PSV Eindhoven

PSV ("Philips Sport Vereniging" or Philips Sports Union) is a professional football club from Eindhoven, the Netherlands. It is one of the three 'big' clubs of the Netherlands, the other two being Ajax Amsterdam and Feyenoord Rotterdam. The club won the European Cup, the predecessor of today's Champions League, in 1988 and is a regular competitor in the current European Champions' League. They are often nicknamed Boeren (Dutch for 'Farmer') in reference to their provincial city origins as well as Gloeilampen or 'Light-Bulbs' with reference to the Philips company who specialises in making light bulbs.

2005/2006 squad

First team squad

Youth players with first team appearances

• 37 Ismaïl Aissati

Players on loan

• Otman Bakkal (on loan to FC Eindhoven)
• Csaba Fehér (on loan to Willem II)
• Jordi Hoogstrate (on loan to FC Emmen)
• Sepp de Roover (on loan to FC Eindhoven)
• Jelle ten Rouwelaar (on loan to FC Eindhoven)
• Arvid Smit (on loan to Willem II)
• Sasa Stojanovic (on loan to FC Eindhoven)
• Jasar Takak (on loan to NEC)
• Johan Vonlanthen (on loan to NAC)