Den Bosch and SCHC battle for leading position as well as EHL ticket

HOUSES - AMSTERDAM
Saturday, 16:30

• Amsterdam won all five matches between them against Huizen with the goal figures 24-4.
   
• Amsterdam scored 17 goals in the last three matches with Huizen.
   
• Amsterdam has already conceded 31 goals this season, almost as many as title rivals Den Bosch (seventeen) and SCHC (eighteen) combined.
   
• Last week, Amsterdam qualified for the playoffs as the fourth and last team. It was only the third time that the team as number four of the league table qualified for the national title nacompetition, after 2010-2011 and 2014-2015. In both seasons, the semi-finals were the final stage for the Amsterdammers.
   
• Huizen was relegated by the 10-1 defeat at Den Bosch last weekend. It was the biggest ever loss for the team in the Hoofdklasse.
   
• Huizen could not win any of its last 15 home games (D2 L13). It last managed to do so on 11 November 2018 against Bloemendaal (2-1).

KAMPONG - HGC
Saturday, 4:30pm

• Kampong won the last three matches against HGC and are unbeaten since four games (D W W W).
   
• Kampong remained unbeaten in 10 of the last 12 matches with HGC (W8 D2 L2).
   
• Kampong has been hard to beat for some time. Coach Kai de Jager's team lost only four of its last 32 league games (W17 D11).
   
• HGC's season is going out like a candle. The team lost its last two matches and won only two of its eight most recent matches (D1 L5).
   
• Kampong attacker Bente van der Veldt (photo below) is having her most productive season in the Hoofdklasse. With 11 goals, she has bettered her 2022-2023 personal record (nine goals).

ORANJE-ROOD - ROTTERDAM
Saturday, 4:30pm

• Both teams only faced each other three times in the Hoofdklasse. Orange-Rood won the first two matches, Rotterdam the third.
   
• Oranje-Rood played itself safe last weekend thanks to a 0-2 win at HGC. That win was the second in a row for the Eindhoven players, something they last managed to do a year ago.
   
• Rotterdam has lost it for a while. Coach Jordy van der Waart's team has been waiting ten matches for a win (D2 L8).
   
• Rotterdam started this season with seven points from the first four games. In the seventeen matches thereafter, the team picked up only five points (W1 D2 L14).
   
• Together with HDM, Rotterdam will play play play-off matches against the second and third placed teams in the Promotieklasse (currently Nijmegen and Leonidas). The winners of those matches will play in the Hoofdklasse next year.

PINOKÉ - HURLEY
Saturday, 16:30

• Pinoké won the last mutual matches with Hurley 1-2. That victory ended a series of six matches in which the Behemoths could not win (D D L L D).
   
• The last three Pinoké-Hurley editions all ended 1-1.
   
• Pinoké is already unbeaten for seven league games in a row (W6 D1), equalling the club record from March-April 2023, when the team remained unbeaten through three wins and four draws. With a win or draw against Hurley, Pinoké will therefore close the regular league with a new club record.
   
• Hurley could not win its last five matches (D D L L D) since the 0-4 win at HDM on 23 March 2025.
   
• This will be Robbert van de Peppel's last match as Hurley coach. He will transfer to SCHC after this season. Under Van der Peppel, Hurley has so far played 65 league games, of which the team won 26, drew 14 and lost 25.

SCHC - HDM
Saturday, 16:30

• SCHC won its last six matches with HDM since a 0-0 in Bilthoven on 3 October 2021.
   
• SCHC is 14 matches in a row unbeaten against HDM (W11 D3) since a 1-3 defeat in Bilthoven on 10 September 2017. On that day, Sanne Pheninckx, Pien van Nes and Mascha Sterk scored for the Hague team. Caia van Maasakker scored against.
   
• SCHC won its last four matches in the Hoofdklasse and is already 13 matches in a row unbeaten in league play (W11 D2).
   
• SCHC is second and could still finish as the number one of the regular league. In that case, the team must win against HDM itself and hope Den Bosch loses points at Tilburg.
   
• HDM - tenth on the rankings - is preparing to play promotion/degradation games against the number two or three of the Promotieklasse.
   
• HDM won only two of its last 68 away duels with The Big Three: 1-3 at Amsterdam in 2017 and 1-2 at Den Bosch in 2021. For the rest: seven draws and 59 defeats.

TILBURG - DEN BOSCH
Saturday, 16:30

• Den Bosch won four of the five league games against Tilburg (D1). 
   
• Last season, Den Bosch also concluded the regular league with a league game against Tilburg, then at the Oosterplas. It was 8-0 then, partly due to a four goals from Frédérique Matla and two from Joosje Burg.
   
• Den Bosch lost only one of its last 62 games in the regular league (W51 D10).
   
• Tilburg lost its last two home matches (2-3 Oranje-Rood and 2-3 Pinoké), having previously remained unbeaten for four home matches in a row (W W D W).
   
• Den Bosch has been unbeaten in the last game of the regular league for 28 consecutive seasons. Since a 3-1 defeat at HGC on 1 May 1994, the team recorded 25 wins on the last round of matches and played three draws. 
   
• Den Bosch can finish the regular league as the number one seed for the 19th time in history (and for the fifth time in the last seven seasons). If that succeeds, the Brabanders will immediately grab a ticket for the EHL next season.