Telstar is a Dutch football club from Velsen-Zuid, near IJmuiden. The club originated in 1963 from a merger of two rival clubs, VSV Velsen and Stormvogels IJmuiden, and took the Telstar name after the then-new communications satellite. Telstar played in the Eredivisie for a long stretch after the merger, but later faced relegations and broader mid-table presence in the Eerste Divisie, with occasional near-promotions through playoff rounds. The club’s home ground is the BUKO Stadion, historically known as Sportpark Schoonenberg, and Telstar has long used the instrumental theme “Telstar” by The Tornados as its home match starting tune. If you’d like, I can summarize the club’s key milestones by decade, or compare Telstar’s league history with another Dutch club.