Season trivia for Eredivisie 2014/2015
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2014/2015 Eredivisie season in Netherlands.
Best scoring couple
The players who were behind the most goals for their team in the 2014/2015 season were the players Luciano Narsingh - Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven) and Jetro Willems - Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven). Together they scored 7 goals for their teams, where one of the players scored the goal and the other one assisted to it.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2014/2015 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Stefan Nijland, playing for Zwolle, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 19 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Zwolle-Cambuur.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
The most goals scored in a calendar month during the season 2014/2015 was 5 goals, which these players scored in those months:
Memphis Depay (PSV Eindhoven) - August 2014
Marko Vejinovic (Vitesse) - October 2014
Samuel Armenteros (Willem II) - November 2014
Ruud Boymans (Utrecht) - November 2014
Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven) - December 2014
Sébastien Haller (Utrecht) - February 2015
Most braces by player
Memphis Depay in PSV Eindhoven scored (at least) two goals in a match 5 times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2014/2015 season.
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2014/2015 season was Luuk de Jong in PSV Eindhoven, in total he did it 8 times.
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Michiel Kramer in Den Haag during the 2014/2015 season, in total he did this 8 times.
Most penalty goals by player
The title of the league's best penalty taker in 2014/2015 was shared between 5 players, all of whom scored 4 penalties each, and these were
Erik Bakker (Cambuur)
Marko Vejinovic (Vitesse)
Sébastien Haller (Utrecht)
Jeff Stans (Excelsior)
Roland Alberg (Den Haag)
Most penalty goals by team
Utrecht was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2014/2015 season, in total they scored 7 of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
In total, 2 players scored 3 goals in added time, and the players who did so were Valeri Qazaishvili (Vitesse) and Bartholomew Ogbeche (Cambuur).
Most stoppage time goals by team
When it comes to stoppage time goals, PSV Eindhoven was the best team, in total they scored 9 goals in the final minutes of the match.
Most own goals by player
The unluckiest scorer during the 2014/2015 season was Timothy Derijck, as he held the somewhat dubious honour of scoring the most own goals of any player in Eredivisie, which he did 3 times.
Most own goals by team
Groningen scored 6 own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2014/2015 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
There were 3 players who scored in 5 consecutive matches during the 2014/2015 season, and the players who achieved this were:
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
The best streak of matches with an assist was 4 matches in the season 2014/2015, a feat achieved byMark Uth (Heerenveen) and Jetro Willems (PSV Eindhoven)
Players with goals or assists in most consecutive matches
Bertrand Traoré in Vitesse scored or assisted in 7 consecutive matches during the 2014/2015 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
The players with the most goals in the first half of the match scored 11 goals, and the players who did this were Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven) and Bertrand Traoré (Vitesse).
Players with most goals in the second half
Memphis Depay in PSV Eindhoven scored a total of 16 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Eredivisie during the 2014/2015 season.
Most consecutive wins
PSV Eindhoven was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2014/2015 season, with a total of 11 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
PSV Eindhoven were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2014/2015 season, playing 17 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
Dordrecht had a streak of 9 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in Eredivisie during the 2014/2015 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
Dordrecht managed the feat of not winning a single match in 17 consecutive matches during the 2014/2015 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something PSV Eindhoven were best at during the 2014/2015 season, they came back to win 7 matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Heerenveen and Go Ahead Eagles were the teams that struggled most to win despite taking the lead, these teams blew a lead and lost in 4 different matches during the 2014/2015 season.
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