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.
6-590: For three seasons in 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,
12-773: A 30-second video named 'Gay? It doesn't matter'; prepared by broadcaster BNN. The video was also broadcast during the Dutch national football teams World Cup qualifier match against Andorra held in October 2012. During the 2014 FIFA World Cup , it collaborated with Royal Philips to open six football clinics across Brazil. Bert van Oostveen is the current Secretary-General of KNVB. Royal Belgian Football Association The Royal Belgian Football Association ( RBFA ; Dutch : Koninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond ; French : Union royale belge des sociétés de football association ; German : Königlicher Belgischer Fußballverband )
18-816: Is the governing body of football in Belgium . It was a founding member of FIFA in 1904 and UEFA in 1954 and was based in Brussels , not far from the King Baudouin Stadium . Since October 2021, the headquarters of the RBFA are located in Tubize, next to its technical centre. Its chairman is Robert Huygens [ nl ] . The Association organizes the Belgium men's , women's , youth national teams, and national eSports team for FIFA. It also runs
24-669: The Belgian football league system , which includes the following competitions: Each year, the executive committee of the Belgian FA honours deserving people with awards. These include (highest award first): In the summer of 1986, when the national men's A-selection reached the semifinals of the World Cup in Mexico , the football team started the project Casa Hogar under impulse of RBFA delegation responsible Michel D'Hooghe . This
30-528: 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
36-497: 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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