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Netherlands

Total football, total organisation

Small country, outsized influence. Dutch grounds are compact and steep, the football is coached to death in the best way, and every city is thirty minutes from the next by train.

Top places to travel

  • AmsterdamAjax at the Arena, canals and the Rijksmuseum before.
  • RotterdamDe Kuip is one of football's great old bowls.
  • EindhovenPSV's Philips Stadion is right in the city centre.

Did you know?

Trivia for the pub

Fact 01

Feyenoord

De Kuip's two-tier design was copied from Highbury and Arsenal's engineering.

Fact 02

Ajax

Named after a Greek hero; the crest is drawn with 11 lines for 11 players.

Fact 03

Go Ahead Eagles

Kept the English name after a Dutch translation attempt failed in the 1970s.

Every club we hold

2 clubs · 2 divisions

Europe UEFA Champions League

Europe UEFA Europa League