Qualla: Almere City FC https://qualla.com/almere-city-fc en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:33 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Almere City FC https://qualla.com/almere-city-fc Almere City FC: Introduction https://qualla.com/almere-city-fc/ In 1959, a group of disgruntled Amsterdam football supporters - angry that their old club had been swallowed in a merger - decided to start their own. They called it De Zwarte Schapen. The Black Sheep. It is not a name you choose if you expect respect. It is a name you choose if you have already decided respect is not on offer. Sixty-four years later, in June 2023, the great-grandchild of that defiant little outfit walked onto the pitch as a fully-promoted Eredivisie club. The route between those two points goes through five rebrands, a record-breaking 12-1 thumping, a five-year plan that actually worked, and a city built on drained seabed that decided it deserved top-flight football of its own.

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/d/almere-city-fc-wp/u17d-almere-city-fc-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Almere City FC: Born in Anger https://qualla.com/almere-city-fc/ BVC Amsterdam was founded in 1954. By 1959 it had merged into the bigger club DWS, and a portion of the supporters refused to follow. They built their own club from scratch and chose, with self-aware contempt, to call themselves the Black Sheep. The club moved through identities ...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/d/almere-city-fc-wp/u17d-almere-city-fc-born-in-anger.mp3 0:06 2 full Almere City FC: The 12-1 https://qualla.com/almere-city-fc/ In their second match of the 2010-11 season - the first under the freshly minted name Almere City FC - they travelled to Rotterdam to face Sparta. The match ended 12-1. The striker Johan Voskamp scored eight goals on his debut, a Jupiler League record that still stands, and Spart...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/d/almere-city-fc-wp/u17d-almere-city-fc-the-12-1.mp3 0:06 3 full Almere City FC: The Plan Nobody Believed https://qualla.com/almere-city-fc/ In 2016, CEO John Bes sat down with the supervisory board and announced a five-year plan. The goal was to reach the Eredivisie. For a club still better known for being thrashed than for thrashing anyone, the announcement read like wishful thinking on letterhead. But the plan was ...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/d/almere-city-fc-wp/u17d-almere-city-fc-the-plan-nobody-believed.mp3 0:06 4 full Almere City FC: The Drop, and What Came After https://qualla.com/almere-city-fc/ Top-flight football turned out to be harder than the play-off run suggested. The first Eredivisie season went well enough - the club survived. The second did not. Pastoor left. Hedwiges Maduro, the former Ajax defender brought in to replace him, was dismissed in December 2024 wit...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/d/almere-city-fc-wp/u17d-almere-city-fc-the-drop-and-what-came-after.mp3 0:06 5 full Almere City FC: A Club for a Built City https://qualla.com/almere-city-fc/ Almere did not exist before the Flevoland polder was drained in 1968. It is the youngest large city in the Netherlands, built on what used to be the Zuiderzee, planned from scratch around lakes and modernist neighbourhoods. A city that new does not inherit a football identity the...

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