FC Utrecht

FC Utrecht
Full name	Football Club Utrecht
Nickname(s)	Utreg
Founded	July 1, 1970
Ground	Stadion Galgenwaard; Utrecht
Capacity	24,426
Chairman	Jan Willem van Dop
Manager	Willem van Hanegem
League	Eredivisie
2007/2008	Eredivisie, 10th
Home colours	Away colours

FC Utrecht is a Dutch football club founded on July 1, 1970. It was a merger of three clubs from the city of Utrecht: DOS, Elinkwijk and Velox. It featured in the UEFA Cup in the 1980s several times but suffered a downturn in fortunes after 1991 and had to wait for a further ten years to play European football again.

DOS won the national championship in 1958. FC Utrecht has won the KNVB Cup three times: in 1985, 2003 and 2004. In 2004 FC Utrecht won the Johan Cruijff Shield. FC Utrecht was the first club outside the traditional top three Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV to win this Trophy. FC Utrecht is also the only club outside the traditional top three that has never relegated out of the Dutch Eredivisie. Partly the cause of this may be the relatively late founding, but it has to be noted that every other team, apart from the traditional top three, currently in the Eredivisie has relegated at least once since the founding of FC Utrecht.

Its stadium is the Stadion Galgenwaard having been previously first named Galgenwaard and later Nieuw Galgenwaard with a current capacity of 24,426 spectators. The average attendance in 2004/05 was 19,600 people. In the season 2006/07 the average attendance has risen to 20,004 people. The club's colours are red and white.

Willem van Hanegem has been appointed manager of FC Utrecht in July 2007. Foeke Booy, the previous manager who led the team to two cup titles, has left the club for Saudi-Arabia.

On April 2, 2008 it was announced that former owner of Mammoet, Van Seumeren, has taken over 51% of the shares of FC Utrecht. This makes Utrecht the second club in the Netherlands, after AZ, to be owned by investors.

The board of FC Utrecht has further announced that, because of the money they got for this take over, there will be more room for youth facilities and scouting. Also the board wants FC Utrecht to be competing within the top of the Eredivisie in five years.

Honours

Eredivisie
- Winner: 1958

KNVB Cup
- Winners: 1985, 2003, 2004
- Runners-up: 1982, 2002

Johan Cruijff Shield
- Winners: 2004

Current squad

[1] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	NED	Michel Vorm
2	DF	NED	Tim Cornelisse
3	DF	ROU	Mihai Neşu
5	DF	GHA	Francis Dickoh
6	MF	NED	Gregoor van Dijk
7	FW	GLP	Loïc Loval
8	MF	DEN	Michael Silberbauer
9	FW	DEN	Morten Skoubo
10	MF	BEL	Tom Caluwé
11	FW	NED	Cedric van der Gun
12	DF	NED	Nick Kuipers
13	DF	NED	Mike van der Kooy
14	MF	GER	Simon Cziommer


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
15	DF	NED	Kees van Buuren
16	GK	NED	Wesley de Ruiter
17	DF	NED	Alje Schut
18	MF	NED	Barry Maguire
19	FW	MAR	Ali Boussaboun
20	MF	NED	Gregory Schaken
21	FW	NED	Leroy George
22	DF	NED	Sander Keller
23	MF	BEL	Hans Somers
24	DF	NED	Etienne Shew-Atjon
25	DF	NED	Vito Wormgoor
28	GK	NED	André Krul

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	NED	Jahrizino Valentijn (on loan to AGOVV Apeldoorn)
—	FW	BEL	Kevin Vandenbergh (on loan to Germinal Beerschot Antwerpen)

Retired numbers

4 in memory of David Di Tommaso

Notable players

Former managers

External links

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