The Netherlands Football League Championship

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....

 1897/1898 was contested by ten teams participating in two divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off match featuring the winners of the eastern and western football division of the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

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RAP (football club)

RAP was a Dutch football club based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that played in the Netherlands Football League Championship. The club played from 1887 to 1914, and were the first official football champion of the Netherlands ever in the 1899 season...

 won this years championship by beating Vitesse 4-2.

New entrants

Eerste Klasse East: (new division)

• Go Ahead Wageningen, returning after one year of absence (previously participating in the western division)
• PW
• Vitesse

Eerste Klasse West:

• Celeritas
• 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...
  
  

Eerste Klasse East

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Vitesse	4	3	1	0	12	5	7	Championship play-off
2	Go Ahead Wageningen	4	1	2	4	9	8	4
3	PW	4	0	1	3	6	14	1

Eerste Klasse West

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	RAP RAP (football club) RAP was a Dutch football club based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that played in the Netherlands Football League Championship. The club played from 1887 to 1914, and were the first official football champion of the Netherlands ever in the 1899 season...	12	9	2	1	39	8	20	Championship play-off
2	Sparta Rotterdam 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....	12	6	4	2	22	13	16
3	HBS Craeyenhout HBS Craeyenhout HBS Craeyenhout is a Dutch sports team based in The Hague that field teams in association football, cricket and hockey.-Association football:...	12	6	1	5	24	19	13
4	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...	12	4	3	5	23	23	11
5	Rapiditas Rotterdam	12	4	2	6	21	31	10
6	HVV Den Haag HVV Den Haag HVV is an amateur football club in The Hague in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1883 as an extension of HCC, the Hague Cricket Club...	12	4	2	6	16	28	10
7	Celeritas	12	0	4	8	7	30	4	Not participating next season

Championship play-off

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RAP

RAP (football club)

RAP was a Dutch football club based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that played in the Netherlands Football League Championship. The club played from 1887 to 1914, and were the first official football champion of the Netherlands ever in the 1899 season...

won the championship.