NEC Nijmegen
The Dutch football club NEC Nijmegen was founded in 1900. It is the 41st oldest club in the country! It plays its home games at the Goffertstadion with a capacity of 12,500 spectators and, in addition to tasting the atmosphere of the domestic cup finals in 1973, 1983, 1994 and 2000, it reached the third round of the UEFA Cup in the 2008/2009 season, where it finished after a double-header with Hamburger SV. Nijmegen have topped the top flight twice - in 1975, 2015. Among the famous managers we can name Piet de Visser, Alex Pastoor or George Charlton. Notable players include names like Danish Lasse Schöne or Rob Wielaert.
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SC Heerenveen
Founded in 1920, SC Heerenveen plays its home games in the stadium named after Abe Lenstra, a football legend who scored 523 goals in five hundred games between 1936 and 1954. The capacity of this shrine is currently 27 224 spectators. The club's original name was Athleta, later Spartaan and v. v. Heerenveen in 1922. The club's most famous era began during the Second World War, when 'De Superfriezen' managed to regularly beat even Ajax.
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