Overview
- The 2025 competition ran from March 21 to October 31 with 328 municipalities participating nationwide.
- Utrecht’s alderman Susanne Schilderman thanked residents and highlighted benefits for biodiversity and protection against heat and heavy rain.
- Roosendaal won the Gouden Schep for medium municipalities with 192,482 tiles, with Venlo and Valkenburg aan de Geul topping the large and small categories.
- Vlaardingen, the 2023 and 2024 overall winner, finished fourth behind Roosendaal, Terneuzen and Zeist despite increasing its total to 116,559 tiles.
- Organizers reported nearly six million tiles replaced across the Netherlands, a national record that also secured victory over Flanders in the inaugural Derby der Lage Landen.