Huizen Sport Vereniging De Zuidvogels is a football club from

Huizen Huizen () is a municipality and a village in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. The name "Huizen" is Dutch for "houses" and this usage has been linked to the belief that the first stone houses, instead of the more common sod houses a ...

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. Its first squad plays in the

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since 2001, with the exception of the 2017–18 season in the

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History

Zuidvogels was founded 15 April 1928 by a group of young people, all of whom were football fans. As there already was a soccer club in North Huizen, going by the name of Huizen (now SV Huizen), the youngsters named their South Huizen club Zuidvogels ("southern birds"). In 1952 the club was renamed HSV De Zuidvogels, which remains the official name. The club had grown to 400 members in 1962. In 1963 a new clubhouse was built by its own members, which has been extended and renovated over the years. Due to the development of a new neighborhood, De Oostermeent, the number of residents of Huizen has almost doubled. This also increased the number of members of Zuidvogels. In 1972, a youth board was appointed to lead the rapid growth of the youth department. Paid trainers were hired, contributing to the relative strength of the youth. One of its former youth players, Nordin Amrabat, played in the

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on the Morocco national team. In 1985 and 1998 Zuidvogels won section championships in the

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. In 2001 it promoted to the

from the third position of the Tweede Klasse. In 2017–18 the club played in the Saturday

B. To succeed in its most senior league ever, it had acquired the forward Pieter Koopman from the

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-side

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. To no avail, as it relegated at the end of a single season back to the Eerste Klasse.

Organization and fields

HSV De Zuidvogels has more than 70 teams and, in 2018, 1300 paying members. This makes it into the largest football club in Huizen and a major club in the Gooi region. With SV Huizen and Skiclub Wolfskamer, Zuidvogels play at Huizen sportpark Wolfskamer. The accommodation of Zuidvogels consists of eight fields, of which three are grass, three artificial pitches, and two

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s. A baseball and softball club, BSV De Zuidvogels, has split from the soccer club.

Noémi Boekel Noémi Boekel (born March 8, 1984 in Huizen) is a Dutch softball player, who represents the Dutch national team in international competitions.

made it to the

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after playing on BSV's youth.

References

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zuidvogels Football clubs in the Netherlands Football clubs in Huizen Association football clubs established in 1928 1928 establishments in the Netherlands