1985–86 Eredivisie

This article is about a football season. For ice hockey, see 1985–86 Eredivisie (ice hockey) season.

Eredivisie

Season	1985–86
Champions	PSV Eindhoven (8th title)
Promoted	VVV-Venlo NEC SC Heracles
Relegated	MVV NEC SC Heracles
European Cup	PSV Eindhoven
Cup Winners' Cup	AFC Ajax
UEFA Cup	Feyenoord FC Groningen
Goals	952
Average goals/game	3.11
Top goalscorer	Marco van Basten AFC Ajax 37 goals
← 1984–85 1986–87 →

The Dutch Eredivisie in the 1985–86 season was contested by 18 teams. PSV won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	PSV	34	27	6	1	100	22	+78	60	Qualified for 1986–87 European Cup
2	Ajax	34	25	2	7	120	35	+85	52	Qualified for 1986–87 European Cup Winners' Cup
3	Feyenoord	34	19	6	9	74	50	+24	44	Qualified for 1986–87 UEFA Cup
4	FC Groningen	34	17	6	11	57	40	+17	40
5	Roda JC	34	16	7	11	76	51	+25	39
6	FC Den Bosch	34	13	11	10	50	41	+9	37
7	Sparta	34	13	11	10	54	59	−5	37
8	Fortuna Sittard	34	11	12	11	47	47	0	34
9	AZ '67	34	11	12	11	40	55	−15	34
10	Go Ahead Eagles	34	13	7	14	47	62	−15	33
11	Haarlem	34	10	12	12	48	47	+1	32
12	FC Utrecht	34	11	10	13	40	46	−6	32
13	FC VVV	34	11	5	18	39	62	−23	27
14	FC Twente	34	8	11	15	36	69	−33	27
15	Excelsior	34	9	7	18	31	48	−17	25
16	MVV	34	8	8	18	34	60	−26	24	Relegated to Eerste Divisie
17	NEC	34	9	5	20	33	59	−26	23
18	SC Heracles	34	3	6	25	26	99	−73	12

Source: rsssf.com

Results

Home \ Away	AJA	AZ	DBO	EXC	FEY	FSI	GAE	GRO	HFC	HER	MVV	NEC	PSV	RJC	SPA	TWE	UTR	VVV
Ajax		8–2	4–1	3–0	1–2	4–1	5–0	1–0	5–1	7–0	2–1	2–0	2–4	6–0	9–0	6–0	3–0	7–1
AZ '67	1–2		1–4	1–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	4–3	0–1	1–0	4–1	0–0
FC Den Bosch '67	0–3	0–0		0–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	3–0	4–0	4–3	2–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	4–0
Excelsior	2–3	1–0	1–1		2–1	3–0	0–1	1–2	0–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	0–1	1–3	2–2	0–1	0–0
Feyenoord	3–1	3–4	1–1	2–1		3–1	5–0	4–1	2–0	5–1	1–2	1–0	2–3	1–0	4–3	2–1	2–0	2–3
Fortuna Sittard	1–4	1–1	0–2	3–0	1–1		4–0	2–1	4–0	1–0	3–2	0–2	2–2	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–1
Go Ahead Eagles	1–2	1–1	2–1	4–0	1–3	1–0		2–1	0–0	2–2	3–1	3–1	1–3	3–1	0–0	3–3	4–3	2–1
FC Groningen	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	4–1	3–0	3–1		3–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	1–6	3–2	2–2	5–1	0–0	3–4
FC Haarlem	1–2	2–3	4–1	2–3	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–3		5–2	1–1	4–1	0–2	0–0	1–2	3–0	3–0	6–3
SC Heracles '74	1–8	1–1	0–3	1–2	2–5	0–3	1–0	0–4	2–2		0–2	2–2	0–2	1–8	0–0	0–0	2–3	0–2
MVV	1–4	0–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–0	0–2	1–0		0–1	0–6	1–1	4–2	0–0	2–1	3–1
N.E.C.	0–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	3–1	0–0	0–3	2–1	0–2	3–0	1–1		2–5	1–2	1–0	0–2	1–2	1–0
PSV	1–1	4–0	2–1	4–0	5–0	2–1	8–2	0–0	1–0	5–0	3–0	2–0		5–0	1–1	4–0	1–1	3–0
Roda JC	2–1	6–0	0–0	3–1	2–0	2–3	5–0	2–0	0–0	4–1	3–0	6–1	1–4		2–0	5–0	3–3	3–1
Sparta Rotterdam	3–1	0–0	3–0	3–1	2–5	2–2	2–1	3–3	0–4	6–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	2–4		2–0	3–2	1–3
FC Twente	1–8	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–4	3–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–3	4–1	1–2	1–3	1–1	2–2		2–1	1–0
FC Utrecht	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–2	3–0	4–1	0–3	2–0	2–0	2–2		2–0
VVV	1–4	4–0	3–1	1–0	0–1	0–3	1–2	0–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	0–3	0–3	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Attendances

Source:

No.	Club	Average	Change	Highest
1	PSV	18,376	18,1%	26,500
2	AFC Ajax	14,700	10,3%	42,000
3	Feyenoord	13,957	-18,6%	38,257
4	FC Groningen	10,582	-15,6%	20,500
5	VVV	7,076	17,5%	13,000
6	Fortuna Sittard	6,985	-3,9%	11,000
7	FC Utrecht	6,924	-6,8%	19,500
8	FC Den Bosch	6,315	11,1%	19,326
9	FC Twente	6,265	-30,0%	11,300
10	Roda JC	5,506	-4,5%	9,500
11	Heracles	5,206	32,1%	12,000
12	Go Ahead Eagles	4,882	4,4%	13,500
13	NEC	4,106	67,8%	14,500
14	Sparta	3,691	-19,3%	14,000
15	MVV Maastricht	3,656	-21,1%	7,800
16	Excelsior	3,481	16,7%	14,675
17	AZ '67	3,272	-14,9%	12,000
18	HFC Haarlem	3,024	-28,9%	7,000

See also

• 1985–86 Eerste Divisie
• 1985–86 KNVB Cup

External links

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