Groningen — Roda JC
Marco Bizot, Johan Kappelhof, Eric Botteghin, Giliano Wijnaldum, Stéfano Magnasco, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Tjaronn Chery (Michael de Leeuw 84), Nick van der Velden (Andraž Kirm 51), Tom Hiariej, Filip Kostić, Richairo Živković (William Troost-Ekong 90)
Staff: Erwin van de Looi, Marcel Groninger, Alfons Arts, Dick Lukkien
Stadium: Euroborg
Referees: Danny Makkelie, Dave Goossens, Bas van Dongen
Official matchday programme (programmaboekje) 03.11.2013 | Groningen — Roda JC (NL Eredivisie 2013/14)
FC Groningen printed matchday programmes regularly that season. For this match a 72-page A5 programme was issued.
Snapshot of the Era: Match Almanac
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📜 The Mothership: Uniting the Northern Amateur Clubs
To truly understand the cultural weight of FC Groningen, you have to look beyond the city…
📜 Lanterns at the Euroborg: Celebrating Sint Maarten
A truly successful regional football club doesn't just host matches; it weaves itself into the…
📜 The Cruel Reality of the Game: The November Injury Ward
While matchday programmes are usually filled with optimistic manager columns and glossy player interviews, the…
📜 Policing the Pitch: The Rotterdam Cop and the Dirty Derby
When the KNVB looked at the Eredivisie fixture list for November 3, 2013, they saw a glaring…
📜 The Dirty Derby and the Goal-Crazy Referee
Sometimes, the layout of a matchday programme tells a better story than the text itself….
📜 The Big Game Specialist: Marco Bizot Shuts Down PSV
There are goalkeepers who pad their stats against lower-league opposition, and then there are goalkeepers…
📜 Perfume and Pitch Invaders: The Pull of the Pride of the North
If you scan the advertisement pages of a football programme, you usually expect to see…
📜 Finding His Center: Johan Kappelhof’s Defensive Evolution
In football, a player's career can completely change simply by shifting a few meters across…
📜 The Mirror Match: Ruud Brood on the Provincial Parallels
Away manager columns in matchday programmes are often filled with generic pleasantries, but occasionally, an…
📜 From Chaos to Contenders: Van de Looi Finds His Formula
If you read the matchday programmes from September and October 2013, the narrative surrounding FC Groningen was…