RKC Waalwijk

Heartbreak#3266.7

Waalwijk, Waalwijk · Netherlands · Eredivisie

Power-ranking history

Rank (1 = best)1712Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.089/9094/9599/0004/0509/1014/1519/2024/25

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 29 seasons from 1988-89 to 2024-25 it has fallen short of them by −11.8 match points.

1988-89 to 2024-25one bar per season · height in match points

Best season against expectation
2000-01 +18.2 league pts
59 points on 40.8 expected as RKC Waalwijk
Worst season against expectation
2009-10 −17.6 league pts
15 points on 32.6 expected as RKC Waalwijk

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.

Waalwijk 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€5m
091812-1314-1516-1719-2021-2223-2425-26

Peak
€17m in May 2024 · 33 players valued
Most recent
€5m in Jun 2026 · 15 players valued

Waalwijk 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+€8m
Spent
€0m
2 arrivals with a fee
Received
€8m
9 departures with a fee
Net
+€8m
132 moves with no fee
Appreciation
+€2m
12 seasons with a priced squad

Grown or bought: in 2025-26, trading +€4m and appreciation −€4m. Over the last 5 seasons (2021-22–2025-26), trading +€7m and appreciation +€1m.

The director’s ledger: 39 arrivals graded since 2022-23, 100% EV-positive. No fee-paying arrivals to grade a multiplier on.

2025-26 spent — received €4m
out: Jordi Altena €1m
−€4m
squad gain
2024-25 spent — received —
19 moves, no fee on record
−€4m
squad gain
2023-24 spent — received —
21 moves, no fee on record
+€3m
squad gain
2022-23 spent — received €3m
out: Ahmed Touba €2m
+€5m
squad gain
2021-22 spent €0m received €0m
in: Dario Van den Buijs €0m
+€2m
squad gain
2020-21 spent — received —
16 moves, no fee on record
+€3m
squad gain
2019-20 spent €0m received €1m
in: Richard van der Venne €0m
+€3m
squad gain
2018-19 spent — received —
6 moves, no fee on record
+€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

RKC Waalwijk'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
2007-01-24 · KNVB Beker · Round of 16
52.9
game score
2
2007-02-28 · KNVB Beker · Quarterfinals
52.5
game score
3
2018-10-30 · KNVB Beker · Second Round
52.0
game score
4
2000-02-16 · KNVB Beker · Quarterfinals
49.9
game score
5
1998-04-12 · Eredivisie
49.3
game score
6
2011-12-20 · KNVB Beker · Round of 16
49.1
game score
7
1998-08-15 · KNVB Beker · Group Stage
48.8
game score
8
2006-11-08 · KNVB Beker · Third Round
48.7
game score
9
2012-04-11 · Eredivisie
48.7
game score
10
2013-05-05 · Eredivisie
48.4
game score

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
29
First season
1989
Most recent season
2025

The Heartbreak Index6.7 · #326

The Tortured · Never won it, waiting since 1989

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agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 198911.5
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 2025 · relegated from the top flight, 2007 · relegated from the top flight, 2014 · relegated from the top flight, 2010

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.

2025
Eredivisie (1) · P17↓
34 P · 6-7-21 · 44:74 · -30
25
pts
2024
Eredivisie (1) · P15
34 P · 7-8-19 · 38:56 · -18
29
pts
2023
Eredivisie (1) · P9
34 P · 11-8-15 · 50:64 · -14
41
pts
2022
Eredivisie (1) · P10
34 P · 9-11-14 · 40:51 · -11
38
pts
2021
Eredivisie (1) · P15
34 P · 7-9-18 · 33:55 · -22
30
pts
2020
Eredivisie (1) · P18
26 P · 4-3-19 · 27:60 · -33
15
pts
2014
Eredivisie (1) · P16↓
34 P · 7-11-16 · 44:64 · -20
32
pts
2013
Eredivisie (1) · P14
34 P · 9-10-15 · 39:48 · -9
37
pts
2012
Eredivisie (1) · P9
34 P · 13-6-15 · 40:49 · -9
45
pts
2010
Eredivisie (1) · P18↓
34 P · 5-0-29 · 30:80 · -50
15
pts
2007
Eredivisie (1) · P17↓
34 P · 6-9-19 · 33:60 · -27
27
pts
2006
Eredivisie (1) · P12
34 P · 11-6-17 · 48:58 · -10
39
pts