Johan Cruijff Shield
The Johan Cruijff Schaal ( larger needles for Johan Cruijff - shell ) is named after the trophy to be awarded football competition for the Dutch Supercup. The title was the first time (then without official title ) in 1949 and played back every year since 1991 between the national champion ( winner of the Eredivisie ) and the winners of the KNVB Cup competition. Win a team the double, the master plays against the runner-up of the Eredivisie.
Johan Cruijff Schaal which is organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association KNVB. After the competition was to start three years after a telecommunications company PTT Telecom Cup, it was renamed in 1994 for two seasons in Super Cup. Since 1996, he is named after the football player Johan Cruijff, the Johan Cruyff Foundation plays a part of the revenue.
The match for the Johan Cruijff Schaal will be held one week before the first round of the Eredivisie and has become the traditional season opening of Dutch football. While it was played in the early years in the Rotterdam Feyenoord Stadium, find the match for the Johan Cruijff Schaal since 1996 in the Amsterdam ArenA instead.
The trophy Johan Cruijff Schaal itself is a silver dish of about 60 centimeters in diameter. The names of the opponents, the date and the ( numbered in Roman numerals since 1996 ) Name of the competition will be engraved on it.