FC Twente

FC Twente is a football club from Enschede, Overijssel, thus located in the eastern part of the Netherlands.

The club was formed on April 14, 1965, when two clubs, SC (Sportclub) Enschede and Enschedese Boys, gave the go ahead to merge and become FC Twente '65.

The name Twente comes from the region with a population of 620.000 people.

Contents

1 Honours
2 Stadium
3 Players

3.1 Players out on loan

4 Hall of Fame
5 Sponsors
6 External links

Honours

UEFA Cup
*Runners-Up: 1975

Eredivisie
*Winners: 1926 (as SC Enschede)
*Runners-Up: 1974

Dutch Cup
*Winners: 1977, 2001
*Runners-Up: 1975, 1979, 2004

Dutch Super Cup
*Runners-Up: 2001

Stadium

The Arke Stadion is the official stadium of FC Twente. It is located in Enschede, The Netherlands at the Business and Science Park, near the University of Twente. It has a spectator capacity of 13,500 with a standard pitch heating system and has a promenade instead of fences for the tribunes.

The Arke Stadion replaces the old Diekman Stadion as FC Twente's home ground on 22 March 1998. Plans have been afoot to expand and to renovate the old and now demolished Diekman Stadion, however, with a growing fan capacity and with arguments that the location of the Diekman stadium was not strategic enough, the idea was conceived to build a new arena for the Twente fans. The Diekman ground had also faced problems with its seating plans as a result of the FIFA regulations which imposes a necessity to construct a seating tribune behind each goal post.

The cost of the construction was estimated to be around 33 million guilders and took fourteen months to complete, with its foundation stone having been laid on 31 January 1997. Due to the tight budget available, the layout of the stadium was constructed in such that future expansions may be made possible without the necessity to tear down entire tribunes, plans are made to start expanding in 2007.

The first match played at the stadium was a historic 3-0 victory by the home team against PSV Eindhoven on 10 May 1998 in an Eredivisie match.

Players

Current Squad | As of July 3th, 2006

Players out on loan

Hall of Fame

Ab Gritter
Arnold Mühren
Arthur Numan
Blaise N’Kufo
Dick van Dijk
Epi Drost
Eddy Achterberg
Erik ten Hag
Frans Thijssen
Fred Rutten

Gene Hanssen
Isy ten Donkelaar
Jan Jeuring
Jan van Halst
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
Johan Plageman
Kick van der Vall
Marcel Peeper
Piet Schrijvers
Prince Polley

René van de Kerkhof
Ronald de Boer
Sander Boschker
Spira Grujic
Theo Pahlplatz
Victor Hagen
Willem de Vries
Willy van de Kerkhof
Youri Mulder

External links

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Official websites

[FCTwente.com]
[Eredivisie.com]

General fan sites

News sites

[TC Tubantia]

Dutch Eredivisie
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