2016–17 Eredivisie

Eredivisie 2016–17
Season information
Winners	Feyenoord
Relegated	Go Ahead Eagles
Domestic cup winners
KNVB Cup	Vitesse
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Feyenoord Ajax
Europa League	PSV Vitesse
Season statistics
Matches played	306
Goals scored	884
Average	(2.82 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nicolai Jørgensen Enes Ünal (6 goals each)
Biggest home win	Feyenoord 5–0 Roda JC (25 September 2016)
Biggest away win	Groningen 0–5 Feyenoord (7 August 2016)
Highest scoring	Groningen 3–4 Twente (21 August 2016)
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The 2016–17 Eredivisie season was the 61st season of the top-tier Dutch League Eredivisie since its establishment in 1955. The fixtures for this season were announced on 14 June 2016.

Teams

A total of 18 teams will be taking part in the league: The best fifteen teams from the 2015–16 season, two promotion/relegation playoff winners and the 2015–16 Eerste Divisie champions.

It is still unclear whether FC Twente will be a part of the 2016-17 Eredivisie. As a result of financial maladministration, the KNVB have taken FC Twente's license, causing them to relegate to the 2016-17 Eerste Divisie. However, this decision is not yet final, as FC Twente have lodged an official protest. Should FC Twente not retain their place in the Eredivisie, De Graafschap will be granted the vacant spot despite losing the relegation playoffs in the previous season.

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity
ADO Den Haag	The Hague	Kyocera Stadion	15,000
Ajax	Amsterdam	Amsterdam ArenA	53,490
AZ	Alkmaar	AFAS Stadion	17,023
Excelsior	Rotterdam	Stadion Woudestein	4,400
Feyenoord	Rotterdam	De Kuip	51,177
Go Ahead Eagles	Deventer	Adelaarshorst	10,400
Groningen	Groningen	Noordlease Stadion	22,550
Heerenveen	Heerenveen	Abe Lenstra Stadion	26,100
Heracles Almelo	Almelo	Polman Stadion	13,500
NEC	Nijmegen	Stadion de Goffert	12,500
PEC Zwolle	Zwolle	MAC³PARK Stadion	12,500
PSV	Eindhoven	Philips Stadion	36,500
Roda JC	Kerkrade	Parkstad Limburg Stadion	19,979
Sparta Rotterdam	Rotterdam	Het Kasteel	11,026
Twente	Enschede	De Grolsch Veste	30,205
Utrecht	Utrecht	Stadion Galgenwaard	23,750
Vitesse	Arnhem	GelreDome	25,500
Willem II	Tilburg	Koning Willem II Stadion	14,500

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
ADO Den Haag	Henk Fraser	Erreà	Basic-Fit Fitness
Ajax	Peter Bosz	Adidas	Ziggo
AZ	John van den Brom	Under Armour	AFAS Software
Excelsior	Mitchell van der Gaag	Quick	DSW Zorgverzekeraar
Feyenoord	Giovanni van Bronckhorst	Adidas	Opel
Go Ahead Eagles	Hans de Koning	Hummel	Drukwerkdeal.nl
Groningen	Ernest Faber	Robey	Essent
Heerenveen	Jurgen Streppel	Jako	Univé
Heracles	John Stegeman	Acerbis	Asito
NEC	Peter Hyballa	Patrick	Scholten Awater
PEC Zwolle	Ron Jans	Robey	Molecaten
PSV	Phillip Cocu	Umbro	Energiedirect.nl
Roda JC	Yannis Anastasiou	Robey	KLG Europe
Sparta Rotterdam	Alex Pastoor	Robey	Axidus
Twente	René Hake	Sondico	Pure Energie
Utrecht	Erik ten Hag	Hummel	Zorg van de zaak
Vitesse	Henk Fraser	Macron	Truphone
Willem II	Erwin van de Looi	Robey	Tricorp

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Groningen	van de Looi, ErwinErwin van de Looi	End of contract	1 July 2016	Pre-season	Faber, ErnestErnest Faber	1 July 2016
NEC	Faber, ErnestErnest Faber	Signed by Groningen	1 July 2016		Hyballa, PeterPeter Hyballa	1 July 2016
Heerenveen	de Haan, FoppeFoppe de Haan	End of contract	1 July 2016		Streppel, JurgenJurgen Streppel	1 July 2016
Willem II	Streppel, JurgenJurgen Streppel	Signed by Heerenveen	1 July 2016		van de Looi, ErwinErwin van de Looi	1 July 2016
Vitesse	Maas, RobRob Maas	Resigned	1 July 2016		Fraser, HenkHenk Fraser	1 July 2016
Roda JC	Kalezić, DarijeDarije Kalezić	Sacked	1 July 2016		Anastasiou, YannisYannis Anastasiou	1 July 2016
Ajax	de Boer, FrankFrank de Boer	Resigned	1 July 2016		Bosz, PeterPeter Bosz	1 July 2016
Excelsior	Groenendijk, AlfonsAlfons Groenendijk	Mutual consent	1 July 2016		van der Gaag, MitchellMitchell van der Gaag	1 July 2016
ADO Den Haag	Fraser, HenkHenk Fraser	Signed by Vitesse	1 July 2016		Petrović, ŽeljkoŽeljko Petrović	1 July 2016

League table

2016–17 Eredivisie table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Feyenoord  (C)	34	26	4	4	86	25	+61	82	Champions League group stage
2	Ajax	34	25	6	3	79	23	+56	81	UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3	PSV	34	22	10	2	68	23	+45	76	Europa League Third qualifying round
4	Utrecht	34	18	8	8	54	38	+16	62	Qualification to the European competition play-offs
5	Vitesse	34	15	6	13	51	40	+11	51	Europa League group stage
6	AZ	34	12	13	9	56	52	+4	49	Qualification to the European competition play-offs
7	Twente	34	12	9	13	48	50	−2	45
8	Groningen	34	10	13	11	55	51	+4	43	Qualification to the European competition play-offs
9	Heerenveen	34	12	7	15	54	53	+1	43
10	Heracles	34	12	7	15	53	55	−2	43
11	ADO Den Haag	34	11	5	18	37	59	−22	38
12	Excelsior	34	9	10	15	43	60	−17	37
13	Willem II	34	9	9	16	29	44	−15	36
14	PEC Zwolle	34	9	8	17	39	67	−28	35
15	Sparta Rotterdam	34	9	7	18	42	61	−19	34
16	NEC	34	9	7	18	32	59	−27	34	Qualification to the Relegation play-offs
17	Roda JC	34	7	12	15	26	51	−25	33
18	Go Ahead Eagles  (R)	34	6	5	23	32	73	−41	23	Relegation to the Eerste Divisie

Source: Kicker.de
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after completion of each round.

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Feyenoord	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Ajax	4	5	8	4	3	3	2	2
PSV	5	4	2	2	2	2	3	3
Heerenveen	7	9	13	11	7	5	4	4
AZ	7	13	10	6	4	4	5	5
Vitesse	2	7	4	5	8	6	7	6
Twente	13	16	11	7	10	10	6	7
Sparta Rotterdam	15	8	5	8	9	7	8	8
ADO Den Haag	3	2	3	3	5	9	10	9
Excelsior	5	3	5	9	6	8	9	10
NEC	9	10	7	12	12	14	15	11
Go Ahead Eagles	17	14	16	16	13	15	16	12
Heracles	9	6	9	10	11	11	11	13
Utrecht	13	12	15	15	15	16	13	14
Groningen	18	18	18	17	17	12	12	15
Willem II	16	17	12	13	14	13	14	16
PEC Zwolle	9	15	17	18	18	18	18	17
Roda JC	9	10	14	14	16	17	17	18

Source: BBC

	Leader and 2015–16 UEFA Champions League group stage
	2015–16 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
	2015–16 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
	European competition play-offs
	Relegation play-offs
	Relegation to 2016–17 Eerste Divisie

Results

Home \ Away

ADO

AJX

AZ

EXC

FEY

GAE

GRO

HEE

HER

NEC

PEC

PSV

RJC

SPA

TWE

UTR

VIT

WIL

ADO Den Haag

3–0

0–3

1–1

Ajax

5–1

2–2

3–2

1–0

1–2

AZ

2–2

2–2

2–0

2–0

Excelsior

1–2

2–0

3–1

1–3

Feyenoord

3–1

4–1

5–0

2–0

Go Ahead Eagles

0–3

3–0

2–2

2–0

Groningen

0–5

0–0

1–1

3–4

Heerenveen

1–0

1–1

3–1

2–2

Heracles

0–2

0–1

1–1

3–1

NEC

2–1

1–1

0–4

0–0

PEC Zwolle

2–1

0–2

0–4

0–3

1–1

PSV

1–0

0–1

0–0

Roda JC

0–3

1–1

0–1

0–1

Sparta Rotterdam

1–3

1–1

1–0

2–0

Twente

4–1

1–2

3–1

2–1

Utrecht

1–2

1–5

1–2

2–0

Vitesse

1–2

2–0

2–1

1–1

Willem II

1–1

0–2

0–0

1–4

Updated to games played on 2 October 2016
Source: [1]
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Number of teams by provinces

Number of teams	Province	Team(s)
4	South Holland	ADO Den Haag, Excelsior, Feyenoord and Sparta Rotterdam
	Overijssel	Go Ahead Eagles, Heracles, PEC Zwolle and Twente
2	Gelderland	NEC and Vitesse Arnhem
	North Brabant	PSV and Willem II
	North Holland	Ajax and AZ
1	Friesland	Heerenveen
	Groningen	Groningen
	Limburg	Roda JC
	Utrecht	Utrecht

Season statistics

Top scorers

Up to and including matches played on 2 October 2016.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Nicolai Jørgensen	Feyenoord	6
	Enes Ünal	Twente
3	Davy Klaassen	Ajax	5
4	Lewis Baker	Vitesse	4
	Loris Brogno	Sparta
	Kasper Dolberg	Ajax
	Sébastien Haller	Utrecht
	Danny Hoesen	Groningen
	Wout Weghorst	AZ
	Ricky van Wolfswinkel	Vitesse
	Arber Zeneli	Heerenveen

Hat-tricks

Up to and including matches played on 2 October 2016.

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Elia, EljeroEljero Elia	Feyenoord	Groningen	5-0	02016-08-07-7 August 2016
Ünal, EnesEnes Ünal	Twente	Groningen	4-3	02016-08-21-21 August 2016

Assists

Up to and including matches played on 2 October 2016.

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Hakim Ziyech	Twente / Ajax	5
2	Bilal Başaçıkoğlu	Feyenoord	4
	Jens Toornstra	Feyenoord
4	Sofyan Amrabat	Utrecht	3
	Luigi Bruins	Excelsior
	Chinedu Ede	Twente
	Nigel Hasselbaink	Excelsior
	Luuk de Jong	PSV
	Nicolai Jørgensen	Feyenoord
	Davy Klaassen	Ajax
	Stefano Marzo	Heerenveen
	Quincy Owusu-Abeyie	NEC
	Dejan Trajkovski	Twente

Clean sheets

Up to and including matches played on 2 October 2016.

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Brad Jones	Feyenoord	6
2	Jeroen Zoet	PSV	4
3	Roy Kortsmit	Sparta	3
	Erwin Mulder	Heerenveen
	André Onana	Ajax
	Sergio Rochet	AZ

Discipline

Up to and including matches played on 2 October 2016.

Player

• Most yellow cards: 4
  • Dejan Trajkovski (Twente)

• Most red cards: 1
  • Abdul Ajagun (Roda JC)
  • Frederic Ananou (Roda JC)
  • Hidde ter Avest (Twente)
  • Juninho Bacuna (Groningen)
  • Denzel Dumfries (Sparta)
  • Shay Facey (Heerenveen)
  • Julian von Haacke (NEC)
  • Willem Huizing (Heerenveen)
  • Arnold Kruiswijk (Vitesse)
  • Christian Kum (Roda JC)
  • Danilo Pantić (Excelsior)
  • Tom Trybull (ADO Den Haag)
  • Joël Veltman (Ajax)
  • Calvin Verdonk (PEC Zwolle)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 20
  • ADO Den Haag

• Most red cards: 3
  • Roda JC

External links

• Official website (Dutch)

2016–17 in Dutch football
Domestic leagues
Eredivisie · Eerste Divisie · Tweede Divisie · Derde Divisie · Hoofdklasse
Domestic cups
KNVB Cup · Johan Cruyff Shield
European competitions
Champions League (Final) · Europa League (Final)
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