Sport Vereniging Argon is a

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and

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club from

Mijdrecht Mijdrecht is a town in the Netherlands with about 16,000 residents. It is located in the Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of De Ronde Venen, about west of the main A2 motorway (Netherlands), A2 motorway, between Utrecht (city), Utr ...

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. Its male first football squad plays in the

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History

20th century

The club was founded in 1971 as a merger of RKSV Stormvogels, VV Mijdrecht, and SV Midreth. In 1995 it won the national cup for amateurs, the district cup West I, and the Super Cup for amateurs. In 1999 it won the section championship of Hoofdklasse A.

21st century

In 2005 it won the section championship of Hoofdklasse A and the general Saturday championship. In 2007 it was national champion for amateurs, general Saturday champion, section champion in Hoofdklasse A, and the Super Cup winner for amateurs. Argon lost 3–0 in the second round of the 2007–08 KNVB Cup against

SC Heerenveen Sportclub Heerenveen (; West Frisian: Sportklub It Hearrenfean) is a Dutch football club from Heerenveen. They currently play in the Eredivisie, the top level of football in the Netherlands. History Sportclub Heerenveen was founded on 20 July ...

. In 2013 it won the National Cup for amateurs and the District Cup West I. That year it dismantled its first Sunday squad that was about to go to the Eerste Klasse after it had completed a 2 years run in the Topklasse, just one year earlier. In 2017 Argon was joined by Mohammed Bouabgha.

Rabobank Rabobank (; full name: ''Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A.'') is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands. The group comprises 89 local Dutch Rabobanks (2019), a central organisation (Raboban ...

sponsored until 2019. In the 2020–21 season the club is sponsored by Liquid Rubber.

References

External links

Official site
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