Netherlands Football League Championship 1898–99
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The Netherlands Football League Championship
1898/1899 was contested by twelve 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
. RAP
won this years championship by beating Vitesse 3-2 and 2-1.
Eerste Klasse West:
RAP
won the 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....
1898/1899 was contested by twelve 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...
. 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 this years championship by beating Vitesse 3-2 and 2-1.
New entrants
Eerste Klasse East:- Koninklijke UD
- Quick Nijmegen
Eerste Klasse West:
- Koninklijke HFCKoninklijke HFCKoninklijke HFC is a football club in Haarlem, the Netherlands. It is the oldest club in Dutch history, founded by Pim Mulier in 1879. During the first years the only team played rugby but due to financial problems they switched to association football...
returned after one season of absence
Eerste Klasse East
Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Note |
1 | Vitesse | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 12 | 13 | Championship play-off |
2 | Go Ahead Wageningen | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 8 | 11 | |
3 | Quick Nijmegen | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 7 | |
4 | Koninklijke UD | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 5 | Not participating next season |
5 | PW | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 40 | 4 |
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 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 15 | 22 | Championship play-off |
2 | 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 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 15 | 14 | |
3 | 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 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 29 | 23 | 13 | |
4 | 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 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 15 | 12 | |
5 | 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 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 18 | 28 | 10 | |
6 | Koninklijke HFC Koninklijke HFC Koninklijke HFC is a football club in Haarlem, the Netherlands. It is the oldest club in Dutch history, founded by Pim Mulier in 1879. During the first years the only team played rugby but due to financial problems they switched to association football... |
12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 33 | 7 | |
7 | Rapiditas Rotterdam | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 17 | 29 | 6 | Not participating next season |
Championship play-off
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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 the championship.