The 2018–19 Eredivisie was the 63rd season of the
Eredivisie
The Eredivisie (; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is a professional association football league in the Netherlands and the highest level of the Dutch football league system. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start o ...
since its establishment in 1955. The season began on 10 August 2018 and concluded on 15 May 2019; the Europa League and relegation play-offs will take place later that month.
PSV were the defending champions.
Emmen,
De Graafschap and
Fortuna Sittard joined as the promoted clubs from the
2017–18 Eerste Divisie. They replaced
Sparta Rotterdam,
Twente and
Roda JC who were relegated to the
2018–19 Eerste Divisie
The 2018–19 Eerste Divisie, known as Keuken Kampioen Divisie for sponsorship reasons, was the sixty-third season of Eerste Divisie since its establishment in 1955. It began in August 2018 and ended in May 2019 with the returns of the finals of t ...
.
Teams
A total of 18 teams took part in the league: The best fifteen teams from the
2017–18 season, two promotion/relegation playoff winners (
FC Emmen and
De Graafschap) and the
2017–18 Eerste Divisie runners-up (
Fortuna Sittard).
FC Emmen will play in the
Eredivisie
The Eredivisie (; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is a professional association football league in the Netherlands and the highest level of the Dutch football league system. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start o ...
for the first time in their history.
Stadiums and locations
Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA
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eligibility rules. Players and managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Managerial changes
Standings
Results
Season statistics
Top scorers
Source: nos.nl
Hat-tricks
Assists
Source: nos.nl
Discipline
Player with the most yellow cards: 11
*
Tom Beugelsdijk (ADO Den Haag)
Players with the most red cards: 2
*
José Rodríguez (Fortuna Sittard)
*
Morten Thorsby (SC Heerenveen)
*
Urby Emanuelson (FC Utrecht)
*
Fabian Serrarens (De Graafschap)
*
Jesper Drost (Heracles Almelo)
*
Maikel van der Werff (Vitesse)
*
Mounir El Allouchi (NAC Breda)
*
Danilho Doekhi (Vitesse)
Updated to match(es) played on 8 April 2019.
Awards
Monthly awards
Annual awards
Play-offs
European competition
Four teams played for a spot in the
2019–20 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round.
Key: * = Play-off winners, (a) = Wins because of
away goals rule
The away goals rule is a method of tiebreaking in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. Under the away goals rule, if the total goals scored by each team are equal, the team that ...
, (e) = Wins after
extra time
Overtime (OT) or extra time (ET) is an additional period of play to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played only if the game is required t ...
in second leg, (p) = Wins after
penalty shoot-out
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...
.
Promotion/relegation play-offs
Ten teams, two from the Eredivisie and eight from the Eerste Divisie, played for two spots in the 2019–20 Eredivisie, the remaining eight teams playing in the 2019–20 Eerste Divisie
The 2019–20 Eerste Divisie, known as Keuken Kampioen Divisie for sponsorship reasons, was the sixty-fourth season of Eerste Divisie since its establishment in 1955. It began in August 2019 with the first matches of the season and was scheduled t ...
.
Key: * = Play-off winners, (a) = Wins because of away goals rule
The away goals rule is a method of tiebreaking in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. Under the away goals rule, if the total goals scored by each team are equal, the team that ...
, (e) = Wins after extra time
Overtime (OT) or extra time (ET) is an additional period of play to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played only if the game is required t ...
in second leg, (p) = Wins after penalty shoot-out
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...
.
Attendances
References
External links
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