Football Travel Group
About Us

Fans,at work.

We're the people behind Football Travel Group: football fans in Volendam, Cologne and beyond, organising the trips we'd want to go on ourselves. Nice to meet you.

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The Football Travel Group team on an away day outside Prenton Park
Specialist brands
16
Fans travelled
300K+
Core markets
6+
Years organising football trips
~15
Mike Tol, founder
Mike Tol · Founder
Where it started

Countless football trips taught me one thing: the cheapest deal rarely is the best one. Surprise costs, poor hotels and bad customer service. We set out to make football travel simple, transparent and worth every penny with the greatest customer service.

Mike Tol, founder

Running it together.

Mike started it; today he runs the group together with Lindsay and Pieter, from the office in Volendam.

Lindsay Tol
Lindsay TolCo-founder & content managerSpeaks fluent Greek, plays padel, and is the one who walks Daley.
Pieter Kroon
Pieter KroonCo-founder & managing directorMidfielder at RKAV Volendam, and the office's Frans Bauer impersonator.
Meet the team

27 fans.One dog.

Ticketing, travel planning, customer service, content and code: these are the people who book the seats, answer the calls and sometimes travel along.

Volendam

  • Nick Maat
    Nick MaatHead of UK ticketingArsenal fan, U23 assistant coach at RKAV Volendam and office DJ.
  • Stan Veerman
    Stan VeermanFulfilment managerPlays in RKAV Volendam's first team. Messi fan.
  • Jim Visser
    Jim VisserTicket partnerKnown as 'El Flaco'. Plays for VV Monnickendam.
  • Jim Beers
    Jim BeersCustomer service managerStriker at IJsselmeervogels, modelled on Griezmann.
  • Jeremy Jonk
    Jeremy JonkCustomer serviceThe biggest Real Madrid fan in the building, and its best coffee maker.
  • Georgette van Dijk
    Georgette van DijkContent creatorMan City fan, Guardiola admirer, grew up playing hockey.
  • Bjorn Steur
    Bjorn SteurCustomer serviceGoes by 'Snij'. Football and futsal every week.
  • Michael Mooijer
    Michael MooijerCustomer service'Magic Michael'. Sports student and futsal player.
  • Sebastiaan Peereboom
    Sebastiaan PeereboomFinancial manager'Peer'. Plays for SV Marken's first team; former tax adviser.
  • Mike Lieshout
    Mike LieshoutSocial media specialistTurns colleagues into memes. Often mistaken for Luke Humphries.
  • Daley
    DaleyOffice dogGoldendoodle, named after Daley Blind.

Cologne

  • Johannes JostenJohannes JostenManaging director, Germany
  • Danny LankhorstDanny LankhorstBack office

VisitFootball

  • KasperKasperTicketing manager
  • KornéKornéCommercial manager
  • MarcMarcRemote operations manager
  • LarsLarsTicket partner
  • CristianCristianTicket administration
  • StijnStijnCustomer service
  • MaartenMaartenCustomer service
  • HassanHassanLead developer
  • OmarOmarFront-end developer
  • EissaEissaFull-stack developer
  • SalmanSalmanDesigner
  • OseniOseniContent specialist
Life at FTG

We go to the games too.

Many of us play at local clubs on the weekend, and there's hardly a European top club one of us hasn't visited. We travel to the matches ourselves, as fans and as guides, so we know exactly what makes a good trip.

“Because being there is simply the best.”

  • The team on the pitch at FC Volendam's stadium
  • The Volendam team together in the office, with Daley the office dog
  • Mike at his desk in the Volendam office
  • A tour guide looking out over AnfieldOur guides travel along
  • The team in the dugout
  • Daley, the office dogDaley, head of morale
A full Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, seen from the stands

Our mission

A match is more than ninety minutes of football. It's the journey there, the atmosphere in the city, the moment the players walk out, and the memories supporters take home together.

We want to make those moments accessible, trusted and easy to book for as many fans as possible. From the Premier League and La Liga to the Bundesliga, the Champions League and Formula 1.

Our Story

Since 2011, from Volendam to the biggest stadiums in Europe.

It started in 2011 in the Netherlands, with a fan who loved travelling to matches and wanted to make it easier for other supporters to do the same. What began as one Dutch travel brand has grown into a family of specialist brands, run by football fans in the Netherlands and Germany. And we still get the same kick out of it: helping supporters get to the game, and hearing all about it when they're back.

  1. 2011Founded in the Netherlands to make live football accessible to every fan.
  2. 2023VI Travel launches with Voetbal International, and TrustedSeats opens its ticket marketplace.
  3. 2025Partnerships with SvenskaFans, Tipsbladet and goal.pl bring the group to Sweden, Denmark and Poland.
  4. Today17 specialist brands, 300K+ fans travelled and around fifteen years on the road.
How we work

One group.Local specialists.

Every brand keeps its own positioning, audience and language. Behind the scenes they share the same knowledge, experience, technology and international organisation: the personal approach of a specialist, with the strength and scale of an international travel group.

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