undertook in April 2008. He previously managed the Zambia national team in 2001, Petro Atlético in 2004, an ...

(1983–86) * Jo Jansen (1986-87) * Theo Laseroms (1987–88) * Dick Buitelaar (1988–89) * Frans Körver (1989–92) * Henk Rayer (1992–93) *

Louis Coolen Louis Coolen (born 12 January 1952 in Nuenen) is a Dutch football manager and retired player who works as an advisor to the board at Helmond Sport. Playing career During his playing career he played for PSV, Helmond Sport and RKSV Nuenen. Coac ...

(a.i.) (1993) *

Adrie Koster Adrianus Cornelis "Adrie" Koster (; born 18 November 1954) is a Dutch football manager who was most recently the manager of Willem II. He is a former winger and former manager of Ajax, Club Brugge and the Netherlands U21 team. Career He pla ...

(1993–95) *

Jan Pruijn Jan Pruijn (born 12 October 1958) is a Dutch football coach. As a footballer, Jan Pruijn only played amateur football, playing in the Hoofdklasse the 2nd highest league of amateur football in the Netherlands. In 1985, he became the coach of ...

(1995–96) *

Willem Leushuis Willem Leushuis ( Eindhoven, 18 March 1952) is a Dutch football coach and former professional footballer. Career Footballer Willem Leushuis played for FC Wageningen, FC Den Bosch, and FC Eindhoven in the Netherlands and for AS Verbroederin ...

(a.i.) (1996) *

(1996–01) * Mario Verlijsdonk (2001–02) * Jan van Dijk (2002–04) * Ruud Brood (2004–06) * Gerald Vanenburg (2006–07) * Mario Verlijsdonk (a.i.) (2007) *

Jan Poortvliet Jan Poortvliet (; born 21 September 1955) is a Dutch professional football coach and a former player who played as a left-back. He works as the coach of the Under-18 squad of FC Eindhoven He represented the Netherlands national team at the 1 ...

(2007–08) * Jurgen Streppel (2008–11) *

Hans de Koning Hans de Koning (; born 5 April 1960) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. De Koning played as a goalkeeper. Playing career De Koning played for AZ'67 for ten years, before moving to Twente, where he became known as "''Hansj ...

(2011–12) *

Eric Meijers Eric Meijers (born 6 August 1963) is a Dutch football manager. Coaching career Meijers is mostly known for his ten-year spell as head coach of Achilles '29, which he turned into a mainstay of Dutch amateur football and a national Topklasse in ...

(2012–13) * Mario Verlijsdonk (a.i.) (2013) * Jan van Dijk (2013–16) * Remond Strijbosch (a.i.) (2016) *

Roy Hendriksen Roy Pierre Vernond Hendriksen (born 21 January 1969) is a Dutch professional football manager, coach and former player. During his 16-year playing career he played Eredivisie football with SC Cambuur, before retiring in 2007 and entering man ...

(2016–18) *

Rob Alflen Rob Alflen (born 7 May 1968) is a Dutch football manager and former player who is the assistant manager of Dutch Eredivisie club Fortuna Sittard. Playing career Club Alflen was born in Utrecht. He played for FC Utrecht, Ajax Amsterdam, Vites ...

(2018–19)

References

External links

Official website
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