2026/2027 season

Eredivisie

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SC Heerenveen

Head coach: Robin Veldman

Rank

8th

Pts

12

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

4/10

Attack

8/10

Defence

5/10

Form

5/10

Confidence / mood

Current risk:High

8th with 12 pts from 9 matches: 3 wins, 3 draws, 3 defeats.

15 goals scored, 11 conceded.

Play round 9 in the Eredivisie was kicked off Friday with a little chat between SC Heerenveen and Excelsior. Also in the Kitchen Champion Division there was football, just like La Liga, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Serie A. Read everything from Friday night in this VI Live.

Voetbal International · 16 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

SC Heerenveen has done excellent business in the Eredivisie on Friday night. The Frisians won convincingly from Excelsior in their own home. Especially for peak Dylan Vente it was a welcome evening: He made his first league goal of the season.

Voetbal International · 16 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Dylan Vente finally scored again for Sc Heerenveen on Friday night. The peak used a penalty kick in the 4-0-winning home match against Excelsior and made his first Eredivisie hit of the season. Afterwards, the peak at ESPN tells us that the dryness did a lot to him.

Voetbalprimeur · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Bernt Klaverboer can't beat his luck after the 4-0 victory of sc Heerenveen at Excelsior. In addition to a clean sheet and the big win, it was also known that the 21-year-old goalkeeper renewed his contract. This became known just before the game with a video that was shown on the big screens in the stadium. Nolhan Courtens also put his scribble under a new commitment.

Voetbalprimeur · 16 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

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

Latest matches

Wvs SBV Excelsior (H) · 4-0

Lvs PSV (A) · 0-2

Wvs Sparta Rotterdam (A) · 4-0

Dvs Telstar 1963 (H) · 0-0

Lvs AZ (H) · 2-3

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15 scored / 11 conceded over 9 matches played

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

Home form

2W - 1D - 2L

Away form

1W - 2D - 1L

Statistics

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

Goals scored per match

2.0

Goals conceded per match

1.0

At home

6 scored · 3 conceded in 3 matches

Away

4 scored · 2 conceded in 2 matches

Over 2.5 goals

3 of 5

Both teams score

1 of 5

Clean sheets

3 of 5

Failed to score

2 of 5

Cumulative points vs league average

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

How SC Heerenveen play

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

Playing style not documented for this team.

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

Five points in four matchdays and 11th place in the table after matchday 4. The 2-2 draw at Willem II left regrets: goalscorer Oliver Braude said he would have “preferred not to score and win”.

Coach / players / board relationship

Robin Veldman said on 06/08/2026 that he takes a firm line with his board to keep hold of his key players: “Naar Ferry de Haan en Hansma toe ben ik wel sterk. Spelers die belangrijk zijn, wil ik er graag bij houden” (Voetbalzone). The Luuk Brouwers situation, however, has strained the mood: the former captain explained on 26/08 that he gave up the armband because “ik werd niet meer behandeld als de aanvoerder”, and then on 30/08 judged the board “lichtelijk brutaal” in the negotiation of his transfer (VoetbalPrimeur, Voetbalzone).

Mood with the supporters

Public support is massive: as of 18 August 2026, the club announced 15,567 season tickets sold out of the 16,000 places available for season-ticket holders, with just over 400 cards still on sale and a waiting list about to open (official website, 18/08/2026).

Pressure on the head coach

Low: technical director Johan Hansma noted on 06/08/2026 that “we zijn vorig jaar met Robin als trainer aan een procès begonnen”, and Veldman turned down an approach from abroad out of loyalty (Voetbalzone).

Club objectives

Technical director Johan Hansma stated on 06/08/2026 a return to European competition: “We zijn vorig jaar met Robin als trainer aan een procès begonnen. Dat moet leiden tot een terugkeer in Europees voetbal” (Voetbalzone). Robin Veldman considers this goal achievable given the competitiveness of his squad.

Recent internal tensions

Midfielder Luuk Brouwers publicly criticised his club on 30 August 2026: having agreed personal terms with Omonia Nicosia, he considers it “a bit rich” that Heerenveen are standing firm on his valuation when he plays little.

Absences

DoubtfulMees Hilgers — Only just arrived, he is completing his rehabilitation after a cruciate ligament rupture and has not yet regained match sharpness.

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

ADO Den Haag — SC Heerenveen

AwaySaturday 24 October at 21:00Matchday 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

EstimateADO Den Haag — SC Heerenveen

27 %

1 · ADO Den Haag

23 %

X · draw

50 %

2 · SC Heerenveen

In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 9 matches played by ADO Den Haag, 9 matches by SC Heerenveen. 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
ADO Den Haag — attack11 in 9 matches0.640.79
ADO Den Haag — defence20 in 9 matches1.171.10
SC Heerenveen — attack15 in 9 matches0.880.93
SC Heerenveen — defence11 in 9 matches0.640.79
The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.60 for ADO Den Haag and 0.60 for SC Heerenveen. 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%.
ADO Den Haag at home: 1.00 pts/match versus 0.67 overall over 4 matches → ×1.120
SC Heerenveen away: 1.25 pts/match versus 1.33 overall over 4 matches → ×0.979
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_{ADO Den Haag} = 1.90 × 0.79 × 0.79 × 1.03 × 1.120 = 1.35
λ_{SC Heerenveen} = 1.90 × 0.93 × 1.10 × 0.979 = 1.90
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 27.3%, draw 22.3%, away win 50.3% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-1 (only 9.9%, 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

Bernt Klaverboer (22)
Andries Noppert (44)
Timo Schreuder (30)

Defenders

Mees Hilgers (2)
Maas Willemsen (3)
Sam Kersten (4)
Mats Egbring (13)
N. Hopland (17)
Vasilios Zagaritis (19)
Darling Bladi (23)
H. Petrov (28)
Oliver Braude (45)

Midfielders

Dirk Proper (6)
Luuk Brouwers (8)
Ringo Meerveld (10)
L. Smans (14)
M. Linday (16)
Nolhan Courtens (36)
Jimte Scholten (41)

Forwards

M. Rivera (7)
Dylan Vente (9)
Luca Oyen (11)
Jacob Trenskow (20)
L. Machine (29)
Kirayno Schaken (47)

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) supplemented by the club's official website.

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss16 Oct 2026

Fall off zero at big home win Heerenveen on Excelsior

Source: Voetbal International

rss16 Oct 2026

Vente points Heerenveen with 1,000th goal in Abe Lenstra Stadium

Source: NOS Voetbal

rss16 Oct 2026

Vente creates magical number of Heerenveen goals in Abe Lenstra Stadium

Source: Voetbal International

rss16 Oct 2026

Heerenveen surprises supporters with video in stadium: talented duo extends

Source: Voetbal International

rss16 Oct 2026

Vente is loose in Heerenveen: "There was pressure on his shoulders."

Source: Voetbal International

rss16 Oct 2026

Cloverboer experiences party night at Heerenveen: "What I have here is beautiful."

Source: Voetbal International

Transfers2 Sep 2026

Latvian forward Roberts Uldrikis, a former SC Cambuur scorer, has signed for a season from Arminia Bielefeld and praised the ambition the club is showing.

Source: SC Heerenveen

Transfers2 Sep 2026

Midfielder Luuk Brouwers, the club's former captain, has joined Omonia Nicosia, while Nikolai Hopland has signed for Randers FC.

Source: SC Heerenveen

Transfers1 Sep 2026

Iraq international winger Marko Farji, who arrived from Venezia, has signed a four-year contract.

Source: SC Heerenveen

Transfers31 Aug 2026

SC Heerenveen pulled off Friesland's coup of the window by bringing in Indonesia international defender Mees Hilgers, released by FC Twente after a long contract dispute and a season lost to a cruciate ligament rupture.

Source: SC Heerenveen

Result30 Aug 2026

Heerenveen came back level against Willem II before letting their lead slip and conceding a 2-2 draw.

Source: SC Heerenveen

Club30 Aug 2026

sc Heerenveen conceded a 2-2 draw at Willem II after having led, with goals from Jacob Trenskow (64th minute) and Oliver Braude (77th minute).

Source: FCUpdate

News last verified on 17 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.