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2010–11 Eredivisie (women)
The 2010–11 Eredivisie Vrouwen was the fourth season of the Netherlands women's professional football league. League matches were played from 2 September 2010 to 12 May 2011 with eight teams. FC Twente (women), FC Twente became champions for the first time, breaking AZ Alkmaar (women), AZ's three-year championship run. The 84 matches of the season had a 44,710 total attendance. Teams On 10 March 2010, two new teams, VVV-Venlo (women), VVV-Venlo and PEC Zwolle (women), FC Zwolle were confirmed as participants, expanding the league from six to eight teams. Source: Soccerway Format The season was played in a Round-robin tournament, triple round-robin format, where all eight participating teams played each other three times (once at home, once away with the third confrontation defined by a lottery-system at the second half the season), a total of 21 matches each. The champion qualified to the UEFA Women's Champions League. There was no relegation system in place. Standings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eredivisie Vrouwen
The Vrouwen Eredivisie (; Dutch for "Honour Division"; ''Eredivisie Vrouwen'' before 2020), also known as the Eurojackpot Vrouwen Eredivisie due to a sponsorship contract, is the highest women's association football, women's football league in the Women's football in the Netherlands, Netherlands. Organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB), it was established in 2007 as a professional league and played for five seasons until 2012, when the Netherlands and Women's football in Belgium, Belgium merged their leagues into a single combined league, the BeNe League. After three seasons, the BeNe League folded, and the Eredivisie restarted in the 2015–16 season. The top two Eredivisie teams each year qualify for the UEFA Women's Champions League. The third place team qualifies for the UEFA Women's Europa Cup. History Background Since the 1970s, amateur women's football competitions have been played in the Netherlands, with the Hoofdklasse (women), Hoofdklasse being the high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportpark Nieuw Hanenburg
Sportpark Nieuw Hanenburg is a cricket ground in The Hague, the Netherlands. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1966 when the Netherlands played Oxford University. Over the next three decades it hosted a number of touring teams, as well as the 1998 European Cricket Championships. The Netherlands Women later played a Women's One Day International there in 2003 against Ireland Women in the IWCC Trophy. The ground is used by Quick Haag Cricket Club. References External linksSportpark Nieuw Hanenburgat ESPNcricinfo ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a ...Sportpark Nieuw Hanenburgat CricketArchive {{coord, 52, 04, 20.29, N, 04, 14, 39.48, E, type:landmark_scale:2000_region:NL, display=title Cricket grounds in the Netherlands Sports venues in The Hague [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hengelo
Hengelo (; Tweants dialect, Tweants: ) is a city in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the Twente region, in the province of Overijssel. It is part of a larger urban area that also includes Enschede, Borne, Overijssel, Borne, Almelo and Oldenzaal. Due to its geomorphology, being situated relatively low in the landscape, Hengelo is a place where streams converge. By consequence, it became a crossroad, inhabited early on in history, which has made it into an infrastructural hub and an industrial centre today. For the 19th century industry, water was needed for bleaching textile, while factories also needed water for their steam engines, and for cooling. Over time, Hengelo became known as ''metaalstad'', for its machine factories and electrical engineering companies. In addition, salt mining developed into an important industry too, which also led to the production of chemical derivatives. Due to its strategical importance, Hengelo was bombed during World War II. Afterwards, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Grolsch Veste
De Grolsch Veste (; ), previously known as Arke Stadion (), is the stadium of football club FC Twente. It is located in Enschede, Netherlands, at the Business & Science Park, near the University of Twente. The stadium has an all-seated capacity of 30,205 with a standard pitch heating system and has a promenade instead of fences around the stands. It hosted the final of the UEFA Women's Euro 2017. History De Grolsch Veste replaced the old Diekman Stadion as FC Twente's home ground on 22 March 1998. Plans had been afoot to expand and to renovate the old and now demolished Diekman Stadion. However, with a growing fan capacity and with arguments that the location of the Diekman stadium was not strategic enough, the idea was conceived to build a new arena for the FC Twente fans. The Diekman ground also faced problems with its seating plans as a result of previous FIFA regulations which imposed a necessity to construct a seating tribune behind each goal post. The cost of the constru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enschede
Enschede (; local ) is a list of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the province of Overijssel and the Twente region of the eastern Netherlands. The east of the urban area reaches the border of the Germany, German city of Gronau, North Rhine-Westphalia, Gronau. The municipality of Enschede consisted only of the city of Enschede until 1935, when the rural municipality of Lonneker, which surrounded the city, was annexed after the rapid industrial expansion of Enschede that began in the 1860s and involved the building of railways and the digging of the Twentekanaal. Enschede is home to the association football, football club FC Twente, a one-time List of Dutch football champions, Dutch champion; the University of Twente; and the last Polaroid B.V., Polaroid film factory. Geography Enschede lies in the eastern part of Overijssel and is the easternmost city of more than 140,000 inhabitants in the Netherlands. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abe Lenstra Stadion
Abe Lenstra Stadion () is a association football, football stadium, located in Heerenveen, Netherlands. It is currently used mostly as a home ground for Eredivisie club SC Heerenveen, Heerenveen. The current capacity is 27,224. Naming The stadium is named after Abe Lenstra, generally considered to be the greatest Heerenveen player in the history of the club. Abe was born on 27 November 1920 in Heerenveen and joined the club aged 15 years. After almost 17 years at Heerenveen, he joined Sportclub Enschede, SC Enschede in 1954. He left this club in 1960 to join SC Enschede's archrival Enschedese Boys. In 1963 he stopped playing football at the age of 42. In total he scored 700 goals in about 730 matches. Abe died on 2 September 1985, he was 64 years old, at the eve of what was to become the only international match to be played in the community sportspark that was to become the (old) Abe Lenstrastadium. Construction of the stadium The construction of the stadium started in 1993. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sneek
Sneek (; ) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city southwest of Leeuwarden and the seat of the former municipality of Sneek in the province of Friesland, Netherlands. As of 2011 it is the seat of the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân (Southwest Friesland). The city had approximately 33,855 inhabitants in January 2017. Sneek is situated in Southwest Friesland, close to the Sneekermeer, and is well known for its canals, the Waterpoort (''Watergate'', the symbol of the city), and list of water sports, watersports (hosting the annual Sneekweek, the largest sailing event on inland European waterways). Sneek is one of the ''Friese elf steden'' ("Eleven cities of Friesland"). The city is very important in the southwestern part of Friesland (called the Zuidwesthoek, or ''Southwest Corner''). History History Sneek was founded in the 10th century as ''Chud'' on a sandy peninsula at the crossing site of a levee, dike with an important waterway (called the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heerenveen
Heerenveen (, ) is a town and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Friesland (Fryslân), in the Northern Netherlands. In 2021, the town had a population of 29,790 (1 January) while the municipality had a population 50,859 (1 July). History The town was established in 1551 by three lords as a location to dig peat which was used for fuel, hence the name (''heer'' is "lord", ''veen'' is "peat"). Heerenveen was not one of the traditional eleven cities in Friesland (Fryslân) as it did not have so-called City rights in the Low Countries, city rights. However, it is now one of the larger municipalities of the province. The windmill Welgelegen, Heerenveen, ''Welgelegen'' or ''Tjepkema's Molen'' is the only survivor of seventeen which have stood in Heerenveen. Population centres Population as of 1 January 2018: Heerenveen (32,900), Akkrum (3406), Aldeboarn (1479), Bontebok, Heerenveen, Bontebok (445), De Knipe (1470), Gers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
