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PSV Eindhoven
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Philips Sport Vereniging (English: Philips Sports Union), widely known either as PSV or PSV Eindhoven, is a sports club from Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is best known for its professional football section.
PSV is one of three major football clubs in Netherlands, the other two being Ajax and Feyenoord Rotterdam. The club won the European Cup, the predecessor of today's Champions League in 1988 (against Benfica) and the UEFA Cup in 1978 (against SC Bastia). They are often nicknamed Boeren (Dutch for 'farmers' or in this case peasants) in reference to their provincial city origins.
History
As its name indicates, the club started out as a company-sponsored sports club for Philips employees on August 31 (then Koninginnedag), 1913 to celebrate the centennial defeat of the French in the Napoleonic wars. PSV have evolved into... more PSV Eindhoven history
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