KNVB Cup 2016/17

The KNVB-Pokal 2016/17 was the 99th edition of the Dutch soccer cup competition. A total of 103 teams took part in the competition: the 35 clubs of the two professional leagues (excluding the three reserve teams playing there) and 68 amateur teams. For the first time, the SBV Vitesse from Arnhem was able to win the trophy - and thus its first title in the club's 125-year history.

The first round took place in August 2016, the final was held on April 30, 2017. The winner is responsible for the playoff round of the UEFA Europa League 2017/18 qualified. Last year's winner was Feyenoord Rotterdam .

Attendees

league	societies
Eredivisie (1)	ADO The Hague	NEC Nijmegen	Sparta Rotterdam	Excelsior Rotterdam
	Ajax Amsterdam	FC Groningen	PEC Zwolle	FC Twente Enschede
	AZ Alkmaar	SC Heerenveen	PSV Eindhoven	FC Utrecht
	Go Ahead Eagles Deventer	Heracles Almelo	Willem II Tilburg	Vitesse Arnhem
	Feyenoord Rotterdam	Roda JC Kerkrade
First Division (2)	Achilles '29	FC Emmen	Helmond Sport	Telstar
	Almere City FC	NAC Breda	MVV Maastricht	VVV-Venlo
	FC Den Bosch	Fortuna Sittard	FC Oss	FC Volendam
	FC Eindhoven	FC Dordrecht	BV De Graafschap	SC Cambuur
	RKC Waalwijk
Tweede Divisie (3)	Amsterdamsche FC DWS	BVV Barendrecht	Excelsior Maassluis	GVVV
	HHC Hardenberg	VV Katwijk	Royal HFC	Kozakken Boys
	FC Lienden	SV Spakenburg	TEC VV	De hits
	VV UNA	VVSB
Top class (4)	VV Capelle	EVV	HSC '21	HBS Craeyenhout
	UPS Hercules	ODIN '59	VV IJsselmeervogels	Rijnsburgse Boys
	OFC	ONS Boso Sneek	FC Lisse	SVV Scheveningen
	Quick '20	Kvv Quick Boys	JVC Cuijk	OJC Rosmalen
	SteDoCo	UDI '19	ASWH	Be Quick 1887
	ASV De Dijk	VV Dongen	DVS '33	Harkemase Boys
	SV Huizen	SV Juliana '31	VVOG	RKVV Westlandia
	Magreb '90	FC Rijnsvogels
Hoofd class (5)	VV Staphorst	Achilles Veen	AZSV	VV Chevremont
	Flevo Boys	RKSV Groene Ster	CVV de Jodan Boys	Orange Nassau Groningen
	Quick The Hague	RVVH	AVV Swift	VV Noordwijk
	RKSV Halsteren
First class (6)	VV Bennekom	VV Kloetinge	SV Orange Wit	AFC '34
First class (6)	VV Schaesberg	SVZW Wierden	RKVV Velsen
Tweede Class (7)	VV Groningen	RKZVC	WV-HEDW
Derde class (8)	Avanti '31

Events

round	Events
First preliminary round	17th August 2016
Second preliminary round	August 24, 2016
First round	20.-22. September 2016
Second round	25-27 October 2016
Round of 16	13-15 December 2016
Quarter finals	24.-26. January 2017
Semifinals	Feb. 28 - March 2, 2017
final	April 30, 2017

First preliminary round

In the first preliminary round, 36 of the 68 qualified amateur teams played. This included all 24 teams from the high class and worse, as well as 12 worst-placed teams from the top classes .

	Result
VV Staphorst (5)	1: 2	AZSV (5)
AFC '34 (6)	4: 1	VV Bennekom (6)
OFC (4)	2: 1	Flevo Boys (5)
WV-HEDW (7)	0: 3	Quick '20 (4)
RKVV Velsen (6)	0: 1	VV Groningen (7)
FC Lisse (4)	1: 3	ASV De Dijk (4)
VV Schaesberg (6)	3: 1 a.d.	VV Kloetinge (6)
Quick The Hague (5)	2-0	SV Orange Wit (6)
ASWH (4)	2: 1	VV Chevremont (5)
Be Quick 1887 (4)	0: 2	RVVH (5)
RKSV Groene Ster (5)	0: 2 a.d.	FC Rijnvogels (4)
CVV de Jodan Boys (5)	1: 1 (4: 2 i.E.)	AVV Swift (5)
VV Noordwijk (5)	4: 5 a.d.	UDI '19 (4)
OJC Rosmalen (4)	3-0	Orange Nassau Groningen (5)
RKZVC (7)	0: 4	Achilles Veen (5)
SteDoCo (4)	0: 2	SV Huizen (4)
VVOG (4)	1: 1 (3: 5 i.E.)	RKSV Halsteren (5)
Avanti '31 (8)	0: 2	SVZW Wierden (6)

The respective league level is set in brackets.

Second preliminary round

In the second preliminary round, the winners of the first preliminary round, the other teams in the top classes and six teams from the Tweede Divisie met each other.

	Result
Kvv Quick Boys (4)	0: 2	VV IJsselmeervogels (4)
Amsterdamsche FC DWS (3)	1: 5	Kozakken Boys (3)
AFC '34 (6)	2: 6	FC Rijnvogels (4)
VV Dongen (4)	2: 1	OFC (4)
Magreb '90 (4)	5: 5 (3: 4 on behalf)	Harkemase Boys (4)
SVV Scheveningen (4)	5: 2	GVVV (3)
Quick '20 (4)	1: 3	JVC Cuijk (4)
VVSB (3)	2-0	UPS Hercules (4)
DVS '33 (4)	4: 2	AZSV (5)
VV Schaesberg (6)	2: 3	HSC '21 (4)
VV UNA (3)	3: 2	ODIN '59 (4)
RKSV Halsteren (5)	0: 3	VV Capelle (4)
HBS Craeyenhout (4)	2: 3	Achilles Veen (5)
Quick The Hague (5)	0: 1 a.d.	EVV (4)
BVV Barendrecht (3)	3: 1	SV Juliana '31 (4)
RVVH (5)	0: 2	ASWH (4)
CVV de Jodan Boys (5)	3-0	SVZW Wierden (6)
UDI '19 (4)	0: 1	Rijnsburgse Boys (4)
OJC Rosmalen (4)	5: 1	VV Groningen (7)
ONS Boso Sneek (4)	1: 2	ASV De Dijk (4)
SV Huizen (4)	3: 3 (4: 3 in good condition)	RKVV Westlandia (4)

The respective league level is set in brackets.

First round

In this round, the professional clubs from Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie and the other teams of the Tweede Divisie got on ; The 64 field was completed by the 21 winners of the first round. Teams that competed in a European cup competition could not be drawn against each other.

	Result
SVV Scheveningen (4)	1: 2	FC Emmen (2)
VV Capelle (4)	0: 4	FC Groningen (1)
FC Rijnvogels (4)	0: 1	SC Cambuur (2)
Rijnsburge Boys (4)	0: 2	Almere City FC (2)
NAC Breda (2)	0: 2	VVV-Venlo (2)
JVC Cuijk (4)	1: 3	Telstar (2)
Kozakken Boys (3)	3-0	Helmond Sport (2)
HHC Hardenberg (3)	2: 2 (6: 7 on behalf)	CVV de Jodan Boys (5)
BVV Barendrecht (3)	0: 1	Excelsior Rotterdam (1)
EVV (4)	0: 3	RKC Waalwijk (2)
FC Volendam (2)	3: 3 (5: 4 on behalf)	MVV Maastricht (2)
FC Den Bosch (2)	2: 3	FC Eindhoven (2)
VV IJsselmeervogels (4)	3: 1	Achilles '29 (2)
SC Heerenveen (1)	5: 1 a.d.	BV De Graafschap (2)
VV Dongen (4)	1: 3	Go Ahead Eagles Deventer (1)
PSV Eindhoven (1)	4-0	Roda JC Kerkrade (1)
Excelsior Maassluis (3)	1: 3 a.d.	Heracles Almelo (1)
NEC Nijmegen (1)	1: 1 (3: 5 i.E.)	ADO The Hague (1)
Achilles Veen (5)	1: 4	VVSB (3)
VV UNA (3)	1-0	SV Huizen (4)
De Treffers (3)	0: 3	ASWH (4)
SV Spakenburg (3)	2: 1	Fortuna Sittard (2)
Royal HFC (3)	6: 1	OJC Rosmalen (4)
DVS '33 (4)	1: 4	PEC Zwolle (1)
Sparta Rotterdam (1)	3: 1	FC Dordrecht (2)
FC Lienden (3)	1: 4	AZ Alkmaar (1)
VV Katwijk (3)	2: 1	Harkemase Boys (4)
Ajax Amsterdam (1)	5-0	Willem II Tilburg (1)
FC Twente Enschede (1)	1: 3	FC Utrecht (1)
ASV De Dijk (4)	2: 7	Vitesse Arnhem (1)
HSC '21 (4)	1: 5	TEC VV (3)
Feyenoord Rotterdam (1)	4: 1	FC Oss (2)

The respective league level is set in brackets.

Second round

	Result
VVSB (3)	3-0	VV Katwijk (3)
TEC VV (3)	0: 4	SC Cambuur (2)
ADO The Hague (1)	2: 1	Telstar (2)
Go Ahead Eagles Deventer (1)	1: 2	CVV de Jodan Boys (5)
FC Volendam (2)	2: 1 a.d.	Almere City FC (2)
SV Spakenburg (3)	2: 3 a.d.	ASWH (4)
Sparta Rotterdam (1)	3: 1	PSV Eindhoven (1)
Kozakken Boys (3)	1: 6	Ajax Amsterdam (1)
Heracles Almelo (1)	5-0	VV UNA (3)
AZ Alkmaar (1)	1-0	FC Emmen (2)
VV IJsselmeervogels (4)	3: 1	Royal HFC (3)
Vitesse Arnhem (1)	4: 1	RKC Waalwijk (2)
FC Utrecht (1)	1-0	FC Groningen (1)
Feyenoord Rotterdam (1)	4-0	Excelsior Rotterdam (1)
PEC Zwolle (1)	2: 1	VVV-Venlo (2)
FC Eindhoven (2)	1: 2	SC Heerenveen (1)

The respective league level is set in brackets.

Round of 16

	Result
VV IJsselmeervogels (4)	0: 1	SC Heerenveen (1)
FC Volendam (2)	4: 1	VVSB (3)
PEC Zwolle (1)	1: 2	FC Utrecht (1)
Heracles Almelo (1)	0: 3	Sparta Rotterdam (1)
Feyenoord Rotterdam (1)	5: 1	ADO The Hague (1)
Vitesse Arnhem (1)	4-0	CVV de Jodan Boys (5)
SC Cambuur (2)	2: 1	Ajax Amsterdam (1)
AZ Alkmaar (1)	2-0	ASWH (4)

The respective league level is set in brackets.

Quarter finals

	Result
FC Volendam (2)	1: 1 (5: 6 i.E.)	Sparta Rotterdam (1)
FC Utrecht (1)	2: 2 (6: 7 on behalf)	SC Cambuur (2)
AZ Alkmaar (1)	1-0	SC Heerenveen (1)
Vitesse Arnhem (1)	2-0	Feyenoord Rotterdam (1)