The Dutch Eredivisie

Eredivisie

The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....

 in the 1965/1966 season was contested by 16 teams. Ajax won the championship. Only one team relegated this year, because next year, the number of participants would be 18 again.

League standings

Pos	Team	GP	W	D	L	Pts	GF	GA	GD
1	Ajax	30	24	4	2	52	79	25	54	European Cup European Cup 1966-67 The 1966–67 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won by Celtic for the first time in the final against Internazionale, who eliminated defending champions Real Madrid in the quarter-finals...
2	Feijenoord 2	30	21	3	6	45	65	30	35
3	ADO ADO Den Haag Alles Door Oefening Den Haag , commonly known by the abbreviated name ADO Den Haag , is a Dutch football club from the city of The Hague. The club was for a time known as FC Den Haag , with ADO representing the amateur branch of the club...  2	30	15	9	6	39	72	37	35
4	DWS Door Wilskracht Sterk AFC Door Wilskracht Sterk is a Dutch football club from Amsterdam.-History:AFC Door Wilskracht Sterk was founded on 11 October 1907, by the trio of Robert Beijerbacht, Theo Beijerbacht and Jansen van Galen under the name of Fortuna which was soon changed to Hercules. The team played in a blue and...  2	30	15	6	9	36	48	30	18	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1966-67 The ninth Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was played over the 1966-'67 season. The competition was won by Dinamo Zagreb over two legs in the final against Leeds United. For the first time in the history of the cup, replays were scrapped, with sides going through thanks to scoring more away goals, or by...
5	Go Ahead Go Ahead Eagles The Go Ahead Eagles are a football club from Deventer, Netherlands, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie. The club's home stadium is De Adelaarshorst. To date, the club has won the national championship four times...  2	30	14	8	8	36	49	33	16
6	GVAV	30	12	7	11	31	43	43	0
7	Sparta Sparta Rotterdam Sparta Rotterdam is the oldest professional football team in the Netherlands, established on April 1, 1888. Sparta is one of three professional football clubs from Rotterdam, the others being Excelsior and Feyenoord , the latter playing in the Eredivisie.-History:Sparta was first founded in 1887....  1	30	12	5	13	29	53	51	2	Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1966-67 The season 1966-67 of the European Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Bayern Munich in an extra time final victory against Rangers F.C....
8	PSV	30	10	8	12	28	57	53	4
9	Fortuna '54 Fortuna Sittard Fortuna Sittard is a football club in Sittard, Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 12,500 capacity Trendwork Arena and features in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. The club was a merger of former clubs 'Fortuna 54' and 'Sittardia' to merge as the Fortuna Sittard Combinatie on July 1,...	30	9	8	13	26	36	54	-18
10	Willem II Willem II Tilburg Willem II , also known as Willem II Tilburg, is a football club based in Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands. The team was founded on 12 August 1896 as Tilburgia...	30	11	3	16	25	42	59	-17
11	FC Twente FC Twente FC Twente is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Enschede, playing in the Eredivisie. The club was formed in 1965 by the merger of 1926 Eredivisie Champions, Sportclub Enschede and Enschedese Boys...  3	30	9	6	15	24	43	61	-18
12	DOS	30	9	6	15	24	48	72	-24	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1966-67 The ninth Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was played over the 1966-'67 season. The competition was won by Dinamo Zagreb over two legs in the final against Leeds United. For the first time in the history of the cup, replays were scrapped, with sides going through thanks to scoring more away goals, or by...
13	Telstar Stormvogels Telstar Telstar is a Dutch football club based in Velsen. The club was established after the merger of two football clubs in the town of Velsen.- History :...	30	8	6	16	22	39	52	-13
14	Elinkwijk	30	7	8	15	22	37	64	-27
15	MVV	30	6	9	15	21	36	56	-20
16	Heracles Heracles Almelo Heracles Almelo is a football club from Almelo, Netherlands.Heracles Almelo were founded on May 3, 1903 as Heracles, after the demigod son of Zeus. They changed their name on July 1, 1974 to SC Heracles '74 and finally settled on the current name in 1998. The club has won the Dutch national title...	30	5	10	15	20	32	59	-27	Relegation to Eerste Divisie Eerste Divisie 1966-67 The Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1966/1967 season was contested by 20 teams. Since there were only fifteen teams in the previous season, several new teams entered the competition...

¹ Winners KNVB Cup

KNVB Cup

The KNVB Cup is a competition in the Netherlands organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association since 1899. It was based on the format of the English FA Cup. Outside of the Netherlands, it is often referred to as the Dutch Cup...

 1965-66.

² Clubs participating in the Intertoto Cup 1966-67

Intertoto Cup 1966-67

The 1966–67 Intertoto Cup was won by Eintracht Frankfurt in the final against Inter Bratislava, the last ever final of the tournament in the traditional '1 cup, 1 winner' sense. This was also last season that knock-out rounds were contested, until UEFA took over the competition in 1995 - and the...

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³ In 1965 SC Enschede merged with Enschedese Boys to form the new club FC Twente.