Original Patrick Football Shirt Sparta Rotterdam 2008/09

The 2008/2009 season of Sparta Rotterdam was the 54th year in Dutch professional football for the club from Rotterdam. The club came out in the Eredivisie and participated in the tournament for the KNVB Cup.

Under the leadership of trainer coach Foeke Booy, Sparta-for the third time in a row-finished in thirteenth place in the final ranking. In the cup tournament, the club lost in the eighth finals of NEC Nijmegen: 2-1. Top scorer of the season became Center striker Rydell Poepon with nine goals.

Booy was discredited in the fall when he took on referee Michel Winter and his boss Jaap Uilenberg. He did that after Willem II-Sparta (3-2) by expressing the suspicion that the referee boss consciously whistles his arbitrators to the disadvantage of Sparta. Booy even spoke of "a conspiracy". The reason was the competition match against Heracles Almelo on December 14, when Sparta lost 2-1. Heracles defender Mark Looms made a hard violation on Poepon in that competition. The Sparta striker had to leave the field injured, but referee Björn Kuipers did not punish the perpetrator. Booy said after the match that "it is not so strange that there will be no Dutch referees present at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa".