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1998–99 PSV Eindhoven season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ107739988 ↗
Source-derived summary

During the 1998–99 Dutch football season, PSV Eindhoven competed in the Eredivisie.

Season summary

PSV dropped one place in the final league table to third, only qualifying for the Champions League on the final day of the season. Manager Bobby Robson's contract expired at the end of the season, and former PSV right-back Eric Gerets was signed from Belgian champions Club Brugge as his replacement.

Players

First-team squad

Squad at end of season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Left club during season

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Jong PSV

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“1998–99 PSV Eindhoven season” enters the record as season of football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eindhoven, season and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1998–99 PSV Eindhoven season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.