HVV Den Haag
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| Full name | Haagse Voetbal Vereniging |
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| Founded | 1883 |
| Ground | De Diepput The Hague |
| Chairman |
 Hans Willinge |
| Manager |
Kees Mol |
| League |
Sunday Tweede Klasse C (District West 2) |
| 2006–07 |
Sunday Derde Klasse A (District West 2) 2nd (promoted) |
HVV (Haagse Voetbal Vereniging: Dutch for Hague Football Club) is an amateur football (soccer) club in The Hague, Netherlands. It was founded in 1883 as an extension of HCC, the Hague Cricket Club. In 1978, on the occasion of the club's centenary, Queen Juliana granted the club royal patronage, with prefix Koninklijke ("Royal"), because of its pioneering role in sport, including in the formation of the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) in 1889. Since then it has been called Koninklijke Haagse Cricket & Voetbal Vereniging, abbreviated KHC&VV. The club's grounds since 1898 have been at "De Diepput", on the border between Benoordenhout and Wassenaar. It now also plays tennis, squash and judo and has around 1750 members.
HVV was the most successful Dutch football club prior to World War I, winning ten Dutch championships between 1890 and 1914. Two of its players won bronze medals with the Dutch side in the 1912 Olympic football tournament. Subsequently, it was superseded as top club in the Hague by HBS and then ADO. Its last season in top-flight football was 1932. The introduction of professionalism by the KNVB in 1954 did not affect lower division clubs such as HVV.
HVV is now an amateur football club. The main squad, HVV 1, was promoted after the 2006–2007 season, and again in 2008–2009 season, and is now playing in the Sunday Tweede Klasse C, the fifth tier of football in the Netherlands, in KNVB District West 2.
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