SV Someren is an amateur football club from

Someren Someren () is a municipality and town in the province of North Brabant in the Southern Netherlands. As of January 2019, the municipality had 19,322 inhabitants, with over half of the population residing in the town. Someren, just south of Helmond a ...

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. Their home games are played at sports park ''De Potacker.''

History

The club was founded on April 27, 1944. In 1945 it received official recognition from the

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 Netherlands nati ...

and started playing in the tweede klasse Noord-Brabant and in 1947 where promoted into eerste afdelingsklasse. In 1957 it where promoted into the

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 ...

for the first time. In 1994 Someren where promoted to the

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 ...

in 1996 it went back into 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 te ...

but where promoted back into the

as unbeaten champions in 2002. From that year it played in the Eerste Klasse D district South II until 2009-2010. In the 2010-2011 season, it played in the

H and where it were promoted again to the

. In the following season it was promoted again to the

Hoofdklasse The Vierde Divisie, formerly known as Hoofdklasse () is the second-highest league of amateur football in the Netherlands, and the fifth tier in general. Background The league is divided into two sections: Saturday and Sunday. This is a result of ...

after a

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, where it finished rock bottom, it returned to the Eerste Klasse. In 2015-2016 it was relegated again back into the Tweede Klasse. It promoted back to the

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 ...

for one season.

Rivalries

SV Someren's rival is

NWC Asten NWC Asten (abbreviation for ''Noad Wilhelmina Combinatie'') is an association football club from Asten, Netherlands. Its home games are played at ''Sportpark 't Root''. NWC's first squad plays in the 2021–22 season in the Tweede Klasse Sunday So ...

. This match is known as the ''Kanaalderby.'' Each season also starts with the ''Ricus Verhees Cup,'' where the youth teams of SV Someren and NWC Asten compete against each other.

Women

The first women's football team since the 2017/18 season plays in the same team as NWC Women's as ST Someren/NWC. In the first season it played in the Eerste Klasse, since 2018/19 in it has been in the

Sunday. Someren reached the First Division for the first time in 2003/04, where it sustained itself for five seasons. After three seasons in the Second Division, the First Division was again reached and after another three seasons the

from which it was relegated in the third season (2016/17).

References

http://www.svsomeren.nl/
https://www.hollandsevelden.nl/clubs/s/someren/ + https://www.hollandsevelden.nl/clubs/s/someren-nwc-st/
https://www.voetbalnoord.nl/team_archief.html?a=6&c=242&s=ZO&e=1&z=2019
https://www.teamstats.net/team/football/svsomeren-jo17-2
https://www.aiscore.com/team-sv-someren/zrkn6imennhnqle
https://us.soccerway.com/teams/netherlands/sv-someren/11991/
https://www.bettingacademynigeria.com/stats/team/Netherlands/Someren/5752
https://uk.soccerway.com/teams/netherlands/someren--nwc/44362/
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