2023-24 Dutch Football Season thread
 

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)

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)

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)

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

WHEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

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


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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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