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Friday, April 24, 2020 at 00:01
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The KNVB aims to have eighteen clubs in the Eredivisie next season, assures The Telegraph in the Friday edition. However, it is still unclear whether these will be the same eighteen clubs as in the current football year. According to the daily, directors Eric Gudde and Jean Paul Decossaux will put down the choice of relegation or not in the video call with all clubs in professional football on Friday afternoon.
The KNVB thus leaves room for discussion with regard to enforcement or relegation of ADO Den Haag and RKC Waalwijk and whether or not promotion of SC Cambuur and De Graafschap. The final decision lies with Gudde and Decossaux, after which the Supervisory Board of the KNVB must grant approval. The football association has the possibility to have the season declared invalid due to “unforeseen circumstances” and “force majeure”. That would be good news for the numbers seventeen and eighteen, ADO and RKC.
According to the newspaper, the KNVB wants to ‘also respond to the delivered sporting performances this season in the Kitchen Champion Division’ and that is why promotion for SC Cambuur and De Graafschap, the numbers one and two of the second highest level, is certainly not excluded . Clubs such as Ajax, AZ, Feyenoord and PSV are said to have a preference for keeping ADO and RKC inboard at the highest level.
Despite the first place, Ajax is not declared champion, but it does enter the group stage of the Champions League. Unless the CL winner does not qualify for the ball of millions through the national competition ”, write Mike Verweij and Valentijn Driessen. “Ajax could formally claim the league title, but will not. The starting premium for the Champions League is most important for the Ajax management. ”
Should the KNVB use the current score as final score, then Ajax will probably enter the group stage of the Champions League and number two AZ will start in the preliminary round. Feyenoord and PSV will have to content themselves as numbers three and four with a place in the Europa League. A hot topic will become which club will be the fifth Dutch representative in Europe: Willem II or FC Utrecht.
FC Utrecht had a real chance of European football as cup finalist and through the competition: the team of coach John van den Brom has played three points less than Willem II, a better goal difference and a game less. The Telegraph writes that FC Utrecht, like possibly Cambuur and De Graafschap, if they were not allowed to promote to the Eredivisie, may be entitled to appropriate compensation, but also RKC and ADO in case of relegation to the Kitchen Champion Division. “Only the financial implementation is up to the fellow clubs in professional football”, it sounds.
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