Emmen, Emmen · Netherlands · Eredivisie

Power-ranking history

Rank (1 = best)1542Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.019/20

Against expectation

Every Dutch top-flight match this club has played in the Eredivisie, scored against the odds an Elo rating gave it before kick-off. Over 4 seasons from 2018-19 to 2022-23 it has fallen short of them by −2.6 match points.

2018-19 to 2022-23one bar per season · height in match points

Best season against expectation
2019-20 +2.5 league pts
32 points on 29.5 expected as FC Emmen
Worst season against expectation
2022-23 −7.1 league pts
28 points on 35.1 expected as FC Emmen

Season points use that season’s own scoring, two for a win before 1995-96 and three from it; the bars use match points so the whole series is comparable.

2019-20 table not final: voided at the COVID-19 shutdown, 232 of 306 played.

Emmen against expectation →How this is measured →

What the squad was worth

Total market value of the squad, EUR millions, by month; the player count beside it is the size of the priced squad.

How this is measured

Drawn as a step, not a curve: Transfermarkt reprices every squad in December and June (marked with a small tick on the axis) and revalues continuously between, so the line only moves when a real valuation changed, never by interpolation.

A month renders no value at all once the priced squad falls below 15 players, so a thin squad is never shown as a cheap one. The series is floored at July 2012 on purpose: earlier Transfermarkt totals reflect which players happened to be priced yet rather than the squad’s real worth, and are excluded rather than shown misleadingly low.

Upstream (dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets) has been paused since July 2026, so the series ends where the source ends rather than where the season does.

Player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

What the squad was worth€9m
091714-1517-1819-2021-2223-24

Peak
€16m in Oct 2020 · 41 players valued
Most recent
€9m in Dec 2024 · 23 players valued

Emmen on the rankings →

The money ledger

Fees paid and received each season, and what the squad was worth once the trading is netted out.

How this is measured

Spent is the fees paid for players arriving, received the fees for players leaving, both in EUR millions by the July-to-June season of the move. A move with no fee on record (a free, a loan, an undisclosed sum) is counted, never priced: the small figure beside each total is the moves with a fee, plus those without (so 4+3 is four priced arrivals and three unpriced), and a quiet window is not mistaken for a cheap one. Wages are not here: they are estimates nobody licenses, and fees are documented.

Appreciation is the season’s change in squad value with the net spend taken out: buy 100m of players and finish 100m higher is zero; finish 120m higher and the club made 20m of players better, or the market repriced them. It needs a priced squad at both ends of the season (the same 15-player floor as the value chart), so it is blank rather than guessed for a season that lacks one.

The source has been paused since 6 July 2026, so the final row holds only the opening days of its window.

Transfer fees and player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

The money ledger+€4m
Spent
€0m
0 arrivals with a fee
Received
€4m
6 departures with a fee
Net
+€4m
80 moves with no fee
Appreciation
+€14m
8 seasons with a priced squad

Grown or bought: in 2026-27, trading €0m and appreciation —. Over the last 5 seasons (2022-23–2026-27), trading +€1m and appreciation unpriced.

The director’s ledger: 23 arrivals graded since 2022-23, 1 ungraded, 100% EV-positive. No fee-paying arrivals to grade a multiplier on.

2026-27 spent — received —to 6 July 2026
1 moves, no fee on record
—
unpriced
2025-26 spent — received —
18 moves, no fee on record
—
unpriced
2024-25 spent — received —
10 moves, no fee on record
—
unpriced
2023-24 spent — received €1m
out: Miguel Araujo €1m
−€4m
squad gain
2022-23 spent — received €0m
out: Oussama El Azzouzi €0m
+€7m
squad gain
2021-22 spent — received €1m
out: Sergio Peña €1m
−€3m
squad gain
2020-21 spent — received —
6 moves, no fee on record
+€1m
squad gain
2019-20 spent — received €2m
out: Kjell Scherpen €2m
+€1m
squad gain

Money against football

Every priced club-season in the six leagues: points against expectation across, squad value gained beyond the net spend up. This club’s seasons are joined.

● the frontier: no other club-season beat it on both axes · ● this club, season by season, the largest dot the latest

Every club’s return on the transfer window →

Greatest games

FC Emmen's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play. H, A and N mark home, away and a neutral venue; a ★ is a curated all-time classic (tap it for the model's own score).All-time board.

1
2023-04-22 · Eredivisie
46.0
game score
2
2023-05-28 · Eredivisie
44.8
game score
3
Excelsior Maassluis
2021-12-14 · KNVB Beker · Second Round
44.7
game score
4
1998-12-09 · KNVB Beker · Second Round
44.3
game score
5
2019-05-12 · Eredivisie
44.3
game score
6
2023-01-11 · KNVB Beker · Second Round
43.1
game score
7
2019-04-23 · Eredivisie
42.3
game score
8
1992-10-28 · KNVB Beker · Third Round
42.2
game score
9
2023-04-01 · Eredivisie
42.0
game score
10
2020-12-15 · KNVB Beker · Second Round
41.7
game score

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
4
First season
2019
Most recent season
2023

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The clocks
  • First major trophy since 20190.7
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 2021 · relegated from the top flight, 2023 · survived a relegation scare, 2019

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Season-by-season

Most recent season first. Covers Eredivisie only. Rows tagged "national playoff" are pre-modern formats where the workbook records only playoff participants, not round-robin standings.

2023
Eredivisie (1) · P16↓
34 P · 6-10-18 · 33:65 · -32
28
pts
2021
Eredivisie (1) · P16↓
34 P · 7-9-18 · 40:68 · -28
30
pts
2020
Eredivisie (1) · P12
26 P · 9-5-12 · 32:45 · -13
32
pts
2019
Eredivisie (1) · P14
34 P · 10-8-16 · 41:72 · -31
38
pts