# 2016–17 FC Groningen season

FC Groningen finished 2016–17 Eredivisie season as 8th.
The club competed also in the KNVB Cup. FC Groningen lost 1–0 against FC Utrecht in the 2nd round and are eliminated from the cup.
Mimoun Mahi was the top scorer of the club in this season with 17 goals in Eredivisie.
Sergio Padt was the most appeared players in this season with 38 appearances; 36 appearances in Eredivisie and 2 appearances in the KNVB Cup.

## Players
### First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | NED | Sergio Padt |
| 2 | DF | AUS | Jason Davidson |
| 3 | DF | DEN | Kasper Larsen |
| 5 | DF | BIH | Samir Memišević |
| 6 | MF | NED | Etiënne Reijnen |
| 7 | FW | CUW | Jarchinio Antonia |
| 8 | MF | NOR | Ruben Jenssen |
| 8 | FW | NED | Danny Hoesen |
| 10 | MF | SVK | Albert Rusnák |
| 11 | FW | NED | Bryan Linssen |
| 12 | MF | CUW | Juninho Bacuna |
| 13 | FW | NOR | Alexander Sørloth |
| 14 | FW | MAR | Mimoun Mahi |
| 16 | GK | NED | Stefan van der Lei |
| 17 | MF | NED | Jesper Drost |
| 19 | FW | NED | Tom van Weert |
| 20 | MF | NED | Yoell van Nieff |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | DF | NED | Martijn Van Der Laan |
| 22 | MF | SWE | Simon Tibbling |
| 23 | MF | NED | Hedwiges Maduro |
| 24 | DF | NED | Tom Hiariej |
| 25 | DF | USA | Desevio Payne |
| 31 | GK | NED | Erwin Heidekamp |
| 32 | GK | NED | Nick Borgman |
| 33 | DF | NED | Hans Hateboer |
| 34 | DF | NED | Roland Baas |
| 35 | DF | NED | Glenn Bijl |
| 36 | MF | AUS | Ajdin Hrustic |
| 40 | MF | NED | Keziah Veendorp |
| 43 | FW | NED | Robbert de Vos |
| 45 | FW | MAR | Oussama Idrissi |
| 48 | MF | PNG | David Browne |
| 49 | MF | NED | Gerald Postma |
| 53 | DF | NED | Tim Riksman |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| DF | Martijn Van Der Laan | SC Cambuur | End of loan | 30 Jun 2016 |
| MF | Yoell van Nieff | Excelsior Rotterdam | End of loan | 30 Jun 2016 |
| MF | Ruben Jenssen | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | Free | 1 Jul 2016 |
| FW | Tom van Weert | Excelsior Rotterdam | Free | 1 Jul 2016 |
| DF | Samir Memišević | FK Radnik Bijeljina | | 1 Aug 2016 |
| FW | Jason Davidson | Huddersfield Town A.F.C. | On loan | 18 Aug 2016 |
| DF | Tom Hiariej | SC Cambuur | End of loan | 30 Jun 2016 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| FW | Dino Islamović | | | 1 Jul 2016 |
| DF | Lorenzo Burnet | ŠK Slovan Bratislava | Free | 1 Jul 2016 |
| FW | Michael de Leeuw | Chicago Fire FC | Free | 1 Jul 2016 |
| DF | Rasmus Lindgren | BK Häcken | Free | 1 Jul 2016 |
| MF | Abel Tamata | | | 31 Aug 2016 |
| FW | Jarchinio Antonia | | | 31 Aug 2016 |
| MF | Hans Hateboer | Atalanta BC | €1,040,000 | 31 Jan 2017 |
| MF | Albert Rusnák | Real Salt Lake | €435,000 | 6 Jan 2017 |
| FW | Danny Hoesen | San Jose Earthquakes | On loan | 2 Feb 2017 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Eredivisie | 7 August 2016 | 22 April 2017 | Week 1 | 8th | 34 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 55 | 51 | +4 | 029.41 |
| KNVB | 20 September 2016 | 26 October 2016 | 1st round | 2nd round | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 36 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 59 | 52 | +7 | 030.56 |
Source: Competitions

### Eredivisie
#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source:

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | L | L | D | D | W | D | L | L | W | L | D | W | W | L | W | D | W | D | D | D | L | D | L | D | L | D | D | W | L | W | W | D | W |
| Position | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8 |

#### Matches
##### 2nd half

AZ Alkmaar won 8–2 on aggregate.

### KNVB Cup
## Statistics
### Scorers

| # | Player | Eredivisie | KNVB | Total |
| 1 | Mimoun Mahi | 17 | 0 | 17 |
| 2 | Bryan Linssen | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| 3 | Tom van Weert | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Danny Hoesen | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Oussama Idrissi | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | Alexander Sørloth | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Jesper Drost | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Ruben Jenssen | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Ajdin Hrustic | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Albert Rusnák | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Desevio Payne | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Hans Hateboer | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Juninho Bacuna | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Simon Tibbling | 1 | 0 | 1 |

### Appearances

| # | Player | Eredivisie | KNVB | Total |
| 1 | Sergio Padt | 36 | 2 | 38 |
| 2 | Ruben Jenssen | 35 | 2 | 37 |
| 3 | Mimoun Mahi | 32 | 2 | 34 |
| 4 | Bryan Linssen | 30 | 1 | 31 |
| 5 | Etiënne Reijnen | 29 | 1 | 30 |
| 5 | Oussama Idrissi | 29 | 1 | 30 |
| 7 | Alexander Sørloth | 27 | 1 | 28 |
| 7 | Simon Tibbling | 26 | 2 | 28 |
| 9 | Samir Memišević | 26 | 1 | 27 |
| 9 | Tom Hiariej | 25 | 2 | 27 |
| 11 | Juninho Bacuna | 26 | 0 | 26 |
| 12 | Kasper Larsen | 23 | 2 | 25 |
| 12 | Yoell van Nieff | 23 | 2 | 25 |
| 14 | Jason Davidson | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| 15 | Hans Hateboer | 19 | 2 | 21 |
| 16 | Jesper Drost | 19 | 0 | 19 |
| 16 | Tom van Weert | 19 | 0 | 19 |
| 18 | Albert Rusnák | 13 | 2 | 15 |
| 19 | Danny Hoesen | 10 | 2 | 12 |
| 20 | Ajdin Hrustic | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 21 | Desevio Payne | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 22 | Hedwiges Maduro | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 23 | Jarchinio Antonia | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 24 | Glenn Bijl | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 24 | Martijn Van Der Laan | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 26 | Roland Baas | 1 | 0 | 1 |

### Clean sheets

| # | Player | Eredivisie | KNVB | Total |
| 1 | Sergio Padt | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| Total | Total | 7 | 1 | 8 |

### Disciplinary record

| # | Player | Eredivisie | Eredivisie | KNVB | KNVB | Total | Total |
| 1 | Juninho Bacuna | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 2 | Samir Memišević | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Bryan Linssen | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 4 | Jason Davidson | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | Hans Hateboer | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 6 | Ruben Jenssen | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 6 | Simon Tibbling | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 8 | Tom Hiariej | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 9 | Alexander Sørloth | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | Desevio Payne | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | Etiënne Reijnen | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | Kasper Larsen | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | Mimoun Mahi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | Oussama Idrissi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | Albert Rusnák | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | Glenn Bijl | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | Hedwiges Maduro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | Jesper Drost | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | Tom van Weert | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |