From community project to club
Through Stichting ZSAlliance, young people from Zaandam came together through football. Lin Montano and Chiel Damen helped start the project.
ABOUT US
WHERE ZAAN PASSION AND
DISCIPLINE COME TOGETHER
What began as a community sports project grew into a leading futsal club. We stand for respect, discipline and creativity: values that connect every player, coach and volunteer.
FROM PROJECT TO CLUB
FC Zaanstad grew out of a sports project within Stichting ZSAlliance. Around 2010, a group of young people in Zaandam was brought together under the guidance of Lin Montano and Chiel Damen, with the aim of keeping them off the streets and giving them structure, discipline and energy through football.
With focused training twice a week and a match on Sundays, the boys became fitter and more motivated; by their second season, they had already won a championship on the football pitch.
A new beginning followed in 2010: FC Zaanstad was officially founded as a futsal club, building on the energy and vision of the original project.
DEAF FUTSAL · SINCE 2020
A CLUB FOR EVERYONE
In 2020, a group of deaf and hard-of-hearing futsal players joined FC Zaanstad. What began as one team grew into a fully fledged deaf section, with its own training sessions, its own matches and the same red, white and black pride.
Communication takes place through sign language and eye contact; on the court, that makes no difference. FC Zaanstad 1 Doven won the national title in its very first season and represented the Netherlands in the Deaf Champions League in Madrid, Gothenburg and Guadalajara.
Today, the deaf section is a leading force in the Netherlands and an integral part of who we are: one club, one family, for everyone who loves futsal.
FC ZAANSTAD 1 DEAFOUR STORY. YEAR BY YEAR.
A new start in futsal
FC Zaanstad began a new chapter in futsal with two teams in the Zaan competition.
An official club
The club became an official association and joined the KNVB competition. The club archive also records its Koepel competition title.
Growth and a deaf department
Promotion to the first division and the arrival of deaf and hard-of-hearing futsal players gave the club a new dimension.
The move to the Hoofdklasse
The club history records promotion to the Hoofdklasse through the play-offs.
International futsal at home
The Deaf Champions League U21 brought young players from Europe to Koog aan de Zaan.
Europe meets the Zaan region
Deaf Champions League U21 in Koog aan de Zaan.
The double again
The deaf men won the national title and the Pieter Schiltmans Cup.
THE SQUAD THROUGH THE YEARS
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE CLUB
ONE CLUB.
MANY FACES.
From the board and coaches to volunteers: people shape the club. These are the board roles named in the available club sources.
01 / FUTSAL
FC Zaanstad
Board in the official 2020 club publication02 / DEAF FUTSAL
FC Zaanstad Deaf
Deaf department in sources from 2023–2025Yannick BalChair, deaf department
2025↗Tobias de RondeSecretary, deaf department (2023 AGM)
2023Roles are shown as documented in the cited years. The current board and individual portrait rights are awaiting confirmation from the club.