2008–09 Eerste Divisie

Eerste Divisie 2008–09 began in August 2008 and concluded in May 2009, with the promotion playoffs. Sixteen clubs remained in the Eerste Divisie, whilst Excelsior and VVV-Venlo were relegated from the 2007–08 Eredivisie. VVV-Venlo won the league title and were promoted to the Eredivisie, the highest tier of football in the Netherlands, while eight other teams competed in a playoff with two Eredivisie sides for two Eredivisie places.

Eerste Divisie

Season	2008–09
Promoted	VVV-Venlo
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

AGOVV

Cambuur

Den Bosch

Dordrecht

Eindhoven

Emmen

Excelsior

Fortuna Sittard

Go Ahead Eagles

Haarlem

Helmond Sport

MVV

Omniworld

RBC

RKC

Telstar

TOP Oss

Veendam

VVV-Venlo

Zwolle

Location of teams in the Eerste Divisie 2008-09

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	VVV-Venlo (C, P)	38	25	5	8	86	38	+48	80	Promotion to the Eredivisie
2	RKC Waalwijk (P)	38	18	17	3	68	31	+37	71	Qualification for promotion play-offs Second Round
3	Cambuur	38	20	9	9	68	49	+19	69
4	Zwolle	38	18	9	11	58	49	+9	63
5	Excelsior	38	16	13	9	53	43	+10	61
6	MVV	38	16	12	10	60	42	+18	60	Qualification for promotion play-offs First Round
7	Go Ahead Eagles	38	14	14	10	41	41	0	56
8	Dordrecht	38	15	10	13	51	39	+12	55	Qualification for promotion play-offs First Round
9	Den Bosch	38	15	8	15	59	51	+8	53
10	Helmond Sport	38	14	11	13	50	48	+2	53
11	AGOVV	38	15	7	16	60	67	−7	52
12	Haarlem	38	15	5	18	43	56	−13	50
13	Emmen	38	13	8	17	48	68	−20	47
14	Oss	38	11	9	18	50	63	−13	42	Qualification for promotion play-offs First Round
15	Fortuna Sittard	38	11	9	18	42	59	−17	42
16	RBC Roosendaal	38	11	7	20	43	55	−12	40
17	Telstar	38	9	12	17	42	56	−14	39	Qualification for promotion play-offs First Round
18	Eindhoven	38	9	14	15	59	80	−21	38[a]
19	Veendam	38	10	9	19	46	67	−21	36[a]
20	Omniworld	38	8	6	24	40	65	−25	30

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted
Notes:

1. 3 points deducted

Period winners

The competition is divided into six periods (Dutch: periode) of six matches each. The winner of each period (Dutch: periodekampioen) qualifies for the playoffs at the end of the season. If the winner of a period has already won a prior period in the season, the second placed team in the period is awarded the playoff slot. If the second placed team has also won a prior period, no winner is called, and the playoff slot is decided by league standing at the end of the season.

Best Top Ranking Teams

Excelsior, Telstar, FC Zwolle, TOP Oss and Dordrecht were awarded play-off spot as their performance in the six periods, along with RKC Waalwijk and Cambuur, the two best placed team in Eerste Divisie who did not get a play-off spot via period route. As VVV-Venlo, one of the period winners, promoted as Eerste Divisie champions, MVV replaced them as the best placed team who did not qualify for play-off.

Period winners (Periodekampioenen)

Period	Winning team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Excelsior	6	5	0	1	12	4	+8	15
2	VVV-Venlo	6	6	0	0	17	3	+14	18
3	Telstar	6	4	1	1	13	7	+6	13
4	FC Zwolle	6	5	0	1	13	11	+2	15
5	TOP Oss	6	4	1	1	13	7	+6	13
6	Dordrecht	6	6	0	0	15	3	+12	18

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Home \ Away	AGO	CAM	DBO	DOR	EIN	EMM	EXC	FOR	GAE	HAA	HEL	MVV	OMN	RBC	RKC	TEL	OSS	VEE	VVV	ZWO
AGOVV		0–2	3–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–3	1–0	1–5	2–0	1–0	2–3	2–2	2–0	2–2	1–1	3–2	4–1	2–1	2–1
Cambuur	2–2		0–3	2–0	3–1	6–2	1–1	2–1	2–2	3–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–3	2–1	2–2	2–0	1–2
Den Bosch	2–0	1–2		1–2	0–2	5–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–3	3–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	2–2	0–5	3–4
Dordrecht	2–1	1–0	0–1		2–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	3–1	4–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	2–3	0–2	4–0
Eindhoven	3–3	3–3	1–7	2–1		2–2	1–0	2–4	1–1	3–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–4	2–2	2–1	1–3	2–0
Emmen	2–3	3–2	0–1	2–1	1–4		0–2	1–2	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–2	4–4	3–2	2–4	1–0
Excelsior	4–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	3–2	0–2		5–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–5	0–1	2–1	4–1	1–2	0–2
Fortuna Sittard	2–4	1–4	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–1		0–1	1–2	3–1	3–2	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–3
Go Ahead Eagles	2–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–1		1–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–1
Haarlem	1–0	0–1	1–4	3–0	2–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–2		1–3	0–3	2–1	2–0	0–2	4–2	2–1	1–0	0–4	3–1
Helmond Sport	1–2	4–1	3–0	1–0	4–3	3–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–1		2–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–3	3–2	0–0
MVV	3–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	3–1	1–1	0–1	0–2	1–1	3–0	3–1		2–1	4–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–0	4–1
Omniworld	0–3	1–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	4–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	1–2		1–2	1–1	1–0	0–2	2–1	3–5	3–3
RBC Roosendaal	3–0	1–2	0–1	2–3	1–2	2–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1		2–2	1–0	3–2	2–1	1–4	1–3
RKC Waalwijk	3–1	1–1	1–1	3–3	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	3–1		3–0	5–0	4–1	1–1	1–0
Telstar	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	4–1	0–0	2–3	1–2	3–1	1–1	1–2		2–2	1–0	2–1	0–2
Oss	1–1	0–2	2–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	3–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–2	1–0	3–0	0–3	0–3	3–0		2–3	4–2	3–1
Veendam	2–1	0–3	2–4	0–4	2–2	1–1	1–2	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	3–2	0–2	1–0	1–1		1–2	0–0
VVV-Venlo	3–1	1–2	2–0	1–1	6–0	4–0	3–1	2–0	5–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	4–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	3–1	1–0		1–1
Zwolle	3–2	3–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	4–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–2	0–1	0–0	3–1	0–2	1–1	3–0	0–0	3–2	1–2

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

Top scorers

Goals	Player	Team
25	Sandro Calabro	VVV-Venlo
20	Gunther Thiebaut	MVV
18	Serhat Koç	FC Eindhoven
	Glynor Plet	Telstar
17	Sjoerd Ars	RBC Roosendaal
16	Keisuke Honda	VVV-Venlo
14	Jeremy Bokila	AGOVV Apeldoorn
	Ruud ter Heide	SC Cambuur
13	Marc Höcher	Helmond Sport
	Dries Mertens	AGOVV Apeldoorn
	Fred Benson	RKC Waalwijk
	Roy Stroeve	FC Emmen
	Adnan Barakat	FC Den Bosch
	Koen van der Biezen	Go Ahead Eagles / FC Den Bosch
12	Samir El Gaaouiri	VVV-Venlo
	Karim Fachtali	TOP Oss
	Ruud Berger	RKC Waalwijk
	Cecilio Lopes	FC Dordrecht

Playoffs

Please note that the following teams: Roda JC & De Graafschap joined the Eerste Divisie-teams for the playoffs, after finishing 16th and 17th in the Eredivisie.

Round 1

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Telstar	0–1	MVV	0–0	0–1
TOP Oss	0–3	Dordrecht	0–2	0–1

Round 2 (best of 3)

Team 1	Pts	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
MVV	4–5	De Graafschap	2–3	2–2	not played
Excelsior	2–3	RKC Waalwijk	1–2	1–1	not played
FC Zwolle	3–6	Cambuur	2–1	1–3	0-2
Dordrecht	1–2	Roda JC	1–1	0–1	not played

Round 3 (best of 3)

Team 1	Pts	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
RKC Waalwijk	4–2	De Graafschap	2–0	1–2	1–0
Cambuur	3–3 (p. 1–3)	Roda JC	0–0	1–1	2–2 (aet)

The 2 winners of Round 3 will play in Eredivisie 2009–10.

Overview

Club	Location	Current manager	2008–09 season managers
AGOVV Apeldoorn	Apeldoorn	John van den Brom
SC Cambuur	Leeuwarden	Stanley Menzo	Jurrie Koolhof
FC Den Bosch	's-Hertogenbosch	Vacant	Theo Bos
FC Dordrecht	Dordrecht	Gert Kruys
FC Eindhoven	Eindhoven	Marc Brys
FC Emmen	Emmen	Paul Krabbe	Gerry Hamstra
Excelsior	Rotterdam	Ton Lokhoff
Fortuna Sittard	Sittard	Roger Reijners
Go Ahead Eagles	Deventer	Andries Ulderink
HFC Haarlem	Haarlem	Jan Zoutman
Helmond Sport	Helmond	Jurgen Streppel
MVV	Maastricht	Fuat Çapa
FC Omniworld	Almere	Henk Wisman	Peter Boeve
RBC Roosendaal	Roosendaal	Rini Coolen	Rob Meppelink
RKC Waalwijk	Waalwijk	Ruud Brood
Telstar	Velsen	Edward Metgod
TOP Oss	Oss	Hans de Koning
BV Veendam	Veendam	Joop Gall
VVV-Venlo	Venlo	Jan van Dijk
FC Zwolle	Zwolle	Marco Roelofsen	Jan Everse

See also

• 2008–09 Eredivisie
• 2008–09 KNVB Cup