Quick Boys
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Wikipedia - Quick Boys
Quick Boys (Katwijkse Voetbal Vereniging Quick Boys) is an amateur football club from Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands. The club, established on 1 February 1920, is the second most successful amateur football club in the Netherlands, behind IJsselmeervogels.
History
The club joined the football competition in 1921–22, in the Leidsche Voetbal Bond (LVB), the football association for Leiden. The club played in the Sunday league but a ban on entry charges on Sunday caused financial troubles and Quick Boys moved to the new Saturday league.
Quick Boys have played at the highest amateur level since the founding of the club in 1920. The club won 9 titles in the Eerste Klasse, and joined the new Saturday Hoofdklasse in 1996, winning a further four titles. Twenty seasons later they won promotion to the Derde Divisie (formerly Topklasse) for the first time by winning the fourth Hoofdklasse title. After three seasons in the Derde Divisie, Quick Boys promoted to the highest amateur division (Tweede Divisie) after beating OSS '20 and VVSB in the relegation play-offs.
The club reached the quarter-finals of the 2007–08 KNVB Cup.
Former professional footballer Dirk Kuyt started and ended his senior career with the team, playing in 1998 and 2018.
Quick Boys har vundet Topklasse to gange, i 2015 og 2018. Klubben har også vundet KNVB Cup én gang, i 1981.
Quick Boys har aldrig spillet i Eredivisie, men har flere gange været tæt på at rykke op. I 2005 blev klubben nummer to i Eerste Divisie, men tabte playoff-finalen til Excelsior.
Klubbens mest berømte spiller er Ruud van Nistelrooy, som spillede for Quick Boys i sin ungdom.