Vitesse

Vitesse

Full name	Stichting Betaald Voetbal Vitesse
Founded	14 May 1892
Ground	GelreDome Arnhem (Capacity: 25,000)
Chairman	Merab Jordania
Manager	Theo Bos
League	Eredivisie
2009–10	Eredivisie, 14th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Stichting Betaald Voetbal Vitesse is a Dutch football club from Arnhem, which was founded on 14 May 1892. The idea of conceiving a football team stemmed from the club's early roots as a cricket club.

Vitesse has had considerable success in the Eredivisie but it has never been considered a close competitor of the top three clubs of Netherlands football, namely PSV, Feyenoord, and Ajax. Yet Vitesse once attracted big name signings into its ranks including Roy Makaay, Marc van Hintum, Sander Westerveld, Victor Sikora, Pierre van Hooijdonk, Mahamadou Diarra and Philip Cocu.

In the 1980s, the club was threatened with bankruptcy, the solution to which was to form a new administrative board to govern both the professionals and the amateur sides. This is because, up to the 1980s, the club had incorporated both its professional and its amateur players into its club structure.

The club has regularly finished in the Eredivisie top five positions and featured in the UEFA Cup competition. However, since 2003, the club has fallen on tough times and has since failed to reach its previous heights. The club could have gone bankrupt again had it not been for the timely intervention of the Arnhem city council who bought GelreDome and created a financial rescue package to salvage the club.

Its home in the city of Arnhem is the unique GelreDome stadium built in 1998, featuring a retractable roof and a convertible pitch that can be retracted when unused during concerts or other events held at the stadium. Its capacity is 25,000. The average league attendance in recent years was just below 20,000.

On 16 August 2010 the former Georgian footballer and now businessman Merab Jordania became the owner of Vitesse. Jordania expressed his ambition for Vitesse to become champion of the Eredivisie league within three years.^[1] His first action as owner involved attracting 8 new young players, though no established stars. However, the takeover, especially given Jordania's background, resulted in massive controversy, some commentators arguing that this takeover was the Dutch equivalent of what had happened in English football, financial globalization and possibly longer-term destabilization, as expressed in the many opinions in the local paper.^[2].

Current squad=

As of August 26, 2010

For recent transfers, see List of Dutch football transfers summer 2010 and List of Dutch football transfers winter 2009-10.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Matej Delač (on loan from Chelsea) 3 DF Kevin van Diermen 4 DF Civard Sprockel 5 DF Jeroen Drost 6 DF Frank van der Struijk 7 FW Ismaïl Aissati (on loan from Ajax) 8 MF Rogier Molhoek (captain) 9 FW Lasse Nilsson 10 MF Dalibor Stevanovič 11 FW Sinan Kaloğlu 12 FW Gio Chanturia 13 MF Nemanja Matić (on loan from Chelsea) 14 DF Slobodan Rajković (on loan from Chelsea) 15 MF Marco van Ginkel 16 MF Larry Kingston

No. Position Player 17 FW Genaro Snijders 19 FW Marcus Pedersen 21 DF Luca Caldirola (on loan from Internazionale) 22 MF Alexander Büttner 24 MF Davy Pröpper 25 DF Gino Felixdaal 26 FW Wiljan Pluim 27 FW Julian Jenner 28 GK Sebastiaan van der Sman 29 GK Eloy Room 30 MF Hayri Pinarci 35 DF Guram Kashia 37 FW Ted Heijckmann 90 FW Nacer Barazite (on loan from Arsenal)

Vitesse-managers since 1914

Leo Beenhakker

Henk ten Cate

Aad de Mos

Hans Westerhof

• Chadwick / Sutcliffe (1914-15)
• Mac Pherson (1919-20)
• Charles Griffith (1920-22)
• Jan van Dort / Bram Evers (1922-23)
• Jan van Dort (1923-24)
• Bob Jefferson (1924-27)
• Heinrich Schwarz (1927-36)
• Gerrit van Wijhe (1936-38)
• Gerrit Horsten (1938-39)
• Gerrit Horsten / Ben Tap (1939-43)
• Gerrit Horsten / Jacques Piederiet / Jan Zonnenberg (1943-44)
• Gerrit Horsten / Jacques Piederiet (1945-46)
• George Roper (1946-47)
• Arie van der Wel (1947-48)
• Jan Zonnenberg (1948-54)
• Joseph Grüber (1954-57)
• Louis Pastoors (1957-60)
• Branco Vidovic (1960-62)
• Jan Zonnenberg (1962-64)
• Joseph Grüber (1964-66)
• Frans de Munck (1966-69)
• Cor Brom (1969-72)
• Frans de Munck (1972-74)
• Ned Bulatovic (1974-September 75)
• Jan de Bouter (September 1975-April 76)
• Clemens Westerhof (1976)
• Henk Wullems (1976-82)
• Leen Looijen (1982-February 1984)
• Henk Hofstee (February 1984-1984)
• Clemens Westerhof (1984-85)
• Janusz Kowalik / Henk Bosveld (1985-86)
• Hans Dorjee / Niels Overweg (1986-87)
• Hans Dorjee (1987-July 1987)
• Niels Overweg (July 1987-September 87)
• Bert Jacobs (September 87-92)
• Herbert Neumann (1992-95)
• Ronald Spelbos (1995-November 95)
• Frans Thijssen (November 1995-96)
• Leo Beenhakker (1996-January 97)
• Henk ten Cate (January 1997-98)
• Artur Jorge (1998-October 98)
• Herbert Neumann (October 98-October 99)
• Edward Sturing / Jan Jongbloed (1999-January 2000)
• Ronald Koeman (January 2000-December 2001)
• Edward Sturing (December 2001-02)
• Mike Snoei (2002-March 2003)
• Edward Sturing (March 2003-06)
• Aad de Mos (2006-08)
• Hans Westerhof (2008-December 2008)
• Theo Bos (2009-)

Club officials

Position	Name	Since
Club owner	Merab Jordania	16 August 2010
Chairman	Maasbert Schouten	14 December 2009
Chief Executive Officer	Paul van der Kraan	16 January 2004
Chief Scout	Ted van Leeuwen	1 July 2008
Manager	Theo Bos	3 January 2009
Assistant manager	Hans van Arum	1 July 2010

Honours

Team Achievements

• Champion Gelderse Competitie NVB: 2x (1895, 1896)
• Champion Eerste Klasse Oost: 7x (1897, 1898, 1903, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1953)
• Champion Tweede Klasse Oost: 5x (1923, 1941, 1944, 1946, 1950)
• KNVB Beker finalist: 3x (1912, 1927, 1990)
• Champion Eerste Divisie: 2x (1977, 1989)
• Champion Tweede Divisie: 1x (1966)
• Also promoted to Eredivisie: 1x (1971)
• UEFA Cup: 9x participation (36 matches): (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002)

Individual Achievements

• Top scorer Eerste Divisie: 2x (1974, 1983), Herman Veenendaal (23 goals), Remco Boere (27 goals)
• Top scorer Eredivisie: 1x (1998), Nikos Machlas (34 goals)
• European Golden Shoe-winner: 1x (1998), Nikos Machlas (34 goals)

Vitesse in Europe

• Group = group game
• 1R = first round
• 2R = second round
• 3R = third round
• 1/8 = 1/8 final

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Score	Goalscorers Vitesse
1978/79	Intertoto Cup	Groep		Hellas Verona	2–1, 0–2	Bursac, Hofs / (-)
		Groep		RWDM	0–5, 0–2	(-) / (-)
		Groep		Troyes AC	5–3, 2–1	Bleijenberg (2), Heezen, Mulderij, Bosveld /
1990/91	UEFA Cup	1R		Derry City FC	1–0, 0–0	Loeffen / (-)
		2R		Dundee United	1–0, 4–0	Eijer / Latuheru (2), Van den Brom, Eijer
		1/8		Sporting CP	0–2, 1–2	(-) / Van Arum
1992/93	UEFA Cup	1R		Derry City FC	3–0, 2–1	Van den Brom (2), Van Arum / Straal, Laamers
		2R		KV Mechelen	1–0, 1–0	Van den Brom / Cocu
		1/8		Real Madrid	0–1, 0–1	(-) / (-)
1993/94	UEFA Cup	1R		Norwich City	0–3, 0–0	(-) / (-)
1994/95	UEFA Cup	1R		AC Parma	1–0, 0–2	Gillhaus / (-)
1997/98	UEFA Cup	1R		SC Braga	2–1, 0–2	Curovic, Trustfull / (-)
1998/99	UEFA Cup	1R		AEK Athens	3–0, 3–3	Laros, Perovic, Machlas / Machlas (2), Reuser
		2R		Girondins de Bordeaux	0–1, 1–2	(-) / Jochemsen
1999/00	UEFA Cup	1R		SC Beira-Mar	2–1, 0–0	Van Hooijdonk, Grozdic / (-)
		2R		RC Lens	1–4, 1–1	Van Hooijdonk / Kreek
2000/01	UEFA Cup	1R		Maccabi Haifa FC	3–0, 1–2	Martel, Peeters, Amoah / Amoah
		2R		Internazionale	0–0, 1–1	(-) / Peeters
2002/03	UEFA Cup	1R		FC Rapid Bucureşti	1–1, 1–0	Peeters / Peeters
		2R		Werder Bremen	2–1, 3–3	Amoah, Verlaat (e.d.) / Levchenko, Claessens, Mbamba
		3R		Liverpool FC	0–1, 0–1	(-) / (-)

Club records

• Highest transfer fee paid: Bob Peeters from Roda JC for € 6.4 million, 2000
• Highest transfer fee received: Nikos Machlas to Ajax for € 8.6 million, 1999
• Record League win: 0–17 v Victoria, Gelderse Competitie NVB, 11 November 1894
• Record Eredivisie win: 1–7 v Fortuna Sittard, 27-09-1997
• Record Eerste Divisie win: 7–0 v FC Wageningen, 30-08-1970
• Record European win: 0–4 v Dundee United FC, UEFA Cup Second Round, 7 November 1990
• Record home win: 14–0 v Victoria, Gelderse Competitie NVB, 20 January 1895
• Record away win: 0–17 v Victoria, Gelderse Competitie NVB, 11 November 1894
• Record home Eredivisie win: 6–0 v FC Volendam, 8 April 1998
• Record away Eredivisie win: 1–7 v Fortuna Sittard, 27 September 1997
• Record defeat: 12–1 v AFC Ajax, Eredivisie, 19 May 1972
• Record tournament defeat: 0–7 v PSV, KNVB Beker, Fourth Round, 4 May 1969
• Highest ranking: 3rd in Eredivisie, 1997/1998
• Longest unbeaten run (League): 22, from 8 January 1967 until 17 September 1967 in Eerste Divisie
• Most clean sheets in one season: 18, Eerste Divisie, 1988/89
• Most League goals all-time by player : 155 – Jan Dommering
• Most League goals in a season by player: 34 – Nikos Machlas, Eredivisie, 1997/98
• Most goals scored in a match: 9 – Nico Westdijk v De Treffers, Tweede Klasse C Oost, 19 October 1941
• Most League goals scored in a season: 85, Eredivisie, 1997/98
• Most League goals conceded in a season: 74, Eredivisie, 1971/72
• Most hat-tricks scored (League): 12 – Jan Dommering
• Fewest League goals scored in a season: 22, Eredivisie, 1971/72
• Fewest League goals conceded in a season: 20, Eerste Divisie, 1988/89
• Fastest own goal: 19 seconds – Purrel Fränkel v FC Twente, Eredivisie, 3 October 2003
• Most top scorer of Vitesse: John van den Brom, 5 times
• Most international caps for the Netherlands national football team as a Vitesse player: Just Göbel, 22

Statistics

Club topscorers by season

Notable players

See also

• Dutch football league teams

Notes and references

External links

• Official website (Dutch)
• Official supporters site
• Official GelreDome site