Ajax × PSV · Eredivisie

Ajax host PSV in the Eredivisie on Saturday 5 September at 19:00 BST, an evening kick-off for anyone following from Britain. Amsterdam against Eindhoven is the Dutch league's headline fixture, the one the calendar is built around, and it arrives with the usual weight attached: two clubs whose academies have supplied the Netherlands, and much of Europe, with players for generations.

The stakes are the ones the Eredivisie always sets: points that cannot be recovered later, and a finishing order that decides the national title and the European qualification the league hands out. A meeting between two sides of this stature also swings twice, taking from one what it gives the other, which is why Dutch football tends to treat it as a marker rather than another Saturday.