Historical balance | Just a little more than half won

Next Sunday, PSV already has the last away match of the Eredivisie season 2025/2026 on the agenda. Peter Bosz’s side will travel to Deventer to face the number 11 Go Ahead Eagles.

Melvin Boel’s team is officially safe thanks to a draw away to Sparta Rotterdam and, in theory, still has a chance to qualify for the play-offs for European football. However, this seems unlikely since the Eagles, with two matches remaining, are five points behind in ninth place, Sparta Rotterdam.

The match between Go Ahead Eagles and PSV has not been played much over the past thirty years, partly because the team from Deventer was active in the Eerste Divisie between 1996 and 2013. Since then, Go Ahead has regularly alternated between being active in both the Eredivisie and the Eerste Divisie.

Since the promotion in 2021, Go Ahead Eagles have been a stable Eredivisie club, and last season the team won the KNVB Cup for the first time in their history, meaning the red-gold team came out this season in the League Phase of the UEFA Europa League. That was also the endpoint for the formation of Melvin Boel.

In the last fifteen years, the match Go Ahead Eagles - PSV was only on the fixture list seven times in the league. PSV won six times, and last year the Eagles won for the first time since 1983 in PSV’s home stadium, when Peter Bosz’s side was dealing with a major setback and, in the same week, also suffered defeat at home against Go Ahead in the KNVB Cup semi-final (1-2).

In total, the two teams have faced each other 41 times so far in Deventer. PSV won 22 times and Eagles only thirteen, while the match ended in a draw six times.