Amsterdam, Amsterdam · Netherlands · Eredivisie

Power-ranking history

Rank (1 = best)1686Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.059/6069/7079/8089/9099/0009/1019/20

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 27 seasons from 1959-60 to 2023-24 it has fallen short of them by −22.4 match points.

1959-60 to 2023-24one bar per season · height in match points

Best season against expectation
1989-90 +7.2 league pts
39 points on 31.8 expected as FC Volendam
Worst season against expectation
2023-24 −13.6 league pts
19 points on 32.6 expected as FC Volendam

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. The rating only starts telling you much after about 1960. Before that, knowing the era’s home-and-away split is almost as good as knowing the teams.

Amsterdam 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€16m
0102018-1919-2020-2121-2222-2323-2424-2525-26

Peak
€18m in Jun 2023 · 36 players valued
Most recent
€16m in Jun 2026 · 31 players valued

Amsterdam 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+€13m
Spent
€0m
0 arrivals with a fee
Received
€13m
10 departures with a fee
Net
+€13m
162 moves with no fee
Appreciation
+€26m
7 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 +€3m and appreciation unpriced.

The director’s ledger: 61 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
4 moves, no fee on record
—
unpriced
2025-26 spent — received —
31 moves, no fee on record
+€5m
squad gain
2024-25 spent — received €1m
out: Calvin Twigt €1m
−€1m
squad gain
2023-24 spent — received €2m
out: Carel Eiting €1m
−€2m
squad gain
2022-23 spent — received —
24 moves, no fee on record
+€10m
squad gain
2021-22 spent — received €9m
out: Micky van de Ven €9m
+€9m
squad gain
2020-21 spent — received —
8 moves, no fee on record
+€2m
squad gain
2019-20 spent — received €1m
out: Joey Veerman €1m
+€4m
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 Volendam'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
1958-06-26 · KNVB Beker · Final
60.5
game score
2
1995-05-25 · KNVB Beker · Final
60.0
game score
3
2009-03-05 · KNVB Beker · Quarterfinals
57.8
game score
4
1995-03-22 · KNVB Beker · Semifinals
55.8
game score
5
1995-02-25 · KNVB Beker · Quarterfinals
51.7
game score
6
1998-04-24 · Eredivisie
50.5
game score
7
2008-11-12 · KNVB Beker · Third Round
50.5
game score
8
2017-01-24 · KNVB Beker · Quarterfinals
50.4
game score
9
1994-04-12 · Eredivisie
49.2
game score
10
1972-04-30 · Eredivisie
48.5
game score

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
28
First season
1960
Most recent season
2026

The Heartbreak Index8.0 · #266

The Tortured · Never won it, waiting since 1960

8.0
Heartbreak
#266
of 1,138 clubs
#163
in Football
8.0
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 19607.1
  • Major final appearance since 19953.1
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 2026 · relegated from the top flight, 2024 · relegated from the top flight, 2004 · relegated from the top flight, 2009

One formula, every club the site covers. See the whole board →

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.

2026
Eredivisie (1) · P16↓
34 P · 8-8-18 · 35:55 · -20
32
pts
2024
Eredivisie (1) · P17↓
34 P · 4-7-23 · 34:88 · -54
19
pts
2023
Eredivisie (1) · P14
34 P · 10-6-18 · 42:71 · -29
36
pts
2009
Eredivisie (1) · P18↓
34 P · 7-8-19 · 38:67 · -29
29
pts
2004
Eredivisie (1) · P17↓
34 P · 7-6-21 · 31:79 · -48
27
pts
1998
Eredivisie (1) · P18↓
34 P · 5-6-23 · 33:92 · -59
21
pts
1997
Eredivisie (1) · P14
34 P · 9-11-14 · 36:55 · -19
38
pts
1996
Eredivisie (1) · P16PO
34 P · 6-9-19 · 29:65 · -36
27
pts
1995
Eredivisie (1) · P11
34 P · 8-13-13 · 37:55 · -18
29
pts
KNVB
1994
Eredivisie (1) · P11
34 P · 13-4-17 · 46:55 · -9
30
pts
1993
Eredivisie (1) · P6
34 P · 12-13-9 · 51:34 · +17
37
pts
1992
Eredivisie (1) · P13
34 P · 10-8-16 · 34:50 · -16
28
pts
Domestic Cup Finals

Most recent first. Every domestic cup final the club has played, including losses. Scheduled finals (date not yet passed) are flagged.

1995
KNVB Beker
Runner-up
1958
KNVB Beker
Runner-up