FC Groningen

Where they stand

• Four matches played, six points: a 2-1 home win over FC Utrecht, a 4-1 win at ADO Den Haag, a 1-5 defeat away at PSV, and a 2-3 Home Defeat To Fortuna Sittard on 28 August. The Fourth Match Separates Two Things This Card Has Always Carried Together, And They Went Opposite Ways. The box concentration held completely: 23 shots with Seventeen from inside the penalty area — 74 per cent — three big chances created, 68 per cent of the ball, and 98 dangerous attacks to 16. What happened after the shot has no precedent on this card: Two Shots On Target From Twenty-Three, sixteen off target and five blocked, and 1.89 expected goals becoming 0.83 On Target — less than half. The Margin Is Not The Performance And Is Not Read As One: one of Groningen’s two goals was an Own Goal by a Fortuna defender at 87, which carries no expected-goals value for this side. Fortuna scored first at 12 minutes and Groningen trailed from then to the end, having also trailed for seventy-nine minutes at PSV — a second consecutive match played almost entirely from behind. No Finishing Verdict Is Drawn in either direction from a single extreme reading. Table position is suppressed after four matches rather than shown.

League record

• 4 matches played · 6 points · 9 scored, 10 conceded.Moderate confidence

Summer squad changes

5 in, 4 out. Where a move is reported rather than confirmed, or a player is not yet eligible to play, that is stated.

The coach

• Dick Lukkien is head coach and this is his fourth season in charge — the longest continuous tenure of any club whose card has been authored for this matchweek, and the single most important structural fact about this team. He has taken the squad to the same training camp in Delden for three consecutive pre-seasons. His own framing of the job, on the record, is that he works at a fine club and that they are building something there. The provider independently carries one continuously active coach record for this club beginning 1 July 2023, which corroborates the continuity without naming anyone; the identification itself comes from the club and from regional and national reporting.
• Continuity is the thing to take from this, and it cuts two ways. What it buys is that season-level statements about how this team wants to play are worth more here than at a club that changed coach in the summer: the man who made them picks the team, and the players he made them about are largely still there. What it does not buy is novelty — a fourth-season side is a known quantity to its opponents, and the coach himself has identified what has not yet improved. The technical director is Mo Allach, named because he is quoted directly on squad-construction decisions that bear on the football; no wider staff role is asserted beyond those the club publishes.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence

Pre-season

This nine-fixture record is NOT league-form evidence and must never be read as such. Three fixtures were against Dutch amateur sides and account for two-thirds of the goals scored; one was played by an announced combination side; and one more was decided by an entirely changed young eleven in its closing half-hour. What the record IS legitimate evidence for: two published starting elevens and the structural agreement between them; current scoring form for named individuals against a stated opposition level; one dated availability fact, the senior centre-forward missing the dress rehearsal; and the fact that selection converged rather than rotated. It is NOT evidence of tactical certainty — no formation is stated anywhere — and it is NOT evidence of expected points against FC Utrecht.

• Nine fixtures, and the headline record is close to meaningless without the split. Three were against Dutch amateur sides and produced 34 of the goals scored. Against the six professional opponents the record is two wins, one draw and three defeats, with five scored and ten conceded — but two of those three defeats were not played by the first team.Our reading of the evidence
• Correcting for who actually played changes the picture materially. Removing the announced combination-side defeat, and reading the AEK Athens defeat as a first half by the first-choice eleven followed by a second half by a changed young side, what the first team actually produced against professional opposition is: a defeat to Heracles Almelo, a win over FC Emmen, an even first half against the Greek champions, a goalless draw with Volos NFC and a controlled win over Real Valladolid. That is a modest but not alarming return, and it is a different read from the raw record.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence
• Selection converged rather than rotated. Two starting elevens were published three weeks apart and six players occupy the same role in both, including the entire spine — goalkeeper, both centre-backs, both forwards — with three more starting both in midfield. For a pre-season slate this is an unusually consistent selection pattern, and it is the single strongest structural input this card has.Our reading of the evidence
• Only two of the nine fixtures have a published starting eleven from an admitted source. The other seven contribute results, scorers and context but no selection evidence, and no line-up is reconstructed for any of them.

How they play

• What Has Been Observed Competitively Is A 4-2-3-1, And It Is Not Recorded Here As A Preferred Structure. Both 2026/27 league matches were played in that arrangement — a back four, Two Holding Midfielders (Tika de Jonge and Tygo Land in both), three ahead of them and a Lone Centre-Forward — the second on three convergent provider surfaces with Ten Of Eleven Starters repeated in the same positional-grid rows. That is the strongest formation corroboration this card has ever carried, and it is recorded as an Observed Competitive Arrangement rather than a preference. The Reason Is A Confounder, Not Caution For Its Own Sake: Oskar Zawada, The Senior Centre-Forward, Was Unavailable For Both Observations — and his unavailability is the exact circumstance under which the two published pre-season elevens, three weeks apart, instead chose a Front Two. Two observations under one absence cannot separate a settled competitive shape from a repeated workaround. The Pre-Season Front Two Is Not Withdrawn As An Observation And Is No Longer Projected Forward: it is what this side did when the senior striker was fit enough to be picked, and the 4-2-3-1 is what it has done when he was not. The Question Closes When This Arrangement Is Used With Zawada Available, and not before. Jacob Ondrejka, deployable centrally or at ten, is a third possibility neither reading covers; three substitute minutes establish nothing about it. No Flank Is Asserted for any full-back: the provider's grid column resolves to no consistent left-right convention.Moderate confidence
• Build-up is intended to start with the goalkeeper. Etienne Vaessen plays it out from the back, and the coach was publicly satisfied with the first phase of build-up in pre-season, singling it out as working well. That is a stated intention corroborated by a coach assessment of his own side rather than an observed mechanism measured against competitive opposition, and it is carried at that level. What is NOT established, and is not claimed: which combinations Groningen use to progress past that first phase, where the ball goes after it leaves the defensive line, or whether the pattern survives against a side that presses it.Moderate confidence
• The stated defensive intention is specific enough to be useful: when the opponent has the ball, Groningen want to hunt it and win it back quickly, keep the opponent a long way from their own goal, and switch quickly once they have it. Ball-playing ability combined with aggressive defending is described by the coach as part of the club's identity when he assesses an individual defender, which is a second, independent expression of the same idea. No Pressing Height, Trigger Or Measure is published by anyone, and none is invented — what exists is a consistent statement of intent from the coach across two separate occasions, and no competitive test of it.Moderate confidence
• The strongest evidenced characteristic of this team, and unusually it comes with a stated ranking rather than an impression: the coach states that the side's defensive organisation was among the top three in the Eredivisie last season, and says explicitly that he wants to keep it while changing other things. The final table supports the shape of that claim without proving the ranking — 45 goals conceded in 34 matches is the fourth-best defensive record in the division, better than every side that finished below second and better than three of the five that finished above them. The card carries the coach's ranking as his claim and the goals-conceded figure as the independently established fact, and does not merge the two.Moderate confidence
• Quick switching after winning the ball is part of the same stated defensive intention — win it back, keep the opponent far from goal, and move quickly. Beyond that statement of intent, no source describes what Groningen actually do in either transition: no counterattacking pattern, no rest-defence arrangement, no observed behaviour in a match. Recorded as intent only, and not promoted to a mechanism.Limited confidence
• One narrow sourced fact and nothing more: the goal that won the final pre-season match was a header by Thom van Bergen from a David van der Werff cross, which establishes that the side scores from wide deliveries but says nothing about a dead-ball routine. No corner routine, free-kick routine, designated taker, delivery preference or defensive set-piece scheme is described by any source, and none is invented.Limited confidence

Players who matter most

• Thijmen Blokzijl wore the armband as stand-in captain "for as long as Stije Resink is unavailable". Resink has since left the club permanently, so the stated condition for the stand-in arrangement no longer describes reality, and no club source has yet announced a permanent captain — Blokzijl is not upgraded to "captain" here on that basis alone (see hypotheses). He remains half of the only centre-back pairing the evidence supports, and started both published pre-season elevens in central defence alongside Marco Rente. He is 21, which is worth stating plainly: the side's defensive organisation is its best-evidenced quality and it is being led, in practice, by a player of that age.
• Etienne Vaessen is the established first-choice goalkeeper and the starting point of the build-up the coach describes. He started both published pre-season elevens and wears the number one. Reporting through the summer described him as open to a move abroad; no transfer has been announced by anyone and he remains in the squad, so that is recorded as context rather than as a live departure.Moderate confidence
• Brynjólfur Willumsson And Thom Van Bergen Have Both Scored In Both League Matches, And They Have Not Done It As A Front Two. The pre-season reading that paired them as two centre-forwards is superseded by what the competitive team sheets show: Willumsson has led the line Alone in both, and Van Bergen has scored from the band behind him, adding an assist, four shots on target and 1.66 of the side's 4.02 expected goals on target in the second match. The Output Repeats; Its Magnitude Cannot Be Compared, because the Matchweek 1 capture carries no per-player expected-goals or post-shot figure at all. No Permanent Role, Durable Finishing Quality, Attacking Hierarchy Or Guaranteed Place After Zawada Returns Is Established For Either Player — both instances occurred with the senior centre-forward unavailable, and the same match contains the counter-evidence, since Van Bergen missed two of the side's six missed big chances. A Grid Row Is Deployment Evidence, Not Role Truth.Moderate confidence
• Tika de Jonge is the one midfielder who started in the same central role in both published elevens, and reporting of the dress rehearsal places him as one of the two holding players. With the appointed captain — a midfielder — having left the club permanently, he is the most consistently selected player in the area of the pitch the club lost most.Moderate confidence
• Pelle Clement, 30, arrived on a free transfer from Sparta Rotterdam and went straight into both published pre-season elevens in midfield. Independently Corroborated Across Gates: the committed Sparta Rotterdam TeamCard records the same movement from the selling side, listing him among that club's free-transfer departures to Groningen. He is the most senior of the summer additions and the one with the clearest immediate role.
• Jorg Schreuders started both published pre-season elevens at right-back despite being listed as a midfielder in the club's own squad. That is the clearest positional decision visible in the preparation, and it is consistent across three weeks and two different opponents — but it is read off two team sheets rather than stated by anyone, and no source explains whether it is a settled choice or a response to the squad's shape.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence

What they do well

• A defensive base the coach ranks among the division's best and last season's table supports. Mechanism: Groningen conceded 45 goals in 34 matches in 2025/26, the fourth-lowest total in the Eredivisie, and the coach states the side's defensive organisation was a top-three unit and that he intends to keep it while changing other things. Enabler: collective rather than individual — no source attributes it to one player, and none is named here. Conditions: matters most against a side that needs to break Groningen down, and least in a match where Groningen must chase the game. Contradicting Evidence, Updated And Stated Rather Than Smoothed: the appointed captain who played in front of it is out for the first half of the season; the centre-back department has since been emptied, with the loan cover confirmed with an Achilles tendon rupture and the coach publicly calling the personnel situation there critical; and The Two Competitive Tests So Far Settle Nothing In Either Direction — the opener was won 2-1 with the goalkeeper the highest-rated player on the pitch and the expected-goals margin 1.6 to 1.54, and Matchweek 2 conceded once from ten shots and 1.17 expected goals to a side that had not scored in this division, with the pairing improvised. The Claim Remains A Previous-Season Claim: nothing in two matches of 2026/27 establishes that the unit is performing to its own standard, and nothing establishes that it is not.Moderate confidence
• A Settled Spine, And It Is Now A Competitive Observation Rather Than A PRE-Season Reading. Mechanism: Ten Of Eleven Starters Repeated between the two league matches, each in the Same positional-grid row — the single change was Elvis van der Laan for Marco Rente at centre-back — and the holding pair in front of the back four was Tika de Jonge and Tygo Land in both. Enabler: collective, and reinforced by the longest continuous head-coach tenure of any club in this matchweek; no source attributes the continuity to one player and none is named here. Conditions: worth most in a round where opponents are still settling, and worth least if the senior centre-forward's return changes the arrangement it sits inside. Contradicting Evidence, Stated Rather Than Smoothed: continuity of Personnel is a different proposition from continuity of Structure, and it is recorded separately for that reason — the same eleven under the same absence is not evidence that the shape survives the absence ending. The centre-back department is the one place the spine is NOT settled: Thijmen Blokzijl has had a different partner in each match, the loan cover signed for the position is confirmed with an Achilles tendon rupture, and Marco Rente's non-selection has no established cause.Moderate confidence
• Build-up that starts with the goalkeeper and is working on the coach's own assessment. Mechanism: Vaessen begins the first phase, and the coach singled out that first phase as good during the preparation. Enabler: Vaessen specifically, as the player the pattern starts from. Conditions: matters against a side that presses the first phase, which is precisely where a goalkeeper-initiated build-up is either an advantage or a liability. Contradicting Evidence: it is a coach's assessment of his own team against pre-season opposition, no source describes what happens after the first phase, and the same goalkeeper was reported through the summer as open to leaving.Moderate confidence

Where they can be got at

• The Coach's Own Assessment That The Attack Is Not Good Enough Is A PRE-Season Statement, And Two Competitive Matches Sit Awkwardly With It Without Overturning It. What he said stands as what he said: the attacking play could be more dominant, and the summer added no first-choice centre-forward. What Has Happened Since: six goals in two matches, four of them away at ADO Den Haag, with Eight big chances created in that match alone and 2.21 expected goals becoming 4.02 on target. That Is Not Enough To Withdraw The Claim And It Is Too Much To Repeat It Unqualified, and the reason is that the two matches do not describe one attack: Matchweek 1 produced five shots on target and two big chances from 1.6 expected goals, Matchweek 2 produced fourteen and eight. A Marked Departure In One Direction Is Not A Trend, no post-shot comparator exists for Matchweek 1 at all, and the larger of the two performances came against a side that had not scored in this division. No Attacking Strength Is Created And No Structural Improvement Is Claimed. What is recorded is that the coach's concern has not yet been tested against a settled attacking unit — both matches were played without the senior centre-forward.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence
• Rescoped From A Single Fixture To The Current Squad Position, and the superseded availability framing is removed with it. The previous entry was scoped to the Matchweek 1 fixture and restated that Oskar Zawada's availability was 'being assessed week by week' — a reading already corrected elsewhere on this card. What Is Established Now: Zawada, who wears the number nine and is the senior striker in the squad, has been unavailable for Both league matches, on the club's own naming of him among the unavailable and an independent provider absence window covering the period. Brynjólfur Willumsson has led the line alone in both, and scored in each. Ryan Metu, a second forward, is out three to four weeks on the coach's own dated account. The Position Is Therefore Covered By Selection And Still Unresolved As A Department: no source establishes a first-choice centre-forward for when Zawada is available, and Willumsson's two goals do not settle it. No Return Date Is Asserted — the provider's end date is a projection, not a club fitness statement.
• The Captain Is Gone From The Squad Entirely, Not Merely From The Starting Eleven. Stije Resink, who suffered a cruciate ligament injury on 1 March 2026 and whom this card previously framed as unavailable for the entire first half of the season with an expected January 2027 return, instead transferred permanently to AZ with immediate effect on 18 August 2026 — the club's own release states an AZ contract to mid-2031 against a Groningen contract that had run to mid-2028. That earlier injury-return framing is superseded, not merely updated: he is no longer a Groningen player of any kind. A side whose defensive organisation is its best quality has permanently lost the player who wore the armband in front of it; the replacement in that area is a 30-year-old who arrived on a free transfer in the summer, and the captaincy question itself is now open (see hypotheses).
• Central defence has no evidenced third option available, and the position it was most likely to gain one from has worsened rather than resolved. The established pairing started both published pre-season elevens, and the summer signing brought in to add cover there — a loan with a purchase option — was in the final phase of recovering from a 29 September 2025 Achilles tendon rupture when this card last described him, but ruptured his Other Achilles tendon in a routine training exercise around 12-13 August 2026: a second, distinct injury superseding the earlier one, with recovery stated at roughly one year and concern he will not play again in the 2026 calendar year. An injury to either of the two fit centre-backs would expose a position with no tested alternative for the foreseeable future, not merely for the opening matches.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence

What we think happens

Each reading is shown with the evidence for it and the evidence against it. Where those pull in different directions, that is the honest state of the picture.

Squad and club news

• Captain Stije Resink suffered a cruciate ligament injury in the match against FC Volendam on 1 March 2026, ending his 2025/26 season and requiring around nine months of rehabilitation. The club states he is unavailable for the entire first half of 2026/27.
• Club captain Stije Resink transferred permanently to AZ with immediate effect on 18 August 2026 — AZ contract to mid-2031, against a Groningen contract that had run to mid-2028. He was rehabilitating from the 1 March 2026 cruciate ligament injury this card previously described him as unavailable for the entire first half of 2026/27 with. That earlier framing is superseded, not merely updated: he is no longer a Groningen player of any kind. Removing him from the squad entirely also lapses the stated condition under which Thijmen Blokzijl wears the armband — 'for as long as Stije Resink is unavailable' — and no club source has addressed the captaincy since (see hypotheses).
• Malcolm Jeng ruptured his Other Achilles tendon in a routine training exercise around 12-13 August 2026 — a second, distinct injury from the 29 September 2025 rupture this card has described his absence around since v1/v2, from which he was reported recovering well with an expected return around mid-October 2026. Normal recovery for this new injury is stated as approximately one year, with concern he will not play again in the 2026 calendar year. This supersedes, rather than adds to, the continuing-29 September 2025-rupture framing this card carried through v5.

• FC Groningen finished the 2025/26 Eredivisie 9th of 18: P34 W14 D6 L14, 49 scored, 45 conceded, plus four, 48 points. The fourth-lowest goals-conceded total in the division alongside the joint-lowest goals-scored total of any side in the top nine.
• Thijmen Blokzijl wears the captain's armband for as long as Stije Resink is unavailable, as stated by the club in its matchday-eve release before the opening fixture.
• FC Groningen lost 0-4 to FC Volendam on 24 July 2026 with a combination side, announced as such by the club in advance, on the day before a separate first-team fixture against Volos NFC. The result is recorded and is explicitly not treated as first-team evidence anywhere in this card.
• FC Groningen beat Real Valladolid 1-0 at Euroborg on 1 August 2026 in the final pre-season match, played on the club's annual open day. Thom van Bergen headed the goal from a David van der Werff cross inside the opening quarter of an hour. The starting eleven was published.

Who is available

• Three Players Are Explicitly Unavailable For Matchweek 5, On The Club’s Own Statement Of 4 September 2026, And That Is The First Time This Card Has Held An Explicit Absence For Any Of Them. FC Groningen’s own match preview states that Lukkien cannot yet call upon defenders Marco Rente and Tyrique Mercera, and that the fixture comes too early for forward Ryan Metu. No Cause, Diagnosis, Nature, Severity Or Return Date Is Published For Any Of The Three, and none is inferred — the club does not say any of them is injured, and "unavailable" is not a synonym for "injured". "Nog te vroeg" Bounds This Fixture And Is Not A Return Date For The Next One. Marco Rente’s Record Is Narrowed Rather Than Answered: this card previously held that he came on at half-time against PSV, was himself replaced on 54 minutes, and that the cause of the original Matchweek 1 withdrawal was published by nobody. The club has now confirmed he is unavailable and Still publishes no cause, so what changes is that an absence is now stated rather than inferred — the cause remains exactly as unpublished as it was. Tyrique Mercera And Ryan Metu Are New To This Record Entirely and are recorded from the explicit statement alone. One Addition: Pelle Boevink is named as newly in the matchday selection, a Third-Choice goalkeeper returning to the Euroborg after seven years in Germany — Squad Presence And Nothing More, with no selection candidacy, no role and no movement in the goalkeeping order claimed. Carried Forward Unchanged, because the club statement neither confirms nor contradicts any of it: Oskar Zawada was an unused substitute for a second consecutive match with no published cause, recorded as a selection fact and read no further; Van der Laan, Ondrejka, Brandis and Hernes all appeared as substitutes in Matchweek 4; Malcolm Jeng remains the one settled long-term absence, on a second Achilles rupture with recovery stated at roughly a year. The structured provider’s unnamed, undated sidelined count is still not read backwards onto matchday and still supports no claim about anybody. No Eleven Is Projected And No Player Is Promoted Into Any Vacancy.
• Still Unknown As A Season-Level Picture, with two competitive data points now on record. FC Groningen received No Caution Of Any Kind in the Eredivisie opener, and exactly ONE in Matchweek 2 — David van der Werff, 83 minutes, the only card shown in that match. No dismissal in either. One yellow card carries no suspension consequence under any accumulation threshold, so no Groningen player is suspended on the evidence available. What Remains Unknown Is Unchanged: no per-player caution count exists for this squad from any admitted source, and the provider returned no suspension-category record for this club. Absence of a record is still not treated as a clearance.Moderate confidence
• FC Groningen have now played TWO competitive fixtures in 2026/27 — at home to FC Utrecht on Sunday 9 August and away at ADO Den Haag on Sunday 16 August — after nine pre-season fixtures between 30 June and 1 August, including the training camp in Delden. The gap between the two was Seven Days, Sunday to Sunday, and Groningen played no fixture of any kind inside it. No Fatigue Claim Follows And None Is Made: no source assesses the physical condition of any Groningen player. The one workload-adjacent fact that IS evidenced remains a personnel one rather than a fatigue one — five players were named unavailable for the second fixture and a sixth was not named in the squad, with no cause published for him.

• InjuriesConfirmed issueThree availability facts are stated by the club itself in its matchday-eve release, which is a stronger starting point than most gates get. Stije Resink is no longer a Groningen player and is therefore not modelled as an injury concern for this squad — he transferred permanently to AZ on 18 August 2026. Malcolm Jeng, a centre-back, ruptured his Other Achilles tendon in training around 12-13 August 2026 — a second, distinct injury superseding this card's earlier framing of his absence as the continuing 29 September 2025 rupture — with recovery stated at roughly one year and no published return date. Oskar Zawada, the senior centre-forward, picked up a minor injury and his availability is being assessed week by week with no return date — he is Neither Ruled Out Nor Confirmed Available for this fixture, and is recorded as exactly that. He missed the dress rehearsal. One further provider record belongs to a player who appears in no current squad list from any source and is out of scope. No player is inferred to be unavailable from absence, and non-selection in a friendly is nowhere read as an injury.
• SuspensionsReported but unconfirmedThe provider returned no suspension-category record for FC Groningen, and no admitted source names any current or carried-over suspension for any player. Absence of a record is not treated as a clearance, and no suspension claim of any kind appears in this card.
• BookingsReported but unconfirmedNo per-player caution count exists for any FC Groningen player from any admitted source, and the provider returned no caution totals. Absence of a caution record is not treated as a clearance.
• Playing eligibilityCould not be establishedNo affirmative eligibility statement exists for any 2026 arrival beyond the transfer announcements themselves, which is insufficient on its own for an eligibility claim. This is specifically material for the two additions who joined late enough to be absent from the provider squad snapshot.
• Squad and transfer statusConfirmed issueThree arrivals are confirmed by the club's own releases (Brandis, Nordin and the Jeng loan); two more are established from regional reporting and the club's squad page and are independently corroborated from the selling side by two other committed TeamCards. Two Open Issues Affect The Squad Model. First, the club's squad page and the provider snapshot disagree on membership in both directions — three players the club lists are absent from the provider, and the provider returned no position and no shirt number for five of its rows; the club page is preferred throughout. Second, the transfer window remains open past matchweek 1, and two players in the current squad carry summer reporting about a possible departure — the first-choice goalkeeper, described as open to a move abroad, and a forward described as permitted to leave. Neither departure has been announced by anyone, and both players are modelled as current. A Third Issue Is Now Confirmed Rather Than Open: club captain Stije Resink transferred permanently to AZ with immediate effect on 18 August 2026, club-confirmed by FC Groningen's own release.

What we still do not know

This profile records 28 points that available sources did not settle. The questions below are the ones that most affect how FC Groningen are read; the rest are held open rather than filled in with assumptions.

• Do Etienne Vaessen or any other current squad member leave before the transfer window closes?

  The first-choice goalkeeper is the starting point of the build-up the coach describes and was reported through the summer as open to a move abroad; the window remains open past matchweek 1.

Matches

• FC Groningen v FC Utrecht — Sun 9 Aug, 14:30 CEST · Matchweek 1 · Played · Read the analysis
• ADO Den Haag v FC Groningen — Sun 16 Aug, 12:15 CEST · Matchweek 2 · Kick-off passed · Read the analysis
• PSV v FC Groningen — Sun 23 Aug, 14:30 CEST · Matchweek 3 · Kick-off passed · Read the analysis
• FC Groningen v Fortuna Sittard — Fri 28 Aug, 20:00 CEST · Matchweek 4 · Kick-off passed · Read the analysis
• FC Groningen v FC Twente — Sun 6 Sept, 12:15 CEST · Matchweek 5 · Kick-off passed · Read the analysis
• Go Ahead Eagles v FC Groningen — Sat 12 Sept, 18:45 CEST · Matchweek 6 · Kick-off passed · Read the analysis
• FC Groningen v PEC Zwolle — Fri 18 Sept, 20:00 CEST · Matchweek 7 · Kick-off passed · Read the analysis
• Excelsior Rotterdam v FC Groningen — Sun 11 Oct, 16:45 CEST · Matchweek 8