FC Utrecht

FC Utrecht

Full name	Football Club Utrecht
Nickname(s)	Utreg
Founded	1 July 1970
Ground	Stadion Galgenwaard Utrecht (Capacity: 24,426)
Chairman	Jan Willem van Dop
Manager	Ton du Chatinier
League	Eredivisie
2009–10	Eredivisie, 7th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

FC Utrecht is a Dutch football club founded on 1 July 1970 and based in the city of Utrecht. The club's colours are red and white.

History

FC Utrecht came into being as a merger of three clubs from the city of Utrecht: DOS, Elinkwijk and Velox.

It featured in the UEFA Cup in the 1980s several times but suffered a downturn in fortunes after 1991 and had to wait for a further ten years to play European football again.

DOS won the national championship in 1958. FC Utrecht has won the KNVB Cup three times: in 1985, 2003 and 2004. In 2004 FC Utrecht won the Johan Cruijff Shield. FC Utrecht was the first club outside the traditional top three Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV to win this Trophy. FC Utrecht is also the only club outside the traditional top three that has never been relegated out of the Dutch Eredivisie. Partly the cause of this may be the relatively late founding, but it has to be noted that every other team, apart from the traditional top three, currently in the Eredivisie has been relegated at least once since the founding of FC Utrecht.

Stadium

FC Utrecht's stadium is the Stadion Galgenwaard having been previously first named Galgenwaard and later Nieuw Galgenwaard with a current capacity of 24,426 spectators. The average attendance in 2004/05 was 19,600 people. In the season 2006/07 the average attendance has risen to 20,004 people.

Management

Ton du Chatinier is the current manager of the team with Jan Wouters as his assistant. Foeke Booy, the previous manager who led the team to two cup titles and a Johan Cruijff Shield, is now the technical director.

Business

On 2 April 2008 it was announced that former owner of Mammoet, Van Seumeren, has taken over 51% of the shares of FC Utrecht. This makes Utrecht the second club in the Netherlands, after AZ, to be owned by investors.

The board of FC Utrecht has further announced that, because of the money they got for this take over, there will be more room for youth facilities and scouting. Also the board wants FC Utrecht to be competing within the top of the Eredivisie in five years.

European Cups History

Honours

• Eredivisie
  • Winner: 1957-58 (as DOS)

• KNVB Cup
  • Winners: 1985, 2003, 2004
  • Runners-up: 1982, 2002

• Johan Cruijff-schaal
  • Winners: 2004
  • Runners-up: 2003

Current squad

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For recent transfers, see List of Dutch football transfers summer 2009 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 Michel Vorm 2 DF Tim Cornelisse 3 DF Mihai Neşu 7 FW Édouard Duplan 8 MF Michael Silberbauer (captain) 9 FW Ricky van Wolfswinkel 10 FW Thomas Oar 11 FW Dries Mertens 12 FW Frank Demouge 14 DF Mark van der Maarel 15 MF Nana Asare 16 GK Wesley de Ruiter

No. Position Player 17 DF Alje Schut 18 MF Barry Maguire 19 GK Khalid Sinouh 20 DF Jacob Lensky 22 DF Sander Keller 23 FW Erixon Danso 24 FW Jacob Mulenga 25 DF Ismo Vostermans 26 MF Michael Zullo 27 MF Gianluca Nijholt 29 DF Jan Wuytens 30 MF Adam Sarota

Out on loan

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 28 GK André Krul (to Sparta Rotterdam) 40 FW Tom Van Bart (to Steaua Boekarest)

Retired numbers

• 4 David Di Tommaso, posthumous honour

Notable players

Former managers

See also

• Dutch football league teams

References

External links

• Official website (Dutch) / (English)