VV DOVO, short for Voetbalvereniging Door Ons Vrienden Opgericht, is a

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club from

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, Netherlands.

History

The club was founded in 1933 as DVO and later changed its name to DOVO to set itself apart from a nearby club with an identical name. DOVO won section championships in lower leagues in 1936, 1937,1938, 1948, 1949, 1958, 1960, and 1967. In 1970 DOVO 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 ...

, where it initially won sections in 1975, 1977, 1979, 1989, 1991, and 1994. In 1974, it drew national attention by beating NSVV from

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, 11–0, while pointing out that DOVO players had made mistakes. In 1979 it also became the Saturday Champion of the Netherlands. From 1996 to 20017 it played in the

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, except for two seasons back in the Eerste when it took Eerste Klasse championships (2007 and 2011). In 1999 and 2004 DOVO won section championships in the Hoofdklasse. Since 2017, DOVO plays in the

Derde Divisie The Derde Divisie (; en, Third Division), formerly known as Topklasse (; en, Top Class), is the fourth tier of football in the Netherlands, which had its inaugural season as a third tier in 2010–11 and as a fourth tier in 2016–17. The league ...

Chief coach

* Ries Hol (1964–1971) * Nico van Miltenburg (1971–1973) * Eli Voskamp (1973–1974) * Jan de Bouter (1974–1976) * Evert Mur (1976–1977) * Jan de Jongh (1977–1984) * Jan de Bouter (1985) * Pierre Stevenaart (1985–1986) *

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(1986–1989) * Frans Vermeulen (1989–1991) * Wim Eilander (1991–1994) *

Peter Boeve Peter Boeve (born 14 March 1957) is a Dutch retired footballer who played for Ajax, Vitesse, Beerschot VAC and the Netherlands national team. He is the current coach of Hoofdklasse club CSV Apeldoorn. During his career, while playing for Ajax, h ...

(1994–1995) * Jan Rab (1995–1997) *

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(1997–1999) * Bert van Sas (1999–2000) * Jos Broers (2000–2002) * Kees Oostermeijer (2002–2003) *

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(2003–2005) * Henne Oostermeijer (2005–2006) * Raymond Verheijen (2006–2007) * Rob McDonald (2007) *

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(2007–2008) *

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(2009–2010) * Rob McDonald (2010) * Peter Visee (2010–2014) * Jeroen Peters (2014–2016; tech. mgr.

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) * Bert van Sas (2016) *

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(2016–2019) *

Scott Calderwood Scott Calderwood (born 11 March 1978) is an English retired professional footballer and current manager of DOVO. Calderwood is the son of Jimmy Calderwood and has played for a number of Dutch clubs, including Willem II, Heracles Almelo and SV ...

(since 2019)

Relations with other teams

In 2012, DOVO signed a partnership agreement with

SBV Vitesse SBV Vitesse Arnhem (''Stichting Betaald Voetbal Vitesse Arnhem''), widely known as Vitesse () or internationally as well Vitesse Arnhem, is a Dutch professional association football, football club located in the municipality of Arnhem. Establish ...

. This agreement was amended and renewed, for indefinite duration, in 2019. DOVO has a rivalry with another Veenendaal football club,

GVVV Gelders Veenendaalse Voetbal Vereniging, better known as GVVV, is a Dutch football club A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a ma ...

. In 2019, an indoors game between the clubs was ended after several physical fights.

References

External links

Official site
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