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The Dutch Football League is organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB, Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond).The most successful teams are Ajax (36), PSV (24) and Feyenoord (16). Important teams of the past are HVV (10 titles), Sparta Rotterdam (6 titles) and Willem II (3 titles).
The Netherlands national football team (Dutch: Nederlands voetbalelftal or simply Het Nederlands elftal) has represented the Netherlands in international men's football matches since 1905. The men's national team is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB), the governing body for football in the Netherlands , which is a part of ...
The KNVB had opposed professional football for a long time, but eventually submitted to pressure and merged with the NBVB in November 1954 to form a new football association and a new (professional) league. [1] [2] From 1956, the top flight of Dutch football is the Eredivisie (English: Premier Division, literally Honorary Division).
Through the official Football Top 20 of Dutch sports research group SPORT+MARKT, it was revealed in 2010 that Ajax had approximately 7.1 million supporters throughout Europe. [108] This is significantly more than rivals Feyenoord and PSV (each 1.6 and 1.3 million, respectively), which puts Ajax as the club with the 15th-most supporters across ...
It organises the main Dutch football leagues (Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie), the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup, and the Dutch men's and women's national teams. For three seasons in the 2010s, the KNVB and its Belgian counterpart operated a joint top-level women's league, the BeNe League , until the two countries dissolved the league after the ...
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Rank Player National career Matches Goals Minutes Total career 1 Wesley Sneijder: 2003–2018: 134: 31 9,811 2002–2019: 2 Edwin van der Sar: 1995–2008
This is a list of the main association football rivalries in the Netherlands. De Eeuwige Derby's der Nederlanden: De Klassieker: Ajax vs. Feyenoord [1] De Topper: Ajax vs. PSV [1] De Kraker: PSV vs. Feyenoord [1] Amsterdamse Derby's: Ajax (Southeast) vs. FC Blauw-Wit (Southwest) vs. DWS (West) vs. De Volewijckers (North) Betuwse Derby: FC ...