Feyenoord Rotterdam

Feyenoord Rotterdam began on July 19, 1908, when four men met in café De Vereeniging to form a new football club, Wilhelmina. The name of the club and the colours of the kit changed a couple of times in the first few years, but on July 15, 1912, the club was given its permanent name: Rotterdamsche Voetbal Vereeniging Feijenoord (Rotterdam Football Club Feijenoord). The club adopted its now traditional kit: a red and white shirt with black shorts and black socks with red and white hoops. With Feyenoord being a harbor city the club is mostly associated with footballers and sponsors that have a similar work ethic. With Sparta Rotterdam being considered the more flamboyant "royal" club playing at "The Castle" (Het kasteel) and Excelsior Rotterdam considered a "younger brother" of Feyenoord, even though official cooperation agreements have expired in 2015 The club had its first major international success in the late 60's and early 70s under Austrian Coach Ernst Happel when he started playing what later would be known as Total Football "(totaalvoetbal.) In 1970, Feyenoord would become the first Dutch club to win the Europa Cup 1 (against Celtic), the Intercontinental Cup (Estudiantes), and four years later the UEFA Cup (Tottenham Hotspurs) under Wiel Coerver. In 2002 under Bert van Marwijk, Feyenoord would win the UEFA Cup again in its own stadium De Kuip against Borussia Dortmund. To this day, Feyenoord remains the first and last Dutch club to win a European prize. In the Eredivisie, Feyenoord is considered part of the classical Top-3 with Ajax Amsterdam and PSV Eindhoven, teams that along with FC Utrecht (since 1970) have never been relegated from the Dutch Eredivisie. Since 1924 Feyenoord has won 16 Eredivisie titles (the latest in 2023) 13 Dutch Cups, and 4 Dutch Supercups. Feyenoord was the first club to win the Dutch Supercup, and in 2017 became the first club to win the golden Eredivisie "Schaal" (plate) for its 60th anniversary. Feyenoord is currently strugling to modernize its stadium De Kuip, or build a new stadium owing to the fact that the professional Footballclub (Feyenoord NV) the amateur footballclub (SC Feyenoord), and the stadium (Stadion Feyenoord) became 3 separate entities in 1978, where the amateur club owns a majority stake in the stadium which makes the PFO only a tenant in the stadium, leading to a troubled and ultimately failed process renew or replace the stadium that started in 2006 and has been canceled in 2022. Feyenoord is expected to propose a new plan before 2025.