2017–18 Eredivisie

Eredivisie 2017–18
Season information
Winners	PSV (24th title)
Relegated	Twente Sparta Rotterdam Roda JC
Domestic cup winners
KNVB Cup	Feyenoord (13th title)
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	PSV Ajax
Europa League	AZ Feyenoord Vitesse
Season statistics
Matches played	306
Goals scored	960
Average	(3.14 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alireza Jahanbakhsh (21 goals)
Biggest home win	Vitesse 7–0 Sparta (14 April 2018)
Biggest away win	NAC 0–8 Ajax (18 November 2017)
Highest scoring	Utrecht 1–7 PSV (24 September 2017) NAC 0–8 Ajax (18 November 2017)
← 2016–17	2018–19 →

The 2017–18 Eredivisie was the 62nd season of the Eredivisie since its establishment in 1955. The season began on 11 August 2017 and concluded on 6 May 2018; the Europa League and relegation play-offs will take place later that month. Feyenoord were the defending champions from the previous season. On 15 April 2018, PSV became champions for the 24th time after defeating their closest rival Ajax 3–0 at the Philips Stadion.

Teams

A total of 18 teams took part in the league: The best fifteen teams from the 2016–17 season, two promotion/relegation playoff winners (Roda JC and NAC Breda) and the 2016–17 Eerste Divisie champions (VVV-Venlo).

Stadiums and locations

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity
ADO Den Haag	The Hague	Cars Jeans Stadion	15,000
Ajax	Amsterdam	Johan Cruyff Arena	54,033
AZ	Alkmaar	AFAS Stadion	17,023
Excelsior	Rotterdam	Van Donge & De Roo Stadion	4,500
Feyenoord	Rotterdam	De Kuip	51,177
Groningen	Groningen	Noordlease Stadion	22,550
Heerenveen	Heerenveen	Abe Lenstra Stadion	26,100
Heracles Almelo	Almelo	Polman Stadion	12,080
NAC Breda	Breda	Rat Verlegh Stadion	19,000
PEC Zwolle	Zwolle	MAC³PARK Stadion	12,500
PSV	Eindhoven	Philips Stadion	36,500
Roda JC	Kerkrade	Parkstad Limburg Stadion	19,979
Sparta Rotterdam	Rotterdam	Sparta Stadion Het Kasteel	11,026
Twente	Enschede	De Grolsch Veste	30,205
Utrecht	Utrecht	Stadion Galgenwaard	23,750
Vitesse	Arnhem	GelreDome	25,500
VVV-Venlo	Venlo	Seacon Stadion – De Koel	8,000
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	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
ADO Den Haag	Alfons Groenendijk	Aaron Meijers	Erreà	Basic-Fit Fitness
Ajax	Erik ten Hag	Joël Veltman	Adidas	Ziggo
AZ	John van den Brom	Ron Vlaar	Under Armour	AFAS Software
Excelsior	Mitchell van der Gaag	Ryan Koolwijk	Quick	DSW Zorgverzekeraar
Feyenoord	Giovanni van Bronckhorst	Karim El Ahmadi	Adidas	Qurrent
Groningen	Ernest Faber	Sergio Padt	Puma	Essent
Heerenveen	Jurgen Streppel	Stijn Schaars	Jako	GroenLeven
Heracles	John Stegeman	Joey Pelupessy	Acerbis	Asito
NAC Breda	Stijn Vreven	Pablo Marí	Legea	CM Payments
PEC Zwolle	John van 't Schip	Bram van Polen	Craft	Molecaten
PSV	Phillip Cocu	Marco van Ginkel	Umbro	Energiedirect.nl
Roda JC	Robert Molenaar	Ard van Peppen	Masita	MASCOT Workwear
Sparta Rotterdam	Dick Advocaat	Michel Breuer	Robey	Axidus
Twente	Marino Pusic	Stefan Thesker	Sondico	Pure Energie
Utrecht	Jean-Paul de Jong	Willem Janssen	Hummel	Zorg van de zaak
Vitesse	Edward Sturing	Guram Kashia	Macron	Truphone
VVV-Venlo	Maurice Steijn	Danny Post	Masita	Seacon Logistics
Willem II	Reinier Robbemond	Jordens Peters	Robey	Tricorp

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
PEC Zwolle	Jans, RonRon Jans	End of contract	1 July 2017	Pre-season	van 't Schip, JohnJohn van 't Schip	1 July 2017
Roda JC Kerkrade	Plum, RickRick Plum	End of interim spell	1 July 2017		Molenaar, RobertRobert Molenaar	1 July 2017
Ajax	Bosz, PeterPeter Bosz	Signed by Borussia Dortmund	1 July 2017		Keizer, MarcelMarcel Keizer	1 July 2017
Twente	Hake, RenéRené Hake	Sacked	18 October 2017	15th	Verbeek, GertjanGertjan Verbeek	30 October 2017
Sparta Rotterdam	Pastoor, AlexAlex Pastoor	Sacked	17 December 2017	17th	Advocaat, DickDick Advocaat	25 December 2017
Ajax	Keizer, MarcelMarcel Keizer	Sacked	21 December 2017	2nd	Erik ten Hag	1 January 2018
FC Utrecht	ten Hag, ErikErik ten Hag	Signed by Ajax	1 January 2018	6th	Jean-Paul de Jong	4 January 2018
Willem II	van de Looi, ErwinErwin van de Looi	Resigned	8 March 2018	15th	Reinier Robbemond (caretaker)	8 March 2018
FC Twente	Verbeek, GertjanGertjan Verbeek	Sacked	26 March 2018	18th	Marino Pusic	26 March 2018
Vitesse	Fraser, HenkHenk Fraser	Sacked	11 April 2018	7th	Edward Sturing	11 April 2018

League table

2017–18 Eredivisie table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	PSV  (C)	34	26	5	3	87	39	+48	83	Champions League group stage
2	Ajax	34	25	4	5	89	33	+56	79	UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3	AZ	34	22	5	7	72	38	+34	71	Europa League Third qualifying round
4	Feyenoord	34	20	6	8	76	39	+37	66	Qualification to the European competition play-offs
5	Utrecht	34	14	12	8	58	53	+5	54
6	Vitesse	34	13	10	11	63	47	+16	49
7	ADO Den Haag	34	13	8	13	45	53	−8	47
8	Heerenveen	34	12	10	12	48	53	−5	46
9	PEC Zwolle	34	12	8	14	42	54	−12	44
10	Heracles	34	11	9	14	50	64	−14	42
11	Excelsior	34	11	7	16	41	56	−15	40
12	Groningen	34	8	14	12	50	50	0	38
13	Willem II	34	10	7	17	50	63	−13	37
14	NAC Breda	34	9	7	18	41	57	−16	34
15	VVV-Venlo	34	7	13	14	35	54	−19	34
16	Roda JC  (R)	34	8	6	20	42	69	−27	30	Qualification to the Relegation play-offs
17	Sparta Rotterdam  (R)	34	7	6	21	34	75	−41	27
18	Twente  (R)	34	5	9	20	37	63	−26	24	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
PSV	5	3	2	5	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Ajax	12	8	6	3	6	7	6	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
AZ	11	9	7	6	2	5	8	7	6	4	4	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Feyenoord	7	5	1	1	1	4	2	3	5	6	6	7	7	5	5	6	5	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Utrecht	2	2	5	4	8	9	10	8	9	8	8	5	5	6	7	5	6	6	6	7	7	6	6	5	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Vitesse	1	1	4	2	5	3	3	4	3	5	5	6	6	7	6	7	7	7	7	6	6	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	7	7	6	7	6	6
ADO Den Haag	17	17	17	14	14	14	9	11	8	10	11	9	11	11	8	8	9	8	8	9	10	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	7
Heerenveen	10	11	9	7	4	2	5	6	7	9	10	8	9	8	9	10	8	9	9	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	11	10	8	8	8	6	7	8
Zwolle	4	6	3	9	7	6	4	5	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	5	5	5	5	6	6	7	7	7	6	6	7	8	8	9
Heracles	8	7	10	11	11	10	12	13	14	11	9	11	8	9	10	9	10	11	12	12	12	12	11	12	12	11	9	9	10	11	11	11	11	10
Excelsior	6	10	11	13	13	12	13	10	11	7	7	10	10	10	11	12	11	12	10	11	11	11	12	11	10	12	10	11	11	10	10	10	10	11
Groningen	9	12	12	10	10	11	11	12	13	14	15	13	13	12	12	11	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	14	13	13	12	12	12
Willem II	14	15	18	18	17	17	18	17	15	16	17	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	15	14	13	14	14	14	13	13
NAC Breda	16	18	14	15	15	13	14	14	16	17	16	17	17	15	15	16	16	15	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	14
VVV-Venlo	3	4	8	8	9	8	7	9	10	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	12	10	11	10	9	10	10	10	11	10	12	12	12	12	12	13	14	15
Roda JC	15	16	16	17	18	18	17	16	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	17	17	18	18	17	16	16	16	16	16	16
Sparta Rotterdam	18	13	13	12	12	15	16	18	17	15	13	14	14	16	16	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17
Twente	13	14	15	16	16	16	15	15	12	13	14	16	16	17	18	15	15	16	15	15	15	16	17	16	16	16	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

Last updated: 06 May 2018
Source: eredivisiestatistieken.nl

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Games			avg.
1.	Alireza Jahanbakhsh	AZ	33	21	4	0.64
2.	Bjørn Maars Johnsen	ADO Den Haag	34	19	0	0.56
3.	Steven Berghuis	Feyenoord	31	18	0	0.58
	Wout Weghorst	AZ	31		2	0.58
5.	Hirving Lozano	PSV Eindhoven	29	17	0	0.59
6.	Fran Sol	Willem II	32	16	2	0.5
7.	Bryan Linssen	Vitesse	33	15	0	0.45
8.	Marco van Ginkel	PSV Eindhoven	28	14	9	0.5
	Tim Matavž	Vitesse	30		2	0.47
	David Neres	Ajax	32		0	0.44

Updated to match(es) played on 6 May 2018.
Source: nos.nl (reliable), Soccerway (unreliable)

Hat-tricks(+)

Rnd	Player	Club	Goals	Date	Home	Score	Away
6	Jürgen Locadia	PSV Eindhoven	15'  49'  68'  85' (p)	24 September 2017	Utrecht	1–7	PSV Eindhoven
12	Donny van de Beek	Ajax	18'  27'  75'	18 November 2017	NAC Breda	0–8	Ajax
13	Bartholomew Ogbeche	Willem II	62'  74'  90'+2'	25 November 2017	VVV-Venlo	3–3	Willem II
13	Justin Kluivert	Ajax	45'  60'  85'	26 November 2017	Ajax	5–1	Roda JC Kerkrade
18	Lennart Thy	VVV-Venlo	17'  54'  76'	24 December 2017	VVV-Venlo	3–1	Heracles Almelo
21	Luuk de Jong	PSV Eindhoven	45'+3'  65'  72'	3 February 2018	PSV Eindhoven	4–0	PEC Zwolle
27	Fran Sol	Willem II	59'  70' (p)  90' (p)	10 March 2018	Willem II	5–0	PSV Eindhoven
32	Alireza Jahanbakhsh	AZ	12'  45'+2'  53'	18 April 2018	AZ	4–3	Vitesse
34	Alireza Jahanbakhsh	AZ	13'  52'  88'	6 May 2018	AZ	6–0	PEC Zwolle

Updated to match(es) played on 6 May 2018.

Assists

Rank	Player	Club	Games	Assist	avg.
1.	Hakim Ziyech	Ajax	34	15	0.44
2.	Brandley Kuwas	Heracles Almelo	30	13	0.43
3.	Steven Berghuis	Feyenoord	31	12	0.39
	David Neres	Ajax	32		0.38
	Alireza Jahanbakhsh	AZ	33		0.36
6.	Abdenasser El Khayati	ADO Den Haag	32	11	0.34
7.	Jens Toornstra	Feyenoord	32	10	0.31
8.	Hirving Lozano	PSV Eindhoven	29	9	0.31
9.	Zakaria Labyad	Utrecht	29	8	0.28
	Mason Mount	Vitesse	29		0.28
	Steven Bergwijn	PSV Eindhoven	32		0.25

Updated to match(es) played on 6 May 2018.
Source: nos.nl (reliable), Soccerway (unreliable)

Discipline

• Most yellow cards: 11
  • Thomas Lam (Twente)

• Most red cards: 2
  • Adil Auassar (Roda JC)
  • Wilfried Kanon (ADO Den Haag)
  • Hirving Lozano (PSV)

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month		Talent of the Month
	Player	Club	Player	Club
August	Hirving Lozano	PSV	Denzel Dumfries	Heerenveen
September	Steven Berghuis	Feyenoord	Angeliño	NAC Breda
October	Gastón Pereiro	PSV	David Neres	Ajax
November	Zakaria Labyad	Utrecht	Donny van de Beek	Ajax
December	Steven Berghuis	Feyenoord	Angeliño	NAC Breda
January	Jonas Svensson	AZ	Mason Mount	Vitesse
February	Steven Bergwijn	PSV	Angeliño	NAC Breda
March	Santiago Arias	PSV	Kostas Tsimikas	Willem II
April	David Neres	Ajax	Angeliño	NAC Breda

Play-offs

European competition

Four teams will play for a spot in the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round.

		Semifinals				Final
		ADO Den Haag	2 1 3
		Vitesse	5 2 7
							Vitesse	3 2 5
							Utrecht	2 1 3
		Heerenveen	4 1 5
		Utrecht (a)	3 2 5

Promotion/relegation play-offs

Ten teams, two from the Eredivisie and eight from the Eerste Divisie, will play for two spots in the 2018–19 Eredivisie, the remaining eight teams will play in the 2018–19 Eerste Divisie.

External links

• Official website (Dutch)

2017–18 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)
2016-17                                                        2018-19