What you need to know about the SCHC-Den Bosch final

We look ahead with facts and figures to the first of two blistering final matches between the two top teams.

Goal scoring machines
SCHC and Den Bosch are the only two women's teams this season that managed to score at least a hundred goals in all leagues. Trijntje Beljaars scored the Bilthoven players' 100th goal last Sunday against Pinoké (1-1). At Den Bosch, Teuntje de Wit's 2-0 (photo below) in the 3-0 win over Amsterdam constituted the anniversary goal.

Small nuance difference: SCHC's goal average is higher than Den Bosch's. Coach Gilles van Hesteren's team needed 29 official games to reach 100, while the Boschians have already played 35 official games this season.

Matla in perennial top three
Den Bosch attacker Frédérique Matla has already scored twenty goals in the play-offs in her career. With that number, she is now shared third on the all-time play-offs top scorer list, together with Ageeth Boomgaardt. Only Maartje Paumen (36 goals) and Mijntje Donners (28) scored more often in the nacompetition for the title.

Last season, Matla scored six goals in one play-off edition, equalling the record held by Kim Lammers (Laren), Frederieke Grijpma (Amsterdam) and Mijntje Donners (Den Bosch).

Van den Heuvel and Jip Dicke life threatening
At SCHC, 43 of the eighty goals in the regular league this season came from field play, more than any other team. Maud van den Heuvel and Jip Dicke have been the two most dangerous attackers on Dutch fields in recent months, scoring twelve and eleven field goals respectively. At Den Bosch, right-wing attacker Joosje Burg scored the most field goals (ten).

Punters

• SCHC and Den Bosch face each other for the 70th time in an official match. Of the 69 previous matches, SCHC won 12 and Den Bosch 43. Both teams drew against each other 14 times. The goal figures are 159-83 in favour of Den Bosch.
   
• Last season, Den Bosch and SCHC also faced each other in the final of the playoffs. The Brabanders won the out-match in Bilthoven 1-0 through a goal by Joosje Burg and then also triumphed in the return match on home soil: 3-2, with a hat-trick by Frédérique Matla.
   
• SCHC won only one of its last 16 home matches in all leagues against Den Bosch (D4 L11): that was on 16 May 2019, in the outward match of the semi-finals of the playoffs (1-0 through a goal by Kyra Fortuin).
   

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• A play-off match between SCHC and Den Bosch has never ended in a draw after sixty minutes. So there have never been shoot-outs in a mutual play-off duel either.
   
• SCHC played 29 official matches under coach Gilles van Hesteren, losing only three times (W22 G4): all times Den Bosch was the opponent, once in the Hoofdklasse, once in the Gold Cup and once in the EHL.
   
• Den Bosch lost only one of its last 43 games in all leagues (W35 D7). That was the league match at Pinoké on 27 April (3-2).
   
• Den Bosch attacker Frédérique Matla already scored 22 goals in her career against SCHC in all competitions: 12 in the Hoofdklasse, four for the Gold Cup and six in play-offs.
   
• SCHC midfielder Yibbi Jansen already scored 18 goals against Den Bosch in her career: nine in the Hoofdklasse, two in the play-offs, four in the Gold Cup and three in the EHL.