Customer Story

Inside NEC's 2025/26 season

Highest ever Eredivisie finish (3rd) & first ever Champions League qualification.

5 min read
HISTORIC SEASON

Success does not come overnight

Last summer we ran a workshop with their coaching staff, where they walked us through their game model and their principles, at a team level and at an individual level. They had a clear game model and clear individual development points.

The problem is the one every club knows: measuring all of that, week after week, is time-consuming, and because there is always something more urgent in front of you, it gets pushed down the list and then overlooked. So we set up their game model and their individual player profiles inside MyGamePlan, with their own custom metrics. Then the season did the talking.

QPR squad in pre-match huddle during training

8th 3rd

24/25 → 25/26 · +5 places · +16 PTS
2024 / 25
1
PSV
79 pts
2
Ajax
78 pts
3
Feyenoord
68 pts
4
FC Utrecht
64 pts
. . .
8
NEC
43 pts
2025 / 26
1
PSV
84 pts
2
Feyenoord
65 pts
3
NEC
59 pts
4
FC Twente
58 pts
5
Ajax
56 pts
6
FC Utrecht
53 pts
STANDOUT SEASON 

A complete team in both phases

Best at wining 2nd balls

Won the most second balls in the entire league. They didn't just press,they collected.

Best at crosses + box infiltration

Most crosses to the box of any Eredivisie team, with an average of 6players in the box per cross. That figure is top in the world, not just theleague.

Best at creating danger from transition

Best transition-to-shot and transition-to-goal ratio in the Eredivisie.When the ball was won, the next picture was already a chance.

The coach's own words

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We have been using MyGamePlan to feed in our principles, and after every game I can measure and watch how we have implemented our plan on the pitch.

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Enrico Maaßen

Head Coach, FC St. Gallen

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QPR players on his phone before training session at the Championship club
PLAYER SPOTLIGHT

One player, measurably better

Several players progressed immensely across the season, Christian Witzig above all. He produced the league's clearest upward progression curves on two specific things his coach asked for: defensive pressing runs and runs into the final third.

Both trended up week by week, and both finished well above the league benchmark. That is not a generic number off a dashboard. It is one player getting measurably better at two of the exact actions that are important to the team game model.

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MyGamePlan dashboard shown on screen in QPR analysis room