2016–17 FC Groningen season

FC Groningen finished 2016–17 Eredivisie season as 8th.

FC Groningen

2016–17 season
Head coach	Ernest Faber
Stadium	Euroborg
Eredivisie	8th
KNVB Cup	2nd round
Top goalscorer	League: Mimoun Mahi (17 goals) All: Mimoun Mahi (17 goals)
Highest home attendance	22,312 (against AFC Ajax)
Lowest home attendance	17,818 (against ADO Den Haag)
Average home league attendance	19,700
Biggest win	5-1 against PEC Zwolle and 4-0 against PEC Zwolle in Eredivisie and 4-0 against VV Capelle in KNVB Cup
Biggest defeat	5-0 against Feyenoord in Eredivisie
Home colours
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The club competed also in the KNVB Cup. FC Groningen lost 1–0 against FC Utrecht in the 2nd round and are eliminated from the cup.

Mimoun Mahi was the top scorer of the club in this season with 17 goals in Eredivisie.

Sergio Padt was the most appeared players in this season with 38 appearances; 36 appearances in Eredivisie and 2 appearances in the KNVB Cup.

Players

First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  NED Sergio Padt 2 DF  AUS Jason Davidson 3 DF  DEN Kasper Larsen 5 DF  BIH Samir Memišević 6 MF  NED Etiënne Reijnen 7 FW  CUW Jarchinio Antonia 8 MF  NOR Ruben Jenssen 8 FW  NED Danny Hoesen 10 MF  SVK Albert Rusnák 11 FW  NED Bryan Linssen 12 MF  CUW Juninho Bacuna 13 FW  NOR Alexander Sørloth 14 FW  MAR Mimoun Mahi 16 GK  NED Stefan van der Lei 17 MF  NED Jesper Drost 19 FW  NED Tom van Weert 20 MF  NED Yoell van Nieff

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 DF  NED Martijn Van Der Laan 22 MF  SWE Simon Tibbling 23 MF  NED Hedwiges Maduro 24 DF  NED Tom Hiariej 25 DF  USA Desevio Payne 31 GK  NED Erwin Heidekamp 32 GK  NED Nick Borgman 33 DF  NED Hans Hateboer 34 DF  NED Roland Baas 35 DF  NED Glenn Bijl 36 MF  AUS Ajdin Hrustic 40 MF  NED Keziah Veendorp 43 FW  NED Robbert de Vos 45 FW  MAR Oussama Idrissi 48 MF  PNG David Browne 49 MF  NED Gerald Postma 53 DF  NED Tim Riksman

Transfers

In

Pos.	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date
DF	Martijn Van Der Laan	SC Cambuur	End of loan	30 Jun 2016
MF	Yoell van Nieff	Excelsior Rotterdam	End of loan	30 Jun 2016
MF	Ruben Jenssen	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Free	1 Jul 2016
FW	Tom van Weert	Excelsior Rotterdam	Free	1 Jul 2016
DF	Samir Memišević	FK Radnik Bijeljina		1 Aug 2016
FW	Jason Davidson	Huddersfield Town A.F.C.	On loan	18 Aug 2016
DF	Tom Hiariej	SC Cambuur	End of loan	30 Jun 2016

Out

Pos.	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date
FW	Dino Islamović			1 Jul 2016
DF	Lorenzo Burnet	ŠK Slovan Bratislava	Free	1 Jul 2016
FW	Michael de Leeuw	Chicago Fire FC	Free	1 Jul 2016
DF	Rasmus Lindgren	BK Häcken	Free	1 Jul 2016
MF	Abel Tamata			31 Aug 2016
FW	Jarchinio Antonia			31 Aug 2016
MF	Hans Hateboer	Atalanta BC	€1,040,000	31 Jan 2017
MF	Albert Rusnák	Real Salt Lake	€435,000	6 Jan 2017
FW	Danny Hoesen	San Jose Earthquakes	On loan	2 Feb 2017

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss

Djurgårdens IF Fotboll v FC Groningen

4 July 2016 Friendly[1]	Djurgårdens IF Fotboll	0-1	FC Groningen	Stockholm
19:00		Report	Tom van Weert	Stadium: Tele2 Arena

FC Groningen v Queens Park Rangers F.C.

11 July 2016 Friendly[2]	FC Groningen	3-1	Queens Park Rangers F.C.	Groningen
20:00	Juninho Bacuna 13' Cole Kpekawa 64' (o.g.) Danny Hoesen 75' (pen.)	Report	Jay Emmanuel-Thomas 66'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 4,000

Competitions

Overall record

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Eredivisie	7 August 2016	22 April 2017	Week 1	8th	34	10	13	11	55	51	+4	029.41
KNVB	20 September 2016	26 October 2016	1st round	2nd round	2	1	0	1	4	1	+3	050.00
Total					36	11	13	12	59	52	+7	030.56

Source: Competitions

Eredivisie

Main article: 2016–17 Eredivisie

League table

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	10	13	11	55	51	+4	43	5	8	4	25	24	+1	5	5	7	30	27	+3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	L	L	L	D	D	W	D	L	L	W	L	D	W	W	L	W	D	W	D	D	D	L	D	L	D	L	D	D	W	L	W	W	D	W
Position																																		8

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

1st half

FC Groningen v Feyenoord

7 August 2016 Week 1[3]	FC Groningen	0-5	Feyenoord	Groningen
18:30		Report	Tonny Vilhena 19' Eljero Elia 36' 45' 56' Nicolai Jørgensen 83'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 19,762

Excelsior Rotterdam v FC Groningen

13 August 2016 Week 2[4]	Excelsior Rotterdam	2–0	FC Groningen	Rotterdam
18:30	Jurgen Mattheij 2' Kevin Vermeulen 90+3'	Report		Stadium: Van Donge & De Roo Stadion Attendance: 3,200

FC Groningen v FC Twente

21 August 2016 Week 3[5]	FC Groningen	3-4	FC Twente	Groningen
12:30	Mimoun Mahi 52' Oussama Idrissi 69' Danny Hoesen 84'	Report	Enes Ünal 23' 36' 39' Jari Oosterwijk 90+2'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 18,051

PSV Eindhoven v FC Groningen

28 August 2016 Week 4[6]	PSV Eindhoven	0-0	FC Groningen	Eindhoven
12:30		Report		Stadium: Philips Stadion Attendance: 33,000

FC Groningen v Sparta Rotterdam

11 September 2016 Week 5[7]	FC Groningen	1–1	Sparta Rotterdam	Groningen
14:30	Mimoun Mahi 11'	Report	Zakaria El Azzouzi 18'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 17,845

FC Utrecht v FC Groningen

16 September 2016 Week 6[8]	FC Utrecht	1-5	FC Groningen	Utrecht
20:00	Richairo Živković 60'	Report	Oussama Idrissi 13' 44' Danny Hoesen 66' 90+3' Tom van Weert 80'	Stadium: Stadion Galgenwaard Attendance: 15,217

FC Groningen v Heracles Almelo

24 September 2016 Week 7[9]	FC Groningen	0–0	Heracles Almelo	Groningen
18:30		Report		Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 18,272

SBV Vitesse v FC Groningen

2 October 2016 Week 8[10]	SBV Vitesse	2-1	FC Groningen	Arnhem
18:30	Lewis Baker 44' Kelvin Leerdam 76'	Report	Danny Hoesen 4' (pen.)	Stadium: GelreDome Attendance: 15,055

FC Groningen v SC Heerenveen

15 October 2016 Week 9[11]	FC Groningen	0-3	SC Heerenveen	Groningen
20:45		Report	Arbër Zeneli 7' Sam Larsson 73' Reza Ghoochannejhad 82'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 21,155

FC Groningen v AZ Alkmaar

23 October 2016 Week 10[12]	FC Groningen	2–0	AZ Alkmaar	Groningen
14:30	Bryan Linssen 18' Tom van Weert 45+2'	Report		Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 21,565

Willem II v FC Groningen

29 October 2016 Week 11[13]	Willem II	2–1	FC Groningen	Tilburg
18:30	Thom Haye 66' Bartholomew Ogbeche 85'	Report	Mimoun Mahi 75'	Stadium: Koning Willem II Stadion Attendance: 12,700

NEC Nijmegen v FC Groningen

5 November 2016 Week 12[14]	NEC Nijmegen	1-1	FC Groningen	Nijmegen
19:45	Ferdi Kadıoğlu 83'	Report	Tom van Weert 78'	Stadium: Goffertstadion Attendance: 10,750

FC Groningen v ADO Den Haag

19 November 2016 Week 13[15]	FC Groningen	2–1	ADO Den Haag	Groningen
20:45	Hans Hateboer 10' Tom van Weert 54'	Report	Édouard Duplan 42'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 17,818

PEC Zwolle v FC Groningen

26 November 2016 Week 14[16]	PEC Zwolle	0-4	FC Groningen	Zwolle
19:45		Report	Simon Tibbling 1' Tom van Weert 39' Albert Rusnák 77' Mimoun Mahi 11'	Stadium: MAC³PARK Stadion Attendance: 13,000

AFC Ajax v FC Groningen

4 December 2016 Week 15[17]	AFC Ajax	2-0	FC Groningen	Amsterdam
16:45	Davinson Sánchez 9' Hakim Ziyech 72' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Johan Cruyff Arena Attendance: 50,667

FC Groningen v Roda JC Kerkrade

9 December 2016 Week 16[18]	FC Groningen	2-0	Roda JC Kerkrade	Groningen
20:00	Mimoun Mahi 10' Alexander Sørloth 71'	Report		Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 19,179

FC Groningen v Go Ahead Eagles

18 December 2016 Week 17[19]	FC Groningen	1-1	Go Ahead Eagles	Groningen
14:30	Mimoun Mahi 20'	Report	Jarchinio Antonia 31'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 19,442

2nd half

Heracles Almelo v FC Groningen

14 January 2017 Week 18[20]	Heracles Almelo	1-4	FC Groningen	Almelo
19:45	Daryl van Mieghem 90'	Report	Mimoun Mahi 30' 87' Desevio Payne 34' Alexander Sørloth 39'	Stadium: Erve Asito Attendance: 10,513

FC Groningen v SBV Vitesse

21 January 2017 Week 19[21]	FC Groningen	1-1	SBV Vitesse	Groningen
20:45	Kelvin Leerdam 6' (o.g.)	Report	Navarone Foor 49'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 18,810

SC Heerenveen v FC Groningen

29 January 2017 Week 20[22]	SC Heerenveen	0-0	FC Groningen	Heerenveen
12:30		Report		Stadium: Abe Lenstra Stadion Attendance: 21,750

FC Groningen v Excelsior Rotterdam

5 February 2017 Week 21[23]	FC Groningen	1-1	Excelsior Rotterdam	Groningen
20:45	Mimoun Mahi 48' (pen.)	Report	Anouar Hadouir 80'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 17,844

Feyenoord v FC Groningen

11 February 2017 Week 22[24]	Feyenoord	2-0	FC Groningen	Rotterdam
19:45	Jens Toornstra 38' 66'	Report		Stadium: De Kuip Attendance: 47,500

Sparta Rotterdam v FC Groningen

19 February 2017 Week 23[25]	Sparta Rotterdam	2-2	FC Groningen	Rotterdam
14:30	Paco van Moorsel 8' Iván Calero 17'	Report	Ruben Jenssen 21' Mimoun Mahi 44'	Stadium: Het Kasteel Attendance: 9,778

FC Groningen v FC Utrecht

25 February 2017 Week 24[26]	FC Groningen	2-3	FC Utrecht	Groningen
18:30	Bryan Linssen 4' 45'	Report	Sébastien Haller 54' Giovanni Troupée 79' Yassin Ayoub 82'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 21,458

FC Groningen v AFC Ajax

5 March 2017 Week 25[27]	FC Groningen	1-1	AFC Ajax	Groningen
14:30	Bryan Linssen 56'	Report	Davy Klaassen 82'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 22,312

Roda JC Kerkrade v FC Groningen

12 March 2017 Week 26[28]	Roda JC Kerkrade	3–1	FC Groningen	Kerkrade
14:30	Abdul Jeleel Ajagun 31' Christian Kum 54' Dani Schahin 66'	Report	Bryan Linssen 73'	Stadium: Parkstad Limburg Stadion Attendance: 12,870

FC Groningen v Willem II

18 March 2017 Week 27[29]	FC Groningen	1-1	Willem II	Groningen
18:30	Ruben Jenssen 49'	Report	Obbi Oularé 54'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 19,959

AZ Alkmaar v FC Groningen

1 April 2017 Week 28[30]	AZ Alkmaar	0-0	FC Groningen	Alkmaar
18:30		Report		Stadium: AFAS Stadion Attendance: 14,828

FC Groningen v NEC Nijmegen

5 April 2017 Week 29[31]	FC Groningen	2-0	NEC Nijmegen	Groningen
19:45	Mimoun Mahi 30' Juninho Bacuna 67'	Report		Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 18,069

ADO Den Haag v FC Groningen

8 April 2017 Week 30[32]	ADO Den Haag	4-3	FC Groningen	The Hague
19:45	Danny Bakker 13' Dion Malone 21' 47' Mike Havenaar 23'	Report	Mimoun Mahi 52' (pen.) Bryan Linssen 64' 90+4'	Stadium: Bingoal Stadion Attendance: 11,348

FC Groningen v PEC Zwolle

16 April 2017 Week 31[33]	FC Groningen	5-1	PEC Zwolle	Groningen
14:30	Bryan Linssen 14' 38' Mimoun Mahi 19' 53' Ajdin Hrustic 88'	Report	Nicolai Brock-Madsen 46'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 21,666

Go Ahead Eagles v FC Groningen

22 April 2017 Week 32[34]	Go Ahead Eagles	2-3	FC Groningen	Deventer
20:45	Sam Hendriks 74' Darren Maatsen 89'	Report	Mimoun Mahi 37' 90+3' Jesper Drost 80'	Stadium: De Adelaarshorst Attendance: 9,383

FC Groningen v PSV Eindhoven

7 May 2017 Week 33[35]	FC Groningen	1-1	PSV Eindhoven	Groningen
14:30	Mimoun Mahi 11'	Report	Sam Lammers 59'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 20,791

FC Twente v FC Groningen

14 May 2017 Week 34[36]	FC Twente	3-5	FC Groningen	Enschede
14:30	Dylan George 19' Mateusz Klich 64' Enes Ünal 85'	Report	Bryan Linssen 2' Oussama Idrissi 25' 29' Stefan Thesker 43' (o.g.) Alexander Sørloth 66'	Stadium: De Grolsch Veste Attendance: 26,200

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FC Groningen v AZ Alkmaar

17 May 2017 European competition playoff 1st game[37]	FC Groningen	1-4	AZ Alkmaar	Groningen
20:45	Jesper Drost 68'	Report	Alireza Jahanbakhsh 45' Wout Weghorst 66' 90+2' Calvin Stengs 74'	Stadium: Euroborg Attendance: 20,610

AZ Alkmaar v FC Groningen

20 May 2017 European competition playoff 2nd game[38]	AZ Alkmaar	4-1	FC Groningen	Alkmaar
20:45	Wout Weghorst 9' Joris van Overeem 54' 82' Calvin Stengs 62'	Report	Bryan Linssen 37'	Stadium: AFAS Stadion Attendance: 10,413

AZ Alkmaar won 8–2 on aggregate.

KNVB Cup

Main article: 2016–17 KNVB Cup

VV Capelle v FC Groningen

20 September 2016 Third round[39]	VV Capelle	0-4	FC Groningen	Capelle aan den IJssel
17:00		Report	Danny Hoesen 10' Tom van Weert 15' Hans Hateboer 65' Alexander Sørloth 79'	Stadium: Sportpark 't Slot Attendance: 1,500

FC Utrecht v FC Groningen

26 October 2016 Second round[40]	FC Utrecht	1–0	FC Groningen	Utrecht
20:00	Nacer Barazite 90+2'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Galgenwaard Attendance: 16,377

Statistics

Scorers

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#	Player	Eredivisie	KNVB	Total
1	Mimoun Mahi	17	0	17
2	Bryan Linssen	11	0	11
3	Tom van Weert	5	1	6
4	Danny Hoesen	4	1	5
	Oussama Idrissi	5	0	5
6	Alexander Sørloth	3	1	4
7	Jesper Drost	2	0	2
	Ruben Jenssen	2	0	2
9	Ajdin Hrustic	1	0	1
	Albert Rusnák	1	0	1
	Desevio Payne	1	0	1
	Hans Hateboer	0	1	1
	Juninho Bacuna	1	0	1
	Simon Tibbling	1	0	1

Appearances

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#	Player	Eredivisie	KNVB	Total
1	Sergio Padt	36	2	38
2	Ruben Jenssen	35	2	37
3	Mimoun Mahi	32	2	34
4	Bryan Linssen	30	1	31
5	Etiënne Reijnen	29	1	30
	Oussama Idrissi	29	1	30
7	Alexander Sørloth	27	1	28
	Simon Tibbling	26	2	28
9	Samir Memišević	26	1	27
	Tom Hiariej	25	2	27
11	Juninho Bacuna	26	0	26
12	Kasper Larsen	23	2	25
	Yoell van Nieff	23	2	25
14	Jason Davidson	22	0	22
15	Hans Hateboer	19	2	21
16	Jesper Drost	19	0	19
	Tom van Weert	19	0	19
18	Albert Rusnák	13	2	15
19	Danny Hoesen	10	2	12
20	Ajdin Hrustic	7	0	7
21	Desevio Payne	6	0	6
22	Hedwiges Maduro	5	0	5
23	Jarchinio Antonia	3	0	3
24	Glenn Bijl	2	0	2
	Martijn Van Der Laan	2	0	2
26	Roland Baas	1	0	1

Clean sheets

#	Player	Eredivisie	KNVB	Total
1	Sergio Padt	7	1	8
Total		7	1	8

Disciplinary record

^[41]

#	Player	Eredivisie		KNVB		Total
1	Juninho Bacuna	4	3	0	0	4	3
2	Samir Memišević	1	2	0	0	1	2
3	Bryan Linssen	5	1	1	0	6	1
4	Jason Davidson	2	1	0	0	2	1
5	Hans Hateboer	6	0	0	0	6	0
6	Ruben Jenssen	5	0	0	0	5	0
	Simon Tibbling	4	0	1	0	5	0
8	Tom Hiariej	4	0	0	0	4	0
9	Alexander Sørloth	3	0	0	0	3	0
10	Desevio Payne	2	0	0	0	2	0
	Etiënne Reijnen	2	0	0	0	2	0
	Kasper Larsen	2	0	0	0	2	0
	Mimoun Mahi	1	0	1	0	2	0
	Oussama Idrissi	2	0	0	0	2	0
15	Albert Rusnák	1	0	0	0	1	0
	Glenn Bijl	1	0	0	0	1	0
	Hedwiges Maduro	1	0	0	0	1	0
	Jesper Drost	1	0	0	0	1	0
	Tom van Weert	1	0	0	0	1	0