Netherlands Football League Championship 1955–56

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....

1955/1956 was contested by 36 teams participating in two divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the two best placed teams in both divisions 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...

. Rapid JC won this years championship by beating NAC

NAC Breda

NAC Breda , simply often known as NAC, is a Dutch professional football club, based in Breda, Netherlands. NAC Breda play in the Rat Verlegh Stadium, named after their most important player, Antoon 'Rat' Verlegh. They play in the Dutch Eredivisie and are known by the fierce and fanatic support of...

, Elinkwijk and 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....

Hoofdklasse A

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	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....	34	18	10	6	60	38	46	Championship play-off
2	NAC NAC Breda NAC Breda , simply often known as NAC, is a Dutch professional football club, based in Breda, Netherlands. NAC Breda play in the Rat Verlegh Stadium, named after their most important player, Antoon 'Rat' Verlegh. They play in the Dutch Eredivisie and are known by the fierce and fanatic support of...	34	20	5	9	58	40	45	Championship play-off
3	Fortuna 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	16	12	6	66	34	44
4	Ajax	34	17	8	9	64	44	42
5	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....	34	16	8	10	55	34	40
6	DOS	34	16	8	10	91	68	40
7	FC Eindhoven FC Eindhoven FC Eindhoven is a Dutch football club based in Eindhoven, North Brabant. They current play in the Eerste Divisie , and are one of two professional clubs which are based in the city of Eindhoven, the other one being PSV Eindhoven....	34	13	12	9	57	46	38
8	BVC Amsterdam	34	14	9	11	58	43	37
9	NOAD	34	13	10	11	55	55	36
10	Limburgia SV Limburgia Sport Vereniging Limburgia was a Dutch football/sports club from the city of Brunssum . Today it exists as BSV Limburgia- History :SV Limburgia was founded on 9 May 1920 by the Limburgian coal mines, under the name Rhenania...	34	12	11	11	56	56	35	Relegation to Eerste Divisie
11	Excelsior	34	12	10	12	53	61	34
12	ADO 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	12	8	14	59	62	32
13	Stormvogels	34	10	12	12	60	66	32
14	Roda Sport	34	8	9	17	63	81	25
15	Vitesse	34	8	8	18	48	67	24
16	HVC	34	6	12	16	45	71	24
17	VV Rigtersbleek	34	8	4	22	44	86	20
18	EBOH	34	3	12	19	40	80	18

Hoofdklasse B

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Elinkwijk	34	22	6	6	79	36	50	Championship play-off
2	Rapid	34	20	8	6	90	46	48	Championship play-off
3	SC Enschede 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	21	6	7	91	56	48
4	PSV	34	22	3	9	96	55	47
5	Feijenoord	34	17	7	10	93	62	41
6	BVV Den Bosch	34	17	5	12	67	45	39
7	Willem II	34	17	5	12	64	53	39
8	MVV MVV Maastricht MVV Maastricht is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Maastricht, founded on April 2, 1902...	34	16	6	12	68	47	38
9	DFC	34	15	7	12	69	61	37	Relegation to Eerste Divisie
10	GVAV Rapiditas	34	15	7	12	68	64	37
11	Alkmaar '54	34	13	7	14	47	55	33	Relegation to Eerste Divisie
12	Sittardia 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	9	13	63	77	33
13	De Graafschap De Graafschap De Graafschap is a professional football club from Doetinchem, Netherlands. It was formed on 1 February 1954 and they play their home games at the "De Vijverberg" stadium. Their current home ground stands on where the old pitch used to be located and was opened on 12 August 2000...	34	8	11	15	46	72	27
14	SHS 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... ¹	34	11	5	18	58	75	25
15	SVV Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging was a Dutch professional football club from Schiedam. Founded in 1904, the club won the Dutch national football title in 1949. In 1991, SVV and neighbouring Dordrecht'90 merged to form FC Dordrecht.-History:...	34	9	6	19	57	69	24
16	HFC EDO	34	9	4	21	37	66	22
17	De Volewijckers Volewijckers De Volewijckers is a football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands. They are one of a number of Dutch clubs that were successful in post-war leagues before being forced to merge to cope with the popularity of the big teams such as Ajax and Feyenoord.-History:...	34	5	3	26	49	126	13
18	Emma	34	2	5	27	28	105	9

¹SHS were deducted two points due to an abandoned match.

Championship play-off

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Rapid JC	8	4	0	2	13	7	8	Champions
2	NAC NAC Breda NAC Breda , simply often known as NAC, is a Dutch professional football club, based in Breda, Netherlands. NAC Breda play in the Rat Verlegh Stadium, named after their most important player, Antoon 'Rat' Verlegh. They play in the Dutch Eredivisie and are known by the fierce and fanatic support of...	8	4	0	2	13	11	8
3	Elinkwijk	8	2	1	3	12	14	5
4	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....	8	1	1	4	7	13	3

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