After the disappearance of Veendam and RBC Roosendaal from professional football, a scheme was set up a few years ago to offer clubs, which fall away from professional football on non -sporting grounds, the opportunity to flow into the third division.
Whether such a request is honored is decided by the Amateur football board, formed by director Van der Zee. Before making a decision about this, he will have consultation with the Supervisory Board of the KNVB, the Federal Administration and the interest group of the Second and Third Division clubs.
Keep it out
A new entry can easily be kept out of the door, because the scheme states that a place can be reserved for a club fallen from the professional football “if there is an open space in the third division”.
It is of course not there now, because the possibility of a request for accession of Vitesse did not take into account the promotion/relegation schemes last season. The competition schedules for the new season have already been drawn up and the overwriting period has already been closed. A restart with effect from the 2026/2027 season therefore seems to have more chance of success.
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Finger methods and Zwartepieten in Arnhem
Michel Schaay has already indicated on behalf of the strong holders that it is the intention to make a restart in amateur football with Vitesse. And immediately. With this in mind, a merger with the highest playing Arnhem amateur club MASV (Central Arnhem Sports Association), which will be released in the fourth division, group C, could be an interesting option. There are now contacts between Vitesse and MASV, sources indicate at the professional club.
Now that the first shock about the withdrawal of the license what has fallen away, the finger and black pits have begun in Arnhem. For example, the prominent role is put into question that Michel Schaay has taken on as a representative of the strongholds. The businessman does not perform any formal function at Vitesse.
Not a feasible card
The intended takeover of all shares by the strong holders has been stranded by the withdrawal of the license, so that Schaay is only a representative of a group of minority shareholders, who has taken over the 24.9 percent shares of Dane Murphy for 1 euro.
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The statements of Schaay that he wants to prevent bankruptcy become as little realistic. There is no resolutive condition included in the lease contract with Nedstede about Gelredome, so that despite the loss of the professional license in September the rent of 2.4 million euros will have to be detected, while there are no income on it.
That is not a feasible card, which makes a bankruptcy application inevitable to serve the interests of all duped parties as well as possible.