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ADO Den Haag
Full name	Haagsche Football Club; Alles Door Oefening; Den Haag
Short name	ADO Den Haag
Founded	1 February 1905
Ground	Den Haag Stadion; The Hague; (Capacity: 15,000)
Chairman	Henk Jagersma
Manager	Raymond Atteveld
League	Eredivisie
2008-09	Eredivisie, 14th
Website	Club home page
Home colours	Away colours

Mural in the new ADO stadium

Alles Door Oefening Den Haag, commonly known by the abbreviated name ADO Den Haag, is a Dutch football club from the city of The Hague. The club was for a time known as FC Den Haag, with ADO representing the amateur branch of the club. Despite being from one of the traditional three large Dutch cities, it has not been able to match AFC Ajax, Feyenoord or PSV in terms of success in the Eredivisie or in European competition. There is nonetheless a big rivalry with Ajax and Feyenoord. The words Alles Door Oefening means Everything Through Practice in Dutch.

[edit] History

The club was founded in 1905, but found it hard to compete with other major Dutch teams, partly due to the popularity of cricket in the city.

ADO Den Haag won the Dutch national football title in 1942 and 1943 and the KNVB Cup in 1968 and 1975 (under the name FC Den Haag). Their greatest European success was a quarter-final game against West Ham United for the European Cup Winners Cup in 1976. A 4-2 win in The Hague followed by a 3-1 defeat in London meant elimination.

ADO supporters have strong links with Welsh club Swansea City. Flags of the respective clubs are often flown at the matches of the other club, and both clubs regularly hold pre-season friendly matches. Legia Warszawa (Poland), Club Brugge (Belgium), and Juventus (Italy) also share strong supporter links with ADO Den Haag.

After a long spell in the country's second tier of league football, ADO Den Haag played four seasons in the Eredivisie then were relegated again in the 2006-07 season. However, after finishing 6th in the 2007-08 season, they went on to win the play-offs, meaning promotion back to the Eredivisie for 2008-09. The club's new home is the 15,000 seater Den Haag Stadion; there is not yet an official name for this stadium. They used to play the home games at the Zuiderpark Stadion; the ground will be sold for public housing. Their home colors are yellow and green and their average home attendance in 2005-06 was 6,800 people, one of the lowest in the Eredivisie. They started the 2008-09 season with two wins, which put them on top of the Eredivisie for the first time in 32 years.

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Robert Zwinkels
2	DF	Ahmed Ammi
3	DF	Christiaan Kum
4	DF	Timothy Derijck
5	DF	Mitchell Piqué
6	MF	Aleksandar Ranković (captain)
7	FW	Karim Soltani
8	MF	Danny Buijs
9	FW	Bogdan Milić
10	MF	Richard Knopper
11	FW	Wesley Verhoek
12	MF	Ricky van den Bergh
13	FW	Raily Ignacio
16	GK	Barry Ditewig
17	FW	Yuri Cornelisse
18	MF	Pascal Bosschaart

No.	Position	Player
20	DF	Csaba Horváth
21	MF	Kai van Hese
22	GK	Boy Waterman
23	MF	Mike de Geer
24	MF	Leroy Resodihardjo
26	GK	Gino Coutinho
27	FW	Santy Hulst
28	MF	Lex Immers
31	DF	Joel Tillema
33	DF	Danny van der Ree
35	MF	Roderick Gielisse
36	FW	Charlton Vicento
40	MF	Levi Schwiebbe
41	DF	Lorenzo Piqué
52	MF	Serhat Koksal