Ido's Football Club

Ido's Football Club, usually known as IFC, is a Dutch association football club from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht. Its grounds are at Sportpark Schildman.[1]

IFC
Ido's Football Club
Founded20 October 1927
GroundSportpark Schildman,
Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
LeagueDerde Klasse

History

First years

Ido's Football Club was established on 20 October 1927, 2 years before its Saturday football rival ASWH, and initially played football only on Sundays. The establishment was a merger of street soccerclubs, HIVV, OVV and SDW.[2] Its members were for the most part left-oriented blue collar workers.[2] IFC's first ground was Den Dommes in Oostendam, later covered by a bridge and road over the Noord River.[2]

2010s

Since 2014 and occasionally before IFC also has a team for Saturday soccer. In 2016–2017 this team plays in the Derde Klasse of district South-I. IFC further features women teams,[3] youth teams, and senior teams. It engaged in women soccer already in the 1970s.

IFC's prime squad are male Sunday "amateurs" playing in the season 2016–2017 in Hoofdklasse B. Coach was Jack van den Berg, who was behind the promotion of the first squads of IFC and neighboring ASWH in the same season.[4]

In the 2017–2018 season, the first squads of Sunday and Saturday football are coached by Virgil Breetveld, who arrived in Ambacht after training SteDoCo.[1] Breetveld got sacked in March 2018. Gerard van der Mei replaced him as head coach of the Saturday football team, Robert Verbeek replaced him as head coach of the Sunday football team.

In 2019, the first male squad only just survived the relegation playoff from the Hoofdklasse. The first women squad won a section championship and promoted from the Derde Klasse to the Tweede Klasse.[5] In the summer of 2019, Jack van Berg is back as coach of IFC.[6]

2020s

In 2021, IFC dropped its Sunday first squad that played in the Hoofdklasse. The contract of coach Jack van den Berg was ended after IFC could no longer afford him.[7] Some other Sunday squads continued. The Saturday first squad, now the main first squad, won a Vierde Klasse section championship in 2022 and promoted to the Derde Klasse.[8]

Head coach

Saturday squad

  • Arjan Zoeteman (2014–15)
  • Frank Zwakhals (2015–17)
  • Virgil Breetveld (2017–19)[9]
  • Gerard van der Mei (interim, 2019)
  • Winston Faerber (2019–20)
  • Hans Harmans (2020–21)
  • Ron Timmers (2022–)

Sunday squad

References
  1. "Virgil Breetveld wordt trainer van IFC-zaterdag én IFC-zondag" [Virgil Breetveld will coach IFC Saturday and IFC Sunday]. Regio Voetbal. Goudriaan: Het Kontakt. 7 January 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2018. 'De club heeft de afgelopen jaren flinke sprongen gemaakt en ik hoop dat ze nog niet uitgesprongen zijn', glimlacht de komende zomer 50 jaar wordende oefenmeester. Hij volgt op sportpark Schildman Jack van den Berg (zondag) en Frank Zwakhals (zaterdag) op.
  2. "Historie van IFC – intro". ifc-ambacht.nl. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  3. Lohman, Eline. "Steeds meer voetballende dames". De Kombinatie (Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht ed.). Retrieved 6 August 2020. Dan is er ook nog IFC Ambacht. Daar voetballen ongeveer 175 meiden/dames, vertelt Harry van der Graaf.
  4. "Jack van den Berg promoveert ook met ASWH" [Jack van den Berg promotes also with ASWH]. Barendrechts Dagblad. 5 June 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016. Jack van den Berg, de oud-trainer van BVV Barendrecht, levert dit seizoen een heel bijzondere prestatie, want een paar weken geleden werd hij kampioen met IFC (zo) en zaterdag promoveerde hij via de nacompetitie met ASWH.
  5. Rakers, Regina; Van der Wel, Ruud (25 May 2019). "IFC VR1 KAMPIOEN PROMOTIE NAAR TWEEDE KLASSE". if-ambacht.nl.
  6. "Jack van den Berg keert terug bij IFC". 3 June 2019.
  7. "Jack van den Berg en IFC komende zomer uit elkaar". 14 December 2020.
  8. Valk, André (10 May 2022). "Wieldrecht neemt revanche op SVW, Woudrichem wint derby en IFC is eerste kampioen: dit gebeurde er dinsdag op de velden". Algemeen Dagblad. IFC is de eerste regionale kampioen (in 4E) door Lekvogels met 2-1 te verslaan.
  9. "'Ik wil graag verder bouwen aan IFC'". De Kombinatie (Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht ed.). 16 December 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2018. Virgil Breetveld is ook de komende twee seizoenen trainer van IFC-zaterdag en Zondag 1. 'We zijn tot de conclusie gekomen dat we graag verder bouwen aan deze club.'
  10. "Ab van Oorschot trainer van IFC". Het Vrije Volk. Rotterdam. 10 February 1986. p. 17. Retrieved 15 July 2022 – via Delpher.
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