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The Eredivisie (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈeːrədiˌvizi]; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. As of the 2024–25 season, it is ranked the sixth-best league in Europe by ...
From the 2009–10 season onwards, one team has been relegated from the Eerste Divisie to the Hoofdklasse (then the main amateur league of Dutch football). From the 2010–11 to 2015–16 seasons, the KNVB introduced a third and highest amateur tier called Topklasse , and Hoofdklasse clubs have been able to get promoted to that new division.
18 teams in the Eredivisie (English: Honorary Division) 20 teams (of which 4 are reserve teams of Eredivisie teams) in the Eerste Divisie (English: First Division). The champion and runner-up of the Eerste Divisie is promoted directly to the Eredivisie, and the two worst teams in the Eredivisie are relegated to the Eerste Divisie. The team ...
2 AFBN First Division (Eerste divisie) ... 5.1 NFL Europe. 5.2 AFBN. 6 See also. ... This is a list of American Football Teams in the Netherlands.
The Dutch Football League is organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB, Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond).The most successful teams are Ajax (36), PSV (24) and Feyenoord (16). Important teams of the past are HVV (10 titles), Sparta Rotterdam (6 titles) and Willem II (3 titles).
Some NFL observers have speculated that the league’s ultimate goal is 40 teams — eight divisions of five teams apiece — which, to our current way of thinking, is unimaginably large and unwieldy.
The first Dutch American Football season took place in 1985. Eight teams in a single division would compete against each other for a place in the Dutch championship game initially called the "Super Bowl". The first championship game saw the Amsterdam Rams face their former teammates the Amsterdam Crusaders.
The Maastricht Wildcats (formerly called the Limburg Wildcats) of the AFBN (American Football Bond Nederland) are an American Football League team from Maastricht. They play in the Dutch 1st division and are rivals to the Amsterdam Crusaders. They won the 2007 Dutch National Championship by defeating the Amsterdam Crusaders 25–16 in the Tulip ...