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Drachtster Boys is a football club from Drachten, Netherlands. The female squads of the soccer club are extremely successful, winning national titles and cups.The male squad plays in the 2017-18 season in the Saturday Eerste Klasse (6th flight) after relegation from the Hoofdklasse in 2016. It won section championships in 1973, 1981, 1989, 2005, 2009, and 2013. The squad won the District Cup for amateur clubs in the northern Netherlands three times, in 1983, 1987, 2001. In 1983 it went on to win the National Amateur Cup. This was a first and only among Frisian football clubs.History1970s–1980s: Local leagues and Vierde KlasseDrachtster Boys was founded on 29 March 1948. Initially it played in local leagues.In 1957 the male first started playing in KNVB's Vierde Klasse. In 1966 it promoted to the Derde Klasse from a second position in the Vierde.1970s–1980s: Derde and Tweede KlasseIn 1973 Drachtster Boys won their first section championship, in Derde Klasse B, and promoted to the Tweede Klasse. In 1978, after the first season that Foppe de Haan had managed Drachtster Boys, it relegated to the Derde Klasse. De Haan continued the coach the club another 2 years.One year after De Haan had left, in 1981, it promoted back to the Tweede Klasse. In 1983 Drachtster Boys won the KNVB Districtsbeker, after beating SC Erica 3-0. The same year it won the national amateur club after beating VV Breskens 2-0. In 1987 it won another District Cup through a victory 3-1 over Meppeler Sport Club, in the extra time. In 1989 the Boys won a section championship in the Tweede Klasse and promoted to the Eerste Klasse.