2026/2027 season

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Go Ahead Eagles

Head coach: Joseph Oosting · 4-2-3-1

Rank

9th

Pts

11

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

7/10

Attack

4/10

Defence

3/10

Form

4/10

Confidence / mood

Current risk:Low

9th with 11 pts from 9 matches: 2 wins, 5 draws, 2 defeats.

20 goals scored, 20 conceded.

With interim coach Dennis van der Ree on the couch, the Go Ahead Eagles in Zwolle hit 4-1. For the third time in his career, Thijs Oosting decided to compete against his father Joseph Oosting, the coach of the club from Deventer. The midfielder of PEC scored twice.

NOS Voetbal · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

PEC Zwolle and Go Ahead Eagles turned it into a heated IJsselderby on Sunday afternoon. The home team started out strong, but saw the visitors coming at a head start against the ratio. Thijs Oosting claimed a leading role against the team of father Joseph Oosting and was important with two nice hits.

Voetbalprimeur · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

PEC Zwolle and Go Ahead Eagles kick off the Eredivisie Day on Sunday afternoon with the IJsselderby. The match starts at 12.15 pm, follow the match below in the live environment of FootballPrimer and talk along!

Voetbalprimeur · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Fans of Go Ahead Eagles seem to be ready for Sunday's IJsselderby. At the last training of Saturday before the game fans set off massive fireworks from outside the stadium. The fans stopped fireworks from outside the stadium because the club had banned fireworks from bringing them into the stadium.

Voetbalprimeur · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

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

Latest matches

⚠ This team's latest match may not be reflected below yet (football-data.org can lag slightly between the table and the match details) — the table's points/goals are up to date, but momentum, rest and the home/away split may be one match behind. Run a refresh again in a few minutes if needed.

Dvs Sparta Rotterdam (H) · 3-3

Dvs NEC (A) · 1-1

Dvs FC Groningen (H) · 1-1

Dvs FC Utrecht (A) · 3-3

Lvs AZ (A) · 2-5

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20 scored / 20 conceded over 9 matches played

Rest: 8 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days

Home form

2W - 2D - 0L

Away form

0W - 3D - 1L

Statistics

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

Goals scored per match

2.0

Goals conceded per match

2.6

At home

4 scored · 4 conceded in 2 matches

Away

6 scored · 9 conceded in 3 matches

Over 2.5 goals

3 of 5

Both teams score

5 of 5

Clean sheets

0 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 Go Ahead Eagles play

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

Playing identity

Preferred system

4-2-3-1

Philosophy

Joseph Oosting, who arrived on 1 July 2026, has Søren Tengstedt playing as a withdrawn forward: according to Deventer Voetbal's pre-match analysis, his dropping deep opens up space for right-back Sampsted and for Victor Edvardsen. The club made keeping hold of captain Joris Kramer, extended until 2029 despite offers from abroad, the major operation of its summer.

Attacking strengths

Eleven goals in four matchdays, the best total of the trio of established promoted sides: 4-1 against Willem II, 2-2 at Feyenoord, 3-1 against ADO Den Haag, 2-5 at AZ. Søren Tengstedt is the club's top scorer with 3 goals, ahead of Victor Edvardsen and Stefán Sigurdarson (2 each).

Defensive solidity

Nine goals conceded in four matchdays, five of them alone at home to AZ on 29 August. The defence is depleted: Gerrit Nauber, Robbin Weijenberg and Pim Saathof have been out since the start of the season. The centre-back pairing fielded at Alkmaar paired Julius Dirksen with Joris Kramer.

Pressing

Deventer Voetbal's pre-match analysis describes a plan based on the forward line disrupting the opponents' build-up play, with Evert Linthorst and Mathis Meulensteen tasked with shutting down the opposition midfield. This is a pundit's reading ahead of the trip to AZ, not a statement from the coaching staff.

Transitions

Still according to Deventer Voetbal, against possession-based teams Go Ahead rely mainly on counter-attacks to create chances. A pre-match reading, not confirmed by the club.

StrengthHigh attacking output (11 goals in 4 matchdays) and squad depth, with finishers like Thibo Baeten. The extension of captain Joris Kramer's contract until 2029 stabilises the team's backbone.

WeaknessDefensive fragility against the bigger sides, illustrated by the 5-2 defeat conceded at AZ on 29 August. The injury list hits precisely the defence (Nauber, Saathof) and midfield (Weijenberg).

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

An up-and-down run: a 3-1 win against ADO Den Haag on 23 August that lifted the club onto the podium, followed by a heavy 5-2 defeat at AZ on 29 August that dropped it back to 5th place with 7 points in 4 matchdays.

Coach / players / board relationship

The club kept its senior players, with Melle Meulensteen staying and captain Joris Kramer extending, and made no moves on deadline day.

Mood with the supporters

Since late July 2026, seven supporter groups have been boycotting the club's away trips in protest at the new away-ticket sales system, introduced without consultation and requiring a copy of ID to be handed over with no clear guarantees on how the data will be used. Empty away sections are therefore expected on the road.

Pressure on the head coach

Club objectives

Staying in the race for European places after a solid start to the season.

Recent internal tensions

No internal tension reported at this stage.

Absences

InjuredGerrit Nauber — The centre-back is among the unavailable players.

InjuredTomas Galvez — Still in the treatment room and not available for the restart.

InjuredRobbin Weijenberg — Absent from the squad through injury.

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

Go Ahead Eagles — Telstar

At homeFriday 23 October at 20:00Matchday 10

In 5 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

EstimateGo Ahead Eagles — Telstar

54 %

1 · Go Ahead Eagles

19 %

X · draw

27 %

2 · Telstar

In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 9 matches played by Go Ahead Eagles, 9 matches by Telstar. Confidence: fair

The match details of at least one of the two teams may be one match behind at football-data.org — the home/away split and the home advantage may depend on it.

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
Go Ahead Eagles — attack20 in 9 matches1.171.10
Go Ahead Eagles — defence20 in 9 matches1.171.10
Telstar — attack10 in 9 matches0.590.75
Telstar — defence18 in 9 matches1.051.03
The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.60 for Go Ahead Eagles and 0.60 for Telstar. 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%.
Go Ahead Eagles at home: 2.00 pts/match versus 1.38 overall over 4 matches → ×1.120
Telstar away: 1.00 pts/match versus 0.67 overall over 4 matches → ×1.120
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_{Go Ahead Eagles} = 1.90 × 1.10 × 1.03 × 1.03 × 1.120 = 2.49
λ_Telstar = 1.90 × 0.75 × 1.10 × 1.120 = 1.76
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 53.9%, draw 19.0%, away win 27.1% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 2-1 (only 7.8%, 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

Kjetil Haug (1)
N. Marsman (22)
N. Verdoni (33)

Defenders

A. Sampsted (2)
Gerrit Nauber (3)
Joris Kramer (4)
Dean James (5)
E. Waayers (20)
G. Van Zwam (25)
Julius Dirksen (26)
T. Galvez (27)
Pim Saathof (28)
D. Tijman (31)

Midfielders

Evert Linthorst (8)
R. Weijenberg (15)
V. Edvardsen (16)
M. Meulensteen (21)
Yassir Salah (34)

Forwards

S. Sigurdarson (9)
S. Tengstedt (10)
Oskar Sivertsen (11)
M. Suray (17)
R. Margaret (18)
Thibo Baeten (23)
E. Flataker (29)
Ofosu Boakye (32)

Squad last verified on 1 Sep 2026 — source: BeSoccer (2026/27 squad).

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026

PEC closes restless week with big victory on archrival Go Ahead in Zwolle

Source: NOS Voetbal

rss18 Oct 2026

Of course, Thijs Oosting is turning his neck in IJsselderby

Source: Voetbal International

rss18 Oct 2026

VI Live: PEC Zwolle and Go Ahead started it

Source: Voetbal International

rss18 Oct 2026

Talk to me on VP: loaded IJsselderby between PEC Zwolle

Source: Voetbalprimeur

rss17 Oct 2026

Delicious images: Go Ahead fans put massive fireworks on last practice

Source: Voetbalprimeur

rss17 Oct 2026

Father against son in loaded IJsselderby between Go Ahead and PEC: "Bad."

Source: Voetbalprimeur

Transfers1 Sep 2026

German goalkeeper Luca Plogmann has left Deventer as a free agent to sign a two-year deal at SC Cambuur, when the club was no longer expecting any movement on deadline day.

Source: NOS

Result29 Aug 2026

Go Ahead Eagles suffered their first league defeat of the season, losing 5-2 at Alkmaar to the leaders.

Source: Go Ahead Eagles

Result23 Aug 2026

A week earlier, the Eagles had beaten ADO Den Haag 3-1 to climb temporarily to second place.

Source: Go Ahead Eagles

Club23 Aug 2026

Go Ahead Eagles beat ADO Den Haag 3-1 thanks to Søren Tengstedt, Victor Edvardsen and Stefán Sigurdarson, and moved up to second place in the Eredivisie.

Source: FCUpdate

Transfers23 Aug 2026

During the summer transfer window, Go Ahead Eagles sold forward Milan Smit to Stoke City for around €5.5 million.

Source: FootballTransfers

Contract19 Aug 2026

Captain Joris Kramer has extended his contract until mid-2029.

Source: Go Ahead Eagles

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.