The 1999/2000 season in Dutch football was the 44th season in the Eredivisie

Eredivisie

The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....

, where PSV Eindhoven claimed the title, while Roda JC won the Dutch National Cup.

Johan Cruijff-schaal

Eredivisie

Eredivisie

The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....

Position	Team	Points	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1	PSV	84	34	27	3	4	105	24	+81
2	SC Heerenveen	68	34	21	5	8	65	36	+29
3	Feyenoord	64	34	18	10	6	66	42	+24
4	Vitesse	63	34	18	9	7	67	43	+24
5	Ajax	61	34	18	7	9	72	51	+21
6	FC Twente FC Twente FC Twente is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Enschede, playing in the Eredivisie. The club was formed in 1965 by the merger of 1926 Eredivisie Champions, Sportclub Enschede and Enschedese Boys...	60	34	16	12	6	57	37	+20
7	AZ	55	34	17	4	13	69	59	+10
8	Roda JC	55	34	16	7	11	62	53	+8
9	Willem II	48	34	13	9	12	55	65	-10
10	FC Utrecht	46	34	14	4	16	55	61	-6
11	RKC Waalwijk RKC Waalwijk RKC Waalwijk is a football club currently playing in the Eredivisie. Its name is derived from 'Rooms Katholieke Combinatie' and was a fusion club of HEC, WVB and Hercules.-History:...	42	34	12	6	16	44	67	-23
12	Fortuna Sittard Fortuna Sittard Fortuna Sittard is a football club in Sittard, Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 12,500 capacity Trendwork Arena and features in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. The club was a merger of former clubs 'Fortuna 54' and 'Sittardia' to merge as the Fortuna Sittard Combinatie on July 1,...	38	34	10	8	16	47	54	-7
13	Sparta Rotterdam Sparta Rotterdam Sparta Rotterdam is the oldest professional football team in the Netherlands, established on April 1, 1888. Sparta is one of three professional football clubs from Rotterdam, the others being Excelsior and Feyenoord , the latter playing in the Eredivisie.-History:Sparta was first founded in 1887....	37	34	11	4	19	48	75	-27
14	De Graafschap De Graafschap De Graafschap is a professional football club from Doetinchem, Netherlands. It was formed on 1 February 1954 and they play their home games at the "De Vijverberg" stadium. Their current home ground stands on where the old pitch used to be located and was opened on 12 August 2000...	33	34	8	9	17	41	60	-19
15	NEC	27	34	7	6	21	35	62	-27
16	MVV	25	34	6	7	21	38	68	-30
17	Cambuur	25	34	6	7	21	35	66	-31
18	FC Den Bosch	23	34	4	11	19	36	74	-38

• Champions League : PSV Eindhoven and SC Heerenveen
• Champions League qualification: Feyenoord Rotterdam
• UEFA Cup: Vitesse, Ajax and Roda JC
• Promotion / relegation play-offs ("Nacompetitie"): MVV and Cambuur
• Relegated: FC Den Bosch

Results Table

• Please note that the home teams are read down the left hand side while the away teams are indicated along the top.

Topscorers

Position	Player	Nationality	Club	Goals
1	Ruud van Nistelrooy Ruud van Nistelrooy Rutgerus Johannes Martinus "Ruud" van Nistelrooy, , is a Dutch footballer who plays as a striker for Málaga CF in Spain's La Liga. He is the second-highest goalscorer in Champions League history with 60 goals...		PSV	29
2	Pierre van Hooijdonk Pierre van Hooijdonk Petrus Ferdinandus Johannes "Pierre" van Hooijdonk is a retired Dutch football player who played as a striker. His last spell was at Feyenoord Rotterdam. Van Hooijdonk was capped 46 times for the Dutch national team, scoring 21 goals, and played in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2000 and Euro 2004...		Vitesse	25
3	Arnold Bruggink Arnold Bruggink Arnold Jan Bruggink is a former Dutch striker and occasional midfielder.He won the Dutch Talent of the Year award in 2000 while playing for PSV Eindhoven and won three league titles and two Supercups with the club, as well as appearing in the UEFA Champions League...		PSV	19
–	Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink Jan Johannes Vennegoor of Hesselink is a Dutch footballer, currently playing for PSV Eindhoven. He formerly played for the Netherlands national team as a striker...		FC Twente FC Twente FC Twente is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Enschede, playing in the Eredivisie. The club was formed in 1965 by the merger of 1926 Eredivisie Champions, Sportclub Enschede and Enschedese Boys...	19
5	Luc Nilis		PSV	18
–	Anthony Lurling Anthony Lurling Anthonius Petrus Lurling , simply known as Anthony Lurling , is a Dutch footballer who currently plays as a forward for NAC Breda in the Eredivisie....		SC Heerenveen	18
7	John Bosman John Bosman Johannes "John" Jacobus Bosman is a retired Dutch footballer who played as a striker.A prolific goalscorer for both club and country, he played professionally for 19 years, most notably with Ajax and Anderlecht , surpassing the 100-goal mark with both clubs and winning a total of eight major...		AZ	17
8	Julio Ricardo Cruz Julio Ricardo Cruz Julio Ricardo Cruz is a former Argentine footballer.-Early career:A tall, physical striker at , Cruz started his career with Banfield in 1993. He moved to River Plate in 1996.-Feyenoord:...		Feyenoord	15
–	Bob Peeters Bob Peeters Bob Peeters is a former football striker and current manager of Cercle Brugge, notorious for his height . Born in Belgium, he started his professional career for Lierse S.K. in the 1992-1993 season. After five years he moved to Dutch club Roda JC, who sold him in 2000 to Vitesse Arnhem. After...		Roda JC	15
10	Richard Knopper Richard Knopper Richard Knopper is a Dutch footballer who plays for Haaglandia as a midfielder.-Club career:Knopper began his footballing career with Feyenoord Rotterdam but, still in his youth, moved to rivals Ajax Amsterdam, making his club debuts in November 1997, against Sparta Rotterdam.In 1999, he was voted...		Ajax	14
–	Nikos Machlas Nikos Machlas Nikolaos Machlas is a Greek retired footballer and now chairman of OFI Crete. He finished his career as a striker for Cypriot team APOEL.-Club career:...		Ajax	14

PSV Winning Squad 1999-2000

Goal Ivica Kralj

Ivica Kralj

Ivica Kralj is a former Montenegrin football goalkeeper.-Club career:He played for Partizan, Arsenal Tivat, Jastrebac Niš, Porto, Radnički Kragujevac, PSV Eindhoven, Rostov and Spartak Trnava....

 Patrick Lodewijks

Patrick Lodewijks

Patrick Lodewijks is a retired Dutch footballer who played as a goalkeeper.He played in 374 Eredivisie games in a 20-year professional career, in representation of three clubs.-Football career:...

 Ronald Waterreus

Ronald Waterreus

Ronald Katarina Martinus Waterreus is a former Dutch football goalkeeper, who most notably played for PSV Eindhoven, before ending his career at New York Red Bulls in the Major League Soccer.-Club career:...

Defence Eric Addo

Eric Addo

Eric Pappoe Addo is a Ghanaian footballer. He is currently a free agent.Once heralded as a potential African great thanks to his combination of strength, pace and poise early on, Addo, a combative central defender who can also play as a defensive midfielder, had his budding career blighted by knee...

 Kasper Bøgelund

Kasper Bøgelund

Kasper Bøgelund Nielsen is a Danish footballer. He currently plays as a right back for AaB in the Danish Superliga...

 Jürgen Dirkx Ernest Faber

Ernest Faber

Ernest Anthonius Jacobus Faber is a retired Dutch footballer who played mostly as a central defender.His professional career was spent entirely in his country, mostly at PSV, where he played 12 seasons....

 Jan Heintze

Jan Heintze

Jan Heintze is a retired Danish professional football player, a left-sided defensive midfielder and defender who started and ended his career in the Netherlands with PSV Eindhoven, where he was a part of the PSV team which won the 1988 European Cup...

 Yuri Nikiforov

Yuri Nikiforov

Yuri Valeryevich Nikiforov is a retired Ukrainian-Russian footballer who played mainly as a central defender.-Club career:...

 André Ooijer

André Ooijer

André Antonius Maria Ooijer is a Dutch football player who currently playing for AFC Ajax as of August 2010.-Early career:Ooijer was talented even as a child, joining his first amateur football team when he was just five years old and started playing for other amateur clubs SDW and SDZ when he was...

 Andrei Skerla
Stan Valckx

Stan Valckx

Stanislaus "Stan" Henricus Christina Valckx is a retired Dutch footballer who played as a central defender.-Club career:...

 Chris van der Weerden Rob Wielaert

Rob Wielaert

Rob Wielaert is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for Roda JC, on loan from Ajax.- Career :...

Midfield Mark van Bommel

Mark van Bommel

Mark Peter Gertruda Andreas van Bommel is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for Milan and captains the Netherlands national team as a midfielder....

 Wilfred Bouma

Wilfred Bouma

Wilfred Bouma is a Dutch footballer who plays for PSV Eindhoven. Bouma is a technically refined left back/centre back who is known for his hard working nature, defensive positioning and tackling ability.-Early career:...

 Björn van der Doelen

Björn van der Doelen

Wouterus Jacobus Antonius "Björn" van der Doelen is a former football midfielder from the Netherlands, who started his professional career for PSV Eindhoven in the 1994/95 season in the Dutch highest league, Eredivisie...

 Tomek Iwan Dmitri Khokhlov

Dmitri Khokhlov

Dmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov is a retired Russian football player. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker....

 Joonas Kolkka

Joonas Kolkka

Joonas Einari Kolkka is a Finnish footballer who currently plays for Willem II in the Netherlands. He has played as a left winger most of his career, but can also play on the right wing.-Club career:...

 Dennis Rommedahl

Dennis Rommedahl

Dennis Rommedahl is a Danish footballer, who currently plays as a right winger for Brøndby IF. He has played 112 matches and scored 21 goals for the Danish national side. Rommedahl was selected for the Danish squads at the 2002 World Cup, Euro 2004 and the 2010 World Cup...

 Ovidiu Stinga

Ovidiu Stînga

Ovidiu Stîngă is a retired Romanian football player and current manager.-Club career:His football career began at Viitorul Craiova. In 1990, his first league debut started at Universitatea Craiova at the age of 17. on 28 November 1990 against Corvinul Hunedoara winning 8-1...

 Johann Vogel

Johann Vogel

Johann Louis François Vogel is a retired Swiss footballer.-Early career:Vogel joined Swiss amateur club Meyrin in his youth, but made the cut into professional football by joining Grasshoppers...

Attack Björn Becker Arnold Bruggink

Arnold Bruggink

Arnold Jan Bruggink is a former Dutch striker and occasional midfielder.He won the Dutch Talent of the Year award in 2000 while playing for PSV Eindhoven and won three league titles and two Supercups with the club, as well as appearing in the UEFA Champions League...

 Luc Nilis Ruud van Nistelrooy

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Rutgerus Johannes Martinus "Ruud" van Nistelrooy, , is a Dutch footballer who plays as a striker for Málaga CF in Spain's La Liga. He is the second-highest goalscorer in Champions League history with 60 goals...

 Johan Pater

Management Eric Gerets (Coach) Ernie Brandts

Ernie Brandts

Ernstus "Ernie" Wilhelmus Johannes Brandts is a former Dutch football defender, who played for PSV Eindhoven, Roda JC Kerkrade, MVV Maastricht and De Graafschap....

 (Assistant)

Eerste Divisie

Eerste Divisie

The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...

Position	Team	Points	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1	NAC NAC Breda NAC Breda , simply often known as NAC, is a Dutch professional football club, based in Breda, Netherlands. NAC Breda play in the Rat Verlegh Stadium, named after their most important player, Antoon 'Rat' Verlegh. They play in the Dutch Eredivisie and are known by the fierce and fanatic support of...	82	34	27	1	6	84	36	+48
2	FC Zwolle FC Zwolle FC Zwolle is a Dutch football club based in Zwolle, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie, the country's second level of professional club football. The club was founded in 1990 after the bankruptcy of PEC. They have played in the Eredivisie, the highest tier of Dutch football, for a total of...	74	34	22	8	4	90	41	+49
3	FC Groningen	74	34	23	5	6	81	33	+48
4	Excelsior Excelsior Rotterdam SBV Excelsior is a professional football club from the Kralingen-Crooswijk district of Rotterdam, Netherlands. It was founded on July 23, 1902 and was formerly known as 'Rotterdamse Voetbal en Atletiek Vereniging Excelsior'...	59	34	18	5	11	70	48	+22
5	BVO Emmen FC Emmen FC Emmen is a Dutch football club based in Emmen, Drenthe, and currently playing in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of football in the Netherlands.-History:...	58	34	18	4	12	53	45	+8
6	RBC	57	34	17	6	11	65	49	+16
7	Heracles Heracles Almelo Heracles Almelo is a football club from Almelo, Netherlands.Heracles Almelo were founded on May 3, 1903 as Heracles, after the demigod son of Zeus. They changed their name on July 1, 1974 to SC Heracles '74 and finally settled on the current name in 1998. The club has won the Dutch national title...	47	34	13	8	13	41	42	-1
8	Dordrecht '90 FC Dordrecht FC Dordrecht is a football club from the city of Dordrecht in the Netherlands, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie.- History :Founded on 16 August 1883 as Dordrechtsche Football Club , it became a professional club in 1954 upon the introduction of professional football to the Netherlands...	45	34	12	9	13	55	58	-3
9	FC Eindhoven FC Eindhoven FC Eindhoven is a Dutch football club based in Eindhoven, North Brabant. They current play in the Eerste Divisie , and are one of two professional clubs which are based in the city of Eindhoven, the other one being PSV Eindhoven....	45	34	14	3	17	47	53	-6
10	Helmond Sport Helmond Sport Helmond Sport is a Dutch football club, playing in the Dutch Eerste Divisie and located in Helmond, Noord-Brabant. The club was founded on July 27, 1967, as a breakaway from the local professional club Helmondia '55, which had gone bankrupt.-History:...	42	34	13	3	18	45	57	-12
11	ADO Den Haag ADO Den Haag Alles Door Oefening Den Haag , commonly known by the abbreviated name ADO Den Haag , is a Dutch football club from the city of The Hague. The club was for a time known as FC Den Haag , with ADO representing the amateur branch of the club...	42	34	12	6	16	37	52	-15
12	BV Veendam BV Veendam SC Veendam is a Dutch football club based in Veendam, Groningen province, playing in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of football in the Netherlands. The club's official colours are black and yellow.- History :...	41	34	10	11	13	50	61	-11
13	SC Telstar Stormvogels Telstar Telstar is a Dutch football club based in Velsen. The club was established after the merger of two football clubs in the town of Velsen.- History :...	37	34	11	4	19	44	59	-15
14	Go Ahead Eagles Go Ahead Eagles The Go Ahead Eagles are a football club from Deventer, Netherlands, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie. The club's home stadium is De Adelaarshorst. To date, the club has won the national championship four times...	36	34	9	9	16	56	58	-2
15	VVV VVV Venlo VVV-Venlo is a football club from Venlo in the Netherlands, currently playing in the Eredivisie. The club plays its home games in the De Koel stadium, known as Seacon Stadion – De Koel - for sponsorship reasons....	35	34	8	11	15	38	62	-24
16	HFC Haarlem HFC Haarlem HFC Haarlem was a Dutch football club from the city of Haarlem, established in 1889. The club won the Dutch national title in 1946 and reached five Cup finals, winning in 1902 and 1912...	32	34	9	5	20	54	72	-18
17	FC Volendam FC Volendam Football Club Volendam is a Dutch football club based in Volendam, North Holland, Edam-Volendam. Founded on June 1, 1977, as a result of a split up with RKSV . It currently plays in the Eerste Divisie, holding home games at Kras Stadion, with a 6,260-seat capacity.-History:Football Club Volendam...	31	34	8	7	19	40	75	-35
18	TOP Oss	27	34	8	3	23	35	74	-39

• Promoted : NAC
• Promotion / Relegation play-offs ("Nacompetitie") : FC Zwolle, FC Groningen, Excelsior, Emmen, RBC and Heracles

Group A

Position	Team	Points	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1	FC Groningen	15	6	5	0	1	19	7	+12
2	FC Emmen FC Emmen FC Emmen is a Dutch football club based in Emmen, Drenthe, and currently playing in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of football in the Netherlands.-History:...	8	6	2	2	2	8	10	-2
3	MVV	7	6	2	1	3	11	14	-3
4	Heracles Heracles Almelo Heracles Almelo is a football club from Almelo, Netherlands.Heracles Almelo were founded on May 3, 1903 as Heracles, after the demigod son of Zeus. They changed their name on July 1, 1974 to SC Heracles '74 and finally settled on the current name in 1998. The club has won the Dutch national title...	4	6	1	1	4	10	17	-7

Group B

Position	Team	Points	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1	RBC	11	6	3	2	1	10	7	+3
2	FC Zwolle FC Zwolle FC Zwolle is a Dutch football club based in Zwolle, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie, the country's second level of professional club football. The club was founded in 1990 after the bankruptcy of PEC. They have played in the Eredivisie, the highest tier of Dutch football, for a total of...	10	6	3	1	2	14	7	+7
3	Excelsior Excelsior Rotterdam SBV Excelsior is a professional football club from the Kralingen-Crooswijk district of Rotterdam, Netherlands. It was founded on July 23, 1902 and was formerly known as 'Rotterdamse Voetbal en Atletiek Vereniging Excelsior'...	7	6	2	1	3	11	14	-3
4	Cambuur	5	6	1	2	3	6	13	-7

• Promoted : FC Groningen and RBC Roosendaal
• Relegated : MVV Maastricht and Cambuur Leeuwarden

KNVB Cup

Dutch national team