Ajax W v PEC Zwolle W — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Vrouwen Eredivisie (W) · Saturday, 22 August 2026. Final score 1–0 (half-time 1–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 62% for over 2.5 goals. This match is older than our frozen ratings ledger, which keeps 30 days, so that figure is a reconstruction from pre-match data rather than a number we published at the time — a distinction worth making, because only the frozen ones prove what we actually said beforehand.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals62%38%Over
Over 3.5 goals41%59%no pick
Both teams to score52%48%Yes

The result model puts Ajax W at 72%, the draw at 18% and PEC Zwolle W at 10%, from expected goals of 2.27 and 0.73.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Vrouwen Eredivisie (W) has produced over 2.5 goals in 65% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Ajax W have 0 in 1 this season, PEC Zwolle W 0 in 1. Those records are pulled toward the league rate with the weight of about 24 matches — enough that two or three unusual games cannot swing a rating — giving 62% and 62%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 1 and 1 games played this season, last season's rates are still blended in and fade out entirely by game 40 — the point at which our testing showed they stop adding accuracy. A single season is part luck, so each club's record is first pulled toward the league average by 34 games' weight. That moves the two figures to 63% and 63%.

The mix. Weighted 40% home side, 40% away side and 20% league — the split that beat every alternative across 30,582 matches of testing — that gives 63%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 83%. That nudges the number 5% of the way toward the head-to-head pattern — deliberately small, because fixtures change more than reputations do — landing on 64%.

Goal expectation. Separately a Poisson model built from attack and defence strength — using real expected-goals data where the league has it — puts this match at 58%, from expected goals of 2.27 for Ajax W and 0.73 for PEC Zwolle W. Folding in 30% of that view gives 62%.

This breakdown is generated from the same inputs the rating uses, so it cannot describe a calculation we did not perform. The full model is set out in the methodology.

Season form

TeamGamesO2.5O3.5BTTS
Ajax W10%0%0%
PEC Zwolle W10%0%0%

Head to head

29 Mar 26Ajax W 1–0 PEC Zwolle WU2.5
23 Nov 25PEC Zwolle W 7–1 Ajax WO2.5
26 Jan 25PEC Zwolle W 0–4 Ajax WO2.5
29 Sept 24Ajax W 5–1 PEC Zwolle WO2.5
23 Mar 24Ajax W 3–2 PEC Zwolle WO2.5
10 Nov 23PEC Zwolle W 1–3 Ajax WO2.5

More: Ajax W season stats · PEC Zwolle W season stats · Vrouwen Eredivisie (W) table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.