2026/2027 season

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Feyenoord

Head coach: Giovanni van Bronckhorst · 4-3-3

Rank

1st

Pts

23

P

9

Form

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The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings

10/10

Attack

9/10

Defence

10/10

Form

9/10

Confidence / mood

Current risk:Low

1st with 23 pts from 9 matches: 7 wins, 2 draws, 0 defeats.

31 goals scored, 10 conceded.

Feyenoord received a penalty in the game against Telstar (3-4) on Saturday night. That's the conclusion a day later at Good Morning Eredivisie. Judge Jeroen Manschot saw a handball, but that opinion was not widely held. Lots of annoyance over given penalty kick from Jeroen Manschot to Feyenoord I thought at first that he gave him, [...] Continue reading..

Soccernews · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Henk Fraser thinks Etienne Vaessen is a good goalkeeper for Feyenoord. That's what he puts in Good Morning Honor Division on ESPN. According to the team coach of Suriname the goalkeeper would fit very well in the football playing of the Rotterdammers.

Voetbalprimeur · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Thesis 1: 'Without the penalty, Feyenoord would have lost points against Telstar' Proposition 2: Following... Follows...

Voetbalprimeur · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

In the new episode of VI ZSM Sjoerd Keizer and Jarno Verweij look back at the game of Saturday evening between Telstar and Feyenoord, with special attention for Givairo Read.

Voetbal International · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches

Wvs Telstar 1963 (A) · 4-3

Wvs AZ (H) · 2-0

Wvs FC Utrecht (H) · 5-0

Wvs PEC Zwolle (A) · 7-0

Wvs NEC (A) · 3-1

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31 scored / 10 conceded over 9 matches played

Rest: 1 day since the last match · 2 matches played in the last 15 days

Home form

2W - 2D - 0L

Away form

5W - 0D - 0L

Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match

4.2

Goals conceded per match

0.8

At home

7 scored · 0 conceded in 2 matches

Away

14 scored · 4 conceded in 3 matches

Over 2.5 goals

4 of 5

Both teams score

2 of 5

Clean sheets

3 of 5

Failed to score

0 of 5

Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Feyenoord play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity

Preferred system

4-3-3

Philosophy

Back at De Kuip since the summer of 2026, Giovanni van Bronckhorst is described by the Dutch press as bringing calm, authority and a clear tactical message, after a tense season with Robin van Persie. The club is banking on rebuilding a professional culture and group unity.

Attacking strengths

Ten goals in four matchdays, including a 5-2 at Cambuur, but the attacking department was emptied at the end of the transfer window: Ayase Ueda left for Lille for around €15m and Casper Tengstedt for Toulouse for €4m, both on 31/08. Anis Hadj Moussa remains the main threat, with the equaliser against ADO (2-2).

Defensive solidity

Six goals conceded in four matchdays. Jeremiah St. Juste was injured in the warm-up before hosting ADO Den Haag on 30/08, which gave Javi López his first start.

Pressing

Transitions

StrengthAn unbeaten start to the season (2 wins, 2 draws, 8 points from 4 matchdays) and a well-received return for Van Bronckhorst, as the club competes in the Champions League league phase. Opta make them PSV's main challenger with an 11.8% chance of the title.

WeaknessTwo consecutive home draws (2-2 against Go Ahead Eagles, then 2-2 against ADO Den Haag after trailing 0-2) reflect a lack of control at De Kuip. The departure of Ueda, last season's Eredivisie top scorer with 25 goals, had not been compensated for as of 31/08: only Shaqueel van Persie and Nacho Ferri remain as centre-forwards, both inexperienced.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood

Squad confidence

Still unbeaten but dented by a frustrating home draw against a promoted side, with a performance judged poor in the Rotterdam press.

Coach / players / board relationship

The window was marked by numerous departures, including those of Ueda, Tengstedt, Ivanušec and Lotomba, and by a Hadj Moussa situation that occupied the board until after the Dutch deadline.

Mood with the supporters

On 23 August at the Kooi Stadion, Feyenoord supporters threw heavy pyrotechnics into the Cambuur stand: five spectators injured, with burns, eye damage and hearing problems, and the match halted for more than twenty minutes. The club itself banned its supporters from the next two away matches, at NEC on 5 September and at PEC Zwolle on 13 September, with tickets refunded.

Pressure on the head coach

Van Bronckhorst has to get Feyenoord going again in the league while tackling a very tough Champions League league phase (Barcelona, Inter, Porto, Leipzig, Galatasaray, Betis, Como, Viking), with an attack left thin since 31 Aug.

Club objectives

Closing the gap on PSV in the Eredivisie — Opta names them as the leading challengers — and making their presence felt in the Champions League league phase, whose schedule begins on 9 September at FC Barcelona.

Recent internal tensions

No internal tension reported at this stage; the NOS does point out, however, that the club kept only two inexperienced centre-forwards after selling Ueda.

Absences

InjuredJordan Bos — The left-back is out for a long period; his return was hoped for around the winter break.

DoubtfulGijs Smal — The full-back suffered a small setback in his comeback and for a long time did only partial training.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

PSV Eindhoven — Feyenoord

AwaySunday 25 October at 14:30Matchday 10

In 7 days. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction

EstimatePSV Eindhoven — Feyenoord

34 %

1 · PSV Eindhoven

19 %

X · draw

47 %

2 · Feyenoord

In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 9 matches played by PSV Eindhoven, 9 matches by Feyenoord. Confidence: fair

The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures

League average. 292 goals scored over 154 team-matches played (18 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.90 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
TeamGoalsRawKept
PSV Eindhoven — attack27 in 9 matches1.581.35
PSV Eindhoven — defence12 in 9 matches0.700.82
Feyenoord — attack31 in 9 matches1.821.49
Feyenoord — defence10 in 9 matches0.590.75
The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.60 for PSV Eindhoven and 0.60 for Feyenoord. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.89 goal scored on average by the host against 1.77 by the visitor, over the 46 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.07; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.42, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.03. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
PSV Eindhoven at home: 2.50 pts/match versus 2.11 overall over 4 matches → ×1.061
Feyenoord away: 3.00 pts/match versus 2.56 overall over 5 matches → ×1.067
Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
λ_{PSV Eindhoven} = 1.90 × 1.35 × 0.75 × 1.03 × 1.061 = 2.10
λ_Feyenoord = 1.90 × 1.49 × 0.82 × 1.067 = 2.48
Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 33.7%, draw 19.0%, away win 47.3% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 2-2 (only 7.0%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).

Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.

It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.

What other sources say

No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.

This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers

Tjark Ernst
L. Bossin
M. Berger

Defenders

T. Watanabe
Thomas Beelen
Mats Deijl
Givairo Read
G. Smal
Mika Mármol
Javi López
Jordan Bos
B. Nieuwkoop
Jeremiah St. Juste
J. Lotomba
Thijs Kraaijeveld
Tijme Wessels

Midfielders

Gjivai Zechiël
S. Steijn
C. Vanhoutte
Luciano Valente
Jakub Moder
Luka Ivanušec
O. Targhalline
V. den Elshout

Forwards

Anis Hadj Moussa
Nacho Ferri
Gonçalo Borges
G. Diarra
Jivayno Zinhagel
Shaqueel van Persie

This team's current captain could not be confirmed with certainty at the last check — no armband is shown above until the information is reliable.

Squad last verified on 1 Sep 2026 — source: BeSoccer (2026-27 squad), Ueda and Tengstedt removed after their transfers on 31/08/2026 confirmed by NOS.

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026

Feyenoord pillar continues to impress: What a fantastic player

Source: Soccernews

rss18 Oct 2026

Fraser tips Eredivisie-keeper at Feyenoord, Kraay: "He's better than Ernst."

Source: Voetbalprimeur

rss18 Oct 2026

VP football canteen: "Without the penalty, Feyenoord would have lost points against Telstar."

Source: Voetbalprimeur

rss18 Oct 2026

Feyenoord has 'balm momenjes' by busy schedule: "You can see that in players."

Source: Voetbalprimeur

rss18 Oct 2026

New acquisition dissonant in swinging Feyenoord: "It's the weird stuff again."

Source: Voetbalprimeur

rss18 Oct 2026

Telstar-Feyenoord gets tail at the KNVB

Source: Soccernews

Transfers2 Sep 2026

Feyenoord have registered the return of England winger Reiss Nelson, a free agent after terminating his Arsenal contract, for one season.

Source: NOS

Club2 Sep 2026

Technical director Dévy Rigaux was still negotiating Anis Hadj Moussa's departure with Al-Ittihad, the Saudi offer valued at between €25m and €30m; Feyenoord are setting the bar very high because they no longer have time to sign a replacement, the Saudi market remaining open until 6 September.

Source: FC Update

Result30 Aug 2026

Feyenoord dropped valuable points in drawing 2-2 at home with promoted ADO Den Haag, having trailed 0-2; Ayase Ueda and then Anis Hadj Moussa brought the Rotterdam side level.

Source: ADO Den Haag

Club27 Aug 2026

In the draw for the 2026-27 Champions League league phase, Feyenoord will notably face FC Barcelona and Inter Milan among their eight opponents.

Source: NL Times

News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.

Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.