What you need to know about the 1st match round (women)

SCHC – HGC
Sunday 27 September, 12.45 pm

Head-to-head record
24 matches
17 wins for SCHC
4 wins for HGC
3 draws

What the stats say

• SCHC have remained unbeaten in their last seventeen league matches against HGC (W15 D2).
  
• The last defeat against the team from Wassenaar dates back to 8 November 2009, when HGC won 3–2 at home.
  
• SCHC finished last season’s regular league campaign unbeaten: seventeen wins and five draws from 22 matches. The team scored 79 goals and conceded nineteen.
  
• SCHC are now unbeaten in 36 consecutive regular-season matches (W29 D7). Their last defeat was on 23 October 2024: a 0-2 home defeat against Den Bosch.
  
• HGC won six of their 22 matches last season. Away from home, the team managed just one win: W1 D4 L6.

VICTORIA – ROTTERDAM
Sunday 27 September, 12.45 pm

Head-to-head record
10 matches
7 wins for Rotterdam
2 wins for Victoria
1 draw

What the stats say

• Victoria and Rotterdam have not faced each other in the Hoofdklasse since 18 April 2007. Rotterdam won that last encounter 0–2 thanks to goals from Claire Verhage and Helen Grant.
  
• Rotterdam have not lost any of their last four matches against Victoria: three wins and one draw.
  
• Victoria’s only home win against Rotterdam dates back to an earlier spell at the top flight: on 29 September 2004, they won 2–1 at the Kralingseweg.
  
• Victoria (champions of the Promotieklasse) are playing in the Hoofdklasse again for the first time since the 2021–2022 season. The Rotterdam side have previously spent a total of eight seasons at the top flight.
  
• Victoria have lost their last six home matches in the Hoofdklasse since a 2–2 draw against ORANJE-ROOD on 31 October 2021. Should they lose to Rotterdam, Victoria will suffer seven consecutive home defeats at the top flight for the first time in the club’s history.
  
• Rotterdam ended last season with just one win in their last twelve matches (6 draws, 5 defeats).

AMSTERDAM – ORANJE-ROOD
Sunday 27 September, 12.45 pm

Head-to-head record
18 matches
14 wins for Amsterdam
3 wins for Oranje-Rood
1 draw

What the stats say

• Reigning national champions Amsterdam have won their last ten league matches against Oranje-Rood since a 2–2 draw on 27 October 2019. 
   
• Amsterdam have scored eighteen goals in their last three league matches against Oranje-Rood (6–1, 1–6 and 6–0).
   
• Amsterdam have won their last five home matches against Oranje-Rood and remain unbeaten in their last eight home matches against them (W7 D1). Only the first home match against the Eindhoven side ended in defeat (1–2 on 26 February 2017).
   
• Only Rotterdam (21 goals) scored fewer goals than Oranje-Rood (23) last season.
   
• Oranje-Rood lost its last three matches in the first match round: 4–1 away at Kampong, 1–6 against SCHC and 0–3 against Kampong.

BLOEMENDAAL – KAMPONG
Sunday 27 September, 12.45 pm

Head-to-head record
44 matches
29 wins for Kampong
8 wins for Bloemendaal
7 draws

What the stats say

• Kampong are unbeaten in six consecutive Hoofdklasse matches against Bloemendaal (W5 D1) since a 2–3 home defeat on 24 March 2022.
  
• The Utrecht side have won the last three meetings between the two sides without conceding a single goal: 3-0, 0-2 and 4-0.
  
• Bloemendaal ended last season with six defeats in their last eight matches (W1 D1), but the team nevertheless finished the regular league in seventh place.
  
• Kampong lost just three of its 22 regular-season matches last season and finished with fifteen wins (4 draws).
  
• Bloemendaal won just one of its eleven home matches last season.

DEN BOSCH - PINOKÉ
Sunday 27 September, 12.45 pm

Head-to-head record
50 matches
48 wins for Den Bosch
1 win for Pinoké
1 draw

What the stats say

• Den Bosch have won all 25 of their previous home matches against Pinoké in the Hoofdklasse.
   
• The overall record is also exceptionally one-sided: Den Bosch have won 48 of the 50 matches between the two sides. Pinoké have won once and one match ended in a draw.
   
• What’s more, that sole Pinoké victory is a recent one: on 27 April 2025, they won 3–2 in Amstelveen. Den Bosch went on to win the next two encounters.
   
• The dethroned national champions, Den Bosch, finished last season’s regular league campaign with eleven wins in their last twelve matches (L1).
   
• Pinoké is embarking on the post-Daan Sabel era. The coach had been in charge of the Steekneuzen for the past nine seasons and guided the team to the play-offs for the first time in 2024–2025.

HDM - HURLEY
Sunday 27 September, 12.45 pm

Head-to-head record
40 matches
18 wins for Hurley
12 wins for HDM
10 draws

What the stats say

• Last season, HDM ended a run of four consecutive defeats against Hurley by winning 1-0 in The Hague.
  
• Hurley have won three of the last four head-to-head matches.
  
• HDM have lost their last four league matches. Hurley, on the other hand, have remained unbeaten in their last three matches (W1 D2) and have kept a clean sheet in their last two away matches.
  
• HDM and Hurley also faced each other on the first round of the 2023–2024 season. The match in The Hague ended 1–1.
  
• Hurley have won five of their 23 opening matches. Their last five, however, have produced a decent record: victories over HDM and Bloemendaal, a draw at HDM, a win at Huizen and, last year, a narrow 4–3 defeat at Amsterdam.