RKC Waalwijk

RKC Waalwijk

Full name	Rooms Katholieke Combinatie Waalwijk
Short name	RKC Waalwijk
Founded	August 26, 1940
Ground	Mandemakers Stadion Waalwijk (Capacity: 7,500)
Chairman	Ad Passier
Manager	Ruud Brood
League	Eredivisie
2008–09	Eerste Divisie, 2nd (promoted)
Home colours Away colours

RKC Waalwijk is a football club playing in the Dutch Eredivisie. Its name is derived from 'Rooms Katholieke Combinatie' (Roman Catholic in Dutch) and was a fusion club of HEC, WVB and Hercules. It was formed on August 26, 1940 and used to play its home games at Sportpark Olympia. Its new stadium, the 7500 seater Mandemakers Stadion was opened in 1996 and featured the home match against Roda JC. While considered as one of the Eredivisie's smaller clubs, it nevertheless maintained its top flight status for many years. Its home colors are yellow and blue. The average attendance in 2004/05 was 5,800 people.
At the end of the season 2006/07, RKC Waalwijk were relegated from the Eredivisie after a defeat in play-offs against VVV-Venlo.
On 2009-06-03 they were promoted to the Eredivisie division after a win in the play-offs against De Graafschap.

Current squad

As of September 3, 2009 The numbers are established according to the official website:www.rkcwaalwijk.nl

No. Position Player 1 GK Jurgen Wevers 2 DF Dustley Mulder 3 DF Wouter Gudde (captain) 4 DF Frank van Mosselveld 5 DF Gijs Luirink (on loan from AZ) 6 DF Hans Mulder 7 FW Benjamin De Ceulaer 8 MF Anthony Obodai 9 FW Charlison Benschop 10 MF Ruud Berger 11 FW Derk Boerrigter 12 MF Toni Varela 14 FW Fred Benson 15 MF Anton Jongsma

No. Position Player 16 FW Roald van Hout 17 FW Kevin Vink 18 DF Toby Mulder 19 FW Fouad Idabdelhay (on loan from NAC) 20 MF Alexandre di Gregorio 21 MF Gérard Lifondja 22 GK Maik van den Kieboom 23 MF Jeff Stans 24 DF Hubertson Pauletta 25 FW Eddy Vorm 26 GK Ohad Levita 28 MF Kemy Agustien (on loan from AZ) 32 MF Shkodran Metaj (on loan from Groningen) 40 DF Jurgen Colin

Results

Notable former players

• Željko Petrović - currently retired
• Khalid Boulahrouz - currently VfB Stuttgart
• Giovanni van Bronckhorst - currently Feyenoord
• Harry Decheiver - currently retired
• Rick Hoogendorp - currently SVV Scheveningen
• John Lammers - currently retired
• Cees Schapendonk - currently retired
• Clyde Wijnhard - currently retired
• Ferdi Elmas - currently Galatasaray
• Ivan Vicelich - currently Auckland City
• Thomas Vermaelen (loan) - currently Arsenal

Former managers

• Peter Boeve
• Bert Jacobs
• Martin Jol
• Erwin Koeman
• Adrie Koster
• Hans Verèl

See also

• Dutch football league teams

External links

• Official website (Dutch)