Opponent in the Spotlight: SC Heerenveen

Opponent in the Spotlight: SC Heerenveen

11/20/2014

Ajax will play an away game against SC Heerenveen on Saturday at 20:45.

Ajax and SC Heerenveen up till now played 61 official matches against eachother. Ajax won 39 times, played a draw 10 times and lost 12 times.

Last season Ajax was able to win the home match relatively easy with 3-0, while earlier the season in Heerenveen the match ended in a 3-3 draw.

In the years before the Eredivisie Ajax and Heerenveen met several times in the Champions Competition. By far the most spectaculair of these confrontations was the last meeting, played on may 7 1950 in Heerenveen. Ajax was able to take a 5-1 lead (two goalsby Rinus Michels), but in the end lost with 6-5. Abe Lenstra played in the Heerenveen squad and scored 2 of the 6 goals.

On average Ajax scores over 2.5 goals per match against Heerenveen, while Heerenveen scores a little over one goal per match against Ajax. So far only two of the matches ended in 0-0.
Jari Litmanen is the topscorer of Ajax against Heerenveen with 9.

From the current Ajax squad only Lasse Schone (3) and Kolbeinn Sigthorsson (2) were able to score more than 1 goal against Heerenveen on behalf of Ajax.

From the current squad at Heerenveen only Joost van Aken has a background with Ajax, he played in the Ajax youth. From the contract players at Ajax Lasse Schone and Robert van Koesveld (from Jong Ajax) have a background at SC Heerenveen.

Ajax is unbeaten for 8 Eredivisie matches in a row, while Ajax won the last 3 Eredivisie matches. Coming Saturday they will try to add another match to both these series.

Filed under: Ajax - SC Heerenveen 4 - 1 (11/22/2014)