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Rotterdam-The Hague, Rotterdam-The Hague · Netherlands · Eredivisie

Power-ranking history

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Rank (1 = best)1295Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.069/70

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 3 seasons from 1968-69 to 1970-71 it has fallen short of them by 0.6 match points.

Holland Sport: surplus against expectation, 1968-69 to 1970-711968-69: +3.4 league points vs expected (33 on 29.6, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.7 match points1969-70: +0.8 league points vs expected (33 on 32.2, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.4 match points1970-71: −5.3 league points vs expected (24 on 29.3, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.7 match points
1968-69one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season1970-71
Best season against expectation
1968-69 +3.4 league pts
33 points on 29.6 expected as Holland Sport
Worst season against expectation
1970-71 5.3 league pts
24 points on 29.3 expected as Holland Sport

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.

Rotterdam-The Hague against expectation →How this is measured →

Greatest games

Holland Sport's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play.All-time board.

#DateStageResultScore
11959-05-18EredivisieAW 3-2 v Blauw-Wit Amsterdamgame score 54.8
21959-05-31EredivisieAL 3-4 v NOADgame score 52.9
31969-05-15EredivisieHW 1-0 v Feyenoordgame score 49.4
41959-05-03EredivisieHW 3-2 v SC Enschedegame score 47.5
51971-04-18EredivisieAW 4-3 v NAC Bredagame score 46.3
61970-03-30EredivisieHL 2-3 v AZ Alkmaargame score 43.8
71959-04-05EredivisieHL 2-3 v PSV Eindhovengame score 42.2
81970-03-22EredivisieAW 3-2 v NAC Bredagame score 41.0
91969-04-13EredivisieAW 1-0 v FC Volendamgame score 40.8
101969-04-20EredivisieAW 1-0 v NEC Nijmegengame score 40.5

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
4
First season
1959
Most recent season
1971

The Heartbreak Index2.5 · #700

The Blessed · Never won it, waiting since 1959

2.5
Heartbreak
#700
of 1,139 clubs
#433
in Football
2.5
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 19596.3
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 1971 · relegated from the top flight, 1959

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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.

1971
Eredivisie (1) · P15
34 P · 5-14-15 · 34:60 · -26
24
pts
1970
Eredivisie (1) · P9
34 P · 13-7-14 · 48:63 · -15
33
pts
1969
Eredivisie (1) · P10
34 P · 12-9-13 · 32:45 · -13
33
pts
1959
Eredivisie (1) · P18
34 P · 7-4-23 · 54:111 · -57
18
pts