Five of the six afternoons on this page are the same fixture. FC Twente five times, Sparta Rotterdam once. This is a record built almost entirely out of one match-up, and for four meetings it was the most one-sided relationship in the file.
It starts on the sixth of December, 2024, at home to Twente: six-one. Then the twenty-fourth of April, 2025, away — the line reading 1-3 with the home side first, Twente one, PSV three. Then the seventeenth of August, 2025, away again, and the line reading 0-2: two-nil to PSV on the road. Then the seventeenth of May, 2026, at home: five-one. Four meetings, four wins, sixteen scored and three conceded. Twice Twente were put away by four or five; twice PSV travelled and took it anyway. Whatever the fixture computer thought it was doing, the record says PSV owned this pairing.
Then the two that are fresh. Sunday the thirteenth of September, 2026, at the Philips Stadion, with PSV as the home side and Sparta Rotterdam visiting: four-one. A routine-looking home win with the venue named and the score comfortably read — four-one, home, done. It is the only Sparta Rotterdam row in the file, and it does not argue with anything.
A four-one at home is the scoreline equivalent of a firm handshake — it sorts the afternoon out early and leaves nothing worth arguing about afterwards. It is also the only row on this page without Twente in it, and the calmest read in the file.
Sunday the twentieth — a week later, and four days before this copy was written — is different. Away to FC Twente at De Grolsch Veste, where the match was played, with Twente as the home side. The score reads 3-2. Home side first: Twente three, PSV two. A one-goal away defeat, and the only defeat on this page.
That is the shape of the cruelest kind of afternoon: the narrowest possible margin, at the ground of the one opponent this page had been taking wins from all along, seven days after the last home win. Three-two away is a match that was there for the taking and got taken instead. And read against the four Twente wins — six-one, three-one, two-nil, five-one — the two-three stands out like a loose thread. Sixteen-three across the first four meetings; then, on the fifth, the one that goes home in the wrong mood.
There is no margin quite as restless as one goal. Two-nil you can accept on the drive home; one goal away and every half-chance in the match comes back to sit in the passenger seat. Three-two away is the extreme version: five goals and a whole afternoon of almost.
The league line all of that feeds is in the numbers block below. Every row on this page is Eredivisie football — the only competition listed for this club — and the freshest entry in the Twente thread is the one that stings.
By the numbers — Eredivisie: 3rd · 7 played · 5–1–1 · 24–10 · 16 pts · form WWWWL (most recent last). All data from ScoreCrowd's match records, retrieved 24 September 2026.
What is left is a genuinely strange little record to read. One opponent, five times, and one afternoon that undid a piece of what the other four had built. One home win over Sparta Rotterdam with the stadium named. The Twente thread now carries a two-three where it used to carry none.