2023-24 Dutch Football Season thread

[Nicky91]

Ajax - Maurice Steijn
Almere City - Alex Pastoor
AZ - Pascal Jansen
Excelsior - Marinus Dijkhuizen
Feyenoord - Arne Slot
Fortuna Sittard - Danny Buijs
Go Ahead Eagles - Rene Hake
SC Heerenveen - Kees van Wonderen
Heracles Almelo - John Lammers
NEC - Rogier Meijer
PEC Zwolle - Johnny Jansen
PSV - Peter Bosz
RKC Waalwijk - Henk Fraser
Sparta Rotterdam - Jeroen Rijsdijk
FC Twente - Joseph Oosting
FC Utrecht - Ron Jans
Vitesse - Philipp Cocu
FC Volendam - Matthias Kohler (GER)

[Nicky91]

yes both Ajax and PSV in deep crisis, uncertainty who their new coaches will be


Fortuna Sittard is going for a all new coaching staff after Velazquez and his spanish assistents have left on mutual consent, no problems there, just they need someone calmer again, and also to rethink transfer strategies, since Burak Yilmaz was too big for this club, am happy he has left too somehow, no place for ego's here




in terms of play off winner, obviously hoping for NAC (another brabants team) but a debut of Almere City could also be fun maybe :love: (they were first called FC Omniworld but that is a theme park so they couldn't use that name anymore, also they aren't related to City Football Group)

[Nicky91]

promotion ticket is between

Almere City and FC Emmen (so either Almere will promote to eredivisie for first time ever or Emmen will stay in eredivisie)

[Nicky91]

whew Almere City, first match at home vs Emmen won with 2-0


now Emmen must score twice to pull off some extra time


very exciting this play off final

[Nicky91]

WHEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Almere City in the eredivisie :o :o :o :o :o :o :o


beating Emmen at home 2-0 and away 1-2

[Nicky91]

Maurice Steijn is the new manager of Ajax


Sparta will now look for a replacement, rumoured is that they are in talks with USA national team coach Gregg Berhalter

[Nicky91]

teams for 2023-24 Keukenkampioen divisie

ADO Den Haag - Darije Kalezic (BOS)

SC Cambuur - Sjors Ultee

FC Den Bosch - Tomasz Kaczmarek (POL)

FC Dordrecht - Michele Santoni (ITA)

FC Eindhoven - Willem Weijs

FC Emmen - Fred Grim

De Graafschap - Jan Vreman

FC Groningen - Dick Lukkien

Helmond Sport - Bob Peeters (BEL)

Jong Ajax - Dave Vos

Jong AZ - Jan Sierksma

Jong PSV - Wil Boessen

Jong FC Utrecht - Ivar van Dinteren

MVV Maastricht - Maurice Verberne

NAC Breda - Peter Hyballa (GER)

Roda JC - Bas Sibum

Telstar - Mike Snoei

TOP Oss - Ruud Brood

VVV Venlo - Rick Kruys

Willem II - vacant
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dutch second division (no promotion to first division although if teams here are interested in replacing one of the ''Jong'' teams and have the funds to participate in the professional first division they are allowed to)

ACV

ADO'20

AFC

Excelsior Maassluis

HHC Hardenberg

Koninklijke HFC

Jong Almere City

Jong Sparta

VV Katwijk

Kozakken Boys

FC Lisse

VV Noordwijk

Quick Boys

Rijnburgse Boys

SVV Scheveningen

SV Spakenburg

De Treffers

[Nicky91]

the jong teams are just there to make up the numbers and a chance for those teams their b teams the players to make more competitive minutes

after bankruptcies of AGOVV Apeldoorn (whom currently exist today in a amateur form) RBC Roosendaal (also continuing in a amateur form) BV Veendam (no longer exist at all) as well as Haarlem (whom are now a amateur team, the Koninklijke HFC though their second city team are in second division as a semi-pro team for now)

[Nicky91]

Matthias Kohler is the new manager of FC Volendam, he replaces Wim Jonk whom got promotion into the role of sports director


Kohler formerly was head coach of AS Trencin, FC Basel, Ajax Cape Town, Ajax Under 17, German National Team (Under 19)

last season at Volendam he already was the assistent of Jonk

[Nicky91]

more speculation regarding who'll be the new Sparta manager

- Gregg Berhalter
- John Heitinga
- Sarina Wiegman (surprisingly is also named in the media, the former Dutch women's and current England women's manager)

[Nicky91]

Ruud Brood is the new manager of TOP/Oss, he replaces Klaas Wels who resigned last week


Brood was without a club since February 2022 after he got sacked at ADO Den Haag, he earlier was also the manager of Helmond Sport, Heracles Almelo, RKC Waalwijk, Roda JC, NEC Nijmegen, NAC Breda and he was assistent coach of Philipp Cocu at PSV for 3 years

[Nicky91]

Jan Vreman returns to De Graafschap as manager, he replaces Adrie Poldervaart whom has been very ill for quite some time


Vreman is a club icon for the team from Doetinchem, as a player he played 375 games for them, and already was manager from 2014 to 2016 for them, as well as twice as interim manager

[Nicky91]

not Ado den haag but FC Eindhoven is the new club for Willem Weijs, the 36 yr old worked earlier as a youth coach for PSV, Ajax, NAC Breda and was assistent manager of Willem II, Anderlecht, Lommel


so ADO have to keep searching for their new coach

[Nicky91]

Sparta finally has a new manager

Jeroen Rijsdijk is the replacement of Maurice Steijn (who signed with Ajax)


Rijsdijk gets help from former moroccan international Nourdin Boukhari and experienced coach Foeke Booy as his assistent coaches


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Fortuna Sittard has signed Adrie Poldervaart as assistent manager for Danny Buijs, Poldervaart and Buijs have worked together for a long time at FC Groningen, Poldervaart resigned at De Graafschap last season after having coped with a rare muscle illness, he has since recovered and going to slowly more and more work on a full time basis in Sittard

[Nicky91]

am excited for the new season


Fortuna Sittard #SamenNaoVeure


finally got rid of lacklustre, unmotivated Cox, now only he says he hasn't been motivated enough for the last 2 years :facepalm:



so much talent what we got now :flutter:


lots of croatians too

Ivor Pandur, Stipe Radic, Kristijan Bistrovic, Alen Halilovic :love:


few rising talents, portuguese Umaro Embalo, right winger

spanish Inigo Cordoba, left winger

some german youth internationals Arianit Ferati, Sadik Fofana


belgian talented forward Milan Robberechts

algerian talented forward Mouhamed Belkheir


great dutch stand in goalie Luuk Koopmans


dutch field players we got are: Mitchell Dijks, Paul Gladon, Deroy Duarte, Oguzhan Ozyakub


the Greek Beast in central defence: Dimitrios Siovas :worship:

and our brazilian-german strong powerhouse in defence Rodrigo Guth


our captain with bags of experience in europe, portuguese Ivo Pinto (ex Porto, Dinamo Zagreb)

[Nicky91]

eredivisie starts tonight

FC Volendam vs Vitesse 1-2


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Saturday

PSV vs FC Utrecht 2-0

SC Heerenveen vs RKC Waalwijk 3-1

Ajax vs Heracles Almelo 4-1

PEC Zwolle vs Sparta Rotterdam 1-2


Sunday

NEC Nijmegen vs Excelsior 3-4

Feyenoord vs Fortuna Sittard 0-0

AZ Alkmaar vs Go Ahead Eagles 5-1

Almere City vs FC Twente 1-4

[Nicky91]

am happy with our 0-0 draw, was a enjoyable match overall, the VAR made the right decisions for once too in our favor :love:


and a great save by our goalie Pandur in the final few minutes of extra time :clap1:



next weekends fixtures

Friday

Heracles Almelo - NEC

Saturday

Excelsior - Ajax

Vitesse - PSV

Fortuna Sittard - Almere City

Go Ahead Eagles - FC Volendam

Sunday

FC Utrecht - SC Heerenveen

Sparta - Feyenoord

FC Twente - PEC Zwolle

RKC - AZ

[Nicky91]

my teams vs Almere and Zwolle then, both home games too


from both i expect loads of offensive style of play now


Fortuna were super solid defensive wise vs Feyenoord away in Kuip, could've tried taking more risks against 10 man however playing it safe is also sometimes better when ur not a fave in a game like that so good choice in the end, super save Pandur as well as amazing moments from Siovas, Guth and Pinto :D

Twente keep on being super consistent under Oosting, proves to be a good choice as new manager, and we have some diamonds again in Manny Ugalde, Sem Steijn, Michel Vlap, the brothers Rots (Daan & Mats) and Ricky van Wolfswinkel as well as a supersolid goalie in Unnerstall

[Nicky91]

woop woop

get in

2-1 win over Almere

:cheer:


with stunning style of play to go with it :clap1:


once again 3 super saves from Pandur :worship: whom won us those 3 points, could've easily been a loss with a weaker goalie



first goal of newbie Rosier, superb match from him


also great match from Vita, Halilovic, Gladon, Noslin, Guth

[Crimson Dynamo]

my teams vs Almere and Zwolle

:facepalm:

[Nicky91]

my teams vs Almere and Zwolle

:facepalm:

yes

Fortuna Sittard, small budget, managing to buy decent talents who have potential for nice careers

especially our goalie Pandur, i wish him a great career, hopefully also some appearances in croatia national team, although beating Livakovic is difficult :laugh:


Rodrigo Guth also a good brazilian-german defender talent, loves to push forward with the ball, while Siovas using all of his strengths to prevent opponents from getting into any free spaces, as well as both having such advantages at corners, due to their tall height, same with Pandur also good at defending corners in easily grabbing the ball by jumping over the opponents forwards



as for Twente

Manfred Ugalde, Sem Steijn, Michel Vlap, Lars Unnerstall are their powerhouses

am following their european journey too, now thursday vs turkish giants Fenerbahce, first match in Istanbul

[Nicky91]

not many matches this weekend, most teams who are active in europe, get rest before their returns


my team Fortuna Sittard does play though, on saturday away vs Excelsior on 21:00 CET (20:00 UK Time)



and next match of ours is against Ajax at home

[Nicky91]

most who play european cup football have a day off this weekend


but others do play though

today we have

NEC - RKC Waalwijk

Excelsior - Fortuna Sittard

and tomorrow we have

PEC Zwolle - FC Utrecht

Feyenoord - Almere City

SC Heerenveen - Sparta

[Nicky91]

2-2 draw

missed opportunity to take the 1st position for a day of ours


but am happy with this point still, good start of ours



great equalizer of Belkheir's first goal in his debut match! long distance shot and Van Gassel (excelsior goalie) was sleeping or something :joker:

[Nicky91]

FC Utrecht have sacked their coach Michael Silberbauer after 3 losses without scoring any goals

[Nicky91]

Come On Ajax, Come On Ajax

:cheer:


Borna Sosa is a literal wet dream :drool:

[Alf]

How are Fortuna Sittard doing? They're my Dutch boys.

[Alf]

Come On Ajax, Come On Ajax

:cheer:


Borna Sosa is a literal wet dream :drool:Nicky, you hate Ajax. Your team is PSV Eindhoven.

[Nicky91]

How are Fortuna Sittard doing? They're my Dutch boys.

this weekend at home vs Ajax


still unbeaten so far, 1 win, 2 draws = 5 points


5 more than last year in first 4 games, when they had 0 points and had to sack Ultee in favor of Velazquez

[Nicky91]

https://sportnieuws.nl/app/uploads/2023/09/GettyImages-1613156208-756x422.jpg

Hottie Borna Sosa, new signing of Ajax


:love: :love: Forza Hrvatska

[Alf]

this weekend at home vs Ajax


still unbeaten so far, 1 win, 2 draws = 5 points


5 more than last year in first 4 games, when they had 0 points and had to sack Ultee in favor of VelazquezOn the way back to European competition. Let's hope Everton can follow in their footsteps. Although the Everton players need a red hot poker up their back sides at the moment.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Nicky, you hate Ajax. Your team is PSV Eindhoven.

he changes his team every week



he supports noone

[Nicky91]

0-0 draw vs the almighty ajax



:clap1: :clap1: another point won, instead of empty hands



Halilovic the Messi of the Balkans :worship: toying with ajax, pure entertainment

[Nicky91]

he changes his team every week



he supports noone

i support Fortuna Sittard


but not exactly any top team, its the more fun and added excitement of supporting a lower ranked team


and PSV is growing on me though, under new coach Peter Bosz, i like him, he ain't arrogant at all, his press conferences are so much fun too



PSV - Fortuna will be our first real test, two very good teams who want no ego's but teamplay tactics

[Nicky91]

our next match is 16th September home vs Volendam

[Crimson Dynamo]

i support Fortuna Sittard


but not exactly any top team, its the more fun and added excitement of supporting a lower ranked team


and PSV is growing on me though, under new coach Peter Bosz, i like him, he ain't arrogant at all, his press conferences are so much fun too



PSV - Fortuna will be our first real test, two very good teams who want no ego's but teamplay tactics

glory hunting is not a good look

:skull:

[Nicky91]

Fortuna Sittard barely losing 0-1 to Fortuna Dusseldorf, in a friendly

doesn't matter about results in friendlies, more important you gain experience in those



and it was a B team anyway


also the debut of newbie Siemen Voet



Marko Lazetic might have his work permit now but he had international duties with Serbia Under 21


Deroy Duarte was also away to Cape Verde national team, as well as Nathan Markelo to the Curacao national team

[Nicky91]

4q0ct_BS_BQ

look at this


Messi of the Balkans action :worship: still cannot believe we signed him up for free


also that panna at Avila :laugh:

[Nicky91]

yesterdays games in the KKD

Telstar - VVV Venlo 1-2

SC Cambuur - FC Den Bosch 3-1

NAC Breda - Roda JC 1-3




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match fixtures next weekend eredivisie

Saturday 16th September

Feyenoord - SC Heerenveen

Vitesse - RKC

PSV - NEC

Fortuna Sittard - FC Volendam

Heracles Almelo - FC Utrecht

Sunday 17th September

PEC Zwolle - Go Ahead Eagles

FC Twente - Ajax

Excelsior - Almere City

AZ - Sparta

[Nicky91]

the secret behind Fortuna's current unbeaten streak under new coach Danny Buijs is

the players have to hand in their mobile phones before training days and before match days, so they have their 100% focus on performing well as a team, creating a good unity is also important in team sports


am hopeful for this weekend, Volendam are in the **** at the moment, 3 losses, and their transfers well, they lost their creative man Eiting and his replacement is still ineligible Luke Le Roux whom doesn't have his visa yet


Fortuna have a complete squad now, with also Voet and Lazetic joined the team, Lazetic took quite a lot of days to get his working visa and yet to make first minutes too with the team, as he was away last week with Serbia U21

[Nicky91]

i am nervous for tonight but hopeful because Volendam are in the **** currently


and we have a full squad to choose from so



come on Croatian Messi :cheer:

[Nicky91]

WOOO HOOOOOOOO Get IN

our second win of the season

0-1 behind at half time but we turned things back around, 3-1


1-1 by Ozyakub (assist from Halilovic)
2-1 by Noslin (assist from Cordoba)
3-1 by Halilovic (assist from Belkheir)

[Nicky91]

we also had the debut of Marko Lazetic, last couple of minutes of the game, even got one tiny chance, after a nice assist from Cordoba, but he got stuck between 3 defenders so had to neatly pass back to Cordoba

[Nicky91]

first loss of the season

3-0 away vs Go Ahead Eagles


:sad:

they really gave us no chance whatsoever, what are the Eagles so good at home




Rodrigo Guth most of second half as captain too, Pinto got subbed in favor of more forwards

[Nicky91]

Fortuna played a friendly game vs EVV yesterday

mainly a B team, just to give most reserves and youth players some playing time, important to remain in 100% good condition

score was 3-0


1-0 Ozyakub
2-0 Lazetic (his first goal for us)
3-0 Belkheir

[Nicky91]

Fortuna lost 4-0 away vs AZ, i just knew it, accepted it already

next weekend new round, new chances

still 9th anyway, can't complain


AZ are also among my fave teams so, i wish them well either


next weekend at home vs FC Twente (my 3rd fave team, i actually like their new coach a lot, Joseph Oosting, one of our great new manager talents and Manfred Ugalde up front is literal FIRE, same as Sem Steijn, powerhouse of long distance shot specialty what he got)


PSV only unbeaten team in entire europe :worship:

[Nicky91]

now this weekend vs FC Twente, and i won't allow Fortuna to win any points against the Tukker Dads :nono:

so ref and var do your job right

[Nicky91]

alright updating this now

PSV and Peter Bosz are absolutely dominating this season


Ajax are flopping big time :joker:


1. PSV 81pts
2. Feyenoord 72pts
3. FC Twente 60pts
4. AZ Alkmaar 55pts
5. Ajax 48pts
6. NEC 47pts
7. FC Utrecht 45pts
8. Go Ahead Eagles 42pts
9. Sparta Rotterdam 40pts
10. SC Heerenveen 36pts
11. Fortuna Sittard 35pts
12. Almere City 33pts
13. PEC Zwolle 32pts
14. Heracles Almelo 32pts
15. Excelsior 25pts
16. RKC Waalwijk 24pts
17. FC Volendam 19pts
18. Vitesse 16pts


yes likely Vitesse, Volendam directly relegating, will be exciting to see if RKC can avoid relegation playoffs at the cost of excelsior though :think:



am pleased with Fortuna's mid table position, we already have 2 points more than last season that's something i guess, and we don't play the least exciting football either, am pleased with the coach duo Buijs/Poldervaart


Twente performing amazingly well under Joseph Oosting :clap1: would be nice to see them win that ticket for CL quali's


would be lols if Ajax won't play european cup next season at all so come on NEC :cheer:



Almere City not a bad debut season on top level i think :laugh:

[Nicky91]

with PSV already some gossip for next season


will Sergino Dest permanently sign a contract in eindhoven, what will Malik Tillman do when his loan spell ends and returning to Bayern Munich?


apparently Dest would want to stay, if Peter Bosz also stays as the coach


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Almere City coach Alex Pastoor is leaving at the end of this season, candidates who might replace him are Sipke Hulshoff (Feyenoord assistent coach) or Rick Kruys


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Joseph Oosting was linked to becoming the new manager for Ajax but he replied like ''i only focus on my work at FC Twente''


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tbh PSV are quite a dream team combo of Marcel Brands, Peter Bosz, Earnest Stewart

[Nicky91]

final standings

1. PSV (CL group stage)
2. Feyenoord (CL group stage)
3. FC Twente (CL play off round)
4. AZ (EL group stage)
5. Ajax (EL play off round)
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6. NEC (ECL ticket play offs)
7. FC Utrecht (ECL ticket play offs)
8. Sparta (ECL ticket play offs)
9. Go Ahead Eagles (ECL ticket play offs)
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10. Fortuna Sittard
11. SC Heerenveen
12. PEC Zwolle
13. Almere City
14. Heracles Almelo
15. RKC Waalwijk
16. Excelsior (play off promotion/relegation)
17. FC Volendam (relegated)
18. Vitesse (relegated)


first two promoted teams for next season are

Willem II
FC Groningen