2026/2027 season

Eredivisie

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SC Cambuur
Head coach: Johan Plat · 4-3-3
Rank
13th
Pts
8
P
8
Form
🟡 Average

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
3/10
Attack
3/10
Defence
5/10
Form
5/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:High

13th with 8 pts from 8 matches: 2 wins, 2 draws, 4 defeats.

11 goals scored, 19 conceded.

AZ visits SC Cambuur in the Eredivisie on Sunday afternoon. The match starts at 2.30 pm, follow the match below in the live environment of FootballPrimer and talk along!

Voetbalprimeur · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

During the battle for the Johan Cruijff Schaal, Billy van Duijl still had a base place at AZ, but was rented to SC Cambuur not much later. With that he takes on the Alkmaarders on Sunday. The defender looks forward to a special duel.

Voetbal International · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Although captain Ryan Thomas still recorded for Henry van der Vegt after the lost home match against SC Cambuur (0-1), the club decided to change course on Tuesday. FootballPrimurmer lists seven possible candidates for the Zwolse club.

Voetbalprimeur · 13 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

After four defeats from the first four rounds, SC Cambuur scored eight points from the fourth rounds. Nicky Souren (26), who was a changeling in the Kitchen Champion Division a year ago, has not missed a minute in the Eredivisie.

Voetbal International · 13 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

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

Latest matches
Wvs PEC Zwolle (A) · 1-0
Dvs ADO Den Haag (A) · 1-1
Wvs NEC (H) · 3-0
Dvs Telstar 1963 (A) · 2-2
Lvs FC Twente '65 (H) · 1-4
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11 scored / 19 conceded over 8 matches played
Rest: 7 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
1W - 0D - 3L
Away form
1W - 2D - 1L
Statistics

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

Goals scored per match
1.6
Goals conceded per match
1.4
At home
4 scored · 4 conceded in 2 matches
Away
4 scored · 3 conceded in 3 matches
Over 2.5 goals
3 of 5
Both teams score
3 of 5
Clean sheets
2 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 SC Cambuur play

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

Playing identity
Preferred system
4-3-3
Philosophy
Johan Plat, appointed in April 2026 to succeed Henk de Jong, advocates attacking, dominant football: at his unveiling he said he wanted to dominate as much as possible, create chances and entertain the crowd (Leeuwarder Courant, 27/05/2026).
Attacking strengths
Cambuur have scored only four goals in four matchdays. Against FC Twente (1-4, 30/08/2026), the only goal came from Ilyes Hamache in the 88th minute, after two chances for Rafik El Arguioui.
Defensive solidity
Sixteen goals conceded in four matches, the worst total in the league. Against FC Twente, Johan Plat started with a back three in a 3-5-2 before switching back to a 4-3-3 at half-time, to no effect: three goals conceded before the break.
Pressing
Transitions
Strength
WeaknessThe defence is the weak spot: 16 goals conceded in four matchdays. On the first matchday, nine Cambuur players were playing their very first Eredivisie match (NOS, 07/08/2026), which translated into a shaky defensive performance.

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
Four defeats in four matchdays and zero points: the club is bottom of the league. The Dutch press is talking about a historically bad start to the season (Voetbal International, 30/08/2026). After the defeat against Twente, Johan Plat acknowledges that the play and the defence need to improve, and that the team can do much better than it is showing.
Coach / players / board relationship
In mid-August 2026, Johan Plat stated that he had obtained commitments from his board on reinforcements — “Er komen nog jongens bij” and “Ik heb zeker garanties ontvangen” — while standing by the current squad: “ook met deze selectie moeten we ons handhaven” (Voetbalzone).
Mood with the supporters
The Kooi Stadion hosted its very first Eredivisie match on 07/08/2026; the crowd's optimism quickly faded during the 0-4 defeat against Excelsior, played in the presence of former head coach Henk de Jong (NOS).
Pressure on the head coach
Johan Plat, who arrived in April, begins his Eredivisie adventure with four consecutive defeats.
Club objectives
Voetbal International (29/07/2026) describes the task given to Johan Plat as keeping SC Cambuur in the Eredivisie by playing intense, attacking football; in it, the head coach responds to accusations of idealism with “Naief? Ach, die discussie hou je altijd. En we gaan ook goed verdedigen, hoor”.
Recent internal tensions
No internal tension reported at this stage.
Absences
InjuredDaan Visser — The midfielder is unavailable.

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

SC Cambuur — AZ Alkmaar

At homeSunday 18 October at 14:30Matchday 9
Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.
What the press says
  • Praat mee op VP: SC Cambuur – AZAZ visits SC Cambuur in the Eredivisie on Sunday afternoon. The match starts at 2.30 pm, follow the match below in the live environment of FootballPrimer and talk along!Voetbalprimeur · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated
  • AZ-verdediger Van Duijl met Cambuur tégen AZ: 'Werd meteen uit de groepsapp gegooid'During the battle for the Johan Cruijff Schaal, Billy van Duijl still had a base place at AZ, but was rented to SC Cambuur not much later. With that he takes on the Alkmaarders on Sunday. The defender looks forward to a special duel.Voetbal International · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated
Prediction
EstimateSC Cambuur — AZ Alkmaar
16 %
1 · SC Cambuur
19 %
X · draw
65 %
2 · AZ Alkmaar
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 8 matches played by SC Cambuur, 8 matches by AZ Alkmaar. Confidence: fair
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
    SC Cambuur — attack11 in 8 matches0.730.84
    SC Cambuur — defence19 in 8 matches1.251.14
    AZ Alkmaar — attack18 in 8 matches1.191.11
    AZ Alkmaar — defence8 in 8 matches0.530.73
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.57 for SC Cambuur and 0.57 for AZ Alkmaar. 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%.
    SC Cambuur at home: 0.75 pts/match versus 1.00 overall over 4 matches → ×0.917
    AZ Alkmaar away: 2.25 pts/match versus 2.38 overall over 4 matches → ×0.982
  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.
    λSC Cambuur = 1.90 × 0.84 × 0.73 × 1.03 × 0.917 = 1.10
    λAZ Alkmaar = 1.90 × 1.11 × 1.14 × 0.982 = 2.36
  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 16.2%, draw 18.4%, away win 65.3% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-2 (only 9.6%, 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
  • Thijs Jansen (1)
  • Jasper Meijster (21)
  • Matthijs Kalisvaart (24)
Defenders
  • Devid Bouah (2)
  • Jorn Berkhout (3)
  • Ismaël Baouf (4)
  • Jamal Amofa (6)
  • Billy van Duijl (14)
  • Rik Mulders (16)
  • Lucas Jetten (23)
  • Wiebe Kooistra (27)
  • Morgan Costarelli (28)
Midfielders
  • Nicky Souren (8)
  • Rafik El Arguioui (10)
  • Ethan Apkakou (17)
  • Wiebe van der Heide (18)
  • Daan Visser (20)
  • Mathieu Maertens (33)
Forwards
  • Sami Bouhoudane (7)
  • Skye Vink (9)
  • Ilyes Hamache (11)
  • Nicolas Binder (13)
  • Fabian Kvam (15)
  • Danyello Look (19)
  • Iwan Henstra (29)
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: official club website (cambuur.nl, Eerste elftal page).

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
Talk to me on VP: SC Cambuur AZ
Source: Voetbalprimeur
rss18 Oct 2026
AZ defender Van Duijl with Cambuur against AZ: "Was thrown right out of the group app"
Source: Voetbal International
rss13 Oct 2026
The sun is shining for Cambuur .
Source: Voetbal International
rss11 Oct 2026
Cambuur continues the ascending line with victory at PEC Zwolle
Source: NOS Voetbal
rss12 Oct 2026
Cambuur shares feared news: end season for captain Amofa
Source: Voetbal International
rss12 Oct 2026
Great damper for Cambury: end of season due to heavy injury
Source: Voetbalprimeur
Transfers1 Sep 2026
The promoted Friesland club completed four arrivals on deadline night: midfielder Wout Asselman on loan from Gent, winger Jason Ceka on loan from Elversberg and German goalkeeper Luca Plogmann, a free agent from Go Ahead Eagles signed for two years.
Source: NOS
Result30 Aug 2026
SC Cambuur lost heavily 1-4 at home to FC Twente and remain the only side without a single point after four matchdays, with sixteen goals conceded.
Source: Twente Insite
Result23 Aug 2026
A week earlier, Cambuur had already been beaten 5-2 at home by Feyenoord.
Source: Wanneerspeelt
Transfers17 Aug 2026
SC Cambuur have signed Italian right-back Devid Eugene Bouah (25), an AS Roma youth product, on a free; he has signed for two seasons with an option for a further year.
Source: SC Cambuur (site officiel)
Club7 Aug 2026
On their return to the Eredivisie, SC Cambuur completely missed their opening by losing 0-4 at home to Excelsior Rotterdam in the season's opening match.
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.