Voetbal Vereniging Emmen (abbreviated to VV Emmen) is an

association 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 match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an all-s ...

from

Emmen, Netherlands Emmen () is a municipality and town of the province of Drenthe in the northeastern Netherlands. History A planned city, Emmen arose from several small farming and peat-harvesting communities which have dotted the province of Drenthe since the ...

. It was founded on 21 August 1925 as the Noordbarge Emmen Combinatie. In 1927 it changed to its current name. The grounds of the team is named De Meerdijk. In 1919 its first male squad returned to

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 its fourth championship in 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 ...

History

The first championship held by VV Emmen was in 1930, winning the league of the Drenthe Football Association. In 1975, VV Emmen won a championship in the

and the National Sunday Amateurs championship.

Former players

Jan van Beveren Jan van Beveren (, 5 March 1948 – 26 June 2011) was a Dutch football player and coach, who played as a goalkeeper. Van Beveren was born in Amsterdam, but moved to Emmen as a teenager. After reaching the first team with amateur side VV Emmen, ...

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Kjell Scherpen Kjell Scherpen (born 23 January 2000) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Vitesse, on loan from Brighton & Hove Albion of the Premier League, and the Netherlands under-21 national team. Club career FC Emmen Scherpe ...

References

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