# 2023–24 De Graafschap season

The 2023–24 season was De Graafschap's 70th season in existence and fifth consecutive in the second-tier Eerste Divisie. They also competed in the KNVB Cup.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 1 February 2024
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 | Mees Bakker |
| 3 | DF | NED | Jan Lammers |
| 4 | DF | NED | Xandro Schenk |
| 6 | MF | NED | Lion Kaak |
| 7 | FW | SVN | David Flakus Bosilj (on loan from Verona) |
| 8 | MF | NED | Donny Warmerdam |
| 9 | FW | NED | Devin Haen |
| 10 | FW | MAR | Mimoun Mahi |
| 11 | FW | CAN | Simon Colyn |
| 12 | DF | NED | Jim van der Logt |
| 14 | DF | NED | Joran Hardeman |
| 15 | FW | NED | Ralf Seuntjens |
| 16 | GK | NED | Ties Wieggers |
| 17 | FW | NED | Elie Raterink |
| 18 | FW | NED | Giovanni Büttner |
| 19 | FW | NED | Hüseyin Doğan |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | DF | NED | Rio Hillen |
| 22 | MF | CPV | Jeffry Fortes |
| 23 | MF | NED | Philip Brittijn |
| 24 | MF | NED | Maas Willemsen |
| 25 | DF | NED | Levi Schoppema |
| 26 | FW | IRQ | Blnd Hassan |
| 28 | DF | NED | Alexander Büttner |
| 30 | FW | NED | Tristan van Gilst |
| 31 | FW | NED | Sam Bisselink |
| 33 | FW | TUR | Başar Önal |
| 34 | MF | NED | Anis Yadir |
| 35 | GK | NED | Thijs Jansen (on loan from Feyenoord) |
| 42 | MF | NED | Stan Wevers |
| 45 | MF | NED | Ezra van der Heiden |
| 48 | GK | NED | Edwin Danquah |
| — | MF | SWE | Jardell Kanga (on loan from Bayer Leverkusen) |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## 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 % |
| Eerste Divisie | 11 August 2023 | 10 May 2024 | Matchday 1 | 6th | 38 | 19 | 6 | 13 | 61 | 52 | +9 | 050.00 |
| Promotion play-offs | 14 May 2024 | 18 May 2024 | First round | First round | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 000.00 |
| KNVB Cup | 31 October 2023 | 19 December 2023 | First round | Second round | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | +0 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 42 | 20 | 7 | 15 | 67 | 59 | +8 | 047.62 |
Source: Soccerway

### Eerste Divisie
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or qualification |
| 4 | Dordrecht | 38 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 74 | 51 | +23 | 69 | Qualification for promotion play-offs |
| 5 | ADO Den Haag | 38 | 17 | 12 | 9 | 72 | 50 | +22 | 63 | Qualification for promotion play-offs |
| 6 | De Graafschap | 38 | 19 | 6 | 13 | 61 | 52 | +9 | 63 | Qualification for promotion play-offs |
| 7 | Emmen | 38 | 17 | 6 | 15 | 59 | 60 | −1 | 57 | Qualification for promotion play-offs |
| 8 | NAC Breda (O, P) | 38 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 63 | 56 | +7 | 56 | Qualification for promotion play-offs |

#### 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 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | A | H | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | H | A |
| Result | D | W | L | L | W | W | W | D | L | L | W | W | W | W | D | L | W | L | W | W | L | W | W | D | L | L | W | W | W | L | L | W | L | W | D | W | D | L |
| Position | 13 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were unveiled on 30 June 2023.