2011–12 Eerste Divisie

Eerste Divisie

Season	2011–12
Champions	FC Zwolle
Promoted	Willem II
Relegated	none
Top goalscorer	Jack Tuyp
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The 2011–12 Eerste Divisie, known as Jupiler League for sponsorship reasons,^[1] was the fifty-sixth season of Eerste Divisie since its establishment in 1955. It began in August 2011 with the first matches of the season and ended in June 2012 with the nacompetitie, a promotion-and-relegation tournament also involving the 16th- and 17th-placed teams from the 2011–12 Eredivisie. The competition was won by FC Zwolle on 13 April 2012, after drawing FC Eindhoven 0-0 at home in their 32nd match of the season.^[2]

On 1 March 2012, the Dutch football federation confirmed that no team would be relegated from the league at the end of the season, after all the 2011–12 Topklasse teams had decided against being eligible for promotion to the Eerste Divisie.^[3]

Teams

A total of 18 teams took part in the league. Willem II were relegated as bottom-placed team in the 2010–11 Eredivisie, whereas FC Oss were promoted as 2010–11 Topklasse runners-up, as champions IJsselmeervogels opted to keep playing at amateur level instead. Following the disbandment and consequent exclusion of RBC Roosendaal in June 2011, last-placed 2010–11 Eerste Divisie club Almere City FC were readmitted in the league to fill the vacancy.^[1]

The season also saw the participation of the old BV Veendam under their new denomination of SC Veendam.^[4]

AGOVV

Almere City

Cambuur

Den Bosch

Dordrecht

Eindhoven

Emmen

Fortuna Sittard

Go Ahead Eagles

Helmond Sport

MVV

Willem II

Oss

Sparta

Telstar

Veendam

Volendam

Zwolle

Location of teams in the Eerste Divisie 2011-2012

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity
AGOVV Apeldoorn	Apeldoorn	Sportpark Berg & Bos	3,259
Almere City FC	Almere	Mitsubishi Forklift Stadion	3,000
Cambuur	Leeuwarden	Cambuur Stadion	10,250
FC Den Bosch	's-Hertogenbosch	De Vliert	9,000
FC Dordrecht	Dordrecht	GN Bouw Stadion	4,100
FC Eindhoven	Eindhoven	Jan Louwers Stadion	4,600
FC Emmen	Emmen	Univé Stadion	8,600
Fortuna Sittard	Sittard	Wagner & Partners Stadion	12,500
Go Ahead Eagles	Deventer	Adelaarshorst	6,700
Helmond Sport	Helmond	Stadion De Braak	4,100
MVV	Maastricht	De Geusselt	11,026
FC Oss	Oss	Heesen Yachts Stadion	4,700
Sparta Rotterdam	Rotterdam	Het Kasteel	11,026
Telstar	Velsen	TATA Steel Stadion	3,625
SC Veendam	Veendam	De Langeleegte	5,290
FC Volendam	Volendam	Kras Stadion	6,260
Willem II	Tilburg	Koning Willem II Stadion	14,637
FC Zwolle	Zwolle	FC Zwolle Stadion	10,000

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
AGOVV Apeldoorn	de Koning, HansHans de Koning	Mutual consent	1 July 2011[5]	Pre-season	van Arum, HansHans van Arum	1 July 2011[6]
FC Dordrecht	Lee, HennyHenny Lee	Signed by FC Utrecht	1 July 2011[7]	Pre-season	Bos, TheoTheo Bos	1 July 2011[7]
Go Ahead Eagles	Ulderink, AndriesAndries Ulderink	Signed by De Graafschap	1 July 2011[8]	Pre-season	Gall, JoopJoop Gall	1 July 2011[9]
Helmond Sport	Streppel, JurgenJurgen Streppel	Signed by Willem II	1 July 2011[10]	Pre-season	de Koning, HansHans de Koning	1 July 2011[11]
Sparta Rotterdam	van Eck, JosJos van Eck	End of interim spell	1 July 2011	Pre-season	Vonk, MichelMichel Vonk	1 July 2011[12]
SC Veendam	Gall, JoopJoop Gall	Signed by Go Ahead Eagles	1 July 2011[9]	Pre-season	Heerkes, GertGert Heerkes	1 July 2011[13]
Willem II	Feskens, JohnJohn Feskens	End of interim spell	1 July 2011	Pre-season	Streppel, JurgenJurgen Streppel	1 July 2011[10]
Fortuna Sittard	Dusseldorp, WimWim Dusseldorp	Signed by VVV-Venlo	28 December 2011[14]	14th	Ruys, TinyTiny Ruys	29 December 2011[15]
FC Dordrecht	Bos, TheoTheo Bos	Sick leave	7 January 2012[16]		Breetveld, VirgilVirgil Breetveld (interim)	7 January 2012
FC Volendam	Kruys, GertGert Kruys	Gardening leave	6 March 2012[17]	13th	Steur, JohanJohan Steur (interim)	6 March 2012[18]
FC Eindhoven	Faber, ErnestErnest Faber	Hired by PSV Eindhoven	14 March 2012[19]	2nd	Koeman, ErwinErwin Koeman	17 March 2012[20]
Go Ahead Eagles	Gall, JoopJoop Gall	Resigned	24 March 2012[21]	11th	Calderwood, JimmyJimmy Calderwood (interim)	30 March 2012[22]
AGOVV Apeldoorn	van Arum, HansHans van Arum	Removed from managerial duties	26 April 2012[23]	17th	Heering, MarcoMarco Heering (interim)	26 April 2012[23]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Zwolle (C) (P)	34	22	6	6	68	34	+34	72	Promotion to 2012–13 Eredivisie
2	Sparta Rotterdam	34	19	8	7	59	32	+27	65	Qualification for Promotion playoffs Second Round
3	Eindhoven	34	18	9	7	52	33	+19	63
4	Helmond Sport	34	18	8	8	62	50	+12	62
5	Willem II (P)	34	17	7	10	67	41	+26	58
6	Den Bosch	34	16	9	9	57	32	+25	57	Qualification for Promotion playoffs First Round
7	Cambuur	34	16	8	10	68	44	+24	56
8	MVV	34	14	9	11	59	55	+4	51
9	Go Ahead Eagles	34	14	8	12	65	56	+9	50
10	Dordrecht	34	13	11	10	56	62	−6	50
11	Fortuna Sittard	34	13	9	12	62	51	+11	48
12	Volendam	34	14	6	14	57	55	+2	48
13	Almere City	34	11	7	16	52	62	−10	40
14	Oss	34	10	5	19	56	76	−20	35
15	Telstar	34	9	5	20	45	70	−25	32
16	Veendam	34	4	10	20	42	67	−25	22
17	AGOVV	34	5	4	25	36	94	−58	19
18	Emmen	34	6	5	23	24	73	−49	017^1

Updated to games played on 27 April 2012.
Source: Eerste divisie (official site) (Dutch)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Emmen deducted six points due to financial irregularities.^[24]
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away

AGO

ALM

CAM

DBO

DOR

EIN

EMM

FOR

GAE

HEL

MVV

OSS

SPA

TEL

VEE

VOL

WIL

ZWO

AGOVV

1–1

2–4

2–3

2–3

0–0

0–1

2–4

3–1

0–3

1–1

3–2

0–6

2–3

3–2

1–2

2–1

0–4

Almere City

4–1

1–1

1–3

5–0

1–3

2–0

1–4

0–2

2–1

1–2

3–2

1–1

2–1

3–0

2–1

1–4

0–3

Cambuur

2–0

3–0

1–0

4–0

0–1

2–1

3–1

1–1

2–2

5–1

4–2

1–2

3–1

5–1

4–1

0–2

3–0

Den Bosch

4–0

2–0

1–1

0–0

0–2

5–1

1–1

1–2

0–0

3–0

1–0

0–1

3–0

3–0

1–2

1–0

2–2

Dordrecht

4–0

2–1

2–1

4–3

2–1

3–0

2–2

3–1

3–2

3–3

3–2

3–2

2–0

2–2

0–0

3–2

1–2

Eindhoven

3–2

0–2

1–1

2–2

1–0

3–0

4–3

1–0

0–0

4–1

2–0

0–2

3–1

2–0

2–0

2–3

2–2

Emmen

1–0

2–2

2–1

1–2

1–1

0–1

0–4

3–2

0–1

2–1

1–3

1–1

0–2

0–2

0–4

0–2

1–2

Fortuna Sittard

5–1

0–0

0–0

2–2

2–0

0–1

4–1

1–1

0–1

2–0

2–1

1–0

2–5

1–0

3–2

3–1

0–1

Go Ahead Eagles

3–1

2–2

4–1

1–1

4–2

1–3

1–0

2–1

2–3

2–1

7–2

1–2

1–0

2–2

5–0

1–3

0–1

Helmond Sport

1–0

2–0

1–3

1–0

2–1

0–1

0–1

2–2

5–1

2–2

2–1

3–2

3–2

3–2

1–0

0–7

3–1

MVV

2–2

3–2

2–0

1–4

1–1

1–0

6–0

3–1

1–2

3–3

3–1

1–1

1–0

2–1

3–0

3–1

1–3

Oss

1–0

3–4

3–2

0–2

3–3

1–0

1–1

1–3

5–3

3–1

0–2

1–5

3–1

4–4

1–3

1–1

1–0

Sparta Rotterdam

4–1

2–1

2–0

2–0

2–0

2–2

1–1

1–0

4–1

0–3

0–0

2–2

1–0

2–1

0–0

2–1

2–0

Telstar

1–3

3–1

2–5

0–0

3–0

1–1

2–1

2–1

0–2

0–3

2–3

2–1

0–2

1–1

2–2

1–0

0–3

Veendam

4–0

1–1

1–1

1–2

1–1

1–2

3–0

2–2

0–4

1–1

1–3

1–2

1–2

1–1

1–0

1–3

0–1

Volendam

6–1

3–1

1–4

0–2

1–1

3–1

3–1

3–2

2–2

3–1

2–0

1–2

1–0

4–1

3–2

1–2

2–2

Willem II

5–0

1–2

0–0

0–3

1–1

1–1

5–0

1–1

1–1

3–3

2–1

2–0

2–1

3–2

3–1

1–0

3–1

Zwolle

3–0

3–2

3–0

1–0

5–0

0–0

1–0

4–2

0–0

2–3

1–1

2–1

2–0

7–3

2–0

3–1

1–0

Updated to games played on 27 April 2012.
Source: Eerste Divisie website
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Playoffs

VVV-Venlo and De Graafschap joined the Eerste Divisie-teams for the playoffs, after finishing 16th and 17th in the Eredivisie.

Round 1

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Go Ahead Eagles	1–3	Den Bosch	1−1	0–2
MVV	1–2	Cambuur	0−2	1–0

Round 2

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Den Bosch	1–1	De Graafschap	0–0	1–1
Willem II	3–2	Sparta Rotterdam	2–1	1–1
Helmond Sport	3–0	Eindhoven	1–0	2–0
Cambuur	3–4	VVV-Venlo	0–0	3–4

Round 3

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Den Bosch	1–2	Willem II	0–0	1–2
Helmond Sport	3–4	VVV-Venlo	1–2	2–2

Top goalscorers

As of 27 January 2012^[25]

17 goals

• Jack Tuyp (FC Volendam)

12 goals

• Nassir Maachi (FC Zwolle)

11 goals

• Erik Bakker (SC Cambuur)
• Marcel van der Sloot (FC Oss)

10 goals

• Donny de Groot (Willem II)
• Anco Jansen (SC Veendam)

9 goals

• Christopher Bieber (FC Oss)
• Jeremy Bokila (Sparta Rotterdam)
• Cecilio Lopes (FC Dordrecht)
• Johan Plat (Telstar)
• Tom van Weert (FC Den Bosch)

References

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