Heracles Almelo

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Heracles Almelo
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Full name Heracles Almelo
Nickname(s) Heraclieden
Founded May 3, 1903
Ground Polman Stadion
Almelo
Capacity 8,500
Chairman Flag of Netherlands Jan Smit
Manager Flag of Netherlands Ruud Brood
League Eredivisie
2005-06 Eredivisie, 13th
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Heracles Almelo is a football club from Almelo, the Netherlands.

Heracles Almelo were founded on May 3, 1903 as Heracles after the demigod son of Zeus. They changed their name on July 1, 1974 to SC Heracles '74 and finally settled on the current name in 1998. The club has won the Dutch national title twice, in 1927 and 1941. One of the club's most famous players was South African Steve Mokone, nicknamed The Black Meteor, the first black football player in the Netherlands ever.

In the 2004/05 season, Heracles won the title in the Eerste Divisie, so that during the 2005/06 season, Heracles played in the Eredivisie, where they finished 13th. The average attendance in 2004/05 was 5,700 people. In the current top flight season this has risen to just over 8,300.

No. Position Player
1 Flag of Germany GK Martin Pieckenhagen
2 Flag of Belgium DF Bjorn Daelemans
3 Flag of Australia DF Eddy Bosnar
4 Flag of Estonia DF Ragnar Klavan
5 Flag of Netherlands DF Mark Looms
6 Flag of Netherlands MF Rob Maas
8 Flag of Germany MF Kai Michalke
9 Flag of Montenegro FW Igor Gluščević
10 Flag of Belgium FW Stefaan Tanghe
11 Flag of Netherlands FW Diego Biseswar
12 Flag of Ghana MF Emmanuel Boakye
No. Position Player
14 Flag of Netherlands MF Marnix Smit
15 Flag of Belgium MF Jan Wuytens
16 Flag of Netherlands GK Remko Pasveer
17 Flag of Netherlands MF Remon de Vries
18 Flag of Netherlands FW Marc Höcher
19 Flag of Brazil FW Everton
20 Flag of Algeria FW Karim Bridji
21 Flag of Ghana FW Kwame Quansah
22 Flag of Canada FW Rob Friend (on loan from sc Heerenveen)
23 Flag of Netherlands DF Robbert Schilder (on loan from Ajax)


Heracles Almelo - Current Squad

1 Pieckenhagen | 2 Daelemans | 3 Bosnar | 4 Klavan | 5 Looms | 6 Maas | 7 Hofstede | 8 Michalke | 10 Tanghe | 11 Biseswar | 12 Boakye | 14 Smit | 15 Wuytens | 16 Pasveer | 17 De Vries | 18 Höcher | 19 Everton | 20 Bridji | 21 Quansah | 23 Schilder | Manager: Brood

Flag of the Netherlands
Eredivisie2006/07
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ADO Den Haag | Ajax | AZ | Excelsior | Feyenoord | Groningen | Heerenveen | Heracles | NAC | NEC | PSV | RKC | Roda JC | Sparta | Twente | Utrecht | Vitesse | Willem II

Eredivisie seasons

1993/94 | 1994/95 | 1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07

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