2022–23 Eredivisie

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Eredivisie 2022–23
Season information
Dates	5 August 2022–28 May 2023
Winners	Feyenoord (16th title)
Relegated	Groningen Cambuur Emmen
Domestic cup winners
KNVB Cup
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Feyenoord PSV Eindhoven
Europa League	Ajax
Europa Conference League	AZ FC Twente
Season statistics
Matches played	261
Goals scored	788
Average	(3.02 per match)
Top goalscorer	Anastasios Douvikas Xavi Simons (19 goals each)
Biggest home win	PSV Eindhoven 7–1 Volendam (31 August 2022) Ajax 7–1 Excelsior (16 October 2022) PSV Eindhoven 6–0 Groningen (11 February 2023) Vitesse 6–0 Groningen (21 May 2023)
Biggest away win	Excelsior 1–6 PSV Eindhoven (28 August 2022) Cambuur 0–5 Ajax (5 February 2023) RKC 0–5 Twente (21 May 2023) Groningen 0–5 Sparta Rotterdam (28 May 2023)
Highest scoring	AZ 5–5 Utrecht (28 January 2023)
← 2021–22	2023–24 →

The 2022–23 Eredivisie was the 67th season of Eredivisie, the premier football competition in the Netherlands. It began on 5 August 2022 and will conclude on 28 May 2023. As the 2022 FIFA World Cup will start on 21 November, the last round before stoppage will be held on 12–13 November. The league will resume games on 6 January.

Teams

FC Emmen (promoted after a one-year absence), FC Volendam (promoted after a thirteen-year absence) and Excelsior (promoted after a three-year absence) were promoted from the 2021–22 Eerste Divisie. PEC Zwolle (relegated after ten years in the top flight), Willem II (relegated after eight years in the top flight) and Heracles Almelo (relegated after seventeen years in the top flight) have been relegated to the 2022–23 Eerste Divisie.

Stadiums and locations

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity	2021–22 position
Ajax	Amsterdam	Johan Cruijff ArenA	55,500	01 !1st
AZ	Alkmaar	AFAS Stadion	19,478	05 !5th
SC Cambuur	Leeuwarden	Cambuur Stadion	10,500	09 !9th
FC Emmen	Emmen	De Oude Meerdijk	8,600	16 !1D, 1st
Excelsior	Rotterdam	Van Donge & De Roo Stadion	4,500	18 !1D, 6th (Play-off winner)
Feyenoord	Rotterdam	De Kuip	47,500	03 !3rd
Fortuna Sittard	Sittard	Fortuna Sittard Stadion	10,300	15 !15th
Go Ahead Eagles	Deventer	De Adelaarshorst	10,000	13 !13th
FC Groningen	Groningen	Euroborg	22,550	12 !12th
SC Heerenveen	Heerenveen	Abe Lenstra Stadion	27,224	8 !8th
NEC	Nijmegen	Goffertstadion	12,500	11 !11th
PSV	Eindhoven	Philips Stadion	36,500	2 !2nd
RKC Waalwijk	Waalwijk	Mandemakers Stadion	7,500	10 !10th
Sparta Rotterdam	Rotterdam	Spartastadion Het Kasteel	11,000	14 !14th
FC Twente	Enschede	De Grolsch Veste	30,205	4 !4th
FC Utrecht	Utrecht	Stadion Galgenwaard	23,750	7 !7th
Vitesse	Arnhem	GelreDome	21,248	6 !6th
FC Volendam	Volendam	Kras Stadion	7,384	17 !1D, 2nd

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 (chest)
Ajax	Alfred Schreuder	Dušan Tadić	Adidas	Ziggo
AZ	Pascal Jansen	Bruno Martins Indi	Nike	AFAS Software
SC Cambuur	Henk de Jong	Roberts Uldrikis	Craft	Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma
FC Emmen	Dick Lukkien	Jeroen Veldmate	Hummel	EasyToys
Excelsior	Marinus Dijkhuizen	Redouan El Yaakoubi	Quick	DSW Zorgverzekeraar
Feyenoord	Arne Slot	Jens Toornstra	Adidas	EuroParcs
Fortuna Sittard	TBC	Mats Seuntjens	Masita	Hurkmans Groep
Go Ahead Eagles	René Hake	Bas Kuipers	Stanno	Jumper De diersuper
FC Groningen	Frank Wormuth	Joey Pelupessy	Robey	Office Centre
SC Heerenveen	Kees van Wonderen	Sven van Beek	Macron	Ausnutria
NEC Nijmegen	Rogier Meijer	Lasse Schöne	Legea	KlokGroep
PSV	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Luuk de Jong	Puma	Metropoolregio Brainport Eindhoven
RKC Waalwijk	Joseph Oosting	Michiel Kramer	Stanno	Willy Naessens
Sparta Rotterdam	Maurice Steijn	Adil Auassar	Robey	D&S Groep
FC Twente	Ron Jans	Wout Brama	Meyba	Pure Energie
FC Utrecht	Henk Fraser	Nick Viergever	Nike	T-Mobile
Vitesse	Thomas Letsch	Matúš Bero	Nike	eToro
FC Volendam	Wim Jonk	Damon Mirani	Robey	HSB

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Ajax	Erik ten Hag	Signed by Manchester United	30 June 2022	Pre-season	Alfred Schreuder	1 July 2022
Go Ahead Eagles	Kees van Wonderen	Signed by SC Heerenveen			René Hake
FC Groningen	Danny Buijs	End of contract			Frank Wormuth
SC Heerenveen	Ole Tobiasen	End of interim spell			Kees van Wonderen
PSV	Roger Schmidt	End of contract			Ruud van Nistelrooy
FC Utrecht	Rick Kruys	End of interim spell			Henk Fraser
Fortuna Sittard	Sjors Ultee	Sacked	22 August 2022	17th	TBC

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Feyenoord (C)	34	25	7	2	81	30	+51	82	Qualification for Champions League group stage
2	PSV	34	23	6	5	89	40	+49	75	Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round
3	Ajax	34	20	9	5	86	38	+48	69	Qualification to Europa League play-off round
4	AZ	34	20	7	7	68	35	+33	67	Qualification for Europa Conference League third qualifying round
5	Twente (O)	34	18	10	6	66	27	+39	64	Qualification for European competition play-offs
6	Sparta Rotterdam	34	17	8	9	60	37	+23	59
7	Utrecht	34	15	9	10	55	50	+5	54
8	Heerenveen	34	12	10	12	44	50	−6	46
9	RKC Waalwijk	34	11	8	15	50	64	−14	41
10	Vitesse	34	10	10	14	45	50	−5	40
11	Go Ahead Eagles	34	10	10	14	46	56	−10	40
12	NEC	34	8	15	11	42	45	−3	39
13	Fortuna Sittard	34	10	6	18	39	62	−23	36
14	Volendam	34	10	6	18	42	71	−29	36
15	Excelsior	34	9	5	20	32	71	−39	32
16	Emmen (R)	34	6	10	18	33	65	−32	28	Qualification for Relegation play-offs
17	Cambuur (R)	34	5	4	25	26	69	−43	19	Relegation to Eerste Divisie
18	Groningen (R)	34	4	6	24	31	75	−44	18

Source: Eredivisie
Rules for classification: Season in progress: 1) Most points won; 2) Less points lost; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Alphabetical order; End of season: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Play-off if relevant for deciding champion, relegation or participating in a European league, otherwise by draw. 8) Penalty shoot-out (only after a play-off)
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off Winner; (R) Relegated

Results

Fixtures and results

Home \ Away	AJA	AZ	CAM	EMM	EXC	FEY	FOR	GAE	GRO	HEE	NEC	PSV	RKC	SPA	TWE	UTR	VIT	VOL
Ajax		0–0	4–0	3–1	7–1	2–3	4–0	1–1	6–1	5–0	1–0	1–2	3–1	4–0	0–0	3–1	2–2	1–1
AZ	2–1		2–1	5–1	5–0	1–3	3–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	3–0	0–1	1–1	5–5	1–1	2–1
Cambuur	0–5	0–1		1–2	0–2	0–3	1–2	4–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	3–0	4–0	0–3	0–1	0–3	0–3	0–3
Emmen	3–3	0–3	0–0		2–0	1–3	0–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	0–3	3–2	2–2	1–1
Excelsior	1–4	2–1	4–1	2–1		0–2	3–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–3	1–6	0–0	1–4	0–0	0–1	3–1	2–0
Feyenoord	1–1	2–1	1–0	4–0	5–1		1–1	3–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–2	5–1	3–0	2–0	3–1	0–1	2–1
Fortuna Sittard	2–3	0–3	1–4	0–1	1–0	2–4		0–2	3–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–3	3–4	2–0	2–0
Go Ahead Eagles	0–0	1–4	0–0	2–0	3–1	3–4	2–0		1–1	1–1	1–0	2–5	3–2	0–1	2–0	2–2	2–2	3–0
Groningen	2–3	1–4	0–1	1–1	3–0	0–3	2–3	1–0		0–2	0–1	4–2	2–3	0–5	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–2
SC Heerenveen	2–4	0–2	2–1	2–3	0–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	3–1		0–0	0–1	1–4	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–3	2–1
NEC	1–1	0–3	0–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–3	1–1	2–3		2–4	6–1	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–4	3–0
PSV Eindhoven	3–0	0–1	5–2	4–1	4–0	4–3	2–1	2–0	6–0	3–3	3–0		1–0	0–0	3–1	6–1	1–0	7–1
RKC Waalwijk	1–4	3–1	5–1	2–0	5–2	0–1	3–1	3–1	2–1	0–0	1–3	0–1		2–2	0–5	2–2	1–0	4–1
Sparta Rotterdam	0–1	2–3	4–1	3–1	1–0	1–3	3–1	2–1	2–1	4–0	2–0	0–1	0–0		1–1	0–3	3–1	4–0
Twente	3–1	2–1	4–0	2–0	4–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	3–0	3–3	4–0	2–1	3–0	3–3		2–0	3–0	3–0
Utrecht	0–2	1–2	0–0	3–2	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–2	2–0	3–1	1–0		1–0	0–0
Vitesse	1–2	0–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–5	1–2	2–0	6–0	0–4	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–4	2–2	2–0		1–1
Volendam	2–4	1–1	2–0	3–1	3–2	0–2	2–1	2–3	3–2	1–3	1–4	2–3	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–4	2–0

Source: worldfootball.net
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Play-offs

All times Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

European competition play-offs

Bracket

	Semi-finals							Final
	5	Twente	2	4	6
	8	SC Heerenveen	1	0	1
								5	Twente	1	1	2
								6	Sparta Rotterdam	1	0	1
	6	Sparta Rotterdam (p)	2	0	2 (5)
	7	Utrecht	1	1	2 (4)

Semifinals

1 June 2023 (2023-06-01) 18:45	SC Heerenveen	1–2	Twente	Abe Lenstra Stadion Attendance: 21,360 Referee: Marc Nagtegaal
	Haye  45+1'	Report	Černý  19' Ugalde  90+3'

4 June 2023 (2023-06-04) 14:30	Twente	4–0	SC Heerenveen	De Grolsch Veste Attendance: 29,000 Referee: Pol van Boekel
	Vlap  11' Pröpper  22' Brenet  45' Misidjan  68'	Report

Twente won 6–1 on aggregate.

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1 June 2023 (2023-06-01) 21:00	Utrecht	1–2	Sparta Rotterdam	Stadion Galgenwaard Attendance: 16,841 Referee: Sander van der Eijk
	Douvikas  70'	Report	Van Crooij  29' (pen.) Lauritsen  39'

4 June 2023 (2023-06-04) 18:00	Sparta Rotterdam	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Utrecht	Het Kasteel Attendance: 10,599 Referee: Jochem Kamphuis
		Report	Viergever  80'
		Penalties
	Van Crooij Verschueren Abels Kitolano Auassar Sambo	5–4	Dost Booth Van De Streek Brouwers Bozdoğan Van der Hoorn

2–2 on aggregate. Sparta Rotterdam won 5–4 on penalties.

Final

8 June 2023 (2023-06-08) 20:00	Sparta Rotterdam	1–1	Twente	Het Kasteel Attendance: 10,349 Referee: Jeroen Manschot
	Van Crooij  47' (pen.)	Report	Zerrouki  90+3'

11 June 2023 (2023-06-11) 14:30	Twente	1–0	Sparta Rotterdam	De Grolsch Veste Attendance: 29,500 Referee: Danny Makkelie
	Brenet  53'	Report

Twente won 2–1 on aggregate.

Promotion/relegation play-offs

Bracket

	First round						Semifinals						Final
							Emmen	2	2	4
							NAC Breda	1	0	1
	MVV Maastricht	0	1	1
	NAC Breda	1	4	5
													Emmen	0	1	1
													Almere City	2	2	4
	Willem II	2	2	4
	VVV-Venlo (a.e.t.)	3	2	5
							VVV-Venlo	1	1	2
							Almere City (p)	1	1	2
	Almere City (a.e.t.)	0	3	3
	Eindhoven	1	1	2

First round

22 May 2023 (2023-05-22) 20:00	Eindhoven	1–0	Almere City	Jan Louwers Stadion Attendance: 3,518 Referee: Jannick van der Laan
	Dorenbosch  76'	Report

26 May 2023 (2023-05-26) 20:00	Almere City	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Eindhoven	Yanmar Stadion Attendance: 3,622 Referee: Marc Nagtegaal
	Hilterman  80' Limbombe  90+4' Van La Parra  109'	Report	Amevor  84' (pen.)

Almere City won 3–2 on aggregate.

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23 May 2023 (2023-05-23) 18:45	VVV-Venlo	3–2	Willem II	De Koel Attendance: 5,392 Referee: Rob Dieperink
	Braken  41', 45+3' (pen.) Venema  65'	Report	Hornkamp  13', 36'

27 May 2023 (2023-05-27) 16:30	Willem II	2–2 (a.e.t.)	VVV-Venlo	Koning Willem II Stadion Attendance: 13,326 Referee: Ingmar Oostrom
	Elton Kabangu  7' Bosch  22'	Report	Venema  74' Yasar  120+1'

VVV-Venlo won 5–4 on aggregate.

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23 May 2023 (2023-05-23) 21:00	NAC Breda	1–0	MVV Maastricht	Rat Verlegh Stadion Attendance: 14,361 Referee: Alex Bos
	Velanas  40' (pen.)	Report

27 May 2023 (2023-05-27) 20:00	MVV Maastricht	1–4	NAC Breda	De Geusselt Attendance: 8,223 Referee: Erwin Blank
	Livramento  67'	Report	Ómarsson  20' Agougil  29' Banzuzi  38' Herrmann  90+3'

NAC Breda won 5–1 on aggregate.

Semifinals

30 May 2023 (2023-05-30) 20:00	VVV-Venlo	1–1	Almere City	De Koel Attendance: 7,201 Referee: Martin van den Kerkhof
	Van Rooijen  7'	Report	Limbombe  29'

3 June 2023 (2023-06-03) 16:30	Almere City	1–1 (a.e.t.)	VVV-Venlo	Yanmar Stadion Attendance: 4,019 Referee: Edwin van de Graaf
	Duijvestijn  50'	Report	Allouch  62'
		Penalties
	Van La Parra Alhaft Duijvestijn Peña	2–0	Venema Allouch Koglin De Boer

2–2 on aggregate. Almere City won 2–0 on penalties.

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31 May 2023 (2023-05-31) 18:45	NAC Breda	1–2	Emmen	Rat Verlegh Stadion Attendance: 18,596 Referee: Joey Kooij
	Omgba  90+4'	Report	Burnet  24' Romeny  39'

3 June 2023 (2023-06-03) 20:00	Emmen	2–0	NAC Breda	De Oude Meerdijk Attendance: 8,309 Referee: Bas Nijhuis
	Živković  62' Assehnoun  90+4'	Report

Emmen won 4–1 on aggregate.

Final

6 June 2023 (2023-06-06) 20:00	Almere City	2–0	Emmen	Yanmar Stadion Attendance: 4,121 Referee: Danny Makkelie
	Duijvestijn  65' (pen.), 77'	Report

11 June 2023 (2023-06-11) 18:00	Emmen	1–2	Almere City	De Oude Meerdijk Referee: Allard Lindhout
	Vlak  58'	Report	Van La Parra  50' Smeets  53'

Almere City won 4–1 on aggregate.

External links

• Official website (Dutch)