The Cambuur Post
Match24 Oct 2026
A European night to remember for Cambuur
2‑0 against Merani, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Arsenio Valpoort out for 90 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cambuur will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Thijs Jansen
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Ismaël Baouf at 20 — 8.12
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ismaël Baouf did not need any: 8.12, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jochem Nap keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cambuur may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ruben van Bommel in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cambuur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A goal and an assist for Ruben van Bommel — 7.72
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.72 beside his name.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Wiebe Kooistra
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nothing got past Jorn Berkhout
18 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
In brief
- Player ratings Ethan Apkakou runs at them all day
- Match Cambuur and NEC cancel each other out
- The terraces The press have found their man in Ismaël Baouf