The Rotterdam side are looking to secure their place as a main player in Dutch football once again as they sit pretty at the top of the Eredivisie.
Feyenoord fans are starting to believe. It has been 18 years since they last saw their side win the Eredivisie and, although they enjoyed UEFA Cup success in 2002, they are tired of waiting for the day the Ajax-PSV duopoly ends and they emerge again as a serious force in the Netherlands.
The Rotterdam side have been top of the table at the end of each of the 21 weeks of the campaign. Combined with their huge goal difference surplus, a five-point lead over Ajax and a further three over PSV has the southern giants sitting pretty.
After opening the campaign with a nine-game winning run, a poor stretch of five with just one win suggested they had reverted to type and crumbled. Since then, however, they have won all seven in the league. With no chance to defend their title in the KNVB Beker after a recent loss to Vitesse and out of the Europa League, they are completely focused on bringing league success back to the fine city.
When the club announced on Monday that they have already sold out each of their remaining home games – unprecedented at this early stage - it gave a sense of just how the excitement is growing around a stadium already known for its palpable atmosphere. In the time of fairytale stories of incomprehensible rise and change in the form, such as the British referendum, Leicester City, Donald Trump and RB Leipzig; Feyenoord, while not new and revolutionary, are hoping they too can upset the trends of history.
It adds to the romance that club legend Giovanni van Bronckhorst is the current coach, while the great general Dirk Kuyt is the very embodiment of Feyenoord and Rotterdam’s do-or-die, hard-work-pays-off motto of life.
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