Helmond Sport is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club, playing in the Dutch Eerste Divisie

Eerste Divisie

The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...

 and located in Helmond

Helmond

Helmond is a municipality and a city in the province of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands.- Quarters and Neighbourhoods :*Quarter 11 Inner City**Neighbourhood 0 Centrum**Neighbourhood 2 Leonardus**Neighbourhood 3 Heipoort...

, Noord-Brabant. The club was founded on July 27, 1967, as a breakaway from the local professional club Helmondia '55, which had gone bankrupt.

History

Helmond Sport started in the Tweede Divisie

Tweede Divisie

The Tweede Divisie was the lowest professional football league in the Netherlands. It was established in 1956, together with the Eredivisie and the Eerste Divisie. Between 1956 and 1960 and between 1962 and 1966, the league consisted of two divisions, Tweede Divisie A and Tweede Divisie B. The...

. After only a year, the club was promoted to the First Division

Eerste Divisie

The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...

, where they won the title in 1982 and were promoted to the Eredivisie

Eredivisie

The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....

. There, they would play for two seasons, before being relegated back to the Eerste Divisie

Eerste Divisie

The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...

. The first season back in the Eerste Divisie

Eerste Divisie

The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...

 saw Helmond Sport reach the cup final

KNVB Cup

The KNVB Cup is a competition in the Netherlands organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association since 1899. It was based on the format of the English FA Cup. Outside of the Netherlands, it is often referred to as the Dutch Cup...

, which was lost to FC Utrecht in injury time. Helmond Sport was close to promotion to the Eredivisie

Eredivisie

The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....

 in the play-offs of the 2004/05 Eerste Divisie

Eerste Divisie

The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...

 season. They came up 1–0 against Sparta

Sparta Rotterdam

Sparta Rotterdam is the oldest professional football team in the Netherlands, established on April 1, 1888. Sparta is one of three professional football clubs from Rotterdam, the others being Excelsior and Feyenoord , the latter playing in the Eredivisie.-History:Sparta was first founded in 1887....

 due to a 59th minute Nyron Wau

Nyron Wau

Nyron Wau is a Netherlands Antilles footballer.He played for PSV Eindhoven against PAOK in UEFA Cup 2001-02 as replacement in last minute....

 goal, but in the last 20 minutes Riga Mustapha

Riga Mustapha

Rahamat Riga Mustapha, commonly known as Mustapha Riga , is a Ghanaian-born Dutch footballer who most recently played for Segunda División club FC Cartagena...

 (73') and Rachid Bouaouzan

Rachid Bouaouzan

Rachid Bouaouzan is a Dutch-Moroccan footballer who is currently playing for the Swedish club Helsingborgs IF.- Sparta Rotterdam and The Kokmeijer case:...

 (90+1') scored 1–1 and 1–2 and Sparta was promoted instead.
In the 2010-11 season Helmond finished 3rd in the Eerste Divisie but were beaten in the play-off final for promotion to the Eredivisie

Eredivisie

The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....

.

Honours

• KNVB Cup
  KNVB Cup
  The KNVB Cup is a competition in the Netherlands organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association since 1899. It was based on the format of the English FA Cup. Outside of the Netherlands, it is often referred to as the Dutch Cup...
  
  
  • Runners-up: 1985

• Eerste Divisie
  Eerste Divisie
  The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
  
  
  • Winner: 1982

• Promoted to Eerste Divisie
  Eerste Divisie
  The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
  
  
  • Promotion: 1968

Current squad

As of 1 August 2011

For recent transfers, see List of Dutch football transfers summer 2011

(on loan from Olympiacos)

Former managers

Jan Brouwer

Jan Brouwer

Jan Brouwer is a Dutch football manager who is the manager of Angolan side Sagrada Esperança, a position he undertook in April 2008.He previously managed the Zambia national team in 2001, Petro Atlético in 2004, and Primeiro de Agosto from 2004 to 2007, who he had led to the title in 2006, their...

 (1984-86) Frans Körver (1989-92) Adrie Koster (1993-95) Louis Coolen

Louis Coolen

Louis Coolen is a Dutch football manager and former player who leads a football academy in Tolyatti, Russia.-Playing career:During his playing career he played for PSV, Helmond Sport and RKSV Nuenen.-Coaching career:...

 (1996-01)
Jan van Dijk (2002-03) Ruud Brood

Ruud Brood

Ruud Brood is a Dutch former football player, who was the head coach of Heracles Almelo.He previously coached Helmond Sport and the second team of NAC Breda. As a player he served Feyenoord Rotterdam , RKC Waalwijk , FC Den Bosch , Willem II Tilburg and NAC Breda .-References:*...

 (2004-06) Gerald Vanenburg

Gerald Vanenburg

Gerald Mervin Vanenburg is a retired Dutch footballer who played as a right winger.He amassed Eredivisie totals of 372 games and 112 goals for Ajax and PSV combined, winning fifteen major titles between the two clubs, including the 1988 European Cup with the latter...

 (2006-07) Jan Poortvliet

Jan Poortvliet

Jan Poortvliet is a retired football defender from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, wearing the number two jersey. His biggest club successes came when he played for PSV Eindhoven in the mid- and late 1970s...

 (2007-08)

Former players

Sergio van Dijk

Sergio van Dijk

Serginho "Sergio" van Dijk is a Dutch-born Indonesian footballer player, who currently plays for Adelaide United in the A-League...

 Gerrie Dijkstra Rein van Duijnhoven Hennie Hollink

Hennie Hollink

Hendrikus Hollink is a former football player and manager from the Netherlands, who played for Roda JC, FC Twente and Heracles Almelo...

 Ovidiu Stinga

Ovidiu Stînga

Ovidiu Stîngă is a retired Romanian football player and current manager.-Club career:His football career began at Viitorul Craiova. In 1990, his first league debut started at Universitatea Craiova at the age of 17. on 28 November 1990 against Corvinul Hunedoara winning 8-1...

 Marc van Hintum

Marc van Hintum

Marinus Gerardus Adrianus van Hintum is a retired Dutch footballer who played professionally for Helmond Sport, Willem II, Vitesse, Hannover 96 and RKC Waalwijk, as well as for the Dutch national side.-External links:...

 Yevgeny Levchenko

Yevhen Levchenko

Yevhen Viktorovych Levchenko also known as Evgeniy Levchenko is an Ukrainian footballer who currently plays for A-League side Adelaide United.-Club career:...

 Harry Lubse

Harry Lubse

Henricus Carolus Gerardus Lubse is a retired football striker from the Netherlands, who obtained one international cap for the Dutch national team. He did so on September 3, 1975 in the Euro Qualifier against Finland, when Holland won 4-1 with one goal from the PSV Eindhoven forward...

Esad Razić

Esad Razic

Esad Razić is a Bosnian-born Swedish footballer who is currently playing as a midfielder for Rot-Weiss Oberhausen after leaving FC Oss on 1 July 2011.He has a Swedish communitarian passport....

 Wim Rijsbergen Jerry Taihuttu

Jerry Taihuttu

Jerry Taihuttu is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker. Active between 1985 and 2002, Taihuttu made over 200 appearances in Dutch football for six clubs, scoring nearly 100 goals...

 Otto Versfeld Harald Wapenaar

Harald Wapenaar

Harald Wapenaar is a former Dutch football goalkeeper.Wapenaar has played for Italian club Udinese Calcio and FC Utrecht, whom he left for Portsmouth in the summer of 2003. He joined Vitesse in January 2005....

 John de Wolf

John de Wolf

Johannes "John" Hildebrand de Wolf is a retired Dutch footballer, who earned six caps for the Dutch national team, scoring two goals.-Club:...

 Orlando Smeekes

Orlando Smeekes

Orlando Smeekes is a Netherlands Antilles footballer. He plays for SV Wehen Wiesbaden.-Career:...

 Ricardo Moniz

Ricardo Moniz

Ricardo Moniz is a Dutch football coach of FC Red Bull Salzburg and former football player.- Career :He played for RKC Waalwijk, HFC Haarlem, Helmond Sport and FC Eindhoven.- Coaching career :...