FC Groningen
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| Full name | Football Club Groningen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Pride of the North Green-White Army |
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| Founded | June 16, 1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Euroborg Groningen (Capacity 19,814) |
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| Chairman |  Ed Zijp |
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| Manager | Ron Jans |
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| League | Eredivisie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007/2008 | Eredivisie, 7th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FC Groningen is a football club from Groningen in the Netherlands.
The club was founded in June 16, 1971 by the Groningen Football and Athletics Association (GVAV, founded January 26, 1921). They enjoyed top flight football for most of their existence, although the club was relegated to the second division after the third season.
The club was then propelled back into success by the Koeman brothers, Ronald Koeman and his elder brother Erwin Koeman together with defending midfielder Jan van Dijk resulting in qualification to European football for the first time in the 1982/83 season. Their best season in the Eredivisie was during the 1990/91 season when they finished third.
FC Groningen's home colors are green and white. The club plays its home games in the 20,000 seat Euroborg stadium. In December 2005, the club played its last match ever in the 12,500 seat Oosterpark Stadion after having played there for 72 years. The average attendance in 2004/05 was 12,500 people. This has risen to just below 20,000 people in the new stadium. After the summer of 2008 Euroborg will have a capacity of 22,000, because of an expansion of 2200 seats.
The 2005/06 season turned out to be one of the best in a long time for FC Groningen, with the club finishing 5th place in the league. This allowed Groningen to enter the play-off tournament for the UEFA Champions League third round qualification. However, they were beaten by Ajax in the finals who scored a goal two minutes before the final whistle.
By finishing fifth in the league, FC Groningen qualified for European football for the first time in 14 years, where they were defeated 4-3 on aggregate in the first round by Partizan Belgrade.
The 2006/07 season FC Groningen again managed to get an entrance for the UEFA Cup. They ended the season on an 8th place but thanks to the play-off tournament system, in which they beat Feyenoord and FC Utrecht, they qualified for the UEFA Cup where they faced ACF Fiorentina in the first round. Both matches in Groningen and Florence ended in a draw, 1-1. FC Groningen were defeated after penalties and knocked out in the first round.
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[edit] Current squad
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[edit] Players out on loan
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[edit] Notable players
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[edit] Former managers
- Han Berger
- Henk van Brussel
- Jan van Dijk
- Anton Goedhart
- Ron Groenewoud
- Rob Jacobs
- Wim Koevermans
- Dwight Lodeweges
- Leen Looyen
- Wim Rijsbergen
- Pim Verbeek
- Theo Verlangen
- Theo Vonk
- Hans Westerhof
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official website (Dutch)
- Official supporters site (Dutch)
- Official supporters site (Dutch)
- Unofficial Forum - English Section (English)
- Unofficial supporters site (Dutch)
- Unofficial supporters site (Dutch)
- Unofficial supporters site (Dutch)
- Unofficial supporters site (Dutch)
