European milestone up ahead for Dutch clubs

Wednesday 19 August 2009

There's a good chance that the five Dutch clubs competing in the last qualification round for the Europa League on Thursday will help Dutch football to a new milestone.

PSV, NAC Breda, FC Twente, Ajax and SC Heerenveen can score the 2,000th Dutch goal in Europe.

Since the start of European football in 1955 a total of 25 Dutch clubs scored 1.997 goals.

Ajax scored most.

The Amsterdammers netted 506 goals in 287 games, that is more than a quarter of the entire Dutch production.

Behind Ajax come PSV and Feyenoord with 383 and 368 goals respectively.

There is one Dutch club that did compete but never scored: Go Ahead Eagles.

The team from the city of Deventer competed in the European Cupwinners Cup in 1965 against Celtic, but remained goalless against the then European giants: 6-0 and 1-0.

Looking at the individual production it's all-time Dutch topscorer Willy van der Kuijlen who bagged the most.

The legendary PSV-striker scored 29 European goals, more than any other player did for a Dutch club.