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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.
History
As its name indicates, the club started out as a company-sponsored sports club for Philips employees on August 31st, 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,
Romario, 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
South Korea to a fourth-place
finish in the 2002 World Cup, as well as the Dutch
national team to a similar fourth place in the 1998 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.
Trophies and titles
- Dutch league: 17 (1929, 1935, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2001 and
2003)
- 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)
2004/2005 squad
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- 18
 Eric Addo
- 19
 Michael Lamey
- 20 Jurgen Colin
- 21 Edwin Zoetebier
- 22
 Csaba Fehér
- 23
 Nathan Coe
- 25 John de Jong
- 26 Jasar Takak
- 27 Arvid Smit
- 28 Jordi Hoogstrate
- 29
 Robert de
Pinho
- 30
 Kasper Bøgelund
- 31 Otman Bakkal
- 32 Ibrahim Afellay
- 35 Gerald Sibon
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Other sports
Currently, there are 17 clubs called PSV Eindhoven, all member of the Federatie van Philips Sport Verenigingen
(Federation of Philips Sports Unions). The more than 5000 members (2003) participate in 20 different sports.
The recent successes of the swim club -- Pieter
van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn shared 8 medals (of which 5
gold) between them during the 2000 Summer Olympics in
Sydney -- has made it the second best known after the football club, but many of the other member clubs are also high-ranked in
their respective national competitions.
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