What you need to know about women's match round 21

SCHC - HGC
Saturday 2 May, 16:30

Head-to-head record
23 games
16 wins SCHC
4 wins HGC
3 draws

What the stats say

• SCHC has been unbeaten against HGC (W13 D3) for 16 matches in a row since a 3-2 defeat in Wassenaar on 8 November 2009.
   
• HGC last won on 17 October 2004 (and for the second time ever) when visiting SCHC (0-2). After that, the team from Wassenaar remained winless nine times in a row (L D L L L D L L L).
   
• If SCHC wins against HGC, it is sure of first place in the regular league and can defend its title in the Euro Hockey League next season.
   
• SCHC scored 71 goals in 20 matches, the most of any team. The club record stands at eighty goals and was set last season.
   
• HGC won its last two games (3-0 HDM and 2-1 Bloemendaal), but with nineteen points from twenty games is not yet sure of a longer stay in the Hoofdklasse.

DEN BOSCH - KAMPONG
Saturday 2 May, 16:30

Head-to-head record
71 matches
49 wins Den Bosch
13 wins Kampong
9 draws

What the stats say

• Kampong won 4-2 at home against Den Bosch in the first half of the competition. That victory ended a run of 48 (!) games in which the Utrecht team could not win against Den Bosch (W43 D5).
   
• On its own field, Den Bosch is already unbeaten against Kampong (W24 D4) for 28 matches in a row. The last home defeat dates from 6 April 1997 (1-2). Marlies Vossen and Anouk Verhaegh scored that day for the Utrechters, Dillianne van den Boogaard scored against for the home team.
   
• That series of 28 home matches without a loss against Kampong is the longest unbeaten home series against one specific opponent in all Hoofdklasse history.
   
• Kampong lost in its last 14 matches only to Amsterdam (0-4) and thus remained otherwise unbeaten thirteen times (W10 D3).
   
• Den Bosch won eleven of its last thirteen matches (L2). Coach Marieke Dijkstra's team lost in that series only to Kampong (4-2) and SCHC (0-4).

HURLEY - ORANJE-ROOD
Saturday 2 May, 16:30

Head-to-head record
16 matches
8 wins Oranje-Rood
4 wins Hurley
4 draws

What the stats say

• Oranje-Rood is unbeaten against Hurley (W W D) since four matches. The last defeat against the team from Amstelveen dates from 5 November 2023 (3-0 in Amstelveen).
   
• The previous edition of Hurley - Oranje-Rood ended 1-2: on 27 October 2024, Bibi Donraadt scored twice for the Eindhoven side. Michelle van de Drift did something in return on behalf of Hurley.
   
• Hurley is 11th with 16 points, four points more than straggler Tilburg. With a win over Oranje-Rood, the team has definitively averted direct relegation.
   
• Hurley has been unable to win seven matches in a row in the Hoofdklasse (L L D L L D). The last win was the 0-4 at HGC on 1 March 2026.
   
• Oranje-Rood lost seven of its last eight away matches in the Hoofdklasse and won the other match (1-3 at Bloemendaal on 29 March).

ROTTERDAM - TILBURG
Saturday, May 2, 16:30

Head-to-head record
7 matches
4 wins Rotterdam
3 wins Tilburg

What the stats say

• Rotterdam won four of the seven matches between them with Tilburg and lost the other three.
   
• Tilburg won the first of three away duels with Rotterdam (1-2), but then lost twice in a row at the Hazelaarweg: 4-1 and 2-1.
   
• Rotterdam lost its last three matches (1-0 Den Bosch, 0-4 Kampong and 2-1 Oranje-Rood) and has been winless since four matches (D L L L).
   
• Tilburg is bottom with 12 points from 20 matches. The team needs a win against Rotterdam anyway to avert direct relegation and narrow the gap with number eleven (Hurley) and Oranje-Rood (tenth).
   
• Tilburg is three games unbeaten on foreign soil (2-2 Oranje-Rood, 2-4 HGC and 2-2 SCHC). Before that, the bottom club suffered four away defeats in a row.

PINOKÉ - AMSTERDAM
Saturday 2 May, 16:30

Head-to-head record
50 matches
4 wins Pinoké
40 wins Amsterdam
6 draws

What the stats say

• Pinoké remained unbeaten in its last three matches against Amsterdam (1-1 at home, 0-3 away and 2-2 away).
   
• Pinoké won one of its last eight matches with Amsterdam (D4 L3): the 0-3 at Wagener Stadium on 4 May 2025.
   
• Of the fifty matches between them in the Hoofdklasse, Pinoké won only four, against forty Amsterdam victories (six draws).
   
• Pinoké lost only one of its last eight home matches (W4 D3): 1-3 against Den Bosch on 28 March.
   
• Amsterdam lost last weekend's top match against SCHC (0-1), a result that ended a run of six consecutive wins.

HDM - BLOEMENDAAL
Saturday 2 May, 16:30

Head-to-head record
43 matches
21 wins HDM
6 wins Bloemendaal
16 draws

What the stats say

• HDM remained unbeaten in its last four matches with Bloemendaal (W D W W) since a 3-2 defeat at 't Kopje on 9 October 2022.
   
• HDM lost only one of its last 20 league matches with Bloemendaal (W14 D5): the 3-2 of 9 October 2022.
   
• On its own field, HDM is already nine matches in a row without defeat against Bloemendaal (D W W W W W W D). The last home win dates from 21 September 2014 (2-3).
   
• HDM lost nine of its last 12 matches and won the other three.
   
• Bloemendaal has struggled to score in away games this season: twelve goals in ten matches. Five of those twelve goals were scored by Demi Hilterman.