| Eerste Divisie | |
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| Current season or competition: Eerste Divisie 2007-08 |
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| Sport | Football |
| Founded | 1956 |
| No. The 2007/2008 season of the Eerste Divisie began in August 2007 and will end in May 2008 Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Athletics Marathon December 9 &mdash Fukuoka Marathon, Japan Men's Winner Keizo Yamada (JPN 22515 of teams | 20 |
| Country(ies) |  Netherlands |
| Most recent champion(s) |
FC Volendam |
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The Eerste Divisie consists of 20 clubs, who play each other in a double round-robin league, with each club playing the other club home and away. Each club plays every other club once in the first half of the season before the league takes a winter break around the Christmas and New Year's holiday season. New Year's Day is the first day of the Year. On the modern Gregorian calendar, it is celebrated on January 1, as it was also in ancient Rome (though The second half of the season sees the same fixtures as the first half, with the stadiums changed, although the two halves are not played in the same order.
At the end of each season, the champion of the Eerste Divisie is automatically promoted to the Eredivisie. The Eredivisie ( English: Honorary Division) is the highest football league in the Netherlands. Eight other clubs (before 2005/2006: six) enter the Nacompetitie, a promotion/relegation playoff that includes the 16th- and 17th-place clubs in the Eredivisie. The following teams qualify for the Nacompetitie:
- The club with the best record in the "first period" of the season (after 6 rounds).
- The club with the best record in the "second period" of the season (rounds 7-12).
- The club with the best record in the "third period" of the season (rounds 13-18).
- The club with the best record in the "fourth period" of the season (rounds 19-24).
- The club with the best record in the "fifth period" of the season (rounds 25-30).
- The club with the best record in the "sixth period" of the season (rounds 31-36).
- The two remaining spots are filled at the season's end by the highest-placed clubs that have not already earned automatic promotion or qualified for the Nacompetitie.
If the club that wins a period has qualified for the Nacompetitie by winning a previous period, its place is filled by the next-best club in that period that has not already qualified. Usually, the clubs that qualify for the Nacompetitie turn out to be the 2nd- through 9th-placed clubs in the final table. Clubs in the Nacompetitie face each other in a knock-out system with the numbers 16 and 17 of the Eredivisie for two places in next season's Eredivisie. The Eredivisie ( English: Honorary Division) is the highest football league in the Netherlands.
Before 2005/2006 there were only four "periods" and six clubs entering a group phase with the numbers 16 and 17 of the Eredivisie. There were two groups of four, with each a Eredivisie club and three Eerste Divisie clubs. The clubs played a double round-robin and the winners of the groups were awarded a place in the Eredivisie next season.
Teams are not relegated from the Eerste Divisie to the Hoofdklasse (the main amateur league and the third tier of Dutch football), and Hoofdklasse clubs can't be promoted to the Eerste Divisie. The Hoofdklasse is the highest league of amateur football in the Netherlands, and the third tier in general However they can be awarded a spot in the league, in the event of higher clubs experiencing financial problems of other teams (the most recent example being TOP Oss replacing FC Wageningen) or when the league expands (the most recent additions being AGOVV Apeldoorn and FC Omniworld). TOP Oss is a football club from the Netherlands, which was founded on April 9, 1928. FC Wageningen was a Dutch football club which was founded on August 27, 1911. AGOVV Apeldoorn is a Dutch football club playing in the Eerste Divisie, based in Apeldoorn. FC Omniworld is a Dutch football club The club was founded in the 1990s and is an expression of the ambitions of the city council of Almere to play
Champions
| Season | Winner | Runner Up |
|---|---|---|
| 1957-62 | Two Divisions | |
| 1962-63 | DWS | Go Ahead |
| 1963-64 | Sittardia | Telstar |
| 1964-65 | Alkmaar | Blauw Wit |
| 1965-66 | Sittardia | Xerxes |
| 1966-67 | Volendam | NEC |
| 1967-68 | Holland Sport | AZ |
| 1968-69 | SVV | Haarlem |
| 1969-70 | Volendam | Excelsior |
| 1970-71 | FC Den Bosch | GVAV |
| 1971-72 | Haarlem | AZ |
| 1972-73 | Roda JC | PEC Zwolle |
| 1973-74 | Excelsior | Vitesse |
| 1974-75 | NEC | FC Groningen |
| 1975-76 | Haarlem | VVV |
| 1976-77 | Vitesse | PEC Zwolle |
| 1977-78 | PEC Zwolle | MVV |
| 1978-79 | Excelsior | FC Groningen |
| 1979-80 | FC Groningen | Volendam |
| 1980-81 | Haarlem | SC Heerenveen |
| 1981-82 | Helmond Sport | Fortuna Sittard |
| 1982-83 | DS | Volendam |
| 1983-84 | MVV | FC Twente |
| 1984-85 | SC Heracles | VVV |
| 1985-86 | FC Den Haag | PEC Zwolle |
| 1986-87 | Volendam | Willem II |
| 1987-88 | RKC | Veendam |
| 1988-89 | Vitesse | Den Haag |
| 1989-90 | SVV | NAC |
| 1990-91 | de Graafschap | NAC |
| 1991-92 | Cambuur | BVV Den Bosch |
| 1992-93 | VVV | SC Heerenveen |
| 1993-94 | Dordrecht '90 | NEC |
| 1994-95 | Fortuna Sittard | de Graafschap |
| 1995-96 | AZ | Emmen |
| 1996-97 | MVV | Cambuur |
| 1997-98 | AZ | Cambuur |
| 1998-99 | FC Den Bosch | FC Groningen |
| 1999-00 | NAC | FC Zwolle |
| 2000-01 | FC Den Bosch | Excelsior |
| 2001-02 | FC Zwolle | Excelsior |
| 2002-03 | ADO Den Haag | Emmen |
| 2003-04 | FC den Bosch | Excelsior |
| 2004-05 | Heracles Almelo | Sparta |
| 2005-06 | Excelsior | VVV |
| 2006-07 | De Graafschap | VVV |
| 2007-08 | FC Volendam | RKC Waalwijk |
¹ Blauw Wit, De Volewijckers and DWS merged into FC Amsterdam, which folded in 1982. The 2006/2007 season of the Eerste Divisie began on August 11, 2006 and ended in May 2007 The 2007/2008 season of the Eerste Divisie began in August 2007 and will end in May 2008 Blauw-Wit (Blue-White is a Dutch football club form Amsterdam. De Volewijckers is a football (soccer club from Amsterdam, Netherlands. FC Amsterdam was a Dutch football club which was founded on June 20, 1972, from the merger of the Amsterdam football clubs Now as FC Blauw-Wit Amsterdam
² Fortuna 54 merged with Sittardia to form FSC, later renamed Fortuna Sittard. Fortuna Sittard is a football club in Sittard, The Netherlands.
³ ADO merged with Holland Sport into FC Den Haag, later renamed to ADO Den Haag
4 Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging (SVV) and Drecht Steden 79 (DS'79) merged into FC Dordrecht. ADO Den Haag (ADO stands for Alles Door Oefening, Everything Through Practice) is the main football club in the city of The Hague. FC Dordrecht is a football club from the city of Dordrecht in the Netherlands, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie.
See also
External links
- JupilerLeague.nl - Official website Eerste Divisie (Dutch)
- KNVB.nl - Official website KNVB (Dutch) / (English)
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