In 1912 NOAD and ADVENDO merged to form NAC Breda, for whom Verlegh, at the age of 17, immediately began playing in the first team.

[5] On 25 November 1920, Verlegh played his second international match against Switzerland in Amsterdam's Oude Stadion and scored two goals.

[1] Verlegh was also an editor for the match magazine 'De Klok' and in the thirties he was appointed as a mental coach.

The last committee's purpose was to select the best Dutch players for the national team, in which Verlegh was appointed as chairman in 1950.

On 13 March, NAC played a home match against SC Enschede, which Verlegh didn't attend.

On 17 March, Verlegh was buried, with huge interest by the Breda community, the NAC family and the KNVB officials.

Rat was in every way a great man....[7] Two years after Antoon Verlegh's death, NAC celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1962.

During this anniversary, NAC Breda announced it would name its training pitches as 'Rat Verlegh fields' and that NAC would organize the Rat Verlegh Tournament each year, in which Dutch and Belgian top club's youth teams would play in.

[1] Although Antoon Verlegh had a huge impact to the club, his name seems to be forgotten by the majority of people during the seventies and the eighties.

The fanatic NAC fans immediately began naming the stadium the Rat Verlegh Stadion.

Because of the fanzine's popularity, most of the NAC fans began to name the new stadium the Rat Verlegh Stadion.