Antoon Verlegh

Antoon Verlegh
Personal information
Full name Antonius Wilhelmus Verlegh
Date of birth (1896-03-29)29 March 1896
Place of birth Ginneken, Netherlands
Date of death 12 March 1960(1960-03-12) (aged 63)
Place of death Prinsenbeek, Netherlands
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1906–1908 GVV
1908–1912 NOAD
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1912–1931 NAC Breda 295 (125)
International career
1920–1927 Netherlands 8 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Antonius Wilhelmus "Antoon" Verlegh (29 March 1896 – 12 March 1960), also known as Rat Verlegh, was a Dutch football player and administrator who is best known for his association with NAC Breda, whose Rat Verlegh Stadion is named in his honour. Verlegh was a player, coach, editor, secretary, member of the board, vice chairman and chairman of honour at NAC Breda.[1] He also had several important positions at the KNVB and he was considered to be one of the football icons in the Netherlands until the 1950s.[2]

  1. ^ Andries Schouten, Jules Ots and Adriaan Veraart (1962), '50 jaar NAC'
  2. ^ http://www.derat.nl/int/nl/club/historiepersoonsinfo.asp?persid=385 Archived 6 April 2005 at the Wayback Machine, player profile on NAC Fanzine De Rat ONLINE