EFDN welcomes Excelsior as a new member to the Network

EFDN welcomes Excelsior as a new member to the Network

EFDN is proud to welcome S.B.V Excelsior to the European Football for Development Network.

S.B.V. Excelsior is a professional football club from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The club was founded on 23 of July 1902 and was formerly known as “Rotterdam Football and Athletics Union Excelsior”. The club was relegated from the top Dutch league, Eredivisie in 2007–08, and promoted back to the Eredivisie at the end of the 2009–10 season. After their relegation in 2012, the team returned to the Eredivisie two years later. Excelsior’s home stadium is the Stadion Woudestein, which is one of the smallest stadiums hosting professional football in the Netherlands.

About Excelsior’s Community Engagement

Excelsior is not only active on the pitch but is also very involved in the community. The club uses its brand and the ability of football to bring people together, as a mean for addressing a wide range of social issues. Excelsior delivers community work through the club’s foundation Excelsior4All, which was founded in November 2011 by the directors of the football club, local experts on community engagement and other management specialists. The developed Social and Responsibility programmes focus primarily on the direct neighbourhood of the stadium and aim at improving the participation in sports, education, health, reintegration and quality of life. The activities are based on football and the belief that the football is a catalyst for creating change.

Excelsior is a young and dynamic football club, which takes their role in the community seriously. The club is aware of the positive value, which it can add to the community and therefore wants to contribute to the community and its development in the fields of sport, cohabitation and in economic aspects.

Excelsior4All is the heart of the club. The vision of the foundation is to use the brand image and the core values of SBV Excelsior to be socially active in the Rotterdam’s region. The club aims at improving the living conditions of individuals, groups and neighbourhoods. To accomplish these goals, the foundation focuses on projects that are based on one (or more) of the pillars: Health, Education, Sports participation, Rehabilitation, Quality of life

EFDN is proud to announce the partnership with Excelsior and is looking forward to the cooperation.