1997–98 Eredivisie

Eredivisie

Season	1997–98
Champions	Ajax (27th title)
Promoted	MVV
Relegated	FC Groningen FC Volendam
Champions League	Ajax PSV
Cup Winners' Cup	sc Heerenveen
UEFA Cup	Vitesse Arnhem Feyenoord Willem II
Intertoto Cup	Fortuna Sittard FC Twente
Goals scored	1,002
Average goals/game	3.27
Top goalscorer	Nikos Machlas Vitesse Arnhem 34 goals
← 1996-97 1998-99 →

The Dutch Eredivisie in the 1997–98 season was contested by 18 teams. Ajax won the championship.

League standings

Template:Fb cl header |- style="background: #90EE90;" |1 || align=left| Ajax ¹ || 34 || 29 || 2 || 3 ||112||22|| 90|| 89|| Champions League |- style="background: #CCFFCC" |2 || align=left| PSV ¹ || 34 || 21 || 9 || 4 ||95||44|| 51|| 72|| Champions League: Second qualifying round |- style="background: #FFF000;" |3 || align=left| Vitesse Arnhem || 34 || 21 || 7 || 6 ||85||48|| 37|| 70|| rowspan="3"|UEFA Cup |- style="background: #FFF000;" |4 || align=left| Feyenoord || 34 || 18 || 7 || 9 ||62||40|| 22|| 61 |- style="background: #FFF000;" |5 || align=left| Willem II || 34 || 17 || 4 || 13 ||66||58|| 8|| 55 |- style="background: #BBEBFF;" |6 || align=left| sc Heerenveen ¹ || 34 || 16 || 7 || 11 ||56||59|| -3|| 55|| Cup Winners' Cup |- style="background: #FFFFCC;" |7 || align=left| Fortuna Sittard || 34 || 14 || 6 || 14 ||51||53|| -2|| 48|| Intertoto Cup: Third round |- |8 || align=left| NEC || 34 || 14 || 2 || 18 ||40||57|| -17|| 44 |- style="background: #FFFFCC;" |9 || align=left| FC Twente || 34 || 11 || 10 || 13 ||41||42|| -1|| 43|| Intertoto Cup: Second round |- |10 || align=left| FC Utrecht || 34 || 13 || 4 || 17 ||56||64|| -8|| 43 |- |11 || align=left| De Graafschap || 34 || 11 || 9 || 14 ||45||49|| -4|| 42 |- |12 || align=left| NAC || 34 || 12 || 6 || 16 ||41||49|| -8|| 42 |- |13 || align=left| Sparta || 34 || 10 || 11 || 13 ||50||59|| -9|| 41 |- |14 || align=left| Roda JC || 34 || 10 || 8 || 16 ||44||45|| -1|| 38 |- |15 || align=left| MVV || 34 || 9 || 5 || 20 ||35||75|| -40|| 32 |- style="background: #FFA500;" |16 || align=left| RKC Waalwijk || 34 || 8 || 7 || 19 ||48||71|| -23|| 31|| ² |- style="background: #FFE6E6;" |17 || align=left| FC Groningen || 34 || 7 || 10 || 17 ||42||65|| -23|| 31|| ² |- style="background: #FFCCCC;" |18 || align=left| FC Volendam || 34 || 5 || 6 || 23 ||33||102|| -69|| 21|| Relegation to Eerste Divisie |}

¹ Ajax also won the KNVB Cup, thereby taking the double. They would participate in the Champions League, just like finalists PSV. sc Heerenveen, the winner of the third place match, would play in the Cup Winners' Cup.
² RKC remained in the eredivisie after winning promotion/relegation play-offs. FC Groningen lost and relegated.

Promotion/relegation play-offs

In the promotion/relegation competition, eight entrants (six from the Eerste Divisie and two from this league) entered in two groups. The group winners were promoted to (or remained in) the Eredivisie.

Template:Fb cl header |- style="background: #FFF000;" ||1||align="left"|RKC Waalwijk||6||4||2||0||15||5|| 10||14|| Remain in Eredivisie |- ||2||align="left"|FC Eindhoven||6||1||3||2||8||11|| -3||6|| rowspan="3"|Remain in Eerste Divisie |- ||3||align="left"|ADO Den Haag||6||0||5||1||5||8|| -3||5 |- ||4||align="left"|FC Emmen||6||0||4||2||11||15|| -4||4 |} Template:Fb cl header |- style="background: #90EE90;" ||1||align="left"|Cambuur Leeuwarden||6||4||2||0||15||8|| 7||14|| Promotion to Eredivisie |- ||2||align="left"|FC Zwolle||6||2||2||2||8||9|| -1||8 |- style="background:#ffcccc;" ||3||align="left"|FC Groningen||6||1||2||3||9||12|| -3||5|| Relegation to Eerste Divisie |- ||4||align="left"|FC Den Bosch||6||1||2||3||7||10|| -3||5 |}

See also

• 1997–98 Eerste Divisie
• 1997–98 KNVB Cup

References

• Eredivisie official website - info on all seasons Template:Nl
• RSSSF