The KNVB has announced the match days calendar of the Eredivisie and the Kitchen Champion for the 2022/23 season. The Dutch professional leagues will start in the weekend of 5 to 7 August, while the Johan Cruijff Scale match is scheduled a week earlier. Due to the World Cup in Qatar, the Eredivisie will come to a standstill between November 13, 2022 and January 6, 2023.
The first part of the Kitchen Champion Division will run until November 18, 2022, after which two more rounds will be played after a two-week rest period on December 11 and 16, 2022. The competition will then again be stopped for two weeks, to continue with the second half of the season on January 6, 2023. “The vast majority of clubs were in favor of this division,” the KNVB writes. Kitchen Champion Division clubs will once again have the opportunity to indicate whether or not they want to play during international matches next season.
However, this option does not apply during the World Cup, which will be played between November 21 and December 18, 2022. The Eredivisie comes to a standstill a week before the start of the tournament and continues three weeks after the World Cup final. The next Eredivisie season will have one midweek round: between 24 and 26 January 2023. The Eredivisie ends in the 2022/23 season on Sunday 28 May, while the last round in the Keuken Kampioen Division is scheduled for Friday 19 May 2023.
The play-offs for promotion and relegation start on Monday, May 22, and the play-offs for European football start on Wednesday, June 1. Both play-offs end on Sunday 11 June 2023. “With a World Cup that will be played in the winter, we had to puzzle even more than usual to fill in the match days calendar for next season”, explains Jan Bluyssen, KNVB league affairs manager. to. “We have involved the clubs by clearly identifying their wishes with regard to things such as the start of the competition and playing on during the World Cup. That is how we eventually arrived at this calendar of matches.”