The Dutch football championship is not among the top four domestic European championships. However, this tournament has its own distinctive striking features. In the elite division of the Netherlands championship, clubs with a rich football history play, each year this championship grants the world new young footballers who become important players for the great grandees of world football.
The domestic championship of the Netherlands Football Championship is an exciting tournament with many promising young footballers from all over the world. Thanks to this, the matches of the Eredivisie are bright, football performed by many clubs is called by experts "sincere", alien to pragmatism.
Dutch Championship winners 2018-2019
There are 18 teams competing in the Dutch elite division football championship. During the season, within the framework of the domestic championship, the clubs conduct 34 rounds. According to the results of the competition, the gold medals of the 2018-2019 season were won by Ajax Amsterdam. This legendary team managed to fall in love with neutral fans from all over the world. The club successfully played in the Champions League, stopping at the semi-final stage. In the domestic championship, Ajax have been a formidable force throughout the season. In 34 matches of the tournament, the Amsterdam players won 28 meetings, played 2 games with a draw, lost in 4 matches. This allowed him to score 86 points, which was enough for the championship. For the first time in the past five years, an Amsterdam club has achieved such success on the domestic arena. The statistics of goals scored by "Ajax" is striking (according to this indicator, the club is the best in Europe). Amsterdam footballers hit the rivals' goal 119 times.
Second place in the Netherlands Championship 2018-2019 was taken by the bitter rivals of Ajax, the PSV Eindhoven footballers. Einhovenians were only three points behind the champion. In the 31st round PSV lost, and Ajax won. This result significantly influenced the final distribution of places at the top of the standings.
Bronze medals of the championship went to another grandee of Dutch football - Rotterdam Feyenoord. The team fell significantly behind the leaders, gaining 65 points.
Distribution of European Cup places according to the results of the Eredivisie tournament
Ajax and PSV Eindhoven have earned the right to play next season in the UEFA Champions League. The bronze medalists of the championship, the Feyenoord footballers, will go to the group stage of the Europa League. The clubs that took places from fourth to seventh were entitled to play-offs for the main tournament of the Europa League. It is gratifying to see Leonid Slutsky's wards among these teams. His "Vitesse" took the final fifth place. In addition to Vitesse, AZ Alkmaar (4th place), Utrecht (6th place) and Heracles (7th position) made their way to the 2019-2020 Europa League.
Losers of the season
The last place in the tournament was taken by the team "Breda". In 34 matches, the club scored only 23 points. This result ensured Breda's relegation to the lower division.
Clubs with sixteenth and seventeenth places at the end of the tournament do not fly out of the Eredivisie directly. These teams will play transitional matches with the winners of the lower division for the right to remain in the elite. Those who will play in the play-offs include Excelsior (16th) and De Graafschap (17th).
Championship top scorers
Two players at once managed to score 28 goals in the matches of the Netherlands Championship 2018-2019. Not surprisingly, the goalscorers are representatives of Ajax and Eindhoven. The sniper race was won by Dusan Tadic (Ajax) and Luc de Jong (PSV Eindhoven). The top three was closed by the Heracles player Adrian Dahlmau with 19 goals scored.
