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Voetbal International

Dutch football magazine

Field	Value
title	Voetbal International
editor	Pieter Zwart, Freek Jansen
editor_title	Editor-in-Chief
frequency	Weekly
category	Football magazines
publisher	PXR
founded
country	Netherlands
language	Dutch
website
issn	0042-7977

Voetbal International (VI) is a Dutch football magazine. It is the oldest Dutch football magazine that is still running.

History and profile

Voetbal International was established in 1965. VI was one of the founding members of ESM. It left the group in 2007. Voetbal International was acquired in 2019 by the publishing house Digital Enterprises. The chief editors of the magazine are Pieter Zwart and Freek Jansen. The magazine has had a sharply declining circulation in recent years. The current total paid weekly circulation is 27,590 magazines.

In addition to the regular magazine that comes out every Wednesday, VI every summer publishes season previews before the start of the Dutch league season. For years they have made a guide for the Dutch season, including the fixture lists and information and statistics of every Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie team and its players. They have also issued season previews of the English, German, French, Belgian and Spanish competitions as well as for the Dutch Hoofdklasse, the highest amateur league.

Weekly circulation of Voetbal International

Total paid targeted circulation according to HOI, Instituut voor Media Auditing and Nationaal Onderzoek Multimedia.

1970: 105,272
1985: 176,231
1990: 198,253
1995: 209,286
2000: 188,209
2011: 155,491
2016: 85,445
2020: 41,993
2022: 33,752
2023: 30,433
2024: 28,312
2025 Q2: 26,602

Football yearbook

From 1978, VI had published a Dutch football yearbook every year, with a review of the Dutch professional leagues and their national football team as well as international tournaments. Since 2006 they publish the Brinvest Voetbaljaarboek.

Television programme

Since 2008, a programme aired by RTL 7 (Netherlands) is called Voetbal International as well. The show was formerly known as Voetbal Insite, but had to be sponsored to assure its future. Since that moment, former football player René van der Gijp has been made a series regular, after Willem van Hanegem quit the job. Voetbal International's editor Johan Derksen has a permanent place as an analyser. The show is being broadcast every Monday and Friday evening at 20:30 during the football season and lasts ninety minutes.

On 21 October 2011, Voetbal International was awarded the 'Golden Television Ring 2011' for best television program of the year.

VI Eredivisie Best Player of the Year

Voetbal International has been awarding the VI Eredivisie Best Player of the Year since 2016. The award is based on the magazine's ranking of the players' performance in the league.

Year	Player	Team	Ref
2015–16	NED Vincent Janssen	AZ	title=VI Speler van het Jaar: Hakim Ziyech, de complete spelmaker	url=https://www.vi.nl/nieuws/vi-speler-van-het-jaar-hakim-ziyech-de-complete-spelmaker	access-date=13 November 2022	website=www.vi.nl}}
2016–17	DEN Nicolai Jørgensen	Feyenoord
2017–18	IRN Alireza Jahanbakhsh	AZ
2018–19	MARHakim Ziyech	Ajax
2019–20	Not awarded as the league was terminated due to COVID-19 Pandemic.
2020–21	NED Riechedly Bazoer	Vitesse
2021–22	NED Cody Gakpo	PSV

Top 100 Footballers Of All Time

On 7 June 2017, the magazine elected Argentine Lionel Messi as the best footballer in history, after a voting that took place in order to rank the top 100 footballers of all time.

Messi won the poll earning the number one spot ahead of compatriot Diego Maradona and Dutch legend Johan Cruyff, that came second and third respectively.

The top 7 list is as follows :

Position	Player	Nationality
1.	Lionel Messi	ARG
2.	Diego Maradona	ARG
3.	Johan Cruyff	NED
4.	Pelé	BRA
5.	Alfredo Di Stéfano	ARG
6.	Zinedine Zidane	FRA
7.	Ronaldo	BRA

Other placings are listed as below:

Position	Player	Nationality
10.	Marco Van Basten	NED
50.	Henri Coppens	BEL
74.	Sandro Mazzola	ITA
75.	Dennis Bergkamp	NED
83.	Dragan Dzajic	YUG
84.	Frank Rijkaard	NED
85.	Just Fontaine	FRA
86.	Paulo Roberto Falcao	BRA
87.	Gigi Riva	ITA
88.	Arjen Robben	NED
89.	Hugo Sanchez	MEX
90.	Ruud Krol	NED
91.	Ryan Giggs	WAL
95.	Leônidas	BRA
96.	Neymar	BRA
97.	Edwin van der Sar	NED

References

[https://nmodata.nl/printing/magazines-oplagecijfers-kerncijfers NMO Magazines oplagecijfers kerncijfers]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20131023060315/http://www.hoi-online.nl/322346/HOI-HARDE-CIJFERS-JAAR-2011.pdf Gecertificeerde jaarcijfers HOI 2011] (archived)
(24 March 2023). "NOM dashboard". Nationaal Onderzoek Multimedia..
(21 March 2024). "NOM dashboard".
(25 March 2025). "NOM dashboard".
(12 October 2025). "NOM dashboard".
[http://www.vi.nl/webshop/Product/Voetbaljaarboek-2010.htm Voetbaljaarboek 2010] - Voetbal International {{in lang. nl
[http://www.totaaltv.nl/?action=nieuws&id=1244 Voetbal Insite keert toch terug bij RTL, maar wel onder een andere naam: Voetbal International] Totaal TV. 9 September 2008. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
[http://www.rtl.nl/sport/rtlvoetbal/home/ Voetbal International] Retrieved 6 September 2014.
"VI Speler van het Jaar: Hakim Ziyech, de complete spelmaker".
"Bazoer blijft Wijndal en Tadic voor en is VI Speler van het Jaar".
(16 May 2022). "Cody Gakpo wint Speler van het Jaar-klassement van VI".
(7 June 2017). "Waarom Messi de beste voetballer aller tijden is". Voetbal International.
Sport. (10 June 2017). "Lionel Messi, voted the best player in the history of football". sport.

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