Full name | Amsterdamsche Voetbalvereeniging RUN, Amstels, Progress[1] | |
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Nickname(s) | RAP | |
Founded | 1887 | |
Dissolved | 1914 | |
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AVV RAP, in the long form Amsterdamsche Voetbalvereeniging RUN, Amstels, Progress, was a Dutch football club based in Amsterdam, playing in the Netherlands Football League Championship. The club existed from 1887 to 1914 and was the first cup champion of the Netherlands in the 1898–99 season.[2] The club is most famous for being the winners of the first edition of the Coupe Van der Straeten Ponthoz in 1900, one of the world's first international footballing competitions, in which it played and defeated the reigning champions of Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands on three successive days.[3]