SV Marken

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SV Marken, officially Sportvereniging Marken, is a football club from Marken in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1946 and has Christian roots, though that isn’t in its name. The team plays in the Tweede Klasse, and in 2017 they earned promotion to the Eerste Klasse for the 2017–18 season, then returned to the Tweede Klasse the next season.

A notable moment in the club’s history came in the 1985–86 KNVB Cup when SV Marken reached the quarterfinals, losing 0–1 to FC Den Haag. To attract enough supporters, the home match was played in Volendam.

One of Marken’s best-known players is Kelly Zeeman, who grew up with SV Marken and played in its boys’ and men’s teams before winning the EuroCup Women with the Netherlands. Her father, Klaas Zeeman, also played in the Den Haag match.

Historically, SV Marken began in Vierde Klasse and moved up through the leagues. They won their first league title around 1974–75, followed by a second in 1975 and a third in 1984 in the Tweede Klasse. After the Cup run, they spent much of the period from 1984 to 2006 in the Eerste Klasse, with several seasons in the Hoofdklasse in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Their best finish was fourth place in the Hoofdklasse in 1997, and they also won an Eerste Klasse championship in 2001.

Since 2006, SV Marken has mostly played in the Tweede Klasse, with a spell in the Eerste Klasse from 2010 to 2014. After a promotion in 2017, they spent the 2017–18 season in the Eerste Klasse, returning to the Tweede Klasse the following year.