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What you need to know about the Amsterdam - Oranje-Rood semi-final
Ramon Min|14.05.2026
The untouchable Oranje-Rood will visit reigning champion Amsterdam in the first semi-final match of the playoffs on Thursday. Read the facts and figures here.
AMSTERDAM - ORANGE-RED
Thursday, 14 May, 18:30
Head-to-head record in regular league of the Hoofdklasse
20 matches
6 wins by Amsterdam
7 wins Oranje-Rood
7 draws
Head-to-head record on field Amsterdam
10 matches
4 wins by Amsterdam
2 wins for Oranje-Rood
4 ties
Head-to-head record in the Hoofdklasse on field Oranje-Rood
10 matches
5 wins Oranje-Rood
2 wins by Amsterdam
3 ties
Mutual balance in play-offs
No mutual history
What the stats say
- Oranje-Rood won four of the last eight matches against Amsterdam in the Hoofdklasse and suffered only one defeat in that series (G3 V1).
- Before that, on the contrary, the Eindhoven players remained without a win against the team from the capital eight times in a row.
- In the last six league matches, they have scored 38 goals in total, an average of more than six goals per match. Amsterdam scored twenty times, Orange-Rood eighteen times.
- Amsterdam remained unbeaten in eight of its ten home matches with Oranje-Rood (W4 G4).
- Both teams face each other for the first time in the playoffs.
- Reigning national champion Amsterdam is the most experienced team in play-off history after Bloemendaal. The club from the capital is entering the play-offs for the 21st time in history.
- Of the twenty previous seasons with play-offs, Amsterdam reached the final fourteen times, which it won seven times: in 1995, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2012 and 2025.
- Orange-Rood is in the playoffs for the third time, after 2017-2018 and 2023-2024.
- In the previous two participations in the playoffs, Oranje-Rood fell in the semi-finals each time: both times against Kampong (in 2018 and 2024).
- Oranje-Rood won its last seven league matches since a 3-3 draw at Amsterdam on 15 March 2026. The team won 13 of its last 14 league games (G1).