At the game for the Johan Cruijff Scale, a maximum of 1,600 supporters of the playing PSV are welcome next month, the club announced on Friday. The team of trainer Roger Schmidt will meet champion and cup winner Ajax on 7 or 8 August, depending on PSV’s European schedule. fans of the away club are present in the Johan Cruijff ArenA for the first time in a year and a half, something that was not possible for a long time due to the corona crisis.
Due to the outbreak of the corona virus, the 2019/20 season was definitively stopped in the final phase and in the past football year no visitors were welcome at matches in the Eredivisie, Keuken Kampioen Division and TOTO KNVB Cup. Only at the end of the season were supporters welcome again at competition matches in professional football after a few test matches. Ajax, for example, became champion at the end of April against AZ (2-0) under the watchful eye of 7,500 spectators in Amsterdam.
PSV welcomed 23,500 spectators on Wednesday for the home match against Galatasaray (5-1) in the second qualifying round of the Champions League. As a result, the third preliminary round has come very close for the Eindhoven club. Should Galatasaray actually be eliminated, European qualifiers will follow on 3 or 4 and 10 August, against the winner of the diptych between Celtic and FC Midtjylland. Both clubs controlled each other in Glasgow on Wednesday: 1-1.
Ajax won the national title and the TOTO KNVB Cup last season. PSV eventually finished in second place in the Eredivisie, which means that it will soon enter the battle for the Johan Cruijff Scale. The formation of trainer Erik ten Hag will start the new Eredivisie season at home against PhD student NEC on 14 August. PSV will start on the same day with an away match against Heracles Almelo.
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