Supporters
Cambuur have an ultras known as the M.I.-Side, who stand on the North and South stands at Cambuur Stadion. The name comes from the streets where the stands are built: M for Marathonstraat and I for Insulindestraat. Most of the hardcore fans of SC Cambuur now sit close to the away fans on the northern side of the stadium. They are among the most notorious in the Netherlands. In the 2009/2010 season, average attendance was 8,600 fans per game, and more than 6,500 season tickets were sold. That was a new high for SC Cambuur; these numbers were achieved while the club was in the second division but were higher than when it played in the first division. In the 2009/2010 season the club has had six regular season matches sold out with 10.000 fans per game, another milestone for the Leeuwarden based club. Never before in the second division did it have that many regular season matches sold out. During the play offs of the 2008/2009 season Cambuur welcomed more than 40.000 spectators in just two weeks. Another estimated 7.000 fans watched the final play off match vs Roda on a big screen downtown Leeuwarden. More than 1.400.000 people witnessed the final play off match on television. Another record for a play off promotion match in the Netherlands. In total more than 4.500.000 people watched the play off matches between Cambuur and Zwolle/Roda on television that year.
In 2009 the club almost won the playoff against Eredivisie side Roda JC, only losing on penalties. In 2010 the club came in second, again just missing promotion. Since the 2008/ 2009 season the club has been back in the play offs for promotion after being absent for seven years.
The Ultras Leovardia (Leeuwarden Ultras) is a part of the fanclub, the fanclub called the Core of Cambuur (Dutch: Kern-van-Cambuur).
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“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
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—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)