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.

Division per tournament
European Cup/ Champions League	673
Cupwinners Cup	289
UEFA Cup	1,071

"The intellectualisation
of football has
always foundered
on a simple problem-
-the players. Doing
all your most
rewarding thinking
with your feet seems
to dull the philo-
sophical impulse.
Unless, of course,
you are Dutch.
According to legend,
Europeans played
a moronic, muscular
version of the world's
game, until Holland
proclaimed its vision
of total football in the
1974 World Cup,
and enlightenment
dawned."

From:
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football

European milestone up ahead for Dutch clubs

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