Sittardia
Heartbreak#6842.6Sittard-Geleen, Sittard-Geleen · Netherlands · Eredivisie
Power-ranking history
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 1959-60 to 1967-68 it has fallen short of them by −7.1 match points.
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.
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+€7m
Grown or bought: in 2026-27, trading €0m and appreciation —. Over the last 5 seasons (2022-23–2026-27), trading +€5m and appreciation unpriced.
The director’s ledger: 78 arrivals graded since 2022-23, 99% EV-positive. €5m deployed for a 2.1× multiplier.
Greatest games
Sittardia'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.
Footprint
The Heartbreak Index2.6 · #684
The Blessed · Never won it, waiting since 1960
The Heartbreak Index2.6 · #684
The Blessed · Never won it, waiting since 1960
- First major trophy since 19606.3
relegated from the top flight, 1960 · relegated from the top flight, 1965 · relegated from the top flight, 1968
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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.