Editing Sport in the Netherlands (section)

===Football===
{{See also|Football in the Netherlands}}

The [[Royal Dutch Football Association]] (KNVB) is the largest sports federation in the country with 1,076,759 players (in 2005).<ref name="sport"/> According to the KNVB's website, it has over 1.2 million members as of 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.knvb.nl/over-ons/over-de-knvb|title = Over de KNVB &#124; KNVB}}</ref> The organization came into being on 19 December 1899, and was one of the founding members of [[FIFA]] (the world Football Association) in 1904.

Dutch football teams won three [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] bronze medals in 1908, 1912 and 1920. Other successes came in the 1970s, when [[Netherlands national football team|the national team]] played in the 1974 and 1978 [[FIFA World Cup]] finals, losing to the tournament's host on both occasions. In the same period, [[Eredivisie|Dutch league sides]] [[AFC Ajax|Ajax]] and [[Feyenoord]] won [[European Champion Clubs' Cup|European Cup]]s from 1970 to 1973. In 1988, the national team won the only international title so far at the [[UEFA European Championship|European Championships]]. [[PSV Eindhoven|PSV]] won the European Cup that year too. Ajax won the European Cup again in 1995.

Despite their wealth of individual talent, the Dutch national men team have only been able to claim one trophy in their entire history. This came at the [[UEFA Euro 1988]] in which they defeated the [[Soviet Union national football team|Soviet Union]] to claim the coveted Henri Delaunay Trophy. In [[UEFA Women's Euro 2017|2017]] the Dutch national woman team equalized this result when they beat [[Denmark women's national football team|Denmark]], claiming their European title on home ground.

Many Dutch football players have gained international fame, such as [[Johan Cruyff]], [[Marco van Basten]], [[Ruud Gullit]], [[Dennis Bergkamp]], [[Patrick Kluivert]], [[Ruud van Nistelrooy]], [[Clarence Seedorf]], [[Wesley Sneijder]], [[Arjen Robben]], [[Robin van Persie]] and [[Frenkie de Jong]]. [[Rinus Michels]] was named Coach of the Century by FIFA in 1999. Additional football notoriety came with the Dutch team's participation in the 2010 World Cup finals, in which they lost to [[Spain men's national football team|Spain]], giving Spain its first World Cup title. In June 2019 the Netherlands reached their 6th major final, where they lost to Portugal in the [[2019 UEFA Nations League Final|UEFA Nations League final]]. A month later the national woman team reached their first [[2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final|World Cup Final]] against [[United States women's national soccer team|USA]].

Football stadiums [[Johan Cruyff Arena]] and [[De Kuip]] have [[UEFA Stadia List|UEFA's 5-star rating]], enabling them to host finals of the UEFA Champions League and the European Championship.