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C.V.V. Inter Willemstad

association football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ388414 ↗
Source-derived summary

C.V.V. Inter Willemstad, commonly known as Willemstad, is a professional football club of Curaçao,

based in Willemstad. It was founded in 1939 and played in the League of Curaçao and the Netherlands Antilles Championship.

History

The club was founded in 1939 by employees of the KLM airline company, who were refused as members of SOV, the sports association of the Shell refinery. This association was only open to employees of Shell.

Soon the name of the Football Association of Willemstad Curaçao invented. Membership was not restricted to KLM employees. –

On April 28, 1939, CVV Willemstad was officially founded. The club joined the Football Union of Curaçao in the Second Division. The first game was against FC Sharp and was lost 1–0. A year later, the team won the first prize.

Editorial summary

“C.V.V. Inter Willemstad” enters the record as association football club. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Inter, Willemstad and association can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Inter, Willemstad and association.
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Why this record matters

“C.V.V. Inter Willemstad” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Inter, Willemstad and association provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q388414. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1939.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “C.V.V. Inter Willemstad” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.