Bonaire - List of Champions

The first confirmed football matches on the island took place in May 1923, when local side S.V. Hercules played two visiting teams from Curaçao, losing 0-2 to Sparta II on May 20 and by the same score to Jong Holland on May 21; on August 30 they played another club from Bonaire, Brion.
The current B.V.B. (Bonairiaanse Voetbal Bond) was founded on 31 May 1960. Earlier organisations with the same name existed in the 1930s (Bonairaansche Voetbal Bond, founded in June 1933, with 9 member clubs at the end of that year and in existence until 1937) and later in the 1950s (Bonairiaanse Voetbal Bond, founded in the summer of 1954 by 5 clubs, presumably including Flamingo who hosted Blitz, a club from Sint Maarten, in 1956) but no data are available on the competitions these organised.
The third (and current) B.V.B. was founded by 8 clubs (Cierra Maestra, Flamingo, Vespo, O.A., Centro Rincón, Amstel, Deportivo and Uruguay) and organised a knock-out tournament on 6 June 1960 (Whitmonday) won by Deportivo (6-1 winners over Cierra Maestra in the final); its first league competition finished in 1961. This B.V.B. joined the N.A.V.U. on 4 August 1963, but did not obtain representation at the championship of the Dutch Antilles until 1972. In 1988, the B.V.B. were renamed F.F.B. (Federashon di Futbol Bonairiano).

Season  Champions                              Runners-Up

1960/61 Deportivo
1961/62 Estrellas
1962/63 Estrellas
1963/64 Estrellas
1964/65   not held
1965/66 Estrellas
1966/67   not held
1967/68 Vitesse [*]                            Estrellas
1968/69 Vitesse                                Real Rincon
1969/70 Vitesse                                Estrellas
1970/71 Vitesse             
1971/72 Real Rincon                            Estrellas
1973    Real Rincon                            Vitesse
1973/74   not held
1974/75 Estrellas                              Real Rincon
1976    Juventus                               Real Rincon
1977    Juventus                               Real Rincon
1978    Estrellas                              Real Rincon             
1979    Real Rincon                            Juventus 
1980/81 Vitesse                                Real Rincon
1982      not held
1983    Uruguay                        2-0 3-0 Estrellas
1984    Juventus                               Real Rincon
1984/85 Juventus                               Vitesse
1986    Real Rincon                            Vitesse
1987    Juventus                               Estrellas
1988    Estrellas                              Juventus
1989    Juventus                               Estrellas
1990/91 Vitesse                                Real Rincon
1992    Juventus                               Vespo
1993    Vitesse                                Vespo
1994    Juventus                               Vitesse
1995    Vespo                                  Juventus
1996    Real Rincon                    0-0 1-0 Vespo
1997    Real Rincon                        1-0 Estrellas
1998/99 Estrellas
1999/00 Estrellas                       4-1agg Uruguay
2000/01 Estrellas                          2-0 Real Rincon
2001/02 Estrellas                          1-0 Real Rincon
2002/03 Real Rincon                        3-0 Juventus
2003/04 Real Rincon                    0-0 1-0 Estrellas
2004/05 Juventus                   0-0 0-0 1-0 Estrellas
2005/06 Real Rincon                        1-0 Juventus
2006/07 Vespo                              1-0 Real Rincon
2007/08 Juventus                           2-1 Real Rincon
2009    Juventus                       2-1 2-1 Real Rincon
2010    Juventus                       3-2 1-1 Real Rincon
2011      not held
2012    Juventus                           2-0 Estrellas
2013    Juventus                           3-2 Real Rincon
2014    Real Rincon                    1-1 2-0 Estrellas
2015/16 Atlétiko Flamingo                  4-3 Real Rincon       
2016/17 Real Rincon                        2-0 Juventus
2017/18 Real Rincon                        1-1 Juventus                           [aet, 5-4 pen]
2018/19 Real Rincon                            Estrellas
2019/20   abandoned
2021    Real Rincon                        2-1 Vespo  
2022    Real Rincon                        2-1 Atlétiko Flamingo   
2023/24 Real Rincon                        2-1 Vespo  

[*] Vitesse were founded in Jan 1967 and first entered the league in the 1967/68 season

NB: the tournaments of 2000/01, 2002/03 and 2005/06 were no official championships but
    transitional tournaments in preparation for the next edition, and were all played 
    as single (rather than double) round robins (in 2006 followed by playoffs)

Number of Championships (50)

NB: since 1960; 2000/01, 2002/03 and 2005/06 tournaments not included

14 Juventus (Entrejol/Antriol)
   Real Rincon (Rincon)                     [also won unofficial titles 2002/03 and 2005/06]

10 Estrellas (Noord Salinja/Nort Saliña)    [also won unofficial title 2000/01]

 7 Vitesse (Entrejol/Antriol)

 2 Vespo (Rincon)

 1 Atlétiko Flamingo (Nikiboko)
   Deportivo
   Uruguay

champions of Dutch Antilles

About this document

Main source: Amigoe di Curaçao (available through Delpher)

Prepared and maintained by Hans Schöggl and Karel Stokkermans for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Authors: Hans Schöggl and Karel Stokkermans
Last updated: 30 Jun 2024

(C) Copyright Hans Schöggl, Karel Stokkermans and RSSSF 2005/24
You are free to copy this document in whole or part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the authors. All rights reserved.