2018 KNVB Cup final

The 2018 KNVB Cup Final was a football match between Feyenoord and AZ on 22 April 2018 at De Kuip, Rotterdam. It was the final match of the 2017–18 KNVB Cup competition and the 100th Dutch Cup Final. Feyenoord beat AZ 3–0 to secure their 13th KNVB Cup trophy.^[1] Remarkably, Feyenoord played all of their cup matches at home, including the final (which is traditionally played at their stadium) despite being drawn as the away team.

2018 KNVB Cup Final

Event	2017–18 KNVB Cup
AZ Feyenoord 0 3
Date	22 April 2018
Venue	De Kuip, Rotterdam
Referee	Björn Kuipers
Attendance	46,084
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The match was halted for a while in the opening stage of the game due to AZ fans throwing smokebombs on the pitch.^[2]

Route to the final

Further information: 2017–18 KNVB Cup

AZ		Round	Feyenoord
Opponent	Result		Opponent	Result
MVV	3–2 (A)	Second round	ADO Den Haag	2–0 (H)
Almere City	4–0 (A)	Third round	AVV Swift	4–1 (H)
Fortuna Sittard	4–2 (A)	Round of 16	Heracles	3–1 (H)
PEC Zwolle	4–1 (H)	Quarter-finals	PSV	2–0 (H)
FC Twente	4–0 (H)	Semi-finals	Willem II	3–0 (H)

Match

Details

AZ	0–3	Feyenoord
	Report	Jørgensen 28' Van Persie 57' Toornstra 90+4'

22 April 2018

18:00 CEST

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 46,084

Referee: Björn Kuipers

AZ

Feyenoord

GK 1 Marco Bizot RB 2 Jonas Svensson CB 23 Ricardo van Rhijn  58' CB 4 Ron Vlaar (c) CB 30 Stijn Wuytens  78' LB 5 Thomas Ouwejan CM 6 Fredrik Midtsjø  37'  66' CM 15 Guus Til CM 14 Teun Koopmeiners  46' CF 7 Alireza Jahanbakhsh  43' CF 9 Wout Weghorst  43' Substitutes: GK 16 Gino Coutinho GK 25 Nick Olij DF 3 Rens van Eijden DF 12 Pantelis Hatzidiakos DF 26 Owen Wijndal MF 8 Joris van Overeem MF 18 Iliass Bel Hassani  78' MF 20 Mats Seuntjens  58' MF 24 Tijjani Reijnders FW 22 Oussama Idrissi  66' FW 49 Mees Hoedemakers Coach: John van den Brom

GK 25 Brad Jones RB 17 Kevin Diks  69' CB 3 Sven van Beek CB 6 Jan-Arie van der Heijden LB 5 Ridgeciano Haps CDM 8 Karim El Ahmadi (c)  50' CAM 32 Robin van Persie  67' CDM 10 Tonny Vilhena RW 19 Steven Berghuis  90+2' CF 9 Nicolai Jørgensen LW 28 Jens Toornstra Substitutes: GK 22 Justin Bijlow GK 30 Ramón ten Hove DF 2 Bart Nieuwkoop DF 33 Eric Botteghin  90+2' DF 35 Tyrell Malacia MF 20 Renato Tapia MF 21 Sofyan Amrabat MF 36 Emil Hansson FW 7 Jean-Paul Boëtius  67'  77' FW 14 Bilal Başaçıkoğlu FW 34 Dylan Vente Coach: Giovanni van Bronckhorst

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of three substitutions.

See also

• Fireworks incident