2005–06 Eredivisie

The 2005–06 season of the Eredivisie began in August 2005 and ended in May 2006. PSV Eindhoven became champion on April 9, 2006. The season was overshadowed by the death of FC Utrecht player David di Tommaso.

Eredivisie

Season	2005–06
Dates	12 August 2005 – 16 April 2006
Champions	PSV (19th title)
Promoted	Heracles Almelo Sparta Rotterdam
Relegated	RBC Roosendaal
Champions League	PSV Ajax
UEFA Cup	FC Groningen AZ Feyenoord sc Heerenveen
Intertoto Cup	FC Twente
Top goalscorer	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (33 goals)
← 2004–05 2006–07 →

ADO

Ajax

AZ

Groningen

Heerenveen

Heracles

NAC

NEC

PSV

RBC

RKC

Roda JC

Rotterdam

Twente

Utrecht

Vitesse

Willem II

Rotterdam teams

Feyenoord
Sparta

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Locations of the 2008–09 Eredivisie teams

Feyenoord

Sparta

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Rotterdam Eredivisie football clubs

Promoted teams

These teams were promoted from the Eerste Divisie at the start of the season:

• Heracles Almelo (First Division champion)
• Sparta Rotterdam (playoffs)

Relegated teams

These team was relegated to the Eerste Divisie at the end of the season:

• RBC Roosendaal

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	PSV (C)	34	26	6	2	71	23	+48	84	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	AZ	34	23	5	6	78	32	+46	74	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round playoff
3	Feyenoord	34	21	8	5	79	34	+45	71
4	Ajax	34	18	6	10	66	41	+25	60
5	Groningen	34	16	8	10	46	43	+3	56
6	Utrecht	34	16	7	11	48	44	+4	55	Qualification to Europa League first round playoff
7	Heerenveen	34	14	8	12	63	58	+5	50
8	Roda JC	34	15	5	14	57	54	+3	50
9	Twente	34	13	8	13	44	36	+8	47
10	NEC	34	13	8	13	43	43	0	47	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round playoff
11	Vitesse	34	13	5	16	52	54	−2	44
12	RKC	34	11	6	17	48	58	−10	39
13	Heracles	34	11	6	17	35	58	−23	39
14	Sparta	34	10	7	17	34	50	−16	37
15	ADO	34	10	5	19	36	62	−26	35
16	NAC	34	8	9	17	45	66	−21	33	Qualification to relegation play-offs
17	Willem II	34	7	7	20	45	66	−21	28
18	RBC (R)	34	1	6	27	22	90	−68	9	Relegation to Eerste Divisie

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	ADO	AJX	AZ	FEY	GRO	HEE	HER	NAC	NEC	PSV	RBC	RKC	RJC	SPA	TWE	UTR	VIT	WIL
ADO Den Haag		1–2	0–2	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–3	0–1	0–2	3–0	2–1	1–1	0–2	0–0	2–3	2–0	1–1
Ajax	2–2		1–0	1–2	3–2	0–0	0–0	3–2	1–1	0–0	6–0	4–1	4–1	6–0	2–0	1–4	2–1	1–0
AZ	3–1	4–2		1–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	3–2	3–2	1–2	7–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–3	1–0	5–1
Feyenoord	0–2	3–2	2–0		4–1	5–1	7–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	4–0	4–2	3–0	0–0	6–1
Groningen	3–1	3–2	0–0	1–1		2–0	0–0	3–2	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–0
Heerenveen	3–0	4–2	2–4	1–1	4–0		1–0	2–1	2–1	2–3	2–0	2–1	5–4	0–0	3–1	1–1	4–1	3–3
Heracles	1–3	1–3	0–2	0–4	2–1	1–1		4–2	0–2	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–4	1–1	3–1	1–0
NAC Breda	4–1	0–2	2–1	3–3	2–2	0–3	2–1		2–1	2–6	2–1	1–2	0–4	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–0
N.E.C.	5–0	1–0	0–2	1–2	2–2	4–1	2–0	1–1		0–2	3–1	1–3	0–3	0–0	0–3	0–0	1–0	2–0
PSV Eindhoven	3–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	4–1	1–0	3–0	1–0		2–0	2–0	3–2	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	4–1
RBC Roosendaal	1–2	0–2	0–5	2–2	1–2	0–2	1–2	1–2	2–0	1–2		1–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–3	1–1
RKC Waalwijk	3–0	2–4	0–1	2–1	2–1	2–2	0–2	4–1	1–3	4–4	1–1		2–0	3–2	2–3	2–3	0–1	1–0
Roda JC	3–1	2–1	1–4	2–3	1–3	2–1	2–1	3–3	0–1	0–3	5–1	1–0		1–1	2–0	2–1	3–2	0–2
Sparta Rotterdam	2–3	1–2	0–1	1–3	1–0	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–3	0–1	5–0	3–2	2–3		1–0	0–1	1–0	3–2
Twente	2–0	2–3	1–3	1–3	1–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	4–1	2–0	1–0	1–0		3–0	0–1	3–1
Utrecht	1–1	1–0	1–2	3–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	1–2	4–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–3		1–1	1–4
Vitesse Arnhem	3–1	0–2	0–5	0–1	2–0	2–2	0–1	2–1	1–1	1–3	5–1	4–2	1–3	3–1	1–2	1–0		2–1
Willem II	1–0	0–2	1–3	1–3	5–0	4–3	1–2	2–0	2–2	0–3	3–1	1–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	3–4

Source: vi.nl (in Dutch)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Topscorers

Pos.	Player	Club	Goals
1.	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	Heerenveen / Ajax	33
2.	Shota Arveladze	AZ	22
2.	Dirk Kuyt	Feyenoord	22
4.	Jefferson Farfán	PSV Eindhoven	21
5.	Salomon Kalou	Feyenoord	15

Awards

Dutch Footballer of the Year

• 2005 / 2006 — Dirk Kuyt (Feyenoord Rotterdam)

Dutch Golden Shoe Winner

• 2005 — Mark van Bommel (PSV Eindhoven)

The 2005-06 Eredivisie play-offs

Prior to finishing on 4th place in the regular season, Ajax had already reached the KNVB Cup final. In this final, they faced and defeated Eredivisie champions PSV. Ajax would have qualified for the UEFA Cup via the cup even if they had lost the final. This had consequences for the play-off schedule. Games F and H were not played. The teams ranked 2 to 5 instead played for one Champions League qualifier ticket and three UEFA Cup tickets. The fourth and final UEFA Cup ticket went to the winner of matches C, D and G, between the teams who finished from 6th to 9th place in the regular season. The loser of match G played the winner of a play-off between positions 10 to 13 of the regular league for a place in the UEFA Intertoto Cup. All rounds were played in two legs, one home match and one away match, with away goals as the first tiebreaker.

For UEFA competitions

For one Champions League ticket and three UEFA Cup tickets

	Matches A and B					Match E
	5	Groningen (advances on aggregate)	4
	2	AZ	3
						A	Groningen	2
						B	Ajax (advances on aggregate)	3
	4	Ajax (advances on aggregate)	7
	3	Feyenoord	2

For one UEFA Cup ticket and possibly one Intertoto Cup ticket

	Matches C and D					Match G
	9	Twente (advances on aggregate)	5
	6	Utrecht	1
						C	Twente	0
						D	Heerenveen (advances on aggregate)	6
	8	Roda JC	0
	7	Heerenveen (advances on aggregate)	1

For possibly one Intertoto Cup ticket

	Matches H and I					Match J
	13	Heracles	3
	10	NEC (advances on aggregate)	4
						I	Vitesse (advances on aggregate)	2
						H	NEC	1
	12	RKC	4
	11	Vitesse (advances on aggregate)	6

For the Intertoto Cup ticket

	Match K
	G	Twente (advances on aggregate)	3
	J	Vitesse	1

Overview

European Competition	Qualified Team(s)
Champions League third qualifying round	AFC Ajax
UEFA Cup	FC Groningen AZ Feyenoord sc Heerenveen
Intertoto Cup third round	FC Twente

For promotion and relegation

For two Eredivisie tickets
Round 1

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
FC Zwolle	4–2	HFC Haarlem	1–1	3–1
TOP Oss	5–0	AGOVV	3–0	2–0

Round 2 (best of 3)

Team 1	Pts	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
TOP Oss	2-5	NAC	0–0	2–2	1–3 (aet)
De Graafschap	4–1	VVV	1–1	4–2	Not played
Helmond Sport	3–6	FC Volendam	0–1	3–2	1–2 (aet)
FC Zwolle	0–6	Willem II	2–4	2–6	Not played

Round 3 (best of 3)

Team 1	Pts	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
De Graafschap	0-6	Willem II	0–1	1–2	Not played
FC Volendam	1–4	NAC	1–2	0–0	Not played

NAC Breda and Willem II remained in the Eredivisie.

See also

• 2005–06 Eerste Divisie
• 2005–06 KNVB Cup
• 2005–06 Sparta Rotterdam season

References

• Eredivisie official website - info on all seasons (in Dutch)
• RSSSF