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2012 KNVB Cup final

football match

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ65081938 ↗
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The 2012 KNVB Cup final was a football match between PSV Eindhoven and Heracles Almelo that took place on 8 April 2012 at De Kuip, Rotterdam. It was the final match of the 2011–12 KNVB Cup competition and the 94th Dutch Cup final.

PSV Eindhoven beat Heracles Almelo 3–0 and won their 9th KNVB Cup trophy.

This match was also Heracles Almelo's first and, as of 2026, only appearance in a KNVB Cup final in their club's entire history.

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This entry incorporates text from “2012 KNVB Cup final” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.