Netherlands Football League Championship 1913–14
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The Netherlands Football League Championship
1913/1914 was contested by 24 teams participating in three divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern, southern and western football division of the Netherlands
. HVV Den Haag
won this years championship by beating Vitesse and Willem II.
Eerste Klasse South: (new division)
Eerste Klasse West:
. The league would resume one season later.
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....
1913/1914 was contested by 24 teams participating in three divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern, southern 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...
. 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...
won this years championship by beating Vitesse and Willem II.
New entrants
Eerste Klasse East:- Robur et Velocitas
Eerste Klasse South: (new division)
- MVVMVV MaastrichtMVV Maastricht is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Maastricht, founded on April 2, 1902...
- VVVVVV VenloVVV-Venlo is a football club from Venlo in the Netherlands, currently playing in the Eredivisie. The club plays its home games in the De Koel stadium, known as Seacon Stadion – De Koel - for sponsorship reasons....
- Willem II
- 't Zesde (returning after two seasons of absence, having played in the western division)
- Wilhelmina (moving in from the eastern division)
- Velocitas (moving in from the western division)
Eerste Klasse West:
- UVV UtrechtUVV UtrechtUVV Utrecht is a sports club based in Utrecht, Netherlands. It was founded in 1902. The club has teams in the following sports: football, tennis, baseball, softball and beach volleyball....
Eerste Klasse East
| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Note |
| 1 | Vitesse | 14 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 43 | 12 | 22 | Championship play-off |
| 2 | HVV Tubantia | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 43 | 23 | 19 | |
| 3 | Koninklijke UD | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 24 | 16 | |
| 4 | Quick Nijmegen | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 31 | 20 | 14 | |
| 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... |
14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 30 | 14 | |
| 6 | GVC Wageningen | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 35 | 13 | |
| 7 | Robur et Velocitas | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 23 | 35 | 11 | |
| 8 | PW | 14 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 42 | 3 | Not participating next season |
Eerste Klasse South
Teams participating in the Eerste Klasse South would not play next season due to the mobilizationWorld War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
. The league would resume one season later.
| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Note |
| 1 | Willem II | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 35 | 10 | 15 | Championship play-off |
| 2 | Velocitas | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 11 | 15 | |
| 3 | MVV MVV Maastricht MVV Maastricht is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Maastricht, founded on April 2, 1902... |
10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 18 | 11 | |
| 4 | 't Zesde | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 10 | Not participating in 1915–16 |
| 5 | Wilhelmina | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 8 | |
| 6 | VVV VVV Venlo VVV-Venlo is a football club from Venlo in the Netherlands, currently playing in the Eredivisie. The club plays its home games in the De Koel stadium, known as Seacon Stadion – De Koel - for sponsorship reasons.... |
10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 42 | 1 |
Eerste Klasse West
| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Note |
| 1 | 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... |
18 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 56 | 32 | 30 | 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.... |
18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 30 | 30 | 21 | |
| 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... |
18 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 41 | 30 | 19 | |
| 4 | 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... |
18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 40 | 38 | 18 | |
| 5 | DFC | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 32 | 30 | 17 | |
| 6 | UVV Utrecht UVV Utrecht UVV Utrecht is a sports club based in Utrecht, Netherlands. It was founded in 1902. The club has teams in the following sports: football, tennis, baseball, softball and beach volleyball.... |
18 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 24 | 29 | 17 | |
| 7 | VOC | 18 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 28 | 32 | 16 | |
| 8 | Quick | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 32 | 35 | 15 | |
| 9 | 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:... |
18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 31 | 36 | 15 | |
| 10 | Ajax | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 22 | 44 | 12 | Not participating next season |
Championship play-off
| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Note |
| 1 | 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... |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 6 | Champions |
| 2 | Vitesse | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 6 | |
| 3 | Willem II | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 0 |