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| Full name | Sportclub Telstar |
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| Nickname(s) | De Witte Leeuwen (The White Lions) |
| Founded | 17 July 1963 |
| Ground | 711 Stadion, Velsen |
| Capacity | 5,200 |
| Head coach | Anthony Correia |
| League | Eerste Divisie |
| 2023–24 | Eerste Divisie, 17th of 20 |
| Website | http://www.sctelstar.nl/ |
Sportclub Telstar (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈspɔrtklʏp ˈtɛlstɑr]) is a Dutch professional association football club based in the town of Velsen-Zuid, North Holland. The team competes in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of the Dutch football league system. The club was founded on 17 July 1963, as a merger between the professional departments of rivals VSV and Stormvogels. The new club was named Telstar, after the then recently launched communications satellite.
Telstar plays its home games at the Sportpark Schoonenberg, renamed 711 Stadion, for sponsorship reasons. Since its founding in 1963, the football club has used The Tornados' song "Telstar" as the entrance tune for home games.