Dutch football clubs are mired in a financial crisis. They made a combined loss of €90m in the season just ended. Only six out of 37 professional clubs are financially healthy and 14 face financial difficulties. Two clubs have been bailed out by their local council which certainly wouldn’t happen in England, indeed it is questionable whether it would be lawful to do so.
Dutch football clubs are mired in a financial crisis. They made a combined loss of €90m in the season just ended. Only six out of 37 professional clubs are financially healthy and 14 face financial difficulties. Two clubs have been bailed out by their local council which certainly wouldn’t happen in England, indeed it is questionable whether it would be lawful to do so.
We have a chapter on the Netherlands in the book on European football I am co-editing. Dutch club football and that of other successful smaller footballing nations seems to have lost ground since the formation of the Champions League.