Worst Season Ever 

Lmao being a Vitesse fan is insane. 3 years ago we beat Tottenham and went to the knockout rounds of the conference league, now we're just happy to merely exist.

A man who’s called “Zealand” struggling with Dutch pronunciation is quite ironic

Zealand in yellow + Lights in Blue = Zeanlandism GREEN

The funniest part is how the previous director and aspirant owner were basically saying the KNVB (Dutch FA) shouldn't be so nosey and difficult, saying in all but words "what are they going to do, revoke our licence". And the current director literally went on national TV to warn everyone that - yes - that is exactly what they may do. And now it's actually good news that Vitesse at least get to finish the season. 😂

Oh damn a video about my country. I live about 45 minutes away from Vitesse, luckily im a PSV fan😂 still sad situation tho. And crazy to think they had Odegaard, Mount, Openda etc playing for them at one point

To be fair, 2 years ago in the Romanian first division we had Gaz Metan Medias and Academica Clinceni who finished on -45 and -32 points

In 2008-09 League Two season, Luton Town was hit by a 30 points deduction. It finished last but still had 26 points.

vitesse is a known chelsea feeder club. i remember in the mid 2010s it being an absolute meme the connection between these teams that even mount and dolanke went there. i honestly could see this being a way for abramovich to stay linked to chelsea somehow

all i can say is fm25 rebuild might be fun

If Man City are found guilty of their charges I hope to hear "At least Jude Bellingham didn't step on your badge" on the Zealandism video on the subject

In romanian league in 2021/2022 there were 2 teams that had their points deducted. One was Academia Clinceni, while the other was Gaz Metan Medias which finished the league with -46 points.

I mean this with all due respect Zealand, but it's misinformation that Vitesse was doing fine before the Jordania (that turned into the Chygrinski/Oyf/Abramovich takeover). There is a lot of information behind what has happened, of which a lot still has to be confirmed for better or worse, but in general several parties (of which the leading parties behind Vitesse are one) are to blame for the current poor situation. I don't want this to turn into a lecture, although it already is a wall of text, but I'll just point out a few things. In general it started of with the move towards the new stadium, because the owner at that time saw golden mountains in the future, which worked for a few years, but in the end just put Vitesse in a bad situation with a stadium way too big for the amount of supporters. They pull in (on average) between 15-23k depending on how good the year is, whilst the stadium can house 26k, which always makes the stadium look empty-ish (whilst pulling in more numbers than a lot of other clubs in the Netherlands). Due to a previous poor financial situation (which in part made them sell the stadium), Vitesse has been in a stranglehold for years by their Stadium-exploiter, which makes them massively overpay for the rent of the stadium (which Jordania tried to buy, but was priced out by fine-clausules due to a previous situation where the municipality had to bail out the stadium) whilst the exploiter flat-out refuses to maintain it (think about a drainage system for the grass that doesn't work, which means Vitesse has to flatout buy a new grass-mat at least once per season) whilst taking 90% of proceeds in catering. Vitesse can't battle this, because for the Dutch footballing license you need a stadium, so he can ask whatever he'd like (and the stadium is in a part of the country where you don't traditionally have a lot of other use for said stadium, it's just not financially feasible, so the exploiter needs to get his expenses out of Vitesse). I say this as a fan of the club, that Vitesse has been financially screwed for quite some time, so they needed the takeovers. In this last saga, the problem is that it got political (due to the geopolitical situation) which basically put Vitesse into a takeover saga for two full years. That's two full years of barely being able to do anything with your squad, which would most likely slowly start to kill off any club. A fellow American of yours, Coley Parry, tried to take over the club, but after a gruelling process of 1.5 years of checks, they denied the takeover. In the mean time he had already been paying for some of the expenses, which then has to be turned into a loan with big interest rates, furthering the financial situation in a downward spiral. Last but not least, the KNVB (our national association) has also played a poor part in which they're seemingly trying to clean their own slate now at the end by being extra harsh. Think about the gruelling slow takeover process, in which they always take half a year before even updating anything in the process. Think about punishing Vitesse with fines (when in dispute with the stadium owner or when they had to change bank accounts because the old bank didn't want the possibility of dealing with Russian money). All in all we're talking about the second-oldest professional club of the country, with a rich history. As a fan I just hope that we find our way back up and create a financially viable ecosystem within the organisation.

And i think being a Sheffield united fan has been the worst this season

Nice choice of shirt today

Also, i sees Zealand Video after school me clicky clicky click and binge watch all of his videos all over again, for the rest of the day.

pronounciation would be more like vie-tess-eh. but yeah, shit show of a club and season. do hope they come back soon.

last season airbus (in the welsh top flight ) ended the season on -4 i believe, they drew one game all season and lost the rest

Lol, I my country Bolivia, there was a team who was relegated with - 11 points, didn't won a game the whole year, draw ONCE, and ended up with a - 87 goal difference

Almost right. "Vitessuh"

China Hebei FC had accomplished one season with -3 points after a 12-point-deduction.

In Dutch: VitessUH, after a double consonant the next open vowel is not stressed, and pronounced as an 'uh'. Then again, the word 'vitesse' comes from French, so then the pronounciation is correct I believe. Anyway, soon the team disappears so who cares?

we say it like you do, only add a short "uh": Vitesse-uh

Like you said, it isn't over yet. The Dutch FA will likely punish Vitesse more as they are waiting for more information and investigations to conclude. They could hand Vitesse another points deduction next season or they might still strip away their license if they haven't gone bankrupt by that time yet. While Vitesse dug this hole themselves, the Dutch FA doesn't go scoff free. No way it really took them 1.5 years to decide if Coley Parry was allowed to buy the club or not only for them to blueball Vitesse and Parry by blocking the takeover. I feel like they should've been a hell of a lot quicker with their decision so Vitesse would've had more time to come up with a plan B

that's what they get from unsettling and buying my wonderkid in my save lmao

in this years paraibano championship, atletico cajazeirense had 11 pts in 9 games (it was a league w/ 10 clubs and only 1 round robin, top 4 advance to playoffs, bottom 2 relegated) which was a midtable finish. they got deducted 13 pts during the paraibanao which means they finished with -2 pts

Ad an 'uh' to it and you're good. An 'uh' as in the 'u' in 'but'. Vitess'uh'!

Chelsea used to loan a ton of their reserves/youth to Vitesse a few years ago under Abramovich. 29 in total over a few seasons, that included Mason Mount, Matic, Van Aanholt, Piazon, Atsu, Solanke and Lewis Baker.

Like that BVB Shirt again

Could be Fort William. they finished on -2 points in the 18/19 season with a lot of heavy losses (regularly lost by 10+ goals)

In the 22/23 season Airbus Broughton in the Welsh premier league finished on -4 points. They had a 6 point deduction and only managed to draw 2 games over a 32 game season

It’s been public knowledge Roman was an owner of vitesse

Thanks for the heads up, this season has been pure hell for us. still it's not over. Vitesse has been around for 132 years now since 1892 and any day now we could be told it's over for good. Being this uncertain for so long nowabout the fact that the club you love and support all your life can be wiped from the face of the earth any day now is mindwrecking. Our leage is different than your's in Brittan. Once you are taken out of the leages there is no way to come back. Our third leage doesn't allow promotions to the second leage. Then we do also have serious financial problems and are in dept like 20-30 milion euro's. We are bankrupt. I don't see how to get a licence for next year when we are playing a level lower with even lower income. This could end very bad. We are just hoping and praying for the best. Before june 15 we know if we will exist next season. Counting down the day's....

Pronunciation: VEE-TES-UH

I blame this on Zealand not running

Who would’ve thought the Dutch Authorities would have such an influence on Zealand’s life the last couple months 😂

18 point deductions

Zealand you should look into the Belarusian league. A couple of the "top clubs" for a few seasons have had major points deductions the past 2 years

Yay my club got Zealand’s attention! 🙃

New fm25 save just dropped

To go along with this terrific season of theirs, they recently lost against their arch rivals at home for the first time since 2012

tbf, the season before FC Groningen went from playing underwhelming as a mid-table team to dropping dead last without any points deductions, although rn they're still in the race for direct promotion after a rough start to the season

Vitesse has had strong links to chelsea, which might be the biggest red flag, mount went there on loan

Bro why the light not green in the last videos

Update on Vitesse for non Dutch people: Vitesse has learned from the independent licence commity of the KNVB that the deadline for the club is on the 15th of may and not the 15th of june, as Vitesse thought earlier. In this time Vitesse needs to have transfered all shares which are currently holded by Oyf. And they need their finances too be in order for next season. If they fail too do this the license commity will revoke their license, meaning Vitesse will cease to exist

Vitesse pack in the air this gas or what??

i dont know why this was recommended to me, i dont even understand english so well, but i liked.

Ooohhh Zealand, you came to the wrong person day! ;)

Yup its vi-tes-se

0:00 to 0:03 is true

my bruddas got less than zero

Oh, so we're doing a Vitesse save in FM25 then?

Their pottential new owner was also rejected by the Knvb

Vitesse is actually French. It means speed. Though you did pronounce it right

How much Vitesse do those feet get?

Vitesse Literraly just Won a game just after this video lmao

I thought this wa clickbait but it’s actually true that’s crazy

VE-tes-UH

every single point deduction in Brazil has been for irregular player, so meh

A lot of people pronounce it like that but it is actually french, so your pronunciation is correct

Fun fact: Vitesse means "speed" in French. In French, it's pronounced "vee-tess".

This isn’t even new news.. back when Chelsea were in europa league years ago I remember the conflict of interest conversation as he owned both clubs

2nd day wearing bvb shirt I respect your unwavering support

Hey if anyone from the Netherlands has any recommendations for matches and places to go to lemme know

Has been a long time top 5-7 club with sometimes stronger seasons. Complete collapse and there where financial rules breaks. I hope a strong ownership group or the fans can take it over.

Its VI-TE-SÈ

Haha its "vitesseh"

This has been going on since the 90's though; it's nickname in The Netherlands is Hollywood on the Rhine. And that is because they have been involved in previous dubious financing since they promoted. Basically they are a provincial club with a inflated ego, inflated stadium and inflated finances.

oh lord vitesse also said like vi tess e yes the last E is supposed to be pronounced

It's definitely vitessey

I’m glad to know my local team doesn’t have that bad of a season, we will end about 20 points above last place! We will still relegate though…

It's sad vitesse got relegated

If only Chelsea was investigated this way

At least their points deduction doesn’t matter

After the Russian left some guy from the United States tried buying vitesse he already put 12m into the club but the Dutch regulators just wouldn't allow him to buy the club.

Couple of teams in the Northern Premier have deductions after fielding ineligible players

FM25 save loading…

Folks were already last with 17, league just deciced they should be laster

Man city, when are u losing points. Now is a great time.

This is my team and although your story is pretty accurate you are still missing some things in your story. First of all 'the Russians' want to sell the club for over 2 years now. There was a possible new owner, mister Parry from the Common Group (who also owns the Belgian team Patro and the English team Lleyton Orient). He put money in Vitesse to pay for any open issues since the russians didnt pay anything the last 2 years. Unfortunatelly he is not very rich and therefore the Dutch FA (KNVB) did a 2 year research into him to then say he can't buy the club because of this. In this 2 year period Vitesse could barely spend any money and therefore slowly went down the league since they play with a lot of loan players and youth players. Last year they ended 10th and this year the max would be 15th. At the same point ING wanted to cancel the bankaccount of the club because of Dutch rules concerning russians cliënts and the accountant could not sign the quater/yearaccounts of the club because of the same reason. These would be violations of the license rules bythe club. Hoever, these are immediately solved to moment the ownership goesfrom the russians to anyone else! Vitesse tried to do that twice, but the Dutch FA said no to both of those lotions because they were still researching if Abramovich was involved or not. This investigation already takes 2 years now and even no e they still can't find hard evidence he is actually the owner! But in the meantime the KNVB takes the club hostage since they can't do anything and are breaking the rules without them being at fould for that.. The punishment is a bit vague and unfair. The problem is, Vitesse can't fight it since they need to get a license to c continue the club. If they fight this, the licensecommittee will just not give them a new license and there is no way to fight that! The KNVB is a bit of a stupid organisation that doesnt handle critic well. Years ago the Dutch team Twente litterally frauded twice and only got -6 points. That would be a more fair penalty die Vitesse to ! But because the previous board of the club kept on fighting the licensecommittee about the Russians, Parry and It taking 2 years now before they can transfer ownership the licencecommittee is giving them this punishment now, even though there is no hard evidence Abramovich is the owner... In Arnhem we as fans now just hope for the best and hope we are done with the KNVB now! Fortunatelly this club is a big club so we will come back, even if it might take a year, or two...

Yo it's Vea-teh-suh haha thats the way you pronounce it in proper dutch

A U13s team near me are on -4 points 💀

Thats a bad season sure. But Rangers once got relegated 3 divisions in a single season. Bury FC got deleted from all of football.

Airbus UK last season were worse

Nooit meer naar arnhem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8 minutes and only 50k views lol

No green light? Zealand fell off

it is pronounced vitess-uh

im first and best

First

Hate to be that guy, but it’s actually ‘fuh-tess-uh’

It’s pronounced Vi-tess(e)-uh

Sorry to inform you, but Vitessee is the better pronouciation.

Everybody getting fined but PSG,CITY, CHE, and United. HAHA

In the Netherlands we say 'nooit meer naar Arnhem', which means we feel really sorry for them

28 mins 1.431k view, bro fell off.

deserved, you cheat you get punished, a good model for England

Vitesse is actually the French word for speed 😉 I find it hilarious whats going on at Vitesse. The club has been a garbage fire since the 90s. The only reason they've been rellatively succesful is the fact that rich owners kept pumping in millions of Russian Rubbels into the club. They've builded up a debt of 155 million Euros with their former owner Oyf. 40 millions in loses per season. No Eredivisie club should normally survive this kind of mismanagement And the one time they actually have too manage without financial injections and they almost immediately go bankrupt. This should have happened way sooner. They've also now proven a connection between Roman Abramovic and Vitesse. Abramovic was earlier interested in buying Vitesse as a satalite club for Chelsea. They wouldnt only allow it since it would have been possible that Vitesse and Chelsea would face eachother in Europe. And then "by pure chance" friend and business partner of Abramovic, Jordania becomes owner of Vitesse. Later Oyf who has similar connections to Abramovic. Finally has been proven what everyone already knew too be true but unfortunately was never proven. Abramovic is really then man pulling the strings behind Vitesse. Het is maar een spelletje jongens 😂

"This isn't a financial issue" goes on to explain how it's a financial issue. Stick to football manager.

Its pronounced 'Vitesse'

i still dont get the abramovic stuff tbh, yes hes friends with putin but so f'in what, should you be held accountable and responsible for your friends actions? the guy clearly gives a shit about football, otherwise he wouldnt feel the need to put any money into any club