The Royal Dutch Football Association ( Dutch : Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond , pronounced [ˌkoːnɪŋkləkə ˈneːdərlɑntsə ˈvudbɑlbɔnt] ; KNVB [ˌkaːʔɛɱveːˈbeː] ) is the governing body of football in the Netherlands . It organises the main Dutch football leagues ( Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie ), the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup , and the Dutch men's and women's national teams.
4-474: The Rinus Michels Award is an annual prize in Dutch football . It is supported by the official football coaches union ("Coaches Betaald Voetbal"). The award is named after Rinus Michels , who was named coach of the century by FIFA in 1999. The following managers have been awarded the lifetime prize for their contributions spanning their entire career: Royal Dutch Football Association For three seasons in
8-554: The 2010s, the KNVB and its Belgian counterpart operated a joint top-level women's league, the BeNe League , until the two countries dissolved the league after the 2014–15 season and re-established their own top-level leagues. The KNVB is based in the central municipality of Zeist . With over 1.2 million members, the KNVB is the single largest sports association in the Netherlands. In 1889,
12-518: The Nederlandse Voetbal en Athletiek Bond was founded. Due to certain disagreements, several football clubs ended their association with it and joined together to form Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond (KNVB) which was later renamed to its present name. It was one of the founding members of FIFA in 1904 and one of the first non-British football associations in Europe. The first Dutch football club
16-494: Was formed in 1879 in Haarlem . The Netherlands Football League Championship had already existed unofficially for a decade when the association was founded. The KNVB strongly disapproved of the professionalism of football in 1909. It said that "it will protest against it by all means necessary." In 2012, the KNVB launched an 11-point action plan, called 'Football for everyone' to promote gay football players in coming out . It released
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