Heerenveen W v Ajax W — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Vrouwen Eredivisie (W) · Sunday, 13 September 2026. Final score 3–1 (half-time 1–0). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 64% 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 goals64%36%Over
Over 3.5 goals44%56%no pick
Both teams to score57%43%Yes

The result model puts Heerenveen W at 25%, the draw at 24% and Ajax W at 51%, from expected goals of 1.19 and 1.8.

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. Heerenveen W have 2 in 3 this season (1 of 1 at home), Ajax W 0 in 3 (0 of 1 away). 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 65% and 58%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 3 and 3 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 69% and 62%.

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 66%.

Head to head. These sides have met 6 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 100%. 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 67%.

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 57%, from expected goals of 1.19 for Heerenveen W and 1.8 for Ajax W. Folding in 30% of that view gives 64%.

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
Heerenveen W367%33%67%
Ajax W30%0%0%

Head to head

22 May 26Heerenveen W 1–3 Ajax WO2.5
4 Oct 25Ajax W 4–1 Heerenveen WO2.5
9 Mar 25Ajax W 5–1 Heerenveen WO2.5
15 Dec 24Heerenveen W 1–4 Ajax WO2.5
31 Mar 24Heerenveen W 2–1 Ajax WO2.5
14 Feb 24Ajax W 5–1 Heerenveen WO2.5

More: Heerenveen W season stats · Ajax 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.