Dutch Eredivisie football Betting
17th June 2008, by
Dutch Eredivisie Football Betting – The Basics
Eredivisie is the highest professional soccer league in the Netherlands. Centrebet provides a range of Dutch Eredivisie football betting options for the entire football season. This league has had a lot of different names throughout its history, the current name being the Holland Casino Eredivisie. The league exists of 18 teams, with the poorest performing team relegated to first division.
Traditionally the two best Dutch Eredivisie football teams have been Ajax and Feyenoord. Over the last 2 decades PSV has joined them as a consistent top team. The games between Ajax and Feyenoord are the most popular with both spectators and punters alike. The spirited rivalry between these two teams usually results in games that are well supported, regardless of their relative positions on the league table.
Another fact about Dutch soccer is that the youth-education system maintains a very high standard. A lot of the world's best players have had their education in the Netherlands. One of the best players of all time, Johan Cruijff, has graduated through the youth-academy of Ajax proving the value of this approach to soccer development. Other examples of players coming from the Ajax-school are Marco van Basten, Frank Rijkaard, Dennis Bergkamp, Ronald Koeman and many more.
Dutch Eredivisie Football Betting – Bet Types
Centrebet's Dutch Eredivisie betting options including the draw option, half time score, half time/full time double, pick the score, top scorer, head-to-heads and total goal score.
Dutch Eredivisie soccer is known for its attacking style of play. Because of this there usually are a lot of goals in the Eredivisie. Consequently, results like 2-2 are more common than 0-0. This attractive way of playing has been credited with a growth in spectator-numbers over the last couple of years, which has led to clubs building bigger stadiums.
Another big factor to consider with Dutch teams is the lack of money compared to clubs from the bigger countries. Promising players, around which whole championships are won (for example Rafael van der Vaart and Ajax) will commonly be bought by larger clubs in the off-season, meaning they have to start building a new team all over again. The youth-education programs are world class, so there will always be new talent who can keep the Dutch teams capable of international success, even though that may be a short-lived tenure!
Dutch Eredivisie Football Betting – The Contenders
Even though Holland is a very small country, teams from this country have had excellent results in international competitions. All three Dutch teams, Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord have won the European Cup, now known as the Champions League. Ajax has even won it 4 times, putting them high up the all-time ranking.
PSV Eindhoven, Dutch Champions for the last two seasons running will be without world-beating mastermind coach Guus Hiddink, who has taken a two year contract to coach the Russian national team. This will surely affect their performance in the coming season as Hiddink’s tactical understanding of the game is unsurpassed. Feyenoord will look to resurrect their elite status while Ajax Amsterdam will look to rising star Klaas Jan Huntelaar to shoot them into championship contention.
Dutch Eredivisie Football Betting – Part Of A Bigger Range
Centrebet also offers football betting odds on a wide variety of competitions and fixtures. We cover all the major European domestic football competitions, and offer German Bundesliga betting, Italian Serie A odds and Spanish Primera Division odds, plus international tournaments as Champions League betting, and UEFA Cup betting.
Books for these events are now open for Centrebet customers. In order to bet on these events, you first need to register to bet with Centrebet on our secure bet site. You can check our online sports betting calendar for more information on upcoming events. Punters are still flocking to Centrebet, the world's first online sports bookmaker, because of our better prices, wide selection of sports gambling options and guaranteed payment of winnings.
last update : 17th June 2008 17:11