Fifa 2001 Netherlands Qualifications

Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord. These three teams are always the strong favourites when it comes to Dutch football. In this tournamnet fans were also looking at Arnhem and Alkmaar wich are looking good lately. The tournament seemed to be interesting but who whould ever know that so many suprises will took place. Ajax and PSV lost in their first games! Utrecht took a confident 2:0 win against Amsterdam and Breda managed to pull of a stoppage time goal that give them a suprise win in Eindhoven. Arnhem lost with Heerenveen and Alkmaar had to admint Feyenoord was the better team after 1:2 lost. So basicly in the semi finals Feyenoord was the last man standing when it comes to the favourites and they did not stand long. Heerenveen took their chances and met in the grande finale, check out the highlights and see how it all went...



Highlights



Results
1 Round
Doetinchem 2:1 Enschede
0:1 Vennegoor
1:1 Tumba
2:1 Viscaal

Waalwjik 0:0 Tilburg (4:3 PEN)

Groningen 1:0 Roosendal
1:0 Averdijk

Sparta 1:0 Sittard
1:0 den Dunnen

2 Round
Heerenveen 2:0 Groningen
1:0 de Noojer
2:0 Jensen

Doetinchem 3:0 Nijmegen
1:0 Andre Schneider
2:0 Viscaal
3:0 Tumba

Breda 1:0 Waalwijk
1:0 Schreuder

Sparta 1:1 Kerkrade (8:7 PEN)
0:1 Soetaers
1:1 Zijm

3 Round
Heerenveen 1:0 Doetinchem
1:0 Jensen

Breda 1:0 Sparta
1:0 Simons

4 Round
Utrecht 2:0 Amsterdam
1:0 Groenedijk
2:0 Martel

Eindhoven 1:2 Breda
0:1 Cristiano
1:1 van Nistelrooy
1:2 Stewart

Heerenveen 2:0 Arnhem
1:0 Tvetkov
2:0 Jensen

Rotterdam 2:1 Alkmaar
0:1 Bouchiba
1:1 van Vossen
2:1 van Vossen

Semi Finals
Utrecht 2:0 Breda
1:0 Martel
2:0 Martel

Heerenveen 1:0 Rotterdam
1:0 de Noojer

Final 
Utrecht 2:2 Heerenveen (3:5 PEN)
0:1 Lurling
1:1 Martel
1:2 Tvetkov
2:2 Groenedijk

Top Scorers
Martel 4
Jensen 3

MVP
de Noojer (Heerenveen)