Voetbalvereniging Hoogland, more commonly known as VV Hoogland or simply Hoogland (), is a Dutch football club based in the town of

Hoogland Hoogland () is a village and former free-standing municipality in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands. The village population is 10,587 people (2006). Since 1974, Hoogland has been a part of the municipality of Amersfoort. Until that ti ...

Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Net ...

. Formed on 1 June 1946, they play in the Derde Divisie, the fourth 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 ...

, and have spent most of their history in the lower amateur tiers. Their home ground is Sportpark Langenoord.

History

VV Hoogland was founded shortly after

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on 1 June 1946, after local youths decided to organise

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 ...

in the area in one club. The team began its inaugural season in the local Tweede Klasse – the lowest tier of Dutch football at the time. The popular support that football saw during the postwar years meant an increase in clubs, and Hoogland had to participate in the newly founded Derde Klasse shortly afterwards – the new lowest tier. Hoogland mainly played in the basement of Dutch football during the following decades, shifting between participation in the

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and

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 ...

, which were the fourth and fifth amateur levels. The club, however, saw a rapid rise in the late 2000s, reaching promotion 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 2011. After winning the Eerste Klasse championship in 2016, Hoogland reached the Hoofdklasse Sunday for the first time in the 2016–17 season. With a fifteenth place in the following season, however, relegation back to the Eerste Klasse ensued. This was followed by two promotions in a row, both after play-offs, which meant that the club played in the fourth-tier Derde Divisie for the first time in club history in the 2019–20 season. At that point, the club was the highest classified and largest club in the

Amersfoort Amersfoort () is a city and municipality in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands, about 20 km from the city of Utrecht and 40 km south east of Amsterdam. As of 1 December 2021, the municipality had a population of 158,531, making it the second- ...

Municipality.

References

External links

Official site
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