Dutch Tour
Estadio
no doubt by the nicer colour scheme of dark blue seats complimented with lettering in yellow and
a bit of red and white. The main stand has a small second tier with the remainder of the stadium
being a single tier.
Between Breda and Rotterdam is
Dordrecht, once home to four clubs
that held places in the Dutch
League. One of the biggest sides
was Emma who were founded in
1911. In 1996 Emma merged with
two other Dordrecht teams, ODS
and ASW, to become FC Breeland.
The new club continues to play at
the home of Emma but recent redevelopment work means that the sole surviving structure at the ground is the magnificent main
stand. Built in 1948, the stand features a combination of wooden benches and plastic seats. The
pagoda-style roof is covered in roofing tiles and even features a chimney at one end! (See photo)
A satellite town of Rotterdam is Schiedam. Here is to found the Harga Sportpark. This is an
amazing sporting estate with numerous football grounds and a plethora of other sporting clubs.
The whole thing is incredibly well-kept with not a blade of grass in the entire complex left uncut.
One of the
grounds at
Harga Sportpark belongs
to
SVV,
founded in
1904
the
club
were
originally
called Excelsior,
then
Voorwaarts
and
then
SVV. SVV
became
Dutch champions
in
1949 when a
Dutch record crowd of 69,500 saw them play Heerenveen at Feyenoord’s De Kuip. SVV left the
professional ranks in 1992 and in 1998 merged with SMC to become SVVSMC. They were promoted to the Hoofdklasse Amateurs last season. The ground of SVVSMC has a large main stand
along one side and eight steps of framework concrete terracing along two others. (See photo)
Groundtastic
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