alkmaar zaanstreek (dutch: [ˈɑl(ə)kmaːr ˈzaːnstreːk]), better known as az alkmaar or simply and most common in the netherlands as az (pronounced [aːˈzɛt]), is a dutch professional football club from alkmaar and the zaan district.the club plays in the eredivisie, the highest professional football league in the netherlands.az won the eredivisie in 1980–81 and 2008–09.in the same season as their first league title, they also reached the uefa cup final, which they lost to ipswich town.the team has won the knvb cup on four occasions, and one johan cruyff shield.alkmaar '54 was founded as a professional team in april 1954 to play in the 10-team nbvb league, created because the royal dutch football association (knvb) refused to organize a professional league (the knvb took over in 1955).alkmaar '54, and by extension az, played the very first professional match in the netherlands: on 14 august 1954, they won 3–0 at home against venlo '54, with klaas smit scoring the first and third goal.after winning the eerste divisiecode: nld promoted to code: nl  in 1960–61, it played one year in the eredivisie.fc zaanstreek had been playing since 1910 as the kooger football club (kfc).kfc had nearly become national champion in 1934 through a narrow loss to ajax in the finals.the team became professional in 1955.in 1964 the professional part of kfc was renamed fc zaanstreek, while the amateurs played on as kfc.also in 1964, the brothers cees and klaas molenaar, former players and trainers for kfc and owners of a growing appliance store chain, sought to create a powerful football team in zaanstreek by merging the two local professional teams: kfc and zaanlandsche football club.after the zfc leadership thwarted this attempt, the molenaars successfully merged fc zaanstreek with alkmaar '54 in 1967.fc zaanstreek had finished 7th and alkmaar '54 12th in 1966–67 eerste divisie.the team would be based in alkmaar, though the second team originally trained and played in koog aan de zaan.in 1972, the molenaar brothers bailed it out and invested heavily in the club, to the point that az '67 were successful in the late 1970s and early '80s, regularly playing european football from 1977 to 1982 while also winning three knvb cups over that period.after four close league campaigns, az finally became dutch champions in 1981, becoming the only team other than the 'big three' of ajax, feyenoordcode: nld promoted to code: nl  and psv to do so in a 44-year period spanning from 1965 to 2009 (when az once again won the league title).they won the title with overwhelming power, winning 27 of 34 matches and only losing once, while scoring a club record 101 goals and conceding just 30.that same season, az reached the final of the uefa cup, losing 5–4 on aggregate to ipswich town.the next year, in the european cup, they lost in the second round 3–2 on aggregate to liverpool.georg keßler was az's manager over most of these years (1978–82), while star players included: kees kist, the club's highest ever goalscorer with 212 goals and the first ever dutchman to win the european golden boot in 1979 when he scored 34 goals in a season; jan peters, who played 120 matches for az during this period scoring 30 goals from midfield; and hugo hovenkamp, who played 239 matches in defence for az from 1975 to 1983, as well as receiving 31 caps for the netherlands national team from 1977 to 1983 and playing each match in uefa euro 1980 while an az player.
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