Eredivisie 1989-90
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The Dutch Eredivisie
in the 1989/1990 season was contested by 18 teams. Ajax won the championship.
1 Ajax didn't qualify for the European Cup
. On September 27 1989, Austrian goalkeeper Franz Wohlfahrt was hit and injured by a bar, thrown by a home supporter at an Ajax-Austria Wien UEFA Cup match. Ajax subsequently were banned from European competition for a year.
2 Winners KNVB Cup 1989-90.
3 NEC remain in the eredivisie after winning the promotion/relegation play-offs
. The Eerste Divisie league champions and winner of the play-offs would replace the numbers 17 and 18 of this league directly. See here for details of the system.
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NEC: remain in Eredivisie
Emmen: remain in Eerste Divisie
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 1989/1990 season was contested by 18 teams. Ajax won the championship.
League standings
| Pos | Team | GP | W | D | L | Pts | GF | GA | GD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ajax 1 | 34 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 49 | 67 | 23 | 44 | European Cup 1990-91 The 1990–91 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the first time by Red Star Belgrade on penalties in the final against Marseille. This was only the second time that an Eastern European side had won the competition, after Steaua Bucureşti of Romania... |
| 2 | PSV 2 | 34 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 48 | 94 | 36 | 58 | Cup Winners' Cup |
| 3 | 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... |
34 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 42 | 48 | 43 | 5 | UEFA Cup UEFA Cup 1990-91 The UEFA Cup 1990–91 was won by Internazionale on aggregate over Roma. This tournament also marked the return of English clubs after a five-year ban resulting from the Heysel Stadium Disaster in 1985... |
| 4 | Vitesse | 34 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 41 | 49 | 31 | 18 | |
| 5 | Roda JC | 34 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 41 | 53 | 39 | 14 | |
| 6 | FC Volendam FC Volendam Football Club Volendam is a Dutch football club based in Volendam, North Holland, Edam-Volendam. Founded on June 1, 1977, as a result of a split up with RKSV . It currently plays in the Eerste Divisie, holding home games at Kras Stadion, with a 6,260-seat capacity.-History:Football Club Volendam... |
34 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 39 | 43 | 38 | 5 | |
| 7 | Fortuna Sittard 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,... |
34 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 38 | 42 | 35 | 7 | |
| 8 | RKC RKC Waalwijk RKC Waalwijk is a football club currently playing in the Eredivisie. Its name is derived from 'Rooms Katholieke Combinatie' and was a fusion club of HEC, WVB and Hercules.-History:... |
34 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 37 | 45 | 47 | -2 | |
| 9 | FC Groningen | 34 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 35 | 50 | 46 | 4 | |
| 10 | FC Den Haag 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... |
34 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 33 | 58 | 63 | -5 | |
| 11 | Feyenoord | 34 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 31 | 51 | 45 | 6 | |
| 12 | 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.... |
34 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 31 | 51 | 61 | -10 | |
| 13 | 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... |
34 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 27 | 42 | 49 | -7 | |
| 14 | FC Utrecht | 34 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 27 | 27 | 45 | -18 | |
| 15 | MVV | 34 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 27 | 38 | 61 | -23 | |
| 16 | NEC | 34 | 5 | 16 | 13 | 26 | 32 | 55 | -23 | 3 |
| 17 | BVV Den Bosch | 34 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 25 | 30 | 51 | -21 | Relegation to Eerste Divisie Eerste Divisie 1990-91 The Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1990/1991 season was contested by 20 teams, one more than in the previous season. This was due to VC Vlissingen entering from the amateurs... |
| 18 | HFC Haarlem HFC Haarlem HFC Haarlem was a Dutch football club from the city of Haarlem, established in 1889. The club won the Dutch national title in 1946 and reached five Cup finals, winning in 1902 and 1912... |
34 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 15 | 22 | 74 | -52 |
1 Ajax didn't qualify for the European Cup
European Cup 1990-91
The 1990–91 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the first time by Red Star Belgrade on penalties in the final against Marseille. This was only the second time that an Eastern European side had won the competition, after Steaua Bucureşti of Romania...
. On September 27 1989, Austrian goalkeeper Franz Wohlfahrt was hit and injured by a bar, thrown by a home supporter at an Ajax-Austria Wien UEFA Cup match. Ajax subsequently were banned from European competition for a year.
2 Winners KNVB Cup 1989-90.
3 NEC remain in the eredivisie after winning the promotion/relegation play-offs
Promotion/Relegation
Starting this season, the number 16 of the Eredivisie would play against relegation against the runners-up of the promotion/relegation play-offs of the Eerste DivisieEerste Divisie
The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
. The Eerste Divisie league champions and winner of the play-offs would replace the numbers 17 and 18 of this league directly. See here for details of the system.
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NEC: remain in Eredivisie
Emmen: remain in Eerste Divisie