Football team

NAC Breda

Club · Netherlands · Eredivisie

«The Yellow Army»

296 Matches

119 wins

64 draws

113 losses

459–443 Goals

+16 Difference

1.6 Scored per game

Form D L L W W D

Breda sits in North Brabant, close enough to Tilburg that the two cities have spent a century arguing over the same stretch of ground, and it is that argument, more than anything else, that shapes NAC Breda. The club came together on 19 September 1912, when NOAD and ADVENDO merged, and the meeting settled on NAC, a compromise put forward by Frans Conert that folded both names, and the word Combination, into one.

The Yellow Army plays at the Rat Verlegh Stadion, 20,500 seats, in a yellow shirt at home and black away, and the fixture that matters most is the short trip to Willem II — the Brabantsederby, twenty kilometres apart, both clubs from the same province. Feyenoord carries its own weight in the club's history too, the 1979 "Ashtray Incident" still remembered, while PSV, despite sharing the province, never built the same rivalry.

NAC's silverware belongs mostly to a different football era. The 1921 title came under a championship structure that bore little resemblance to today's Eredivisie, and between 1920 and 1955 the club topped the old Southern Division year after year — a stretch that ended when Dutch football restructured in 1956. The one cup NAC actually won came later: 1973, beating NEC Nijmegen 2-0 in the final, after losing finals to Ajax in 1961 and again in 1985.

Frans Conert gave the club its name at a meeting where two founding sides refused to back down.

Latest results

Fixtures and results

9 Oct	Eerste Divisie	MVV Maastricht H
3 Oct	Eerste Divisie	Vitesse A	2:2	D
26 Sep	Eerste Divisie	FC Eindhoven H	4:2	W
20 Sep	Eerste Divisie	De Graafschap A	2:1	W
11 Sep	Eerste Divisie	Jong Utrecht H	2:3	L
4 Sep	Eerste Divisie	Waalwijk A	2:4	L

Standing

Eerste Divisie

Group stage · Eerste Divisie: Period 1

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
6	Emmen	8	5	0	3	18:17	15
7	Vitesse	9	4	2	3	15:13	14
8	NAC Breda	9	4	2	3	19:19	14
9	Waalwijk	8	3	4	1	18:11	13
10	Jong AZ	9	4	1	4	22:17	13

Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 296

296 Matches

119 wins

64 draws

113 losses

459–443 Goals

+16 Difference

1.6 Scored per game

Match outcomes matches counted in total: 296

119 64 113

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	296	154	142
Scored	459	255	204
Conceded	443	196	247
Scored per game	1.6	1.7	1.4
Conceded per game	1.5	1.3	1.7
Difference	+16	+59	−43

Key players

by appearances over the last year

Konstantinos Lamprou Goalkeeper 21 Matches

Maximilien Balard Midfielder 20 Matches

Rio Hillen Defender 19 Matches

Roy Kortsmit Goalkeeper 19 Matches

Jayden Candelaria Defender 19 Matches

P. Reilen Forward 19 Matches

Charles-Andreas Brym Midfielder 18 Matches

Fredrik Jensen Midfielder 18 Matches

Squad of NAC Breda

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Age	Matches
31	Konstantinos Lamprou	Goalkeeper		21
6	Maximilien Balard	Midfielder		20
22	Rio Hillen	Defender		19
23	Roy Kortsmit	Goalkeeper		19
5	Jayden Candelaria	Defender		19
26	P. Reilen	Forward		19
28	Charles-Andreas Brym	Midfielder		18
8	Fredrik Jensen	Midfielder		18
10	Mohamed Nassoh	Midfielder		17
55	Brahim Ghalidi	Forward		17
2	Boyd Lucassen	Defender		16
25	K. Valerius	Defender		16
14	Kamal Deen Sowah	Midfielder		15
9	M. Suomano	Forward		14
11	Raul Carlos Vasko Caldaroska Paula	Midfielder		14
24	André Morgan Rami Ayew	Forward		12
32	Juho Jaakko Talvitie	Forward	21	12
99	Daniel Bielica	Goalkeeper	27	12
8	Clint Leemans	Midfielder	31	12
90	Lewis Harry Holtby	Midfielder		12
4	Boy Kemper	Defender		12
4	Leo Greiml	Defender		11
15	Enes Mahmutović	Defender		11
19	Amine Salama	Forward		10
3	Denis Odoi	Defender		10
35	Mailein Breuviers	Defender		9
12	Jan Van den Bergh	Defender		9
1	Michael Verrips	Goalkeeper		9
78	Jannes Van Hecke	Midfielder		8
34	Imran Nazih	Midfielder		8
19	Paul Gladon	Forward		7
11	G. Misehouy	Midfielder		5
32	Rayan van Aarst	Defender		5
33	E. Ikpia	Forward		4
17	Mohamed Bouchouari	Defender		4
20	Mats Seuntjens	Midfielder		3
17	Dion Versluis	Forward		2
44	Thomas Goos	Goalkeeper		1
30	Luuk Brouwers	Defender	28	1