Eredivisie League

FORMAT

The Dutch Eredivisie League claims to be one of the highest scoring leagues on the old continent. Born in 1956, its format is framed by the presence of 18 teams competing 34 Matches facing each other in a two-leg two-leg match.

The champion goes directly to the Champions League, while the second qualifies for the second round of the maximum continental competition. The third and fourth classified play the Europa League, with the variant that the third party plays the play-off round, and the fourth classified, the third preliminary phase. From fifth to eighth place the playoffs are played to define a pass to the same European competition.

From the bottom, the bottom descends to the Eerste Divisie, and the penultimate and penultimate classified play a relegation promotion against the second and third classified of the Eerste Divisie.

TV rights
In Holland, the television rights of the Eredivisie are acquired by its own channel (Eredivisie Live, which this year has been renamed Fox Sport Eredivisie) dedicated exclusively to the retransmission of 9 matches of the day. Thanks to him, viewers can watch the games they want at a price of just 20 euros. Its prestige is such that approximately the 50 % of Dutch households enjoy this payment channel (more of 750.000 subscribers).

Eredivisie Live is owned by Fox International Channels Benelux in a 51% and 18 clubs that compete in the top Dutch league competition in a 49%, so they are the ones who distribute the benefits according to the results and audiences of each of them, plus a fixed for each of them. For it, the clubs have created a legal entity called the Eredivisie CV that jointly negotiates the rights of the League.

ANALYSIS

The spectacular and live football that combines goals, mistakes and above all strong emotions will shine again one more season in the Eredivisie. If Ajax managed to take over the League at the last moment, this year things seem to paint the same path. The Amsterdam club has hardly been strengthened due to its unfortunate financial situation, but nevertheless he is still a clear favorite for the title. With Marc Overmars as sports director, The most remarkable thing has been the transfer of Bojan who will seek to be the replacement of Cuenca, already back at Barça.

The PSV is the other great outsider of the competition (and for Colgados the great favorite), so much for prestige, history as transfers. It is true that his star Mertens has gone to Naples for ten million euros and Ola Toivonen to Norwich, but it has been reinforced with luxury Bruma and Adam Maher, its main star who has to be the pivot on which the team turns. Of 20 years, this young man of Moroccan descent promises to go far with his spectacular dribbling. Park Ji Sung shouldn't be doing badly either in a team that should suit his speed and impudence like a glove..

Feyenord and Az Alkmar are two of the teams that should be talking a lot in this next edition of the league. The first ones have not been strengthened much but they have been well. Led by Ronald Koeman on the bench and last year they were very close to qualifying for the Champions League. The arrival of Graziano Pellé should give them a plus up. The seconds hope that Nemenja Gudelj can fill the gap left by Mohar.

In a terrible economic situation that has led to no transfer costs of more than 20 millions of euros (the one that more the PSV with 12), Bad times are those that can be guessed for Twente, who have practically had to let half a squad leave last season.

Under, more difficult seems to predict who can fill the relegation places. What will not be complex to guess, is that this year, we will see goals and goals again in most matches of the competition. And it is that in show, few like the Eredivisie.