AZ Alkmaar (women)

The women's football department of AZ Alkmaar existed from 2007 and 2011. The team played in the Eredivisie. Home Venue was the TATA Steel Stadion in Velsen.

General

The team colors of the club were red and white. While the chest and back of the jerseys was red, the sleeves were lifted white. Shorts and socks were also kept in white.

History

Since the women's soccer season 2007/ 08 the club introduced its own women's team. First coach was the Dutchman Ed Engelke, who had already had experience with the women's national teams of the Netherlands. In the first year she was able to win the first championship in the history of the Eredivisie for women. In twenty games against five teams the team won eleven wins and four draws and thus prevailed against persecutors Willem II Tilburg. The highest victory, there were at that time in the game against SC Heerenveen, the ladies were sent 4-0 space. Overall, the team conceded only 16 goals, which was league peak. This contrasted with 29 goals scored himself. Only two teams met more often. Best attacker was Claudia van den Heiligenberg, which overcame nine times the opposing goalkeeper. This brought her third in the scoring charts. With the championship, the team for the UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying. However, in the group one of the competition they lost two of three games. Only in the match against the Scottish representatives Rangers, the AZA- women won a point. Particularly fierce was the 0:7 defeat against the team of FC Narta Chisinau from Moldova.

In the second year of the league club repeated his success from the previous year. With the purchase of players like the Welsh Jessica Fishlock, the first British woman in the Dutch women's football, the quality of the squad has been improved in width. Again, it succeeded the opposing teams to achieve only sixteen goals. Offensively put AZ on the other hand, scoring 49 goals, more than twenty in the season 2007 /08. Since Roda JC Kerkrade also announced a women's team for the first time, the number of teams increased from six to seven. From five losses you had to go in three of four meetings with the women of the FC Utrecht without a win from the field. Towards the later runners ADO Den Haag, the team lost only one game and won the three remaining. Consequently, the team of Engelke's defended his title. The strike duo Claudia van den Heiligenberg and Chantal de Ridder get together 21 results. On the second try, meanwhile renamed the UEFA Women 's Cup, in UEFA Women's Champions League and with new tournament mode to enforce, the team had already failed in the first game against the ladies of Brøndby IF in Denmark. In the two games it held to a 1:2 and 1:1.

Also in 2009/10 were the Alkmaarerinnen as a favorite in the championship. Since Roda JC Kerkrade took the team after just one season out of the game operation, launched only six clubs in the new season. But again there was no getting past on the old master. Although the AZA started relatively poor with only one win from their first three games, but until the end of the season the team lost only three times and was able to withdraw from the field with twelve successes. So you sent the most persistent competitor ADO Den Haag again to second place, thus securing the third championship in a row. In Chantal de Ridder is also presented for the first time the top scorers in the league. Your reach twenty games fourteen gates. Parts they had to this item but with Sylvia Smit from SC Heerenveen. With only eleven goals conceded in a season was adjusted to a new record. In addition, Kim Dolstra has been named best player of the league with the Golden Boot.

In the season 2010/11, the ladies of AZ Alkmaar provided a three-way battle for the title with FC Twente Enschede and ADO Den Haag. With 43 ​​goals, the second-best offensive and with 25 goals against the third- best defense could be made, what logical first time was not enough for the league title, but only to table third. Chantal de Ridder won yet with 19 goals again the title for the top scorer. Following the season AZ Alkmaar withdrew for financial reasons from the League operation.

Find out more

• First AZ- scorers of the league was Chantal de Ridder 2009/10 with 14 goals.
• 2009/10 the team conceded only eleven goals, which is Eredivisie record.
• 2008/ 09 provided the club with 45 goals scored on a Vereinsbestleistung.
• First Golden Shoe winner for AZ was defending Kim Dolstra.

Stadium

Its home games wearing the team at the Sportpark Schoonenberg in Velsen -Zuid out. In 2009 it was renamed stadium in TATA Steel. It is named after the Indian steel producer Tata Steel. The first opening of the sports facility was in 1947. Nowadays about 3250 spectators can attend a game. Since the season 2011/ 12, the men's department of Telstar uses alone the sports venue.

Achievements

• Dutch master: 2007/ 08, 2008/ 09, 2009/10

Coach