2021–22 Eredivisie

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Eredivisie 2021–22
Season information
Dates	14 August 2021–15 May 2022
Winners	Ajax (36th title)
Relegated	Heracles Almelo Willem II PEC Zwolle
Domestic cup winners
KNVB Cup	PSV Eindhoven
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Ajax PSV Eindhoven
Europa League	Feyenoord
Europa Conference League	Twente
Season statistics
Matches played	306
Goals scored	875
Top goalscorer	Sébastien Haller (21 goals)
Biggest home win	Ajax 9–0 SC Cambuur (18 September 2021)
Biggest away win	Fortuna Sittard 0–5 Ajax (21 September 2021) RKC Waalwijk 0–5 Ajax (21 November 2021) SC Cambuur 1–6 Vitesse (4 December 2021) Vitesse 0–5 PSV (12 February 2022)
Highest scoring	Ajax 9–0 SC Cambuur (18 September 2021)
← 2020–21	2022–23 →

The 2021–22 Eredivisie is the 66th season of the Eredivisie since its establishment in 1955. The season is expected to begin on 14 August 2021 and concluded on 15 May 2022.

Teams

SC Cambuur (promoted after a five-year absence), Go Ahead Eagles and NEC Nijmegen (both promoted after a four-year absence) were promoted from the 2020–21 Eerste Divisie. ADO Den Haag (relegated after thirteen years in the top flight), VVV-Venlo (relegated after four years in the top flight) and FC Emmen (relegated after three years in the top flight) have been relegated to 2021–22 Eerste Divisie.

Stadiums and locations

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity
Ajax	Amsterdam	Johan Cruijff Arena	55,500
AZ	Alkmaar	AFAS Stadion	19,400
Cambuur	Leeuwarden	Cambuur Stadion	10,500
Feyenoord	Rotterdam	De Kuip	51,177
Fortuna Sittard	Sittard	Fortuna Sittard Stadion	12,500
Go Ahead Eagles	Deventer	de Adelaarshorst	10,000
Groningen	Groningen	Euroborg	22,579
Heerenveen	Heerenveen	Abe Lenstra Stadion	26,400
Heracles	Almelo	Erve Asito	12,080
N.E.C.	Nijmegen	De Goffert	12,600
PEC Zwolle	Zwolle	MAC³PARK Stadion	14,000
PSV Eindhoven	Eindhoven	Philips Stadion	35,000
RKC Waalwijk	Waalwijk	Mandemakers Stadion	7,500
Sparta Rotterdam	Rotterdam	Het Kasteel	11,926
Twente	Enschede	De Grolsch Veste	30,205
Utrecht	Utrecht	Stadion Galgenwaard	23,750
Vitesse	Arnhem	GeltreDome	21,248
Willem II	Tilburg	Koning Willem II Stadion	14,700

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	Main Sponsor
Ajax	Erik ten Hag	Dušan Tadić	Adidas	Ziggo
AZ	Pascal Jansen	Owen Wijndal	Nike	AFAS Software
SC Cambuur	Dennis Haar (interim)	Erik Schouten	Craft	Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma
Feyenoord	Arne Slot	Jens Toornstra	Adidas	EuroParcs
Fortuna Sittard	Sjors Ultee	Ben Rienstra	Masita	Hurkmans Groep
Go Ahead Eagles	Kees van Wonderen	Bas Kuipers	Stanno	Jumper De diersuper
FC Groningen	Danny Buijs	Mo El Hankouri	Robey	Office Centre
sc Heerenveen	Ole Tobiasen (interim)	Erwin Mulder	Jako	Ausnutria
Heracles Almelo	Frank Wormuth	Janis Blaswich	Acerbis	Asito
NEC Nijmegen	Rogier Meijer	Rens van Eijden	Legea	KlokGroep
PEC Zwolle	Dick Schreuder	Bram van Polen	Craft	VDK Groep
PSV	Roger Schmidt	Marco van Ginkel	Puma	Metropoolregio Brainport Eindhoven
RKC Waalwijk	Joseph Oosting	Melle Meulensteen	Stanno	Willy Naessens
Sparta Rotterdam	Henk Fraser	Adil Auassar	Robey	D&S Groep
FC Twente	Ron Jans	Wout Brama	Meyba	Pure Energie
FC Utrecht	Rick Kruys (interim)	Willem Janssen	Nike	T-Mobile
Vitesse	Thomas Letsch	Danilho Doekhi	Nike	eToro
Willem II	Kevin Hofland	Pol Llonch	Robey]	DESTIL

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Feyenoord	Dick Advocaat	End of contract	30 June 2021	Pre season	Arne Slot	1 July 2021
PEC Zwolle	Bert Konterman	End of interim spell			Art Langeler
Willem II	Željko Petrović	End of contract			Fred Grim
RKC Waalwijk	Fred Grim	Signed by Willem II			Joseph Oosting
PEC Zwolle	Art Langeler	Resigned	16 November 2021	18th	Dick Schreuder	18 November 2021
Heerenveen	Johnny Jansen	Sacked	24 January 2022	10th	Ole Tobiasen (interim)	27 January 2022
Willem II	Fred Grim		8 March 2022	15th	Denny Landzaat (interim)	8 March 2022
	Denny Landzaat	End of interim spell	14 March 2022	16th	Kevin Hofland	14 March 2022
FC Utrecht	René Hake	Sacked	22 March 2022	7th	Rick Kruys (interim)	22 March 2022
SC Cambuur	Henk de Jong	disease replacement	29 March 2022	9th	Dennis Haar (interim)	30 March 2022
Sparta Rotterdam	Henk Fraser	Resigned	24 April 2022	18th	Maurice Steijn	26 April 2022
Heracles Almelo	Frank Wormuth	Sacked	16 May 2022	16th	René Kolmschot (interm)	16 May 2022

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ajax  (C)	34	26	5	3	98	19	+79	83	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	PSV	34	26	3	5	86	42	+44	81	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Feyenoord	34	22	5	7	76	34	+42	71	Qualification to Europa Conference League third qualifying round
4	Twente	34	20	8	6	55	37	+18	68	Qualification to Europa Conference League third qualifying round
5	AZ	34	18	7	9	64	44	+20	61	Qualification to European competition play-offs
6	Vitesse	34	15	6	13	42	51	−9	51
7	Utrecht	34	12	11	11	51	46	+5	47
8	Heerenveen	34	11	8	15	37	50	−13	41
9	Cambuur	34	11	6	17	53	70	−17	39
10	RKC Waalwijk	34	9	11	14	40	51	−11	38
11	NEC	34	10	8	16	38	52	−14	38
12	Groningen	34	9	9	16	41	55	−14	36
13	Go Ahead Eagles	34	10	6	18	37	51	−14	36
14	Sparta Rotterdam	34	8	11	15	30	48	−18	35
15	Fortuna Sittard	34	10	5	19	36	67	−31	35
16	Heracles  (R)	34	9	7	18	33	49	−16	34	Qualification to Relegation play-offs
17	Willem II  (R)	34	9	6	19	32	57	−25	33	Relegation to Eerste Divisie
18	PEC Zwolle  (R)	34	7	6	21	26	52	−26	27

Source: Eredivisie
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

European play-offs

The European play-offs will be contested by the 4 highest ranked teams which are not yet qualified for any European tournament. The matches will be played on a home-and-away basis, from 18 to 29 May. The winner will receive a spot in the second qualifying round of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League.

Qualified teams

Team	Rank	seed
AZ	5	1
Vitesse	6	2
FC Utrecht	7	3
SC Heerenveen	8	4

Bracket

	Semifinals							Final
	1	AZ	2	2	4
	4	SC Heerenveen	3	0	3
								1	AZ
								2	Vitesse
	2	Vitesse (a.e.t.)	1	3	4
	3	FC Utrecht	3	0	3

Semifinals

First legs

19 May 2022	SC Heerenveen	3–2	AZ	Abe Lenstra Stadion, Heerenveen
18:45 CEST	Van Hooijdonk  58' Sarr  90' Halilović  90+5'	Report	Evjen  59' Pavlidis  65'	Referee: Jeroen Manschot

19 May 2022	FC Utrecht	3–1	Vitesse	Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht
21:00 CEST	Janssen  3' Van de Streek  21' Gustafson  81' (pen.)	Report	Vroegh  85'	Referee: Dennis Higler

Second legs

22 May 2022	AZ	2–0 (4–3 agg.)	SC Heerenveen	AFAS Stadion, Alkmaar
14:30 CEST	de Wit  5' Aboukhlal  88'	Report		Referee: Danny Makkelie

22 May 2022	Vitesse	3–0 (4–3 agg.)	FC Utrecht	GelreDome, Arnhem
18:00 CEST	Manhoef  39' Tronstad  52' Baden Frederiksen  93'	Report		Referee: Allard Lindhout

Final

First leg

26 May 2022	Vitesse	Match C	AZ	GelreDome, Arnhem
20:00 CEST				Referee: Pol van Boekel

Second leg

29 May 2022	AZ	Match C	Vitesse	AFAS Stadion, Alkmaar
14:30 CEST				Referee: Bas Nijhuis

Promotion/relegation play-offs

The seeds are assigned based on the final ranking after the regular season. The best ranked team will get the highest seed (lowest number). Eredivisie teams are considered to be better ranked than eerste divisie teams.

If a match is leveled at the end of the normal playing time, extra time will be played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners.

Seven teams, six from the Eerste Divisie and one from the Eredivisie, will play for a spot in the 2022–23 Eredivisie. The remaining six teams will play in the 2022–23 Eerste Divisie. The highest seeded team or the team from the Eredivisie will always play at home.

Qualified teams

Team	Rank	seed
Heracles Almelo	16	1
FC Eindhoven	3	2
ADO Den Haag	4	3
Roda JC Kerkrade	5	4
Excelsior	6	5
NAC Breda	8	6
De Graafschap	9	7

Bracket

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First round

First legs

9 May 2022	De Graafschap	1–1	FC Eindhoven	De Vijverberg, Doetinchem
20:00 CEST	Gravenberch  73' (pen.)	Report	Sleegers  12' (pen.)	Attendance: 10,022 Referee: Alex Bos

10 May 2022	NAC Breda	1–2	ADO Den Haag	Rat Verlegh Stadion, Breda
18:45 CEST	Maria  74'	Report	Steijn  34' Komljenovic  90+3'	Attendance: 16,728 Referee: Edwin van de Graaf

10 May 2022	Excelsior	2–2	Roda JC Kerkrade	Van Donge & De Roo Stadion, Rotterdam
21:00 CEST	Goudmijn  9' Dallinga  42' (pen.)	Report	Vente  67' Marzo  68'	Attendance: 3,178 Referee: Rob Dieperink

Second legs

13 May 2022	FC Eindhoven	3–1 (4–2 agg.)	De Graafschap	Jan Louwers Stadion, Eindhoven
20:00 CEST	Ogenia  10' Brym  22' Sleegers  24'	Report	Kaandorp  16'	Attendance: 4,200 Referee: Jannick van der Laan

14 May 2022	ADO Den Haag	2–1 (4–2 agg.)	NAC Breda	Cars Jeans Stadion, Den Haag
16:30 CEST	Malone  76' (o.g.) Moreo Klas  79'	Report	Banzuzi  90+3'	Attendance: 10,379 Referee: Allard Lindhout

14 May 2022	Roda JC Kerkrade	0–2 (2–4 agg.)	Excelsior	Parkstad Limburg Stadion, Kerkrade
20:00 CEST		Report	Driouech  95' Agrafiotis  120+3'	Attendance: 14,763 Referee: Jochem Kamphuis

Semifinals

First legs

17 May 2022	ADO Den Haag	2–1	FC Eindhoven	Cars Jeans Stadion, Den Haag
20:00 CEST	Moreo Klas  15' Verheydt  28'	Report	Sleegers  74' (pen.)	Attendance: 10,475 Referee: Jochem Kamphuis

18 May 2022	Excelsior	3–0	Heracles Almelo	Van Donge & De Roo Stadion, Rotterdam
18:45 CEST	Azarkan  21' Dallinga  74' Driouech  85'	Report		Attendance: 4,400 Referee: Martin van den Kerkhof

Second legs

21 May 2022	FC Eindhoven	1–2 (2–4 agg.)	ADO Den Haag	Jan Louwers Stadion, Eindhoven
16:30 CEST	Amevor  89'	Report	Verheydt  16' Seedorf  26' (o.g.)	Attendance: 4,200 Referee: Bas Nijhuis

21 May 2022	Heracles Almelo	1–3 (1–6 agg.)	Excelsior	Erve Asito, Almelo
20:00 CEST	Bakış  28'	Report	Dallinga  47' Wieffer  63' Agrafiotis  83'	Attendance: 6,924 Referee: Edwin van de Graaf

Final

First leg

24 May 2022	Excelsior	Match F	ADO Den Haag	Van Donge & De Roo Stadion, Rotterdam
20:00 CEST

Second leg

29 May 2022	ADO Den Haag	Match F	Excelsior	Cars Jeans Stadion, Den Haag
18:00 CEST

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 14 May 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Sébastien Haller	Ajax	21
2	Loïs Openda	Vitesse	18
3	Ricky van Wolfswinkel	FC Twente	16
	Vangelis Pavlidis	AZ
5	Jesper Karlsson	AZ	15
	Guus Til	Feyenoord
7	Jørgen Strand Larsen	FC Groningen	14
8	Dušan Tadić	Ajax	13
	Bryan Linssen	Feyenoord
10	Cody Gakpo	PSV Eindhoven	12
	Luis Sinisterra	Feyenoord
	Zian Flemming	Fortuna Sittard

Hat-tricks

Rnd	Player	Club	Goals	Date	Home	Score	Away
11	Bart Ramselaar	FC Utrecht	10', 25', 67'	31 October 2021	FC Utrecht	5–1	Willem II
22	Sébastien Haller	Ajax	53', 85', 88'	13 February 2022	Ajax	5–0	FC Twente

Top assists

As of 14 May 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Dušan Tadić	Ajax	19
2	Cody Gakpo	PSV	13
	Jesper Karlsson	AZ
4	Steven Berghuis	Ajax	11
	Joey Veerman	PSV
6	Owen Wijndal	AZ	10
7	Orkun Kökçü	Feyenoord	9
8	Issa Kallon	SC Cambuur	8
	Ricky van Wolfswinkel	FC Twente
	Bryan Linssen	Feyenoord

Clean sheets

As of 14 May 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Remko Pasveer	Ajax	17
2	Lars Unnerstall	FC Twente	12
3	Mattijs Branderhorst	N.E.C.	10
4	Justin Bijlow	Feyenoord	9
5	Yanick van Osch	Fortuna Sittard	8
6	Joël Drommel	PSV	7
7	Maduka Okoye	Sparta Rotterdam	6
	Timon Wellenreuther	Willem II
	Kostas Lamprou	PEC Zwolle
10	Maarten Stekelenburg	Ajax	5
	Maarten Paes	FC Utrecht
	Warner Hahn	Go Ahead Eagles
	Erwin Mulder	SC Heerenveen
	Markus Schubert	Vitesse
	Janis Blaswich	Heracles Almelo
	Etienne Vaessen	RKC Waalwijk

Discipline

As of 14 May 2022

Player

• Most yellow cards: 10
  • Mark van der Maarel (FC Utrecht)
  • Adam Maher (FC Utrecht)
  • Matúš Bero (Vitesse)
• Most red cards: 2
  • Mike te Wierik (FC Groningen)
  • Joris Kramer (Go Ahead Eagles)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 62
  • Fortuna Sittard
  • Vitesse
• Most red cards: 6
  • Willem II
  • Vitesse

External links

• Official website (Dutch)