As of 2012, AZ is the only club to have beaten Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV away from home in a single Eredivisie season.

They have earned this by the transfer of significant players and a large capital injection made by the organisation VVF ( Friends of Feyenoord, Vrienden Van Feyenoord ).

In December 2006, Feyenoord director Chris Woerts announced that Feyenoord were developing plans to build a new stadium which would have a capacity of roughly 90, 000 seats.

Nowadays the song is heard wherever Feyenoord play their matches, but also fans of MVV and Club Brugge have their own version that they sing.

Feyenoord supporters are known to be creative and have a lot of various songs and chants in their equipment during matches.

Feyenoord supporters are known to have a connection with fans of English Premier League club, Sunderland AFC.

It is thought to have started in the 1970s when supporters of Sunderland moved to Rotterdam to work in the ports and docks, some of which remained in Rotterdam and settled there, thus taking an interest in the local team, Feyenoord.

Feyenoord have one official fan supporters club, the Feyenoord Supportersvereniging.

A few weeks after the first training but still before the season really starts, the club open their doors for free for all Feyenoord fans to have fun together and to present the squad for the upcoming season.

De Kuip already opens in the morning when there are many activities around the stadium mainly for kids and promotional activities for companies which have a partnership with Feyenoord.

A minute of silence will be held for all former Feyenoord players who have died and for known fans who have died in the previous year.

Raemon Sluiter, Lee Towers, Dennis van der Geest, Robert Eenhoorn and Renate Verbaan have all officially been Feyenoord ambassadors.

Feyenoord also have a fierce rivalry abroad in Tottenham Hotspur, who following several violent clashes with the club coupled with a link to Ajax are not popular with the Rotterdam club.

While at Feyenoord Gullit became the focus of a race row as manager Thijs Libregts was alleged to have referred to Gullit as " blackie " and criticised him for being lazy, though Libregts defended himself by claiming that it was merely a nickname.

A majority of the Excelsior fans have always been against a partnership with Feyenoord.

: Ajax, Feyenoord, and PSV have been members of the Eredivisie since its formation in 1956.

Feyenoord, Ajax's domestic rivals, are among a group of clubs to have won the tournament once, while Belgium has produced the most individual winners, four, one more than England and Netherlands.

On 20 October 2006 the club signed the Icelandic twins Arnar and Bjarki Gunnlaugsson, who have played for Bolton Wanderers F. C., Stoke City F. C., Feyenoord Rotterdam, 1.

and later went on to have another trial with a Dutch team, Feyenoord.

In 1978, the club divided their professional and amateur sides to form two separate teams, Feyenoord for professionals and Sportclub Feyenoord for amateurs.

In 1984, Feyenoord had another bright season, winning the double for the third time in their history.

Cruijff reacted to Ajax's decision not to offer him a new contract at the start of the season and signed for arch rivals Feyenoord instead.

During the 1999 – 2000 UEFA Champions League, Feyenoord participated in the UEFA Champions League for the second time.

Jon Dahl Tomasson then made it 3 – 1 and things looked good for Feyenoord.

The 2002 UEFA Cup win was the start of a long dry spell for Feyenoord.

The 2005 – 06 season ended in disappointment for Feyenoord.

The newly created Dutch play-offs then proved to be gloomy for Feyenoord.

Supporters unrest grew into anger, when Feyenoord bought Charisteas, a back-up striker of arch-rivals Ajax, with a poor track record, as a replacement for Kuyt.

The season ended in bitter disappointment with a seventh place finish, causing Feyenoord to miss European football for the first time in 16 years.

As Bert van Marwijk accepted a job as manager of the national team, Feyenoord appointed Gertjan Verbeek as their manager for the 2008 – 09 season.

His replacement was former Feyenoord player Martin van Geel, who at the time was working as Technical Director for fellow Eredivisie club Roda JC.

After Louis van Gaal turned down an offer to manage Feyenoord, the club sought out legendary former Barcelona defender Ronald Koeman, who had played for Feyenoord during the late nineteen nineties.

Feyenoord ended the season by placing second in the Eredivisie, resulting in the third qualifying round for Champions League football.

Despite not having to ask the KNVB for permission to invest in new players anymore, Feyenoord kept continuing the policy for the 2012-13 season, only contracting players that were either out of contract or available for a low transfer fee.

Mitchell te Vrede played for the affiliated football club Excelsior, as well as for the highest-ranked academy team Jong Feyenoord / Excelsior and was promoted to the main senior team.

Harmeet Singh and Lex Immers are thus far the only two players who Feyenoord paid a transfer fee for.

On July 2, 2012, Karim El Ahmadi completed his transfer from Feyenoord to Premier League club Aston Villa for an undisclosed fee believed to be in the region of € 2, 600, 000.

Before the start of the new 1999 – 2000 season, Ajax were beaten in their own stadium when Feyenoord won their second Dutch Super Cup title, after a free kick by Patrick Paauwe, which secured a 3 – 2 win.

A brilliant performance of young left back Royston Drenthe at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship had investors flocking to the new investment schemes Feyenoord had set up.

In September 2012 Feyenoord confirmed that there will arise a new stadium in 2018.

Every year the new Feyenoord ambassador of the year is announced at opening day.

As part of the new agreement, the clubs started a joint regional youth academy called Feyenoord Academy and merged the club's reserve teams.

Excelsior's managing director Simon Kelder was pleased with the new extensive partnership: " I already regretted the earlier withdrawal of cooperation from Feyenoord, but now we get something better in return.

On July 31, 2000, the new stadium was opened with a friendly match against Feyenoord.

Speculation was rife about Dudek's dissatisfaction with life at Real, and an end-of-season return to Feyenoord where he would work more closely with coach Leo Beenhakker – his former boss at Feyenoord and also at the helm of the Polish national team – was a possibility, but nothing materialised, and with former teammate Jordi Codina leaving to join Getafe CF, the 36-year old eventually accepted a new one-year deal to remain at the club, while also speaking about his contentment.

In July 2008, he left Villarreal on a free transfer, and returned to Feyenoord on a new three-year contract.

The first years of the ' new ' club were hard, but after 1992 / 1993, a new team filled with talents such as Jaap Stam ( who would later play for PSV, Manchester United, Lazio Roma, A. C. Milan and Ajax ), Bert Konterman ( Feyenoord and Rangers ), Johan Hansma ( SC Heerenveen ) and Henri van der Vegt ( Udinese ) played attractive and successful football.

Former Feyenoord and Ajax player Jan Everse, who had already managed the club between 1996 and 1999, was presented as the new manager.

A new stadium for Feyenoord is currently being designed.

The outlook for the new Feyenoord stadium doesn't look good as one political party from the Netherlands ( PVDA ) has already said it would not support the build.

The Sting were on their way to becoming one of the best sides in the league and to insure continued success Roy brought in four new players who would all play their part in the franchises best season yet: Wim van Hanegem arrived from Dutch side AZ, Luigi Martini from SS Lazio, Thomas Sjoberg from Malmo FF along with former Feyenoord man Peter Ressell.

Domestically, with Feyenoord failing to break the PSV-Ajax strangehold on the Eredivisie for the fourth year in a row, and major players such as Larsson leaving the team, van Bronckhorst began to search for a new club.