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PSV Eindhoven
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PSV Eindhoven Information
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| Address: |
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Frederiklaan 10a, 5616 NH Eindhoven |
| Telephone: |
040-2505505 |
| Fax: |
040-2505696 |
| Founded: |
31-Aug-1913 |
| Stadium: |
Philips-Stadion |
| Website: |
www.psv.nl |
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PSV Eindhoven History
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PSV ("Philips Sport Vereniging" or
Philips Sports Union) is a professional football club from
Eindhoven, the Netherlands. It is one of the three 'big' clubs
of the Netherlands, the other two being Ajax Amsterdam and
Feyenoord Rotterdam. The club won the European Cup, the
predecessor of today's Champions League, in 1988.
As its name indicates, the club started out as a company-sponsored
sports club for Philips employees on August 31, 1913 to
celebrate the centennial independence of the Netherlands from
France. PSV has evolved into a fully professional football club.
Its home in Eindhoven is the Philips Stadion with a modest
capacity of 36,500 spectators which is fully-seated. It was,
however, the stadium where many European Cup final matches were
played, and more recently was one of the Dutch venues for the
Euro 2000 competition held jointly by the Netherlands and
Belgium. It was built at the same time as the inauguration of
the club, although its current capacity was only achieved by
various modernisation programmes throughout its glorious history.
Throughout its history, PSV garnered many honours in the
football arena and has been credited as the club where many
phenomenally successful players such as Ronaldo, Romário, Ruud
Gullit, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Jaap Stam, Arjen Robben, Mateja
Kezman, Luc Nilis, Erik Gerets, Philip Cocu, Arthur Numan and
Wim Jonk plied their trade and talents. Its success was built on
the foundations laid down by other famous players like Willy van
der Kuijlen, Jan van Beveren, Jan Poortvliet, the van de Kerkhof
brothers who also played for the Dutch national team and Huub
Stevens in the 1970s where the club won the UEFA Cup in 1978,
defeating Bastia 3-0 in the final match.
Famous coaches such as Guus Hiddink (who between stints at PSV
coached the Dutch national team to a fourth-place finish in the
1998 World Cup and the South Korea to a similar fourth place in
the 2002 World Cup) have managed the team over the years and
have brought considerable successes to the club, culminating in
the victory of the European Cup in 1988. |
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PSV Eindhoven Honours, Trophies & Awards
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- Dutch
league: 18 (1929, 1935, 1951, 1963,
1975, 1976, 1978, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989,
1991, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005)
- Dutch cup:
7 (1950, 1974, 1976, 1988, 1989, 1990 and
1996)
- Dutch
supercup: 7 (1992, 1996, 1997, 1998,
2000, 2001 and 2003)
- UEFA Cup:
1 (1978)
- European
Champions Cup: 1 (1988)
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