Eredivisie Women is a women’s league competition in the Netherlands, established in 2007, with recorded Xtra-Stats coverage spanning the 2016 to 2025 seasons. Use this page to follow live scores, upcoming fixtures, completed results, league standings, and player and team statistics across all the recorded seasons over time.
Upcoming matches, Eredivisie Women
Regular Season - 5
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- Regular Season - 5
PSV/Eindhoven W
Twente W
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- Regular Season - 5
Ajax W
AZ
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- Regular Season - 5
Utrecht W
Feyenoord W
Sportcomplex Zoudenbalch -
- Regular Season - 5
PEC Zwolle W
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- Regular Season - 5
ADO Den Haag W
Heerenveen W
Regular Season - 6
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- Regular Season - 6
PSV/Eindhoven W
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- Regular Season - 6
Ajax W
ADO Den Haag W
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- Regular Season - 6
Feyenoord W
PEC Zwolle W
Sportcomplex Varkenoord 1
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- Regular Season - 6
AZ
Twente W
AFAS Trainingscomplex
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- Regular Season - 6
Heerenveen W
Utrecht W
Sportpark Skoatterwâld
Latest played matches, Eredivisie Women
Regular Season - 4
Regular Season - 3
Eredivisie Women Standings
Regular Season
| Rank | Club | MP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Last 5 | |
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| 1 |
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Twente W | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 15 | 12 | WWWW |
| 2 |
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AZ | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 12 | WWWW |
| 3 |
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Ajax W | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 9 | LWWW |
| 4 |
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PSV/Eindhoven W | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 7 | LWDW |
| 5 |
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ADO Den Haag W | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 13 | -4 | 6 | WWLL |
| 6 | De Graafschap W | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 3 | LLWL | |
| 7 |
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PEC Zwolle W | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -4 | 3 | WLLL |
| 8 |
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Heerenveen W | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 3 | WLLL |
| 9 |
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Feyenoord W | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 13 | -10 | 3 | LLLW |
| 10 |
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Utrecht W | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 1 | LLDL |
Eredivisie Women Statistics
Top scorers 2026
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Top assists 2026
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Top key passes
Top tackles
Top yellow cards
Top red cards
Eredivisie Women teams participation since 2016
History
| Team | Nb participations |
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| ADO Den Haag W | 10 |
| PSV/Eindhoven W | 10 |
| Heerenveen W | 10 |
| Ajax W | 10 |
| Twente W | 10 |
| PEC Zwolle W | 10 |
| Excelsior W | 9 |
| VV Alkmaar W | 6 |
| Telstar W | 5 |
| Feyenoord W | 5 |
| Achiless 29 W | 3 |
| Fortuna Sittard W | 3 |
| AZ | 3 |
| Utrecht W | 3 |
| NAC Breda W | 1 |
| Hera United W | 1 |
Eredivisie Women top scorer teams
Eredivisie Women About
Eredivisie Women is the Netherlands’ top-tier women’s football league, also known in recent official branding as the Azerion Eredivisie Vrouwen. It is a professional domestic league governed by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) and provides the highest national platform for women’s clubs and players in Dutch football. Its central purpose is to develop home-grown talent, strengthen the professional game and determine the national champion.
Role in Dutch football
The Eredivisie Women sits at the summit of the Dutch women’s football pyramid. Clubs compete for the league title, domestic prestige and access to UEFA competitions, while the league also supports the KNVB’s wider objective of creating a sustainable professional environment for women’s football. Well-known Dutch clubs such as Ajax, PSV and FC Twente have helped give the competition a strong sporting profile, alongside the development of independent women-only professional clubs.
The league was established in 2007. Between 2012 and 2015, the leading Dutch competition was temporarily combined with Belgium’s top division in the BeNe League. The Netherlands then returned to a standalone national format. Competition records represented across the available season range run from 2016 through 2025, covering ten seasons, with the recorded event series beginning on 27 August 2021.
Governance and entry
The KNVB sets the competition’s professional, sporting and structural standards. Entry has historically depended largely on licensing rather than on automatic promotion from the division below. Clubs must satisfy requirements covering areas such as financial stability, professional player contracts, minimum salary standards, youth development, dual-career support, stadium facilities and qualified medical provision.
A formal promotion and relegation relationship with the Vrouwen Eerste Divisie is being integrated into the pyramid. This means that lower-tier clubs can pursue entry to the Eredivisie Women when they achieve the required sporting position and meet the relevant licensing standards. The lowest-placed Eredivisie club may face demotion, subject to the applicable regulations and the promoted club’s eligibility. The licensing approach is intended to ensure that expansion of the league is matched by the infrastructure needed for a genuinely professional competition.
League format and season progression
The standard league format is a double round robin. Each team plays every other team twice, once at home and once away, with the final table determining the champion and the other relevant league positions. The competition has recently featured 12 teams, but it is scheduled to contract to 10 teams from the 2026–27 season. The planned reduction is designed to concentrate playing quality and increase competitiveness.
The league is primarily a single-stage championship, although Dutch women’s football has also used different playoff and group arrangements during its history. These have included championship or placement groups and other end-of-season structures based on league performance. Such historical variations should be distinguished from the current double-round-robin league framework.
The Eredivisie Women is separate from the KNVB Women’s Cup, which is a knockout competition open to eligible clubs, and from the Eredivisie Cup, which provides another route to domestic silverware and has at times used a playoff structure linked to seasonal performance. These competitions complement the league but do not replace its role as the national championship contest.
Points, rankings and match decisions
League matches use the standard football points system: three points for a win, one for a draw and none for a defeat. When teams finish level on points, ranking is determined first by goal difference, then by goals scored, followed by head-to-head points and head-to-head goal difference. These criteria help separate teams competing for the title, European places or survival without relying immediately on an additional match.
In cup or playoff fixtures, a match that remains level after 90 minutes can proceed to two 15-minute periods of extra time. If the scores are still level, the winner is decided by a penalty shootout. The precise treatment of a decisive league tie can depend on the regulations for the relevant season or competition, so knockout procedures should not be confused with ordinary league-table ranking.
Calendar and sporting stakes
A typical season runs from late August or September until May, with a winter break often falling between late December and early February. The schedule balances league fixtures with domestic cup commitments and, for successful clubs, European competition. Home-and-away meetings across the season are intended to provide a consistent test of squad quality, coaching and player development.
The team finishing first is crowned champion of the Netherlands. The leading clubs can also earn places in the UEFA Women’s Champions League, with the exact number and entry stage influenced by the Netherlands’ UEFA coefficient position. The third-placed team may be involved in qualification for the UEFA Women’s Europa Cup, where the applicable access list permits it. At the other end of the table, the bottom club faces potential relegation as the promotion and relegation pathway with the Vrouwen Eerste Divisie becomes more established.
Eredivisie Women therefore combines a national championship race with a broader professionalisation project. Its history reflects the changing structure of women’s football in the Netherlands, while its licensing reforms, planned 10-team format and developing pyramid point towards a more clearly integrated domestic game.