Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond

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Royal
Dutch Football Association
Koninklijke
Nederlandse Voetbal Bond
Association logo
founding December 8, 1889
FIFA accession 1904
UEFA accession 1954
president Just Spee
Secretary General Harry Been
National teams National soccer team (men)
National soccer team (women)
National futsal team (men)
Homepage www.knvb.nl

The Royal Dutch Football Association ( Dutch : Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond (KNVB) [ koː.nɪŋk.ˌlə.kə neː.jər.ˌlɑnt.sə vut.bɑl.ˌbɔnt ]; to 1929 Nederlandsche Voetbalbond [ neː.jər.ˌlɑnt.sə vut. bɑl.ˌbɔnt ]) is the Dutch football association . It is based in Zeist .

organization

The KNVB organizes the Dutch national football teams for men and women as well as in the youth sector, disabled football and futsal , as well as the professional leagues Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie , the cup competition for the KNVB-Beker , the highest leagues in the amateur field ( Hoofdklassen ), in futsal and women. The lower classes are organized by six regional associations.

history

The Dutch Football Association was founded in 1889 as the Nederlandsche Voetbal- en Athletic Bond (NVAB), but the athletes left the association as early as 1895. The Nederlandsche Voetbalbond (NVB) initially organized football mainly from clubs in the west of the Netherlands. When FIFA was founded in 1904 , the NVB was one of the founding members. In addition to the NVB, the Roman Catholic football association Rooms-Katholeike Federatie (RKF) and later the Christian Football Association Christelijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond (CNVB) existed from 1916 . There were also associations of various social classes, such as the workers' sports association Nederlandsche Arbeiders-Sportbond (NASB) and the Nederlandse Voetbalfederatie der salary . FIFA consistently recognized the NVB as the leading association. In 1929 Queen Wilhelmina awarded the NVB the honorary title of Koninklijk ; At this time the association already had 36,542 members in 379 clubs. In July 1940, under German occupation, all associations were merged into a new Nederlandse Voetbal Bond . The alliance was renewed after the Second World War and thus sealed that the KNVB was the only association responsible for Dutch football.

Until 1954, the association held on to a purely amateur sport under its powerful chairman Karel Lotsy . Only after the game of Dutch international professionals against the French national team, which became known as Watersnoodwedstrijd - which the thrown-together Dutch team won while the KNVB national team had lost most of their last games - did the Netherlands move towards professional football. In January 1954 the Nederlandse Beroepsvoetbal Bond NBVB was founded, which organized its own professional league. The KNVB reacted to the fact that the audience admitted the new professional clubs by accepting professional sport in autumn of that year and merging with the NBVB; a professional football league was established, which two years later became part of the Eredivisie .

List of association chairmen

Pim Mulier (portrait from 1919)
Karel Lotsy
"Jeu" Sprengers (June 2007)

UEFA five-year ranking

Placement in the UEFA five-year ranking ( previous year's ranking in brackets ). The abbreviations CL and EL after the country coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2019/20 season of the Champions League and the Europa League .

Status: end of the European Cup season 2018/19

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UEFA rankings for club competitions. In: UEFA. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .