@@makkertjeben Not really a fan of dutch football, but i have a soft spot for Feyenoord! I support FCSB, my local and from abroad, Arsenal. I really hope you guys are going to win the Eredivisie, genuinely sick of Ajax :)
Hey Hilbert, De bijnaam De trots van Zuid komt voort uit de rivaliteit tussen de Rotterdammers boven en onder de Maas. Zo is Feyenoord een club van het volk (arbeiders) en Sparta een club van de heeren (elite). De leden van Sparta, hoogopgeleid en uit de gegoede burgerij, vonden het maar niets dat ze vanaf begin 20e eeuw op het voetbalveld steeds meer arbeiders tegenkwamen met ook nog eens andere omgangsvormen. Dit verschil in cultuur en sociale klasse was nogal eens reden tot oplopende spanningen tussen de clubs. De successen van Feyenoord gaven de bevolking op Zuid iets om trots op te zijn.
Origin of kasteelheren: A - There once was a castle in the district Spangen, where the stadium (called Het Kasteel before sponsors named it) is located B - Partly because of this the entrance of the stadium looks like a castle The song King of my castle by Wamdue project is (or was until a few years ago) played before the game started (before De Sparta Mars).
I can’t believe it took me this long to realize Hilbert is just Dutch. I always assumed he was just an Englishman with a peculiar interest in the Dutch language.
@@JoseNelisParham as an Englishman I find it very hard to identify Dutch people from their accents. To me they just sound like English accents I haven't encountered before.
@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 Im also English but grew up in NL so it is a bit easier for me. To be honest he does have a northeastern English accent with a dutch edge to it.
Nice list, but I think you missed some things. With regard to Feyenoord: - They are also called 'de stadionclub' (the stadium club). I once heard that it comes from Feyenoord being the first (or one of the first) to have a stadium, but I cannot find a source for that. Another explanation can be that De Kuip is considered iconic. - 'de trots van zuid' (pride of (the) south) has to do with the club being located south of the river Maas - therefore being from the south of Rotterdam - and has nothing to do with workers from the south of the country - They changed from Feijenoord to Feyenoord, because that way it was easier to pronounce for foreigners, since they were having international success in that period. With regard to Vitesse (being Chelsea II): - They have a cooperation with Chelsea, that loans players to Vitesse to gain experience. So they don't buy them (maybe there are some exceptions), but the players are on loan. And how do you mean you "believe" Emmen is in the province of Drenthe. Of course it is, lol.
He also for some reason left out the most common nickname for Feyenoord: "Kakkerlakken" or "Cockroaches". Must have been an oversight and probably had nothing to do with him being a fan... ;)
@@charliezobel511 definitely Belgium. German-speaking Belgians often feel more Belgian than any other Belgians because often Dutch-speakers feel more Flemish than Belgian and French-speakers often feel more Walloon than Belgian. German-speaker just feel Belgian and not 'German-speaking Belgians'.
Cool video! As a Vitesse fan I would like to add a couple of things. - The nickname FC Hollywood aan de Rijn is a reference to all the drama and unrest within the club. Ever since the club fell into the hands of foreign ownership it has been a bit of a drama show. - Another nickname that would be worth mentioning is Airborne FC. This name is reference to operation Market Garden and the fighting that happened in Arnhem during WW2. Every year in September Vitesse play the so called Airborne match, where they invite veterans of Market Garden to come over and watch the game so we can honor them and thank them. The club plays in a special kit in the colors of the first British Airborne division and the club and city fly banners with the badge of the Airborne division all over the city.
Vitesse is French for "Speed." Although, I can only speak Quebecois so it may be different in France but either way, brilliant name for a football club. It may confuse some Canadian fans because many MANY trucking companies here have the word "vitesse" in their name.
Maybe this will be an interesting addendum, but many of the team mentioned in this video, AZ, FC Utrecht, FC Twente, FC Groningen and others are fusion clubs of local teams. That may also be why many of the nick names seem to be a little on the boring side. One interesting story is about the name of a team from the town I was born in. AGOVV, today it stands for Allen gezamenlijk oevenen voert verder (which means something like: All training together makes you better). However, this was not the original meaning, which was Apeldoornse geheel-onthouders voetbal vereniging, and that stands for Apeldoorn teetotallers football club (Apeldoorn being the name of the town). The story goes that not long after the team was established they found several of the players drinking in a bar. If they had kicked them out of the club they would no longer have enough players to field a team, so they dropped the teetotaller requirement and changed the meaning of the name. AGOVV used to play professional football in the past, but they are now an amateur club. Another Dutch (amateur) club that has a name that I always liked is TONEGIDO, and that means: Tot ons nut en genoegen is deze opgericht. And that means in English: This team has been established for our benefit and entertainment. I think they have now fused with a few other clubs as well. (My translations of the above Dutch names are more to capture the meaning than to be exact.)
FC Twente is really from the city of Enschede, although it represents the Twente region. It was established in 1965, when two clubs from the city became one club. Those two clubs were SC Enschede and Enschedese Boys. Thats why you'll sometimes see fans wave the colors green, black and white among the red.
10:40 As a Nijmegenaar, I have to point out a small, very common, misconception. You got the full name right, but the backstory is slightly off. It's not a unity of a multiple clubs from the city (which would make it Nijmeegs(ch)e EendrachtsCombinatie, or Unity Combination from Nijmegen). The name comes from the two clubs that fused: NVV Nijmegen and Eendracht. So the name roughly means: Combination of Nijmegen and Eendracht. Also, you forgot to point out the (very original) nickname: Enniesee, which is basically how you pronounce the abbreviation in the local accent/dialect. Anyway, great video!
My local team Wrexham used to be called the Robins as their first kit was red. Then somewhere in the recent past they became the Dragons because they're a Welsh team and the red kit. My preference is Robins as the bird is small and tenacious, which suits the teams spirt through its history. Spanish teams' names sounds fun, it doesn't matter if they a Real or pretend.
That's so cool i wish this would become a series of vídeos explaining the names of football clubs, you should do this with german, italy and other countries (perhaps Brazil too?) I'd love it.
FC Twente’s ‘De Tukkers’ comes from the era of the textile industy in the region. Common attire that day was of the workers wearing certain trousers in which they always put their hands in their pockets. Pockets in the local language is called a Tuk. When ‘foreigners’ from outside the region visited back in the day it would seem like everyone walked around with their hands in their Tuk, hence (de) Tukkers.
@@RunawayTrain2502 i guess it has the same origin as the german word "tauchen" which can mean diving or dipping (like dipping something into water to clean it), and since tucking basically means to dip something into something else and you dip your hands into your pockets it would make sense that these words are related
@@TrueSonOfWalhallInteresting idea but you are wrong,the name Tukkers become of word Tuk which means deep pocket of special model of trausers whose were fashion in that era in all region of Twente,expecially in Enschede and in combination with surnames in that area which mostly begin withT-Ter,Ten,Te,Ta who have mixed roots(Dutch/German) so accent of language in Twente is completely different than other regions in Holland,and called Tukkers..Basicly,this is it.
Correction about Excelsior: Kralingen is a neighbourhood in Rotterdam not a village of it's own! The club is based in Kralingen and that's the story :)
NEC Nijmegen wasn't actually created in 1900, it was a fusion between Eendracht (1900) and NVV Nijmegen (1908) in 1910, the NEC part then comes from the combination of the two club names being a Nijmegen Eendracht Combination As someone who doesn't even like to watch football nor is from Nijmegen I'm kinda sad that I knew this
Heya! I just saw this. First off, happy to hear that you support Feyenoord instead of Ajax lol. Anyways, others have pointed this out already but: 1. Kralingen is not a separate village; it's been a part of Rotterdam since 1895. Excelsior was founded in 1902 so it's very much a Rotterdam club. 2. I wouldn't say the Feijenoord area is "close to the center". It's on the south side of the city, whereas the center is on the north side. "De trots van zuid" also refers to this fact; it has nothing to do with the geographical location of Rotterdam within Holland, or with folks coming from outside of Rotterdam.
Fortuna is the Roman personofication of luck/fortune and you can see her on Fortuna Sittards crest where she is depicted along the wheel of fortune. Fortuna is a popular name for football clubs in Germany as well.
But, did you know, that Fortuna Düsseldorf the Number 1 of all Fortunas, is named after a Bakery Company, a horse-Fuhrwerk is maybe the inspiration for the clubsname.
We both know Hilbert, Feyenoord's true nickname is "Kakkerlakken" of course (Cockroaches)🤭😏 But sshhhh, nobody has to know🤫 Fun video buddy, would've be fun if you added rivalry nicknames in this video because they are even funnier sometimes. Hearrenfean would be DKV (dertig kilometer verderop) for example.
Fun fact... the Nickname "Kakkerlakken" came from a rumor that Amsterdam people made up since they could not come up with a response to "The Jews" slur. The story they made up was that there was a cockroach plaque in Rotterdam. Ajax fans tell themselves it is True and that it was in the newspaper. But the newspaper article they are refering never mentioned nothing about cockroaches, but "Ongedierte" in a broader sense and also it wasn't in Rotterdam but in an area that is Zeeland.
You are correct that Emmen is in Drenthe. The kits also represent this as the colors red and white are of the Drentse flag and the crest is basically just the Drentse flag as well.
I might be wrong but I’ve always got the impression Hilbert is a bit of a Mackem when it comes to the Tyne-Wear derby which would be very compatible with his Dutch football loyalties as Sunderland and Feyenoord have a long standing fan friendship.
Tukker comes from the Twentish word "tuk", which means pocket. People from Twente are known to be verry down to earth and tend to not overreact. Standing with your hands in your pockets is body language that fits this behaviour. Verry cool video. Geluk in tuk!
Hello Hilbert! I have a part Dutch friend and his family (mum's side) are from Volendam, and he confirmed the nickname "The Eel-Farmers" but says there are two more nicknames - "The Herring Stranglers", which should be obvious, and "The Window Cleaners" because Voldendammers have a reputation (men included!) of being obsessivly house-proud.
For it's size, Volendam is both quite famous and infamous for their insularity and terrible folk singers. Quite funny that Urk on (what is now) the opposite side of the lake is equally infamous for also being extremely insular but being extremely protestant.
As an Eindhovenaar let me correct you on the translation of "boeren". Yes, literally it means farmers but that is not what is meant by it. When PSV was coming up in the 1960's and 70's supporters of Ajax and Feyenoord started to call PSV supporters Boeren as a derogatory term and PSV fans took it on as a badge of honour so the correct translation would be peasants.
I like Excelsior more in the sense of rising above, like the verb to excel, which has the same dual meaning, like exceeding. One thing I like more is that Rotterdam hydrologically speaking is on the river Rhine, as only a fraction of the water flowing through the city is from the river Maas, which itself mostly discharges on the Haringvliet. I think the naming of rivers in the Netherlands is really quite interesting, with them moving about through the ages on the account of the Netherlands being a big delta and ending up with names that on the surface seem te make no sense. A video on the history of waterflow through the Netherlands would be amazing! ;-)
you need to do the nickames of the argentinian first division, and will be tricky, because the teams has 2 nicknames, the own nickname and the insult nickname given by their rivals
To complicate matters a tad, the word 'kaasboer' does only mean cheese farmer when translated literary; it actually (more usually) means cheese seller.
I must say I really like this concept. Teaching people from outside the Netherlands a bit about our favorite pastime and our football clubs. I am however a bit disappointed in the amount of information you shared and (what seems to be) a lack of research. I think you missed a lot of cool and fun nicknames for a lot of the clubs (especially the smaller ones) and your explanation of some of the nicknames are incorrect. It would’ve been a lot more informative and interesting if you went a little more into detail for each club and talk a bit about where their name came from and distribute your time equally per club. A lot of clubs were kinda brushed over, and I think that’s a shame as every club has their own piece of interesting history.
Feyenoord & Celtic also have a friendship booo. Groningen & Hibernian have a friendship aswell. As do Utrecht , Rangers & Linfield this is because of Michael Moles as he went from Utrecht to Rangers under Dick Advocaat also many Linfield fans also follow Rangers Ivhave seen their flags at Utrecht games on T.V in the past. My self I am an Ajax fan.
@@alanfox691 you can rest easy knowing Ajax is by far the most popular Dutch club in England, I see people in Ajax shirts from time to time and many people probably couldn't name another Dutch club
Very interesting video. You helped me fill in some gaps. It's a pity that PEC Zwolle aren't in the Eredivisie as Prins Hendrik Ende Desespereert Nimmer Combinatie Zwolle is quite a mouthful to explain. ADO Den Haag is also interesting with their Alles Door Oefening motto.
Thanks. I lived in Nijmegen for a year while in high school. I enjoy your channel Hilbert, could you possibly do one on Nijmegen / Arnhem / Gelderland? Or share links of videos on that region? 🙏🏼❤
3:30 Cambuur has also an ironic nickname 'De Goddelijke Kanaries' ('The Divine Canaries'), which is also a nickname of the Brazilian national team, who play in the same colours: yellow jersey, blue shorts, white socks ... Cambuur being slightly less divine than the Selecao ..
Sparta facts: - 1st team in Holland to play a game against a foreign team - 1st team to organise a match between two countries’ best 11 (Holland vs England) - 1st team to have a uniform kit in Holland (2nd hand kits bought from Sunderland FC) - 1st team to have a shirt sponsor in Holland - the only club in the whole of Europe still without fixed player’s numbers: Sparta always starts with 1 to 11
You forgot De Kakkerlakken (The Cockroaches) and 010 (the aerial code for Rotterdam) for Feyenoord, 020 (aerial code for Amsterdam) for Ajax, 030 (aerial code for Utrecht) and Uuuu (from Uuutreg) for FC Utrecht. And some people refer to NEC as nek (neck) just because it's shorter to pronounce
Kralingen became part of Rotterdam long before excelsior was founded. Also Feyenoord is the furthest club away from the centre of the 3. I’ve never heard of the nickname red white gladiotors. We are often referred to as the spangenaren
De naam Lucky Ajax komt inderdaad van meerdere geluksmomenten, maar de belangrijkste mis ik nu. In 1969-1970 won Ajax de beker terwijl het eigenlijk al was uitgeschakeld. Het bekertoernooi was destijds opgezet met een schema waarbij 7 teams in de kwartfinale belandden en er nog 1tje van alle afvallers bij geloot werd. Dat was Ajax en de cup werd alsnog gewonnen
They are not the only ones. There is also Be Quick 1887 from Groningen, Be Quick Dokkum, ZVV Be Quick from Zutphen and Fortuna Be Quick from Piershil and Goudswaard.
You missed the opportunity to make an honorable mention of Nooit Opgeven Altijd Doorzetten Aangenaam Door Vermaak En Nuttig Door Ontspanning Combinatie Breda.
I support FC Utrecht, i am really glad you made video´s about football aswell. I always watched your history but i did not know you did football videos aswell.
Nice! Except Feyenoord is the pride of the south because it is situated (unlike sparta and excelsior) in a southern neighborhood in rottrdam, below the river, which is were historically the low income neighborhoods are situated
Het oude stadion van Sparta noemde ze het kasteel. (Ziet er ook uit als een kasteel, Gebouwd in 1916) Na de verbouwing hebben ze het veld gedraaid maar het 'kasteel' staat er nog. Vandaar de bijnaam De KasteelHeren...neem ik aan..
The pride of the south has absolutely 0 to do with supporters from wherever... It's the pride of South, not "the pride of the south". It's because the club is located in Rotterdam Zuid, which has a cultural and historic identity of its own. This also plays into one of the many ways to describe the three big rotterdam teams: de clubs van zuid, west en oost (clubs from/of south, west and east)
Little change: You said nothing for NEC. They have the nickname of: De nummer 1 van Gelderland (when above Vitesse en the Graafschap) De trots van Gelderland And when playing against PEC Zwolle or NAC Breda people call NEC, NEK
Cambuur fans are also called herten deers. And both clubs in Friesland cal each other’s dkv (30 kilometers away). And the other club from Friesland. (wich I revuse to cal or type by name) is called by cambuur supporters farmers as a slur. Also Leeuwarden Anti Fries
Yeah although 'farmers' is pretty common either as a slur and/or as a 'geuzennaam' for most clubs in the country. Ajax-supporters will refer to PSV as farmers, even though Eindhoven is the 5th biggest city in the country. Our mutual friends in the east (the green-white ones) also call themselves farmers, coming from the 7th city in the country. Bit weird but ey. Finally, the name is It Hearrenfean and Ljouwert is definately Frisian. Forgotten that one of your club songs is called "it Woanskip"?😜
Sparta - Kasteelheren is because of the stadium that is called het Kasteel, after the way it is build. If you google it, it becomes pretty straightforward. Also Trots van Zuid (Feyenoord) refers imo to the fact that the club is from Rotterdam-Zuid, in contrast to Sparta which is from north of the Meuse. Real Spartans will regard Sparta as the only true Rotterdam football club.
The name of Heerenveen comes from Gentlemanpeat. This name comes from 3 gentleman who controlled the area (landlords) who eventually merged to make one of the earliest corporations, that whole thing with stocks, which was a brand new thing back then. So the part of Heeren doesnt come from God (as in the Lord) but from Gentleman (landowner).
The history of De Joden nickname is different by the way. Ajax used to play in stadion de meer that was in de watergraafsmeer. It used to be a neighbourhood with lots of jewish people. When other Amsterdam teams used to play an away game against Ajax they said they were going to play at 'de joden'. Other dutch clubs picked that up but started to use it as an insult. Ajax fans in turn chose to call themselves the jews and embraced the nickname.
Celtic fan but always loved Feyenoord. Sparta Rotterdam were more the team of the upper class as opposed to Feyenoord more working class traditional Fanbase. Maybe castle lords is a nod to that?
A soccer freak i met once thought that since i'm Dutch descent i would like a Rotterdam taunting song from the other side; "Rotterdam, cancer town - good thing the nazis burned it down!"...it probably loses something in the translation...
fantastic video hilbert, nice to see my favourite club featured, keep it up👍
Which club do you support?
@@crististefanescu8169 feyenoord! you?
@@makkertjeben Not really a fan of dutch football, but i have a soft spot for Feyenoord!
I support FCSB, my local and from abroad, Arsenal.
I really hope you guys are going to win the Eredivisie, genuinely sick of Ajax :)
@@crististefanescu8169 ah beautiful club! good luck in the championship play-offs🤙🏼
@@makkertjeben Thank you!
Hopefully we can win the league after 7(if not even 8) years of failures.
Hey Hilbert, De bijnaam De trots van Zuid komt voort uit de rivaliteit tussen de Rotterdammers boven en onder de Maas. Zo is Feyenoord een club van het volk (arbeiders) en Sparta een club van de heeren (elite). De leden van Sparta, hoogopgeleid en uit de gegoede burgerij, vonden het maar niets dat ze vanaf begin 20e eeuw op het voetbalveld steeds meer arbeiders tegenkwamen met ook nog eens andere omgangsvormen. Dit verschil in cultuur en sociale klasse was nogal eens reden tot oplopende spanningen tussen de clubs. De successen van Feyenoord gaven de bevolking op Zuid iets om trots op te zijn.
Juist.. ‘de Trots van Zuid’ is heel iets anders dan ‘de Trots van het Zuiden’ (hiermee wordt meestal Roda JC bedoeld).
Spartas nickname is due to their stadium, called "Het Kasteel". It even looks a bit like a castle.
i have no clue how he missed the stadium name XD
Origin of kasteelheren:
A - There once was a castle in the district Spangen, where the stadium (called Het Kasteel before sponsors named it) is located
B - Partly because of this the entrance of the stadium looks like a castle
The song King of my castle by Wamdue project is (or was until a few years ago) played before the game started (before De Sparta Mars).
That was my understanding.
Spartas main stand is cool as fuck like.
Sparta is also a Jewish club
I can’t believe it took me this long to realize Hilbert is just Dutch. I always assumed he was just an Englishman with a peculiar interest in the Dutch language.
Haha with that accent?
@@JoseNelisParham I just thought it was a northern accent I hadn’t heard before
@@JoseNelisParham as an Englishman I find it very hard to identify Dutch people from their accents. To me they just sound like English accents I haven't encountered before.
@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 Im also English but grew up in NL so it is a bit easier for me.
To be honest he does have a northeastern English accent with a dutch edge to it.
Nice list, but I think you missed some things.
With regard to Feyenoord:
- They are also called 'de stadionclub' (the stadium club). I once heard that it comes from Feyenoord being the first (or one of the first) to have a stadium, but I cannot find a source for that. Another explanation can be that De Kuip is considered iconic.
- 'de trots van zuid' (pride of (the) south) has to do with the club being located south of the river Maas - therefore being from the south of Rotterdam - and has nothing to do with workers from the south of the country
- They changed from Feijenoord to Feyenoord, because that way it was easier to pronounce for foreigners, since they were having international success in that period.
With regard to Vitesse (being Chelsea II):
- They have a cooperation with Chelsea, that loans players to Vitesse to gain experience. So they don't buy them (maybe there are some exceptions), but the players are on loan.
And how do you mean you "believe" Emmen is in the province of Drenthe. Of course it is, lol.
He also for some reason left out the most common nickname for Feyenoord: "Kakkerlakken" or "Cockroaches". Must have been an oversight and probably had nothing to do with him being a fan... ;)
Also, from a western perspective, we don't have pride, and anything north, south or east are farmers.
@@halorecon95 Lol, but to be honest I think 'kakkerlakken' is more of an Ajax fans thing and not that common among other fans.
@@martijnp4313 As a supporter of Utereg... No, it's pretty damn common ;)
@@halorecon95 whats with the whole rangers think. Was at a uttecht game in 2019 and every flag behind goal had a rangers badge on it.
I would love a video about the Belgian clubs. With the 3 languages it can get quite interesting when it comes to names and nicknames.
is German really that common in Belgium?
@@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 no, but there is a team (Eupen) from the German speaking part of the country that is playing in the highest division.
@@TheRealKingLeopoldII ah, ok, now it makes sense
@@TheRealKingLeopoldIIdo Eupen fans support Germany or Belgium when it comes to international football?
@@charliezobel511 definitely Belgium. German-speaking Belgians often feel more Belgian than any other Belgians because often Dutch-speakers feel more Flemish than Belgian and French-speakers often feel more Walloon than Belgian. German-speaker just feel Belgian and not 'German-speaking Belgians'.
Cool video! As a Vitesse fan I would like to add a couple of things.
- The nickname FC Hollywood aan de Rijn is a reference to all the drama and unrest within the club. Ever since the club fell into the hands of foreign ownership it has been a bit of a drama show.
- Another nickname that would be worth mentioning is Airborne FC. This name is reference to operation Market Garden and the fighting that happened in Arnhem during WW2. Every year in September Vitesse play the so called Airborne match, where they invite veterans of Market Garden to come over and watch the game so we can honor them and thank them. The club plays in a special kit in the colors of the first British Airborne division and the club and city fly banners with the badge of the Airborne division all over the city.
My family is from Arnhem and we support Vitesse, Airborne FC is my favourite nickname for the club
Vitesse is French for "Speed." Although, I can only speak Quebecois so it may be different in France but either way, brilliant name for a football club. It may confuse some Canadian fans because many MANY trucking companies here have the word "vitesse" in their name.
Maybe this will be an interesting addendum, but many of the team mentioned in this video, AZ, FC Utrecht, FC Twente, FC Groningen and others are fusion clubs of local teams. That may also be why many of the nick names seem to be a little on the boring side.
One interesting story is about the name of a team from the town I was born in. AGOVV, today it stands for Allen gezamenlijk oevenen voert verder (which means something like: All training together makes you better). However, this was not the original meaning, which was Apeldoornse geheel-onthouders voetbal vereniging, and that stands for Apeldoorn teetotallers football club (Apeldoorn being the name of the town). The story goes that not long after the team was established they found several of the players drinking in a bar. If they had kicked them out of the club they would no longer have enough players to field a team, so they dropped the teetotaller requirement and changed the meaning of the name. AGOVV used to play professional football in the past, but they are now an amateur club.
Another Dutch (amateur) club that has a name that I always liked is TONEGIDO, and that means: Tot ons nut en genoegen is deze opgericht. And that means in English: This team has been established for our benefit and entertainment. I think they have now fused with a few other clubs as well.
(My translations of the above Dutch names are more to capture the meaning than to be exact.)
FC Twente is really from the city of Enschede, although it represents the Twente region.
It was established in 1965, when two clubs from the city became one club. Those two clubs were SC Enschede and Enschedese Boys. Thats why you'll sometimes see fans wave the colors green, black and white among the red.
On Excelsior - Kralingen became a suburb of Rotterdam in 1895, therefore it is part of the city
10:40 As a Nijmegenaar, I have to point out a small, very common, misconception. You got the full name right, but the backstory is slightly off. It's not a unity of a multiple clubs from the city (which would make it Nijmeegs(ch)e EendrachtsCombinatie, or Unity Combination from Nijmegen). The name comes from the two clubs that fused: NVV Nijmegen and Eendracht. So the name roughly means: Combination of Nijmegen and Eendracht. Also, you forgot to point out the (very original) nickname: Enniesee, which is basically how you pronounce the abbreviation in the local accent/dialect. Anyway, great video!
Cool video! Love the sound and the look of the Dutch language. And great to Friesan learn about the Friesan clubs too.
Football & maps… i love this, man
The bundesliga and la liga ideas are both great shouts! Great video btw Hilbert. 👌
The Bundesliga & La Liga are easy to reach yourself it dose not take to much to do.
My local team Wrexham used to be called the Robins as their first kit was red. Then somewhere in the recent past they became the Dragons because they're a Welsh team and the red kit.
My preference is Robins as the bird is small and tenacious, which suits the teams spirt through its history.
Spanish teams' names sounds fun, it doesn't matter if they a Real or pretend.
You support Wrexham? That’s quite interesting. What do you think of the celebrity takeover?
Sparta s stadion is called het kasteel. So that is why they are nicknamed de kasteelheren. As they are the lords of the castle so to say
And that's because the head entrances looks like a castle.
That's so cool i wish this would become a series of vídeos explaining the names of football clubs, you should do this with german, italy and other countries (perhaps Brazil too?) I'd love it.
FC Twente’s ‘De Tukkers’ comes from the era of the textile industy in the region. Common attire that day was of the workers wearing certain trousers in which they always put their hands in their pockets. Pockets in the local language is called a Tuk. When ‘foreigners’ from outside the region visited back in the day it would seem like everyone walked around with their hands in their Tuk, hence (de) Tukkers.
Is this also where "tucking" in English comes from?
@@RunawayTrain2502 I never thought about that, but it seems to make sense :)
@@RunawayTrain2502 i guess it has the same origin as the german word "tauchen" which can mean diving or dipping (like dipping something into water to clean it), and since tucking basically means to dip something into something else and you dip your hands into your pockets it would make sense that these words are related
@@TrueSonOfWalhall Great assoziation.
Sounds good.
@@TrueSonOfWalhallInteresting idea but you are wrong,the name Tukkers become of word Tuk which means deep pocket of special model of trausers whose were fashion in that era in all region of Twente,expecially in Enschede and in combination with surnames in that area which mostly begin withT-Ter,Ten,Te,Ta who have mixed roots(Dutch/German) so accent of language in Twente is completely different than other regions in Holland,and called Tukkers..Basicly,this is it.
I really want to see a part 2 to this. Eerste divisie deserves some love too!
Correction about Excelsior: Kralingen is a neighbourhood in Rotterdam not a village of it's own!
The club is based in Kralingen and that's the story :)
NEC Nijmegen wasn't actually created in 1900, it was a fusion between Eendracht (1900) and NVV Nijmegen (1908) in 1910, the NEC part then comes from the combination of the two club names being a Nijmegen Eendracht Combination
As someone who doesn't even like to watch football nor is from Nijmegen I'm kinda sad that I knew this
Heya! I just saw this.
First off, happy to hear that you support Feyenoord instead of Ajax lol.
Anyways, others have pointed this out already but:
1. Kralingen is not a separate village; it's been a part of Rotterdam since 1895. Excelsior was founded in 1902 so it's very much a Rotterdam club.
2. I wouldn't say the Feijenoord area is "close to the center". It's on the south side of the city, whereas the center is on the north side. "De trots van zuid" also refers to this fact; it has nothing to do with the geographical location of Rotterdam within Holland, or with folks coming from outside of Rotterdam.
I have recently got into football in the last few years and the fact that you’ve been making videos about football has been amazing thank you!
Fortuna is the Roman personofication of luck/fortune and you can see her on Fortuna Sittards crest where she is depicted along the wheel of fortune.
Fortuna is a popular name for football clubs in Germany as well.
But, did you know, that Fortuna Düsseldorf the Number 1 of all Fortunas, is named after a Bakery Company, a horse-Fuhrwerk is maybe the inspiration for the clubsname.
We both know Hilbert, Feyenoord's true nickname is "Kakkerlakken" of course (Cockroaches)🤭😏
But sshhhh, nobody has to know🤫
Fun video buddy, would've be fun if you added rivalry nicknames in this video because they are even funnier sometimes. Hearrenfean would be DKV (dertig kilometer verderop) for example.
hehehe kakkerlakken.
blijf onze bijnamen mooi vinden,de joden en kakkerlakken voor Adam en Rdam is goud.
Isn't that the word used in Amsterdom for everybody from Rotterdom?
The real nickname he forgot should be Havenslaven.
Fun fact... the Nickname "Kakkerlakken" came from a rumor that Amsterdam people made up since they could not come up with a response to "The Jews" slur. The story they made up was that there was a cockroach plaque in Rotterdam. Ajax fans tell themselves it is True and that it was in the newspaper. But the newspaper article they are refering never mentioned nothing about cockroaches, but "Ongedierte" in a broader sense and also it wasn't in Rotterdam but in an area that is Zeeland.
I think sparta play in the stadium called het kasteel but i could be wrong
Correct. Wouldnt be to hard to find out haha
So interresting as a swede watching videos on Netherlands . Being a football-fan this video is fantastic
You are correct that Emmen is in Drenthe. The kits also represent this as the colors red and white are of the Drentse flag and the crest is basically just the Drentse flag as well.
Yep and the only professional team in Drenthe
Such a cool video. Do more of these!
Random football lore is always nice to hear.
I might be wrong but I’ve always got the impression Hilbert is a bit of a Mackem when it comes to the Tyne-Wear derby which would be very compatible with his Dutch football loyalties as Sunderland and Feyenoord have a long standing fan friendship.
Tukker comes from the Twentish word "tuk", which means pocket. People from Twente are known to be verry down to earth and tend to not overreact. Standing with your hands in your pockets is body language that fits this behaviour.
Verry cool video. Geluk in tuk!
For someone who isn't interested in Dutch soccer at all, this was a really interesting and cool video!
Hello Hilbert! I have a part Dutch friend and his family (mum's side) are from Volendam, and he confirmed the nickname "The Eel-Farmers" but says there are two more nicknames - "The Herring Stranglers", which should be obvious, and "The Window Cleaners" because Voldendammers have a reputation (men included!) of being obsessivly house-proud.
For it's size, Volendam is both quite famous and infamous for their insularity and terrible folk singers. Quite funny that Urk on (what is now) the opposite side of the lake is equally infamous for also being extremely insular but being extremely protestant.
As an Eindhovenaar let me correct you on the translation of "boeren". Yes, literally it means farmers but that is not what is meant by it. When PSV was coming up in the 1960's and 70's supporters of Ajax and Feyenoord started to call PSV supporters Boeren as a derogatory term and PSV fans took it on as a badge of honour so the correct translation would be peasants.
What made me surprised, is these clubs doesn't have "Voetbal Bond" names like football clubs in Indonesia when it was Dutch East Indies
I like Excelsior more in the sense of rising above, like the verb to excel, which has the same dual meaning, like exceeding. One thing I like more is that Rotterdam hydrologically speaking is on the river Rhine, as only a fraction of the water flowing through the city is from the river Maas, which itself mostly discharges on the Haringvliet. I think the naming of rivers in the Netherlands is really quite interesting, with them moving about through the ages on the account of the Netherlands being a big delta and ending up with names that on the surface seem te make no sense. A video on the history of waterflow through the Netherlands would be amazing! ;-)
you need to do the nickames of the argentinian first division, and will be tricky, because the teams has 2 nicknames, the own nickname and the insult nickname given by their rivals
Let's face it, no other non-Dutch TH-camr could have mastered the pronunciations like Hilbert!
But Hilbert is Dutch..?
@@bubbletea695 What do you mean Dutch? As a Geordie he's more like double Dutch!
Not only the germans call us cheese heads. The Belgians do that and the British used too back in the day
who cares about belgians, they dont even exist.
12:09 clog jumpscare
To complicate matters a tad, the word 'kaasboer' does only mean cheese farmer when translated literary; it actually (more usually) means cheese seller.
I must say I really like this concept. Teaching people from outside the Netherlands a bit about our favorite pastime and our football clubs. I am however a bit disappointed in the amount of information you shared and (what seems to be) a lack of research. I think you missed a lot of cool and fun nicknames for a lot of the clubs (especially the smaller ones) and your explanation of some of the nicknames are incorrect. It would’ve been a lot more informative and interesting if you went a little more into detail for each club and talk a bit about where their name came from and distribute your time equally per club. A lot of clubs were kinda brushed over, and I think that’s a shame as every club has their own piece of interesting history.
Very epic video
Didn't expect to get football content here.
7:11 nice PowerPoint
Sunderland and Feyenoord have fans friendship. Met loads of Feyenoord fans at the stadium of light
Feyenoord & Celtic also have a friendship booo.
Groningen & Hibernian have a friendship aswell.
As do Utrecht , Rangers & Linfield
this is because of Michael Moles as he went from Utrecht to Rangers under Dick Advocaat also many
Linfield fans also follow Rangers Ivhave seen their flags at Utrecht games on T.V in the past.
My self I am an Ajax fan.
@@alanfox691 you can rest easy knowing Ajax is by far the most popular Dutch club in England, I see people in Ajax shirts from time to time and many people probably couldn't name another Dutch club
top stuff, love this channel. no sarcasm but i fckn love Hilbert's mistakes haha. never change a thing dude!
Very interesting video. You helped me fill in some gaps. It's a pity that PEC Zwolle aren't in the Eredivisie as Prins Hendrik
Ende Desespereert Nimmer
Combinatie Zwolle is quite a mouthful to explain. ADO Den Haag is also interesting with their Alles Door Oefening motto.
very interesting. keep them coming. major European leagues & then see how it goes from there
Thanks. I lived in Nijmegen for a year while in high school. I enjoy your channel Hilbert, could you possibly do one on Nijmegen / Arnhem / Gelderland? Or share links of videos on that region? 🙏🏼❤
3:30 Cambuur has also an ironic nickname 'De Goddelijke Kanaries' ('The Divine Canaries'), which is also a nickname of the Brazilian national team, who play in the same colours: yellow jersey, blue shorts, white socks ... Cambuur being slightly less divine than the Selecao ..
Sparta facts:
- 1st team in Holland to play a game against a foreign team
- 1st team to organise a match between two countries’ best 11 (Holland vs England)
- 1st team to have a uniform kit in Holland (2nd hand kits bought from Sunderland FC)
- 1st team to have a shirt sponsor in Holland
- the only club in the whole of Europe still without fixed player’s numbers: Sparta always starts with 1 to 11
Cambuur isn't really coming from the Cammingha family, Cambuur is short for the Neighborhood Camminghaburen. Same family but still a bit different
You forgot De Kakkerlakken (The Cockroaches) and 010 (the aerial code for Rotterdam) for Feyenoord, 020 (aerial code for Amsterdam) for Ajax, 030 (aerial code for Utrecht) and Uuuu (from Uuutreg) for FC Utrecht.
And some people refer to NEC as nek (neck) just because it's shorter to pronounce
But others say "your neck is under your head, N.E.C. is in your heart".
Hello Hilbert. This tied in with watching StuntPegg channel, where Nieve is going to different European leagues
Kralingen became part of Rotterdam long before excelsior was founded. Also Feyenoord is the furthest club away from the centre of the 3. I’ve never heard of the nickname red white gladiotors. We are often referred to as the spangenaren
Very nice to see you some of your hobbies
De naam Lucky Ajax komt inderdaad van meerdere geluksmomenten, maar de belangrijkste mis ik nu. In 1969-1970 won Ajax de beker terwijl het eigenlijk al was uitgeschakeld.
Het bekertoernooi was destijds opgezet met een schema waarbij 7 teams in de kwartfinale belandden en er nog 1tje van alle afvallers bij geloot werd. Dat was Ajax en de cup werd alsnog gewonnen
Wait a minute, so Be Quick ‘28 the armature club next to Pec Zwolle stadium, shares the name with the former Go Ahead Eagles?
They are not the only ones. There is also Be Quick 1887 from Groningen, Be Quick Dokkum, ZVV Be Quick from Zutphen and Fortuna Be Quick from Piershil and Goudswaard.
You missed the opportunity to make an honorable mention of Nooit Opgeven Altijd Doorzetten Aangenaam Door Vermaak En Nuttig Door Ontspanning Combinatie Breda.
I wanted to mention the Pearl of the South aswell 👍🏻
Na Afloop Chocomel, toch? ;)
great content! more netherlands please - maybe somthing condescending belgium/france :D?
could you make a playlist for netherlands content?
I support FC Utrecht, i am really glad you made video´s about football aswell. I always watched your history but i did not know you did football videos aswell.
6:50 it’s in the south of Rotterdam!!
Please do a video on every club of every league in the Europe. German,Spanish,French etc.
Fun video. Would like to see more 😁
Nice! Except Feyenoord is the pride of the south because it is situated (unlike sparta and excelsior) in a southern neighborhood in rottrdam, below the river, which is were historically the low income neighborhoods are situated
Sadly my club pec relegated this season after staying in the eredivisie since 2012…. But we wil be back!!!
Can you do this with the teams that are playing in the KKD? (Keuken Kampioen Divisie)
Do the keuken kampioen divisie next
Het oude stadion van Sparta noemde ze het kasteel. (Ziet er ook uit als een kasteel, Gebouwd in 1916) Na de verbouwing hebben ze het veld gedraaid maar het 'kasteel' staat er nog. Vandaar de bijnaam De KasteelHeren...neem ik aan..
The pride of the south has absolutely 0 to do with supporters from wherever... It's the pride of South, not "the pride of the south". It's because the club is located in Rotterdam Zuid, which has a cultural and historic identity of its own. This also plays into one of the many ways to describe the three big rotterdam teams: de clubs van zuid, west en oost (clubs from/of south, west and east)
Good jobs all , Guys .
Salam hangat dari Indonesia 🇮🇩
You should do the Scottish Prem next!
I like how you didnt include Heracles.
Little change:
You said nothing for NEC.
They have the nickname of:
De nummer 1 van Gelderland (when above Vitesse en the Graafschap)
De trots van Gelderland
And when playing against PEC Zwolle or NAC Breda people call NEC, NEK
Before the remake of the stadium of sparta it really looked like a castle.
Do this with the Keuken Kampioen Divisie aswell please!!
Ajax has a nickname "De neuzen" I don't know why tho...
Yay, you brought back the magic anthem. :)
Cambuur fans are also called herten deers. And both clubs in Friesland cal each other’s dkv (30 kilometers away). And the other club from Friesland. (wich I revuse to cal or type by name) is called by cambuur supporters farmers as a slur. Also Leeuwarden Anti Fries
Yeah although 'farmers' is pretty common either as a slur and/or as a 'geuzennaam' for most clubs in the country. Ajax-supporters will refer to PSV as farmers, even though Eindhoven is the 5th biggest city in the country. Our mutual friends in the east (the green-white ones) also call themselves farmers, coming from the 7th city in the country. Bit weird but ey.
Finally, the name is It Hearrenfean and Ljouwert is definately Frisian. Forgotten that one of your club songs is called "it Woanskip"?😜
@@jasperjonkers3615 it woanskip isn't Frysian it is Leewardes
@@aldrixalkemadus Liwadders, correct. Which is roughly speaking a combination of Frysian and Dutch😉
Sparta - Kasteelheren is because of the stadium that is called het Kasteel, after the way it is build. If you google it, it becomes pretty straightforward.
Also Trots van Zuid (Feyenoord) refers imo to the fact that the club is from Rotterdam-Zuid, in contrast to Sparta which is from north of the Meuse. Real Spartans will regard Sparta as the only true Rotterdam football club.
The name of Heerenveen comes from Gentlemanpeat. This name comes from 3 gentleman who controlled the area (landlords) who eventually merged to make one of the earliest corporations, that whole thing with stocks, which was a brand new thing back then.
So the part of Heeren doesnt come from God (as in the Lord) but from Gentleman (landowner).
het stadion van sparta heet "het kasteel", The stadium name is "the Castle"
Awesome video! A Bundesliga would actually be really cool imo.
also for feyenoord they have the name of the "kakkerlakken" meaning the cockroaches it was kinda gifted by other clubs like psv and ajax
Gast?! Kakkerlakken gebruiken wij in Eindhoven eigenlijk helemaal niet
The history of De Joden nickname is different by the way. Ajax used to play in stadion de meer that was in de watergraafsmeer. It used to be a neighbourhood with lots of jewish people. When other Amsterdam teams used to play an away game against Ajax they said they were going to play at 'de joden'. Other dutch clubs picked that up but started to use it as an insult. Ajax fans in turn chose to call themselves the jews and embraced the nickname.
Can you do danish superliga?
Isn't kralingen a neighborhood? Or is it a village surrounded by Rotterdam?
Johan Cruijff, voor altijd de goat in mijn hart😔🙏
Why do they change the spelling of many names/cities?
Please next with Germany
“Waar komen Joden toch vandaan….”🎶😂
never heard of this league until today but pretty interesting
🤣🤣🤣🤣 sorry but that is pritty funny honestly.
how bro its the 6th league of the world in the official rankings
The way you pronounced of Johan Cryuff, are you dutch?
Celtic fan but always loved Feyenoord.
Sparta Rotterdam were more the team of the upper class as opposed to Feyenoord more working class traditional Fanbase. Maybe castle lords is a nod to that?
A soccer freak i met once thought that since i'm Dutch descent i would like a Rotterdam taunting song from the other side; "Rotterdam, cancer town - good thing the nazis burned it down!"...it probably loses something in the translation...
I would not be surprised if there was a team that traced it's ancestry to a roman legion who played football between campaigns.
KRALINGEN IS NOT OUTSIDE OF KRALINGEN. IT IS THE NEIGHBOURHOOD NEXT TO THE CITY CENTER.
do serie A please.