2026/2027 season

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PEC Zwolle
Head coach: Henry van der Vegt · 4-3-3
Rank
15th
Pts
7
P
9
Form
🟠 Poor

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
2/10
Attack
3/10
Defence
1/10
Form
3/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:Low

15th with 7 pts from 9 matches: 2 wins, 1 draw, 6 defeats.

9 goals scored, 22 conceded.

PEC Zwolle won the IJsselderby for the first time in nine editions. 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

Together with Maikel van der Werff, Van der Ree takes care of the honours on behalf of PEC Zwolle during the IJsselderby, after the resignation of Henry van der Vegt. The trainers have had a hectic week and hope to turn the tide against Go Ahead Eagles, says Van der Ree in the upcoming press conference.

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.
Lvs SC Cambuur-Leeuwarden (H) · 0-1
Lvs FC Groningen (A) · 0-3
Lvs Feyenoord Rotterdam (H) · 0-7
Dvs Sparta Rotterdam (A) · 2-2
Lvs NEC (H) · 1-3
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9 scored / 22 conceded over 9 matches played
Rest: 7 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
0W - 0D - 4L
Away form
1W - 1D - 2L
Statistics

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

Goals scored per match
0.6
Goals conceded per match
3.2
At home
1 scored · 11 conceded in 3 matches
Away
2 scored · 5 conceded in 2 matches
Over 2.5 goals
4 of 5
Both teams score
2 of 5
Clean sheets
0 of 5
Failed to score
3 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

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

How PEC Zwolle play

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

Playing identity
Preferred system
4-3-3
Philosophy
Henry van der Vegt has built his PEC Zwolle side around a 4-3-3 geared towards organisation and stability in build-up play. After the departure of several creative players during the off-season, the coaching staff are focusing first on the defensive block and on the rapid integration of new signings.
Attacking strengths
The attack is built around Koen Kostons through the middle and Dylan Mbayo, who provided the assists for both goals in the 2-0 win at Heerenveen on 22 August. New signing Ibrahim Cissoko is presented by Van der Vegt as a player capable of beating opponents and constantly creating danger.
Defensive solidity
The defence has been strengthened by the free-transfer arrival of Nick Viergever, alongside Olivier Aertssen and Simon Graves in front of Jasper Schendelaar. The record remains poor: eight goals conceded in four matchdays.
Pressing
Transitions
At Heerenveen, Zwolle absorbed the opponents' possession in the first half before striking after the break on quick transitions finished off by Viergever and then Kostons.
StrengthA more experienced defensive block since Viergever's arrival and a renewed efficiency on the counter-attack, illustrated by the season's first win at Heerenveen (0-2), the first away win since October 2025.
WeaknessThe departure of several creative players during the off-season (Monteiro, Buurmeester, Shoretire) left a creative deficit, worsened by the prolonged unavailability of Younes Namli. Three defeats in four matchdays and only four goals scored.

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
Fragile confidence: the 2-0 win at Heerenveen on 22 August, the first of the season, was followed by a 1-3 home defeat against NEC on 29 August in a match marked by three penalties and several VAR interventions, including a penalty missed by Kostons.
Coach / players / board relationship
Henry van der Vegt attributed the 0-2 win at Heerenveen on 23/08/2026 to a reaction that came from the dressing room itself: “Dit hebben we samen voor elkaar gekregen. De spelersgroep had elkaar in de rust al aangesproken” (VoetbalPrimeur).
Mood with the supporters
13,805 spectators attended the home match against NEC on 29 August. The club opened ticket sales as early as 25 August for the trip to Sparta Rotterdam on 4 September.
Pressure on the head coach
Club objectives
Survival remains the stated aim, with Voetbalzone's season preview summing up the ambition as avoiding a serious relegation battle.
Recent internal tensions
No internal tension reported at this stage.
Absences
InjuredYounes Namli — Knee. Out for a long time and still expected back at the time of the 6 August season preview; not included in either the starting eleven or the bench against NEC on 29 August.

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

FC Utrecht — PEC Zwolle

AwaySaturday 24 October at 16:30Matchday 10
In 6 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
EstimateFC Utrecht — PEC Zwolle
42 %
1 · FC Utrecht
20 %
X · draw
38 %
2 · PEC Zwolle
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 8 matches played by FC Utrecht, 9 matches by PEC Zwolle. 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
  1. 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.
  2. 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
    FC Utrecht — attack14 in 8 matches0.920.96
    FC Utrecht — defence25 in 8 matches1.651.37
    PEC Zwolle — attack9 in 9 matches0.530.72
    PEC Zwolle — defence22 in 9 matches1.291.17
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.57 for FC Utrecht and 0.60 for PEC Zwolle. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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%.
    FC Utrecht at home: 1.00 pts/match versus 1.00 overall over 4 matches → ×1.000
    PEC Zwolle away: 1.00 pts/match versus 0.50 overall over 4 matches → ×1.120
  5. 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.
    λFC Utrecht = 1.90 × 0.96 × 1.17 × 1.03 × 1.000 = 2.19
    λPEC Zwolle = 1.90 × 0.72 × 1.37 × 1.120 = 2.08
  6. 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 41.9%, draw 20.0%, away win 38.1% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 2-2 (only 7.3%, 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
  • Jasper Schendelaar
  • Tom de Graaff
  • Duke Verduin
Defenders
  • Sherel Floranus
  • Olivier Aertssen
  • Tijs Velthuis
  • Jan Bürger
  • Nick Viergever
  • Simon Graves
  • Damian van der Haar
Midfielders
  • Tobias Sommer
  • Gabriël Reiziger
  • Thijs Oosting
  • Jadiel Pereira da Gama
  • Ryan Thomas
  • Nick Fichtinger
  • Gilles van der Wal
  • Givaro Rahajaän
Forwards
  • Younes Namli
  • Elias Sørensen
  • Koen Kostons
  • Dylan Mbayo
  • Ody Velanas
  • Ibrahim Cissoko
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: the club's official website (peczwolle.nl, “Spelers en staf” page 26-27).

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
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
rss18 Oct 2026
Pikante IJsselderby for interim trainer PEC Zwolle: "Specially, of course."
Source: Voetbal International
rss17 Oct 2026
'PEC Zwolle has not recovered enough goals'
Source: Voetbal International
rss16 Oct 2026
Fire Van der Vegt hits PEC Zwolle hard: "Inhuman at football"
Source: Voetbalprimeur
Transfers2 Sep 2026
Bulgarian midfielder Filip Krastev has returned to Zwolle on loan from Lommel, with a purchase option, in the very final minutes of the Dutch window.
Source: PEC Zwolle
Transfers1 Sep 2026
PEC Zwolle sprang a surprise by securing a season-long loan for forward Sydney van Hooijdonk, from Estrela Amadora; technical director Gerry Hamstra praised his international experience and his close to a hundred Eredivisie appearances.
Source: Voetbal International
Club31 Aug 2026
The club will open Eredivisie matchday 5 with a trip to Sparta Rotterdam.
Source: PEC Zwolle
Result29 Aug 2026
PEC Zwolle lost 1-3 at home to NEC in a match broken up by penalties and VAR interventions, Koen Kostons having scored Zwolle's only goal from the spot.
Source: PEC Zwolle
Club22 Aug 2026
PEC Zwolle caused a surprise by winning 2-0 away to sc Heerenveen and picked up their first win of the season.
Source: NOS
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.