Be Quick 1887

Football club infobox
clubname = Be Quick 1887
fullname = Be Quick 1887
nickname = Good-Old
founded = 1887-04-10
ground = Stadion Esserberg, Haren
capacity = 10,000
chairman = flagicon|Netherlands J.D. Osinga
manager = flagicon|Netherlands B. van Veen
league = Hoofdklasse
season = 2006-07
position = Sunday Hoofdklasse C, 11th
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Be Quick 1887 is a football club from Groningen, the Netherlands. The club was established in 1887, and is currently playing in the Sunday Hoofdklasse C. Be Quick 1887 won the 1919-20 Dutch national football title.

History

Be Quick 1887 was founded on 1887-04-10, by students of the local gymnasium. The club joined the football competition in 1895, and was placed in the "Tweede Klasse Noord", then the highest tier of football in the northern districts of the country. Be Quick joined the newly established "Eerste Klasse" in 1916, and would remain in the league until the introduction of professional football in the Netherlands in 1954.

The heyday of Be Quick came between 1915 and 1926. The club won the title in the northern football competition in every season except for 1925. On 1920-06-06, Be Quick won the national football title, by defeating VOC of Rotterdam, champion of the western football league, 4-0. Of that team, goalkeeper Deck Ruijter Zylker was the only player who wouldn't make it to the Netherlands national football team.

When professional football was introduced in the Netherlands, in 1954, Be Quick joined the professional leagues. They were placed in the Tweede Divisie, where they won the 1959-60 title. Be Quick played in the Eerste Divisie for a number of seasons, but withdrew from the ranks of professional football after the 1963-64 season.

Upon returning to the amateur football structure, Be Quick were placed in the Tweede Klasse (now Eerste Klasse). The club were promoted to the Hoofdklasse in 1992, suffered relegation to the Eerste Klasse in 1995 and to the Tweede Klasse in 1997. After one season in the Tweede Klasse, the club returned to the Eerste Klasse, finishing the first season there in second place and winning the title in the second season, 1999-2000. The club was relegated back to the Eerste Klasse in 2002, but secured promotion a year later, and has played in the Hoofdklasse since.

tadium

The successes between 1915 and 1926 allowed the club to buy a piece of land to the south of the city of Groningen. Stadion Esserberg was built, designed by architect Evert van Linge, one of the players of the team that won the national title in 1920. The stadium had a capacity of 18,000 when it was built. Nowadays, it is host to the Eurovoetbal tournament.

Honours

*sport honours|National football title|1|1919-20
*sport honours|Tweede Divisie|1|1959-60
*sport honours|Northern football competition|18|1895-96, 1896-97, 1905-06, 1914-15, 1915-16, 1916-17, 1917-18, 1918-19, 1919-20, 1920-21, 1921-22, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1925-26, 1935-36, 1936-37, 1937-38, 1940-41
*sport honours|Eerste Klasse|2|1991-92, 1999-2000

External links

* [http://www.bequick1887.nl Official website]