2008–09 Eredivisie (women)

Women's Eredivisie

Season	2008–09
Champions	AZ
UEFA Women's Champions League	AZ
Matches played	84
Goals scored	243 (2.89 per match)
Top goalscorer	Sylvia Smit (14)
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 season of the Women's Eredivisie was the second season of the Netherlands' women's football top level league.

Changes from 2007–08

Roda JC joined the league, so the season was made up of seven teams.

Format

The seven teams played each other four times. Twice away and twice at home. The champion qualified to the newly created UEFA Women's Champions League. There was no relegation system in place.

Teams

AZ

ADO

Heerenveen

Twente

Willem II

Utrecht

Roda JC

Location of teams in the Eredivisie 2008/09

Team	Home city	Home ground
AZ	Alkmaar	Sportcomplex 't Lood
Willem II	Tilburg	Sportcomplex Bijstervelden
SC Heerenveen	Heerenveen	Sportpark Skoatterwâld
FC Twente	Enschede	De Grolsch Veste
FC Utrecht	Utrecht	Sportpark Saestum
ADO Den Haag	Den Haag	Kyocera Stadion
Roda JC	Kerkrade

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AZ (C)	24	15	4	5	45	16	+29	49	UEFA Women's Champions League
2	ADO Den Haag	24	14	4	6	42	24	+18	46
3	Willem II	24	14	4	6	44	34	+10	46
4	Utrecht	24	11	4	9	34	31	+3	37
5	Twente	24	10	3	11	28	30	−2	33
6	Heerenveen	24	6	3	15	28	43	−15	21
7	Roda JC	24	1	4	19	22	65	−43	7

Updated to games played on End of season 2008-09.
Source: soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Home ╲ Away	ADO	AZ	HEE	RJC	TWE	UTR	WIL
ADO Den Haag		0–1	4–1	0–0	2–3	3–2	1–0
ADO Den Haag		0–1	3–0	5–0	1–0	2–2	2–5
AZ	1–0		0–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	5–2
AZ	0–1		3–1	3–0	0–2	4–1	2–1
Heerenveen	0–1	2–0		2–1	1–3	1–2	1–2
Heerenveen	1–2	0–4		3–3	2–1	0–2	1–4
Roda JC	2–2	1–4	1–6		3–1	1–2	0–2
Roda JC	0–2	0–2	3–4		1–3	1–3	2–2
Twente	0–1	2–3	0–3	1–0		0–1	0–3
Twente	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–0		1–0	2–1
Utrecht	0–3	1–0	0–0	4–0	2–1		0–1
Utrecht	1–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–3		0–1
Willem II	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	3–3
Willem II	1–3	0–6	1–0	4–0	1–0	2–1

Updated to games played on end of season.
Source: soccerway
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Topscorers

File:Sylvia Smit.png

Sylvia Smit (SC Heerenveen) Topscorer, 14 goals

Pos.	Player	Club	Goals
1	Sylvia Smit	SC Heerenveen	14
2	Marlous Pieëte	FC Twente	12
3	Claudia van den Heiligenberg	AZ	11
4	Chantal de Ridder	AZ	10
	Karin Stevens	Willem II
	Dominique Vugts	Willem II
7	Lisanne Vermeulen	FC Utrecht	9
	Kirsten van de Ven	Willem II
9	Lisanne Grimberg	ADO Den Haag	8
	Renate Jansen	ADO Den Haag
11	Jill Wilmot	ADO Den Haag	7
12	Gilanne Louwaars	FC Utrecht	6
	Liesbeth Migchelsen	AZ
14	Jessica Fishlock	AZ	5
	Sherida Spitse	SC Heerenveen
16	6 players		4
22	13 players		3
35	13 players		2
48	21 players		1
Own goals			3
Total:			243
Games:			84
Average:			2.89

External links

• Official website
• Season on soccerway.com