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The history of the Netherlands national football team began when the Netherlands played their first international match on 30 April 1905 in Antwerp against Belgium. The game went into extra time, in which the Dutch scored three times, making the score 4–1 for the Dutch side, winning the Coupe Vanden Abeele .
Football is the most popular sport in the Netherlands. Football was introduced to the Netherlands by Pim Mulier in the 19th century when in 1879, at the age of 14, he founded Haarlemsche Football Club .
] The first Dutch football club was formed in 1879 in Haarlem. [4] The Netherlands Football League Championship had already existed unofficially for a decade when the association was founded. The KNVB strongly disapproved of the professionalism of football in 1909. It said that "it will protest against it by all means necessary."
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 ...
From 1596 to 1829, the Dutch traders sold 250,000 slaves in the Dutch Guianas, 142,000 in the Dutch Caribbean islands, and 28,000 in Dutch Brazil. [75] In addition, tens of thousands of slaves, mostly from India and some from Africa, were carried to the Dutch East Indies [ 76 ] and slaves from the East Indies to Africa and the West Indies.
In March 1890, Sparta joined the Dutch Football and Athletics Association (Nederlandse Atletiek en Voetbal Bond, NVAB), founded by Pim Mulier on 8 December 1889, the predecessor of today's KNVB, [1] [2] [3] and they played their first real match later that year. In 1892 Sparta disbanded the cricket branch.
In 2010 it was the first club in the Netherlands to enter the newly formed 'Top Class'. Despite only having 15 members when founded, by the time of the club's 50th anniversary (1945) it had over 700. By AFC's 100-year existence (1995) it has more than 1,500 members and in summer 2016 the club, including non-playing donors, over 2,100 members.
The Royal Dutch Tennis Federation was founded on 5 June 1899 and is, with 709,277 members (in 2005), the second largest sports federation in the Netherlands. [ 2 ] One of the most successful tennis players was Tom Okker , nicknamed The Flying Dutchman who was ranked among the world's top 10 singles players for seven consecutive years from 1968 ...