On the menu: crucial matches in Amstelveen and Eindhoven

Ramon Min|22.03.2025

The Tulp Hoofdklasse Women is up to its sixteenth round of play. With Kampong - Pinoké and Oranje-Rood - Huizen, two crucial matches are on the menu. We look ahead with the key stats.

ROTTERDAM - DEN BOSCH
Saturday, 16:30

Den Bosch won its last 14 matches with Rotterdam since a 2-2 at Oosterplas on 16 September 2007.
Den Bosch remained unbeaten in its last 28 matches with Rotterdam (W24 D4).
Rotterdam's last win over Den Bosch took shape on 12 November 2000, when it finished 3-2 in Rotterdam. Florien Cornelis (two) and Emmelien Spek then scored on behalf of Rotterdam, Miek van Geenhuizen and Ageeth Boomgaardt on behalf of Den Bosch.
Rotterdam lost 10 of the last 11 league games.
Den Bosch only lost points in 15 games this season on a visit to Hurley (2-2): W14 D1.

SCHC - TILBURG
Saturday, 6:30pm

SCHC won all five matches between them with Tilburg so far (goal figures 15-4).
SCHC won its last six league games and kept the nil five times in those. Only Pinoké managed to get past Stichtsche's defence (5-2 in Bilthoven on 9 March).
Tilburg won its two games after the winter break (0-1 HGC and 2-1 Rotterdam) and is unbeaten since four games (D D W W).
This season, Tilburg is well on its way to improving the points record of its first premier league season (27 points in 2022-2023). The counter now stands at 23 points.
Yibbi Jansen stands at 148 goals in the Hoofdklasse and can thus reach a milestone in her career against Tilburg. She scored 40 goals for Oranje-Rood and 108 in her service to SCHC.

HDM - HURLEY
Sunday, 12:45pm

Hurley remained unbeaten in its last five matches with HDM, winning four times (W W D W W).
The last time HDM won from Hurley was on 14 November 2021: 2-1 in The Hague. Pam van Asperen then made it 0-1 for Hurley, but goals by Tessa Beetsma and Pien van Nes ensured a win for the home team.
HDM lost its last six matches in the Hoofdklasse, the worst series of all teams.
Hurley came out of the winter break with two handsome results: 2-2 at home against Den Bosch and 2-2 away at Amsterdam.
HDM has the fewest number of unique goal scorers this season together with Huizen (five). None of the players scored more than three goals.

KAMPONG - PINOKÉ
Sunday, 12:45pm

This will be the 50th match between Kampong and Pinoké in the Hoofdklasse. Pinoké won only eight of the previous 49 league matches with Kampong (D12 L29).
Kampong remained unbeaten in 14 of its last 17 matches with Pinoké (W9 D5).
Pinoké won only two of its 24 away matches with Kampong: in 2011 (1-2) and 2020 (2-3).
Only SCHC scored more than Kampong (13 goals to 12) in the two rounds of play after the win streak.
Sosha Benninga has already scored 15 goals for the Utrechters since her switch from Amsterdam to Kampong in the summer of 2023, but remarkably, they all fell in away games. So the striker is still waiting for her first goal for Kampong in a home game.

ORANGE-RED - HOMES
Sunday, 12:45 pm

Huizen picked up a point for the first time against Oranje-Rood in the outward match of the first half of the competition. Four previous matches with the Eindhoven side resulted in four defeats.
This is a crucial matches in the lower reaches of the league table. Oranje-Rood is 11th with eight points, Huizen is last with four points.
Oranje-Rood lost eight of its last 10 matches and in between only won against Hurley (1-2) and HDM (1-0).
Huizen won its last away game in the Hoofdklasse (0-1 at Rotterdam) after losing eight in a row on foreign soil before that.
Huizen has scored just one goal in every three matches this season: five goals in 15 matches, the fewest of any club.

HGC - AMSTERDAM
Sunday, 16:00

Amsterdam won its last five matches against HGC since a 1-1 in Wassenaar on 4 March 2023.
Amsterdam won 20 of its last 23 matches against HGC (D2) since a 3-1 defeat in Wassenaar on 10 March 2002, with goals from Terry Noorlander, Nicoline van der Koogh and Carolien van Batenburg for HGC.
Amsterdam has scored 46 goals in its last 10 away matches with HGC, an average of 4.6 goals per game.
Since the 5-0 home victory over HUIZEN on 21 September 2024, HGC has struggled to score on its own pitch, witnessing six goals in seven games.
Amsterdam attacker Fay van der Elst scored seven goals in her first six matches this season, but has not scored in nine consecutive league games. She did score last Thursday in the cup game with Den Bosch (3-3, losing after shoot-outs).