In the first home game of the Eredivisie season, SC Cambuur is the opponent. The Promovendus will play PSV for the fifteenth time in league competition. A look back at the past.
Encounters
The teams have played each other 14 times in the Eredivisie. PSV has not lost any of these duels. Twice it was a draw and twelve times the points went to Eindhoven. PSV maintains an impressive goal difference here of 35 goals scored against Cambuur and only 5 goals received.
Top scorer
With 5 goals, Luuk de Jong is the top scorer against the Frisians. He scored these 5 goals over 3 games, including a game in Leeuwarden in which the striker needed only one game half to score a hat-trick.
Eredivisie
The last time Cambuur played Eredivisie football was in the 2015-2016 season. In that season, PSV managed to win from them twice. In both encounters, home and away, a total of 12 goals were scored by PSV players. Two of these goal scorers are now back in the selection, namely: Marco van Ginkel and Davy Pröpper.
Van Ginkel milestone
For Marco van Ginkel, a nice milestone can be reached this season. The midfielder is just two goals away from scoring 50 Eredivisie goals. Of the 48 goals he has scored so far, 18 have been in the shirt of Vitesse and 30 in the red and white of PSV.
Own home
PSV won its first home game in the Eredivisie in 19 of 21 seasons this century, the other two seasons the team started with a draw. This century it has never lost its first game at Philips Stadium.