SC Helmondia is an amateur football club formed on October 16th 1916 in the town of Helmond, located between Eindhoven and the German border in the east of The Netherlands.
In 1955 a merger took place with another local club SDW Kolping who had been established in 1927 to become RKSV Helmondia '55. The club competed in the second tier Eerste Divisie for four seasons before being relegated. A runners up place in Tweede Divisie in 1964-65 just failed to win the club promotion.
In 1967 the club separated, with the professional arm becoming Helmond Sport, with the amateur section dropping down to regional football. In 1985 the club changed its name to SC Helmondia '55, before reverting to SC Helmondia in 2001.
SC Helmondia will play in the Derde Klasse Zontag Zuid II (Third Class Sunday – South II), in the 2013-14 season.
My visit
Tuesday 21st January 2014
My final few hours on my epic travels on a long weekend in Holland, gave me the opportunity to visit Helmond from my base in Eindhoven. My intended target was the Eerste Divisie club; Helmond Sport, but to be pleasant surprise I also came across another couple of venues at Sportpark De Braak.
One of these was behind the main entrance to the home of Sport. The SC clubhouse was in the corner of the ground along with the changing rooms. The pitch was surrounded by hard standing and grass and had a fine small seated stand on the half way line on the far side.
As ever, it was good to come across a club I’d no previous knowledge of; especially one who formed a vital part of another larger clubs history.
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