Koninklijke HFC

The Koninklijke Haarlemsche Football Club is a Dutch football club. By 1959 he was known as HFC. In the 2008 /09 season, the first team plays in the Tweede Klasse Amateurs Sunday, the fifth- highest league.

History

The club was founded as Haarlemsche Football Club by the Dutch football pioneer Pim Mulier on September 15 in 1879 and is the oldest pure football club in the Netherlands. Since 1889, the HFC took part in the operation of the game NVAB. 1890, 1893 and 1895 the club won the (still unofficial) championship. 1904, the first team won the HFC Holdertbeker, a precursor of the KNVB Cup. The following season he put in the Cup competition on two records that still have 2009 stock: 25:0 with the victory against the Vlissingsche VV highest since the Cup result. Eddy Holdert scoring only 13 goals, which until 2009 also nobody could surpass. 1913 and 1915 the club won the trophy again.

The 80th anniversary of the association received in 1959 the status of a " royal " club and is now called Koninklijke HFC.

Known player

14 players of the HFC have been used in games of the national team

• Gejus van der Meulen, 1924-1934, 54 caps
• Man Francken, 1906-1914, 22 caps
• Ben Verweij, 1919-1924, 11 caps
• Dick Sigmond, 1923-1927, 6 ​​matches
• Frits Kuipers, 1920-1923, 5 matches
• Pieter Boelmans ter Spill, 1907, 3 matches
• Cees ten Cate, 1912, 3 matches
• Ben Stom, 1907-1908, 2 caps for HFC ( also 7 missions for the military team Velocitas Breda )
• Louis van Gogh, 1907, 2 Internationals
• Henk Wamsteker, 1929, 1 match for HFC ( also one use for Ajax Leiden)
• Jacques Francken, 1914, 1 International Match
• Max Henny, 1907, 1 International Match
• Dolf van der Nagel, 1914, 1 International Match