History
The club colors are green and white of the club.
The football club was founded in 1921 by Hendrik School students, a middle school in Paramaribo. Among the founders were the brothers Leckie and Elliot. Who was elected for a South American club's unusual name Transvaal, since the former province of the Union of South Africa made headlines back in Paramaribo.
The very first season in the Second Division ended with the direct promotion to the highest-class success and in 1925 won the national title the first SV Transvaal.
He is won with 19 championship titles, the most successful teams in the country. The biggest international success was in 1973 and 1981 respectively, the victory in the CONCACAF Champions Cup
In the first national championship (1924) the club won the Tweede Klasse, gaining promotion to the Hoofdklasse, who won the first time in 1925. Since then there have been successes in the maximum for 19 national championships, the last of which in the season 1999-2000. In addition, Trance have won three times the Beker van Suriname and two times (1997 and 2008) the Suriname President's Cup.
The Transvaal is the only team in the Suriname to have become continental champion, winning the CONCACAF Champions Cup on two occasions: in 1973, at a table for the withdrawal of other teams qualified for the finals.
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