Football Club Eindhoven, commonly known as FC Eindhoven, is a professional football club based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, that competes in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football. They are one of two professional clubs which are based in the city of Eindhoven, the other one being PSV.

FC Eindhoven play their home games at Jan Louwers Stadion, in the southern part of the city. The club's official colours are blue and white, hence their nickname "" ().

History

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The club was founded on 16 November 1909 as E.V.V. It came from the fusion of Sparta and Eindhovia. It was decided to form a new club called E.V.V. (short for Eindhovense Voetbal Vereniging). The club colours were blue and white, the blue stemming from the crest of Eindhoven at that time. After turning professional in 1954, the club played in the Eredivisie until 1957, when they were relegated to the Eerste Divisie. In 1969, they were even relegated to the Tweede Divisie. Two years later, the club secured promotion back to the Eerste Divisie, and in 1975, to the Eredivisie. In 1977, E.V.V. Eindhoven were relegated back to the Eerste Divisie, where they have remained ever since. In 1997, E.V.V. Eindhoven moved from a professional club back to an amateur club. A new professional club SBV Eindhoven (Stichting Betaald Voetbal Eindhoven) was founded, and in 2002 changed its name to FC Eindhoven. The club lost 3–0 to Helmond Sport over two legs, 1–0 in the first and 2–0 in the second, in the second round of the promotion playoffs.

Erwin Koeman, the replacement of Ernest Faber, left in the summer of 2012 and was replaced by John Lammers. Under Lammers the 2012–13 season finished in a disappointing 16th spot, only above two sides whose points totals had been set at zero due to bankruptcy. The 2013–14 season was a big improvement with the club finishing sixth and qualifying for the promotion play-offs. There they encountered Sparta Rotterdam and lost 3–1 on aggregate.

Results improved over the next two seasons culminating in a 2nd place finish in the 2014-15 season, but losing the promotion playoffs.

Youth players in use

Former players

National team players

The following players were called up to represent their national teams in international football and received caps during their tenure with FC Eindhoven:

  • ;Azerbaijan
  • Ozan Kökçü (2022–2024)
  • ;Canada
  • Charles-Andreas Brym (2021–2022; 2022–2023)
  • ;Curaçao
  • Sixto Rovina (1985–1988)
  • Ayrton Statie (2016)
  • ;El Salvador
  • Enrico Hernández (2021)
  • ;Netherlands
  • Noud van Melis (1946–1954; 1958–1960)
  • Dick Snoek (1950–1954; 1954–1960)
  • Frans Tebak (1946–1963)
  • Players in bold actively play for FC Eindhoven and for their respective national teams. Years in brackets indicate careerspan with FC Eindhoven.

National team players by Confederation

Member associations are listed in order of most to least amount of current and former FC Eindhoven players represented Internationally

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left"

|+ Total national team players by confederation<br>

|-

! scope="row" | Confederation

! scope="col" | Total

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | (Nation) Association

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| AFC

| 0

| &nbsp;

|-

| CAF

| 0

| &nbsp;

|-

| CONCACAF

| 4

| Curaçao (2), Canada (1), El Salvador (1)

|-

| CONMEBOL

| 0

| &nbsp;

|-

| OFC

| 0

| &nbsp;

|-

| UEFA

| 4

| Netherlands (3), Azerbaijan (1)

|}

Players in international tournaments

The following is a list of FC Eindhoven players who have competed in international tournaments, including the CONCACAF Gold Cup. To this date no FC Eindhoven players have participated in the FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, Africa Cup of Nations, Copa América, AFC Asian Cup or the OFC Nations Cup while playing for FC Eindhoven.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left"

|- style="text-align: center"

!Cup

!Players

|-

|align="left"| 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup|| Charles-Andreas Brym

|-

|}

Club officials

{| class="wikitable"

|-

!Position

!Staff

|-

| Chairman || Juul van Hout

|-

| Chief Executive Officer || Günther Peeters

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| Technical director || Marc Scheepers

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| Team Manager || Tom van der Leegte <br/> Paul Schreuder

|-

| Head coach|| Maurice Verberne

|-

| Assistant coach || Bastiaan Riemersma <br/> Mike van Dijk

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| Goalkeeping coach || Hans Segers

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| Club doctor || Paul Schreuder

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| Physiotherapist || Frank Hagenaars <br/> Thomas Hooyberghs <br/> Fanni Oláh <br/> Marco Subnel

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| Equipment manager || Lydia van den Heuvel <br/> Werner Rossou

|}

Managers

Notes