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| Full name | Sportvereniging Nieuw Sloten | |
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| Founded | 4 April 2004 | |
| Ground | Sportpark Sloten, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Chairman | Frans Mobron | |
| League | Vierde Klasse Saturday (2020–21) | |
| Website | nieuw-sloten.nl | |
SV Nieuw Sloten is a Dutch amateur football (soccer) club from the Nieuw Sloten neighborhood in Amsterdam founded in 2004. The club have a Sunday team competing in the Vijfde Klasse. [1]
Founded on 4 April 2004, SV Nieuw Sloten is most known for an incident in December 2012 involving the death of Richard Nieuwenhuizen, a linesman from the opposing SC Buitenboys B3 team from Almere, as a result of physical assault by six B1 youth players of Nieuw Sloten and one of their fathers after the match. A couple of hours later, he was not feeling well and was taken to the hospital, [2] where he died due to his injuries. [3] Following the incident, the Royal Dutch Football Association cancelled all amateur matches for 8 and 9 December. A moment of silence was kept during all professional football matches as well as at the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan. [4] SV Nieuw Sloten suspended all further activities for the remainder of the season following the incident. [5] The players and the father were convicted of manslaughter, [6] [7] [8] [9] and the disciplinary committee of the Royal Dutch Football Association banned five players from football for life, and suspended one player who showed obvious remorse for a period of 60 months. [10]
