2012–13 Eredivisie

Eredivisie
Season	2012–13
Dates	10 August 2012 – 5 May 2013
Champions	Ajax (32nd title)
Relegated	Willem II; VVV-Venlo
Champions League	Ajax; PSV
Europa League	Feyenoord; Vitesse Arnhem; AZ; Utrecht
Matches played	306
Goals scored	964 (3.15 per match)
Top goalscorer	Wilfried Bony; (31 goals)
Biggest home win	PSV 7–0 ADO Den Haag
Biggest away win	VVV 0–6 PSV
Highest scoring	Heracles Almelo 6–3 Heerenveen
Longest winning run	8 games; PSV
Longest unbeaten run	14 games; Ajax
Longest winless run	10 games; NEC
Longest losing run	6 games; VVV-Venlo
Total attendance	4,596,704
Average attendance	18,838
	← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The 2012–13 Eredivisie was the 57th season of Eredivisie, since its establishment in 1955. It began on 10 August 2012 with the first match of the season and ended on 26 May 2013, with the last matches of the European competition and relegation play-offs.^[2] This is the first time VAR has been used for testing.^[3]

Teams

Location of teams in Eredivisie 2012–13

A total of 18 teams took part in the league: The best fifteen teams from the 2011–12 season, two promotion/relegation playoff winners and the 2011–12 Eerste Divisie champions.

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity
ADO Den Haag	The Hague	Kyocera Stadion	15,000
Ajax	Amsterdam	Amsterdam Arena	52,651
AZ	Alkmaar	AFAS Stadion	17,023
Feyenoord	Rotterdam	Stadion Feijenoord	51,177
Groningen	Groningen	Euroborg	22,550
Heerenveen	Heerenveen	Abe Lenstra Stadion	26,100
Heracles	Almelo	Polman Stadion	8,500
NAC	Breda	Rat Verlegh Stadion	19,005
NEC	Nijmegen	Stadion de Goffert	12,500
PEC Zwolle^[4]	Zwolle	IJsseldelta Stadion	11,324
PSV	Eindhoven	Philips Stadion	35,000
RKC Waalwijk	Waalwijk	Mandemakers Stadion	7,508
Roda JC	Kerkrade	Parkstad Limburg Stadion	18,936
Twente	Enschede	De Grolsch Veste	30,014
Utrecht	Utrecht	Stadion Galgenwaard	23,750
Vitesse Arnhem	Arnhem	GelreDome	25,000
VVV-Venlo	Venlo	De Koel	8,000
Willem II	Tilburg	Koning Willem II Stadion	14,500

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
ADO Den Haag	Maurice Steijn	Danny Holla	Erreà	Basic-Fit Fitness
Ajax	Frank de Boer	Siem de Jong	adidas	Aegon
AZ	Gertjan Verbeek	Nick Viergever	Macron	AFAS software
Feyenoord	Ronald Koeman	Stefan de Vrij	Puma	ASR
Groningen	Robert Maaskant	Kees Kwakman	Klupp	Essent
Heerenveen	Marco van Basten	Ramon Zomer	Jako	Univé
Heracles	Peter Bosz	Kwame Quansah	Erima	TenCate
NAC	Nebojša Gudelj	Jelle ten Rouwelaar	Patrick	SunWeb
NEC	Alex Pastoor	Gábor Babos	Jako	Scholten Awater
PEC Zwolle	Art Langeler	Arne Slot	Patrick	Beaphar
PSV	Dick Advocaat	Mark van Bommel	Nike	Philips
RKC Waalwijk	Erwin Koeman	Ard van Peppen	Nike	Mandemakens Keukens
Roda JC	Ruud Brood	Sanharib Malki	Lotto	Toverland
Twente	Alfred Schreuder (caretaker)	Wout Brama	Nike	Arke
Utrecht	Jan Wouters	Nana Akwasi Asare	hummel	HealthCity
Vitesse	Fred Rutten	Guram Kashia	Nike	—
VVV-Venlo	Ton Lokhoff	Jeffrey Leiwakabessy	Masita	Seacon Logistics
Willem II	Jurgen Streppel	Hans Mulder	Macron	Pondres

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
SC Heerenveen	Ron Jans	End of contract	1 July 2012^[5]	Pre-season	Marco van Basten	1 July 2012^[6]
Roda JC Kerkrade	Harm van Veldhoven	End of contract	1 July 2012^[7]	Pre-season	Ruud Brood	1 July 2012^[8]
RKC Waalwijk	Ruud Brood	Signed by Roda JC Kerkrade	1 July 2012^[8]	Pre-season	Erwin Koeman	1 July 2012^[9]
PSV	Phillip Cocu	End of interim spell	1 July 2012^[10]	Pre-season	Dick Advocaat	1 July 2012^[11]
FC Groningen	Pieter Huistra	Sacked	10 May 2012^[12]	Pre-season	Robert Maaskant	1 July 2012^[13]
Vitesse Arnhem	John van den Brom	Signed by Anderlecht	1 July 2012^[14]	Pre-season	Fred Rutten	1 July 2012^[15]
NAC Breda	John Karelse	Sacked	23 October 2012^[16]	17th	Adri Bogers (caretaker)	23 October 2012
NAC Breda	Adri Bogers	End of caretaker spell	21 November 2012^[17]	15th	Nebojša Gudelj	21 November 2012
FC Twente	Steve McClaren	Resigned	26 February 2013^[18]	5th	Alfred Schreuder (caretaker)	26 February 2013

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ajax (C)	34	22	10	2	83	31	+52	76	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	PSV	34	22	3	9	103	43	+60	69	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Feyenoord	34	21	6	7	64	38	+26	69	Qualification to Europa League play-off round
4	Vitesse Arnhem	34	19	7	8	68	42	+26	64	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
5	Utrecht (O)	34	19	6	9	55	41	+14	63	Qualification to European competition play-offs
6	Twente	34	17	11	6	60	33	+27	62
7	Groningen	34	12	7	15	36	53	−17	43
8	Heerenveen	34	11	9	14	50	63	−13	42
9	ADO Den Haag	34	9	13	12	49	63	−14	40
10	AZ	34	10	9	15	56	54	+2	39	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round^[a]
11	PEC Zwolle	34	10	9	15	42	55	−13	39
12	Heracles Almelo	34	9	11	14	58	71	−13	38
13	NAC Breda	34	10	8	16	40	56	−16	38
14	RKC Waalwijk	34	9	10	15	39	48	−9	37
15	NEC Nijmegen	34	10	7	17	44	66	−22	37
16	Roda JC (O)	34	7	12	15	51	69	−18	33	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
17	VVV-Venlo (R)	34	6	10	18	33	62	−29	28	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
18	Willem II (R)	34	5	8	21	33	76	−43	23	Relegation to Eerste Divisie

Source: Eredivisie
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ AZ qualified for the play-off of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League after winning the 2012–13 KNVB Cup.

Results

Home \ Away	ADO	AJX	AZ	FEY	GRO	HEE	HER	NAC	NEC	PEC	PSV	RKC	RJC	TWE	UTR	VIT	VVV	WIL
ADO Den Haag		1–1	2–2	2–0	0–1	2–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–6	2–2	2–2	1–3	1–2	0–4	1–1	2–0
Ajax	1–1		2–2	3–0	2–0	1–1	4–0	5–0	4–1	3–0	3–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–2	2–0	5–0
AZ	1–1	2–3		0–2	0–1	0–0	3–1	0–1	0–2	4–0	1–3	3–3	4–0	0–3	6–0	4–1	1–2	0–0
Feyenoord	3–2	2–2	3–1		2–1	1–1	6–0	1–0	5–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	5–2	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	3–0
Groningen	2–1	0–2	1–1	2–2		3–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–3	2–1	3–2	0–3	0–2	0–3	0–0	1–1
Heerenveen	1–3	2–2	0–4	2–0	3–0		0–1	2–0	0–2	2–1	2–1	0–2	4–4	2–1	2–4	2–1	2–2	3–2
Heracles	3–3	3–3	1–2	1–2	0–2	6–3		2–1	1–0	1–1	1–5	4–0	5–1	1–1	1–1	3–5	1–1	4–1
NAC Breda	0–3	0–2	2–1	2–2	0–1	1–2	1–1		2–0	3–0	1–6	2–1	5–3	0–1	1–1	0–3	1–0	4–0
N.E.C.	1–1	1–6	1–1	0–3	2–1	1–3	3–2	1–1		1–3	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–3	2–0	2–1	1–2	0–0
PEC Zwolle	4–2	2–4	1–2	3–2	1–2	1–1	0–3	2–0	0–4		1–2	1–1	3–2	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–0	2–0
PSV Eindhoven	7–0	2–3	5–1	3–0	5–2	5–1	4–0	4–0	4–2	1–3		2–0	5–0	3–0	2–1	1–2	2–0	3–2
RKC Waalwijk	4–0	0–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–4	2–0	1–2	3–2		1–0	0–1	4–0	3–2	1–1	0–0
Roda JC	0–0	1–2	2–2	0–1	4–1	1–0	3–3	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	3–1		1–1	0–1	3–3	3–0	3–0
Twente	2–0	0–2	3–0	3–0	4–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	5–2	2–2	3–1	0–0	2–0		2–4	0–1	1–0	1–1
Utrecht	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	3–1	3–0	3–0	0–3	1–1	1–0	1–0	4–0	1–1		1–2	2–1	3–1
Vitesse Arnhem	2–2	3–2	1–2	1–0	2–0	3–3	1–1	3–0	4–1	2–1	2–2	2–2	3–0	0–0	2–0		0–1	3–1
VVV-Venlo	2–4	0–3	1–4	2–3	0–0	1–1	0–2	1–4	2–2	0–2	0–6	1–0	2–4	2–2	1–3	3–1		4–1
Willem II	1–1	2–4	2–0	1–3	1–2	3–1	2–2	1–1	2–3	0–1	1–3	1–0	2–1	2–6	1–5	0–2	1–0

Source: Eredivisie
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

European competition

The teams placed fifth through eighth competed in a play-off tournament for one spot in the second qualifying round of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League. Teams on the left played the first leg at home.

Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 16 May 2013, while the return legs were played on 19 May 2013.^[19]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Groningen	2–4	Twente	0–1	2–3
SC Heerenveen	1–3	Utrecht	0–1	1–2

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Twente	2–3	Utrecht	0–2	2–1

Relegation

Roda JC and VVV-Venlo joined the Eerste Divisie-teams for the play-offs, after finishing 16th and 17th in the Eredivisie.

Round 1

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
FC Dordrecht	3–6	Go Ahead Eagles	3–3	0–3
De Graafschap	5–2	Fortuna Sittard	2–1	3–1

Round 2

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Go Ahead Eagles	4–0	VVV-Venlo	1–0	3–0
MVV Maastricht	1–4	FC Volendam	0–1	1–3
Helmond Sport	3–5	Sparta Rotterdam	2–4	1–1
De Graafschap	2–7	Roda JC	1–1	1–6

Round 3

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Go Ahead Eagles	3–1	FC Volendam	3–0	0–1
Sparta Rotterdam	1–2	Roda JC	0–0	1–2

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[20]
1	Wilfried Bony	Vitesse Arnhem	31
2	Graziano Pellè	Feyenoord	27
3	Alfreð Finnbogason	Heerenveen	24
4	Jozy Altidore	AZ	23
5	Sanharib Malki	Roda JC	17
6	Dries Mertens	PSV	16
7	Jeremain Lens	PSV	15
8	Jacob Mulenga	Utrecht	14
8	Georginio Wijnaldum	PSV	14
10	Luc Castaignos	Twente	13

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