Competition: | Eredivisie |
Season: | 2017–18 |
Winners: | PSV (24th title) |
Relegated: | Twente Sparta Rotterdam Roda JC |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | PSV Ajax |
Continentalcup2: | Europa League |
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | AZ Feyenoord Vitesse |
Biggest Home Win: | (14 April 2018) |
Biggest Away Win: | (18 November 2017) |
Highest Scoring: | (24 September 2017) (18 November 2017) |
Matches: | 306 |
Total Goals: | 960 |
Longest Wins: | 10 matches[1] PSV |
Longest Unbeaten: | 14 matches Ajax |
Longest Winless: | 15 matches Twente |
Longest Losses: | 8 matches Sparta |
League Topscorer: | Alireza Jahanbakhsh (21 goals)[2] |
Highest Attendance: | 53,320[3] (21 January 2018) |
Lowest Attendance: | 3,704 (30 September 2017) |
Attendance: | 5,818,306 |
Average Attendance: | 19,014 |
Prevseason: | 2016–17 |
Nextseason: | 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 took place later that month. Feyenoord were the defending champions from the previous season.[4] On 15 April 2018, PSV became champions for the 24th time after defeating their closest rival Ajax 3–0 at the Philips Stadion.[5]
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).
Club | Location | Venue | Capacity | |
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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 |
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 | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced by | Date of appointment | |
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End of contract | 1 July 2017[6] | Pre-season | 1 July 2017[7] | ||||
End of interim spell | 1 July 2017[8] | 1 July 2017[9] | |||||
1 July 2017[10] | 1 July 2017 | ||||||
Sacked | 18 October 2017 [11] | 15th | 30 October 2017[12] | ||||
Sacked | 17 December 2017 [13] | 17th | 25 December 2017[14] | ||||
Sacked | 21 December 2017[15] | 2nd | 1 January 2018 | ||||
1 January 2018[16] | 6th | 4 January 2018 | |||||
Resigned | 8 March 2018[17] | 15th | Reinier Robbemond (caretaker) | 8 March 2018[18] | |||
Sacked | 26 March 2018[19] | 18th | Marino Pusic | 26 March 2018 | |||
Sacked | 11 April 2018[20] | 7th | Edward Sturing | 11 April 2018 |
Rank | Player | Club | Games | Goals | Penalties | Average |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alireza Jahanbakhsh | AZ | 33 | 21 | 4 | |
2 | Bjørn Maars Johnsen | ADO Den Haag | 34 | 19 | 0 | |
3 | Steven Berghuis | Feyenoord | 31 | 18 | 0 | |
Wout Weghorst | AZ | 31 | 2 | |||
5 | Hirving Lozano | PSV Eindhoven | 29 | 17 | 0 | |
6 | Fran Sol | Willem II | 32 | 16 | 2 | |
7 | Bryan Linssen | Vitesse | 33 | 15 | 0 | |
8 | Marco van Ginkel | PSV Eindhoven | 28 | 14 | 9 | |
Tim Matavž | Vitesse | 30 | 2 | |||
David Neres | Ajax | 32 | 0 |
Round | 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 |
Rank | Player | Club | Games | Assists | Average |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hakim Ziyech | Ajax | 34 | 15 | |
2 | Brandley Kuwas | Heracles Almelo | 30 | 13 | |
3 | Steven Berghuis | Feyenoord | 31 | 12 | |
David Neres | Ajax | 32 | |||
Alireza Jahanbakhsh | AZ | 33 | |||
6 | Abdenasser El Khayati | ADO Den Haag | 32 | 11 | |
7 | Jens Toornstra | Feyenoord | 32 | 10 | |
8 | Hirving Lozano | PSV Eindhoven | 29 | 9 | |
9 | Zakaria Labyad | Utrecht | 29 | 8 | |
Mason Mount | Vitesse | 29 | |||
Steven Bergwijn | PSV Eindhoven | 32 |
Month | Player of the Month | Talent of the Month | Reference | |||
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Player | Club | Player | Club | |||
August | Hirving Lozano | PSV | Denzel Dumfries | Heerenveen | [22] [23] | |
September | Steven Berghuis | Feyenoord | Angeliño | NAC Breda | [24] [25] | |
October | Gastón Pereiro | PSV | David Neres | Ajax | [26] [27] [28] | |
November | Zakaria Labyad | Utrecht | Donny van de Beek | Ajax | [29] [30] [31] | |
December | Steven Berghuis | Feyenoord | Angeliño | NAC Breda | [32] [33] [34] | |
January | Jonas Svensson | AZ | Mason Mount | Vitesse | [35] [36] | |
February | Steven Bergwijn | PSV | Angeliño | NAC Breda | [37] [38] | |
March | Santiago Arias | PSV | Kostas Tsimikas | Willem II | [39] | |
April | David Neres | Ajax | Angeliño | NAC Breda | [40] [41] |
Four teams will play for a spot in the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round.Key: * = Play-off winners, (a) = Wins because of away goals rule, (e) = Wins after extra time in second leg, (p) = Wins after penalty shoot-out.
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.Key: * = Play-off winners, (a) = Wins because of away goals rule, (e) = Wins after extra time in second leg, (p) = Wins after penalty shoot-out.