Royal Dutch Football Association
The Royal Netherlands Football Association ( KNVB [ pronunciation: [ ka ː ɛn ve ː be ː ]]) ( Dutch: Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond [ pronunciation: [ ko ː nɪŋk ˌ lə.kə ne ː jər ˌ lɑnt.sə vut.bɑl ˌ bɔnt ]. .. .. ]; to 1929 Nederlandsche Voetbalbond [ pronunciation:. .. ne ː ˌ jər lɑnt.sə vut.bɑl ˌ bɔnt ] ), the Football Association in the Netherlands. It has its headquarters in Zeist.
Organization
The KNVB organizes the Dutch national football teams of men and women and youth, disability football and futsal, beyond the professional leagues Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie, the cup competition for the KNVB Beker, the highest leagues in amateur ( Hoofdklassen ), futsal and women. The lower classes are organized by six regional associations.
History
The Dutch Football Federation was founded in 1889 as the Nederlandsche Voetbal Bond -en Athletic ( NVAB ), but in 1895 left the athletes the dressing. The Nederlandsche Voetbalbond ( NBI) organized the first football especially from clubs in the west of the Netherlands. When in 1904 the FIFA was launched, the NBI was one of the founding members. In addition to the NBI existed from 1916, the Roman Catholic Football Association Rooms- Katholeike Federatie ( RKF ) and later the Christian Football Association Christelijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond ( CNVB ). There were also associations of different social layers, so the Workers Sports Federation Nederlandsche Arbeiders sports Bond ( NASB ) and the Nederlandse Voetbalfederatie of employees. FIFA recognized throughout the NBI as a leading association. 1929 Queen Wilhelmina gave the NVB the honorary title of Royal; the association at that time had already 36542 members in 379 clubs. In July 1940, all associations were merged into a new Nederlandse Voetbal Bond under German occupation. The alliance was renewed after the Second World War and sealed so that the KNVB was responsible as the sole governing body for the Dutch football.
By 1954, the association held on to a pure amateur sport under his powerful chairman Karel Lotsy. Only after become known as the Dutch foreign professionals Watersnoodwedstrijd game against the French national team - which won the ragtag Dutch team, while the KNVB national team had lost most of their recent games - began to move in the direction of professional football on in the Netherlands. In January 1954, the Nederlandse Bond Beroepsvoetbal NBVB was founded and organized its own professional league. The KNVB responded that viewers zuliefen the new professional clubs, so that he was still the professional sport accepted in the fall of the year and merged with the NBVB; a professional football league was founded, which was two years later in the Eredivisie.
UEFA five year ranking
Position in the UEFA five year ranking ( in parentheses the last year placement). The abbreviation CL and EL countries behind the coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2014/15 season of the Champions League and the Europa League.
- 07 (09) Ukraine (league, cup ) - Coefficient: 49.758 - CL: 2, EL: 4
- 08 (07) Russia Russia (league, cup ) - Coefficient: 46.332 - CL: 2, EL: 4
- 09 (08 ) Netherlands Netherlands (league, cup ) - Coefficient: 44.729 - CL: 2, EL: 4
- 10 (11 ) Turkey Turkey (league, cup ) - coefficient: 34,500 - CL: 2, EL: 3
- 11 (12 ) Belgium (league, cup ) - coefficient: 34,400 - CL: 2, EL: 3
As of the end of the European campaign of 2012/13