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Feyenoord Rotterdam NV

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Submitted by JSB on Thu, 17/12/2009 - 22:19
Traditional Feyenoord football shirt

The club's roots began with the establishment of Wilhelmina football club in 1908, becoming Hillesluise in 1909, then RVV Celeritas and finally SC Feijenoord in 1912, being named after the city district in which the team was founded. Playing as Feyenoord the club has won 14 Dutch Championships (Eredivisie), 11 Dutch Cups (KNVB Cups), 1 European Cup and 2 UEFA Cups. Home matches are played at the Feijenoord Stadion (more commonly known as 'De Kuip' - trans. 'The Tub') which has a capacity of 51,577 spectators. Since 2006 the club has been running 'Feyenoord TV', a web-based project with daily news and reports. Since 1993, the club has published its own fortnightly newspaper, 'Feyenoord Krant', which has a print run of 25,000. Extra editions are published to coincide with European matches.

Turnover and pre-tax profit figures are in Euro millions.

Financial Overview

Year
Turnover
Pre-tax profit
Wages / Turnover ratio (%)
Employees

2007/08

66.401

3.310

40.8

208

2006/07

53.432

0.705

44.3

206

2005/06

55.317

2.330

47.9

206

2004/05

45.376

-5.582

55.0

200

2003/04

38.749

-10.569

68.9

154
Website: 
www.feyenoord.nl

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