Team Overview
Our Elo rating for Go Ahead is 1431; they are in the lower half of the Eredivisie field. Go Ahead drew with Feyenoord 2-2 in the Eredivisie (2026/27), then beat Den Haag 3-1, lost to AZ 2-5, drew with Utrecht 3-3, drew with Groningen 1-1, drew with NEC 1-1, drew with Sparta 3-3, lost to Zwolle 1-4, beat Telstar 3-2 and lost to Cambuur 0-4. Søren Tengstedt (8), Stefán Ingi Sigurðarson (4), Victor Edvardsen (3) and Mathis Suray (3) scored in recorded matches. Go Ahead averaged 1.65 points at home and 0.61 away across competitions in the most recent 35 matches we hold. Their heaviest win was 6-0 on 15 March 2026. Their worst defeat was 0-4 on 31 October 2026. Go Ahead's Elo fell 40 points between 8 August 2026 and 31 October 2026, moving from 1472 to 1431.
In the 2026/27 Eredivisie table, Go Ahead rank 8 of 18 teams with 11 points from 8 matches. The record is 2 wins, 5 draws and 1 defeat, with 19 goals for, 17 goals against and a difference of +2.
The 2026/27 Eredivisie goal list for Go Ahead is headed by Søren Tengstedt (6), Mathis Suray (3) and Victor Edvardsen (3). Of the 19 goals, a named scorer is recorded for 18.
Go Ahead have 39 players in our registered-player data, split into 5 goalkeepers, 13 defenders, 11 midfielders and 10 forwards. The youngest registered player is 16 and the oldest 36; the median age is 24.0. The youngest player is Thomas Hulleman, aged 16, and the oldest is Nick Marsman, aged 36. Nationalities among the registered players: 11 nationalities, the most common being Netherlands (19), Germany (3) and Norway (3). Of the players with a recorded height, Dean James is the tallest at 177 cm.
Everything on this page that relates to the 2026/27 Eredivisie, including the squad, dates from 14 October 2026.
Our records for Go Ahead cover 9 seasons from 2013/14 to 2026/27 across 1 competition, with 308 matches in total. The 282 matches with a final result break down into 81 wins, 73 draws and 128 defeats for the side: 29% won. Goals in those matches: 370 goals scored and 481 goals conceded, or 1.3 and 1.7 per match. The side kept a clean sheet in 20% of the matches with a result and failed to score in 30%. The biggest win we hold is 6-0 against NAC on 15 March 2026, in the Eredivisie. The widest losing margin in these records is 0-8 against Feyenoord, in the Eredivisie on 5 April 2017. Away from home, the side has 27 wins, 40 draws and 75 defeats; at home the figures are 54 wins, 33 draws and 53 defeats. The busiest year for the side in the record is 2024: 37 matches. Between 9 September 2022 and 15 January 2023, the side was unbeaten in 11 matches, a record in our data. The longest winning run we hold, reached 5 times, is 3 matches. Across 8 seasons of the Eredivisie with a final table, the side’s best finish is position 7 in 2024/25 and the lowest position 18 in 2016/17. The club’s first match in our data is Utrecht 1-1 Go Ahead, Eredivisie, on 4 August 2013.
Utrecht are the side Go Ahead have met most often in our data: 18 matches. The record in those matches is 4 wins, 8 draws and 6 defeats for the side, goals 24-31. The latest of them was Utrecht 3-3 Go Ahead in the Eredivisie on 8 September 2026. The club has also met AZ Alkmaar 17 times, with 1 win, 4 draws and 12 defeats. The club has also met Feyenoord 17 times, with 3 wins, 2 draws and 12 defeats.