1954–55 Netherlands Football League Championship

(Redirected from Netherlands Football League Championship 1954–55) Football league season

Netherl. Football Championship
Season	1954–1955
Champions	Willem II (3rd title)
European Cup	PSV Eindhoven
← 1953–54 1955–56 Hoofdklasse → 1955–56 Eerste Klasse →

The Netherlands Football League Championship 1954–1955 was contested by 56 teams participating in four divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of each division of the Netherlands. Willem II won this year's championship by beating NAC, PSV Eindhoven and FC Eindhoven.

This season saw the introduction of professional football in the Netherlands. Initially two competitions began after the summer break: one from the NBVB and one from the KNVB. In November, the NBVB merged into the KNVB and one unified league commenced.

At the end of the season, the four Eerste Klasse Divisions were re-aligned as two Divisions called Hoofdklasse A & B.

New entrants

48 competitors from last season participated, only in completely other divisions. Last years competitors Bleijerheide merged to form Roda Sport and Juliana merged to form Rapid JC. New entrants were:

Divisions

Eerste Klasse A

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	NAC	26	18	5	3	60	24	+36	41	Qualified to Championship play-off
2	Holland Sport	26	18	4	4	72	33	+39	40	Not participating next season
3	MVV Maastricht	26	14	6	6	64	37	+27	34	Transferred to Hoofdklasse B
4	SBV Excelsior	26	13	5	8	47	36	+11	31
5	BVC Amsterdam	26	11	5	10	53	41	+12	27
6	Emma	26	11	5	10	41	47	−6	27	Transferred to Hoofdklasse B
7	Stormvogels	26	9	8	9	49	42	+7	26
8	DOS	26	12	2	12	60	53	+7	26
9	Roda Sport	26	11	4	11	48	51	−3	26
10	LONGA	26	10	3	13	55	65	−10	23	Relegated to 2nd Division
11	VV Leeuwarden	26	7	7	12	40	59	−19	21
12	Zwolsche Boys	26	5	5	16	31	59	−28	15
13	Veendam	26	4	6	16	38	85	−47	14
14	Go Ahead	26	3	7	16	27	53	−26	13

Source: rsssf.com

Results

Home \ Away	AMS	DOS	EMA	EXC	GOA	HOL	LEE	LON	MVV	NAC	RSP	STO	VEE	ZBO
Amsterdam		4–1	3–0	3–0	1–1	3–4	3–0	4–3	1–3	3–3	3–1	0–1	4–1	1–2
DOS	4–2		1–2	0–2	0–4	2–1	4–1	4–1	4–2	1–2	1–5	3–2	6–2	6–1
Emma	1–4	0–0		1–0	2–2	1–3	2–0	2–3	1–2	0–3	5–0	2–1	4–1	1–1
Excelsior	2–1	1–0	4–2		1–0	4–6	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–2	4–1	3–0	4–0	3–2
Go Ahead	1–0	1–0	3–5	3–5		0–5	0–1	1–3	1–3	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–0
Holland Sport	4–1	3–0	0–0	2–1	4–2		3–1	3–0	4–3	1–3	3–1	2–1	8–0	0–0
Leeuwarden	1–3	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	1–2		5–2	1–2	1–7	0–1	0–0	1–3	3–2
LONGA	0–0	1–4	0–1	2–2	3–1	0–1	2–2		3–4	0–5	1–0	2–1	4–0	7–2
MVV	1–2	5–3	6–0	0–0	4–1	1–1	2–3	5–1		2–0	5–0	4–3	1–1	4–1
NAC	2–1	1–2	3–1	1–0	0–0	3–2	5–1	2–4	0–0		3–0	2–0	4–1	3–1
Roda Sport	3–2	4–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	2–3	2–2	6–2	1–0	0–0		1–1	6–1	1–4
Stormvogels	0–0	3–3	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	5–2	3–2	3–0	2–3	2–5		6–1	0–0
Veendam	2–2	0–4	1–3	1–2	5–1	1–1	3–5	4–5	1–1	1–1	2–3	3–3		2–1
Zwolsche Boys	0–2	1–4	1–2	1–2	3–1	0–5	1–1	1–4	0–3	0–1	1–0	0–3	5–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Eerste Klasse B

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Willem II	26	19	5	2	96	42	+54	43	Qualified for Championship play-off
2	Sparta Rotterdam	26	12	8	6	67	42	+25	32	Transferred to Hoofdklasse A
3	Fortuna	26	13	5	8	46	38	+8	31	Transferred to Hoofdklasse A
4	SVV	26	11	6	9	53	50	+3	28
5	ADO Den Haag	26	10	6	10	48	43	+5	26	Transferred to Hoofdklasse A
6	Sittardia	26	10	6	10	57	52	+5	26
7	Elinkwijk	26	11	4	11	48	45	+3	26
8	HFC EDO	26	11	4	11	42	45	−3	26
9	Rigtersbleek	26	10	6	10	49	58	−9	26	Transferred to Hoofdklasse A
10	DWS	26	9	6	11	35	38	−3	24	Relegated to 2nd Division
11	sc Heerenveen	26	9	5	12	56	68	−12	23
12	Heracles	26	8	5	13	56	71	−15	21
13	Brabantia	26	6	6	14	34	68	−34	18
14	FC Wageningen	26	6	2	18	33	60	−27	14

Source: rsssf.com

Results

Home \ Away	ADO	BRA	DWS	EDO	ELI	F54	HEE	HER	RIG	SIT	SPA	SVV	WAG	WIL
ADO		0–0	0–3	1–2	0–3	0–1	4–1	0–0	6–3	4–1	2–1	3–2	1–0	2–3
Brabantia	0–6		1–1	4–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	4–1	0–3	2–2	3–2	1–4	3–1	1–5
DWS	3–1	2–0		0–0	2–3	0–0	1–2	3–1	2–1	1–0	1–3	5–1	0–0	0–1
EDO	2–2	4–0	2–1		2–1	1–2	6–0	2–0	2–4	2–1	1–5	2–1	2–1	0–1
Elinkwijk	1–2	2–0	1–0	3–0		3–1	3–1	2–3	0–1	3–2	3–3	0–1	1–0	4–1
Fortuna '54	2–3	1–1	0–0	3–0	2–0		4–0	3–1	0–1	1–3	1–0	3–2	2–1	2–4
Heerenveen	2–1	6–1	0–1	1–5	1–1	1–4		6–0	1–5	2–2	3–6	4–4	4–2	1–1
Heracles	2–2	2–2	5–1	3–1	4–2	3–2	0–4		5–1	2–2	4–5	3–1	2–4	2–3
Rigtersbleek	1–0	3–2	3–2	2–2	2–2	1–3	1–5	1–1		2–2	2–2	2–3	3–1	2–2
Sittardia	3–0	0–1	2–0	5–1	5–2	3–1	3–2	5–3	1–0		1–5	2–2	1–2	7–4
Sparta	1–1	4–1	1–1	1–0	3–2	2–2	6–0	4–2	3–0	1–1		1–1	1–2	1–1
SVV	2–2	3–1	4–0	0–1	1–3	2–2	2–3	3–1	3–0	3–2	2–1		3–2	0–0
Wageningen	0–5	5–2	1–3	0–0	3–0	0–3	1–3	3–4	0–2	1–0	1–2	0–2		2–6
Willem II	4–0	7–1	5–2	3–1	4–2	6–0	2–2	5–2	8–3	5–1	4–3	6–1	5–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Eerste Klasse C

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	PSV Eindhoven	26	16	7	3	64	39	+25	39	Qualified for Championship play-off and transferred to Hoofdklasse B
2	Rapid	26	15	5	6	70	41	+29	35	Transferred to Hoofdklasse B
3	Limburgia	26	14	6	6	53	33	+20	34	Transferred to Hoofdklasse A
4	GVAV Rapiditas	26	14	5	7	69	50	+19	33	Transferred to Hoofdklasse B
5	Alkmaar '54	26	11	6	9	41	37	+4	28	Transferred to Hoofdklasse B
6	EBOH	26	12	4	10	45	50	−5	28	Transferred to Hoofdklasse A
7	Feijenoord	26	11	5	10	47	47	0	27	Transferred to Hoofdklasse B
8	Vitesse Arnhem	26	10	7	9	42	44	−2	27	Transferred to Hoofdklasse A
9	NOAD	26	8	10	8	41	36	+5	26	Transferred to Hoofdklasse A
10	HFC Haarlem	26	9	8	9	47	42	+5	26	Relegated to 2nd Division.
11	Enschedese Boys	26	6	6	14	38	67	−29	18
12	NEC Nijmegen	26	4	9	13	33	49	−16	17
13	Blauw-Wit Amsterdam	26	6	2	18	34	62	−28	14
14	Hermes DVS	26	2	8	16	28	55	−27	12

Source: rsssf.com

Results

Home \ Away	ALK	BLW	EBO	ENB	FEY	GVA	HAA	DVS	LIM	NEC	NOA	PSV	RAP	VIT
Alkmaar '54		2–0	2–1	6–1	0–1	1–2	1–3	2–1	1–0	6–1	1–1	1–1	4–3	0–0
Blauw-Wit	0–1		2–0	2–4	1–0	0–2	0–5	1–2	2–5	2–0	1–4	3–4	2–4	4–0
EBOH	1–0	5–2		1–3	1–0	2–1	3–2	1–0	3–3	3–0	1–1	2–2	3–1	2–1
Enschedese Boys	1–1	2–0	1–5		0–3	1–3	1–5	3–3	2–3	2–1	0–5	0–2	4–4	1–1
Feijenoord	2–2	3–5	0–1	1–1		4–6	2–0	5–3	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–0	3–1	2–1
GVAV	5–0	3–2	2–0	3–1	3–6		2–2	6–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	1–7	1–1	3–2
Haarlem	2–1	0–0	5–3	1–1	4–0	5–4		2–1	0–4	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–2
Hermes DVS	0–2	1–2	2–0	1–2	1–4	0–0	1–2		1–3	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–3	0–1
Limburgia	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	1–3	3–2	3–0	3–3		1–0	1–1	1–3	0–0	5–2
N.E.C.	0–2	4–1	1–2	3–1	0–2	3–3	2–1	1–1	1–2		0–2	3–3	1–2	2–1
NOAD	0–0	0–0	6–1	0–1	2–1	0–4	2–2	3–1	0–4	0–0		1–3	4–2	2–3
PSV	4–2	3–1	7–3	3–1	2–0	1–5	0–0	2–1	3–2	4–4	2–1		1–4	3–1
Rapid JC	5–0	4–1	4–0	3–1	5–0	3–2	4–2	4–1	2–2	1–0	3–1	0–2		5–1
Vitesse	1–3	3–0	1–1	4–2	3–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	4–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Eerste Klasse D

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	FC Eindhoven	26	17	5	4	59	26	+33	39	Qualified for Championship play-off and transferred to Hoofdklasse A
2	VVV Venlo	26	15	7	4	54	21	+33	37	Transferred to Hoofdklasse A
3	AFC Ajax	26	12	11	3	57	30	+27	35	Transferred to Hoofdklasse A
4	De Graafschap	26	13	4	9	48	35	+13	30	Transferred to Hoofdklasse B
5	SC Enschede	26	12	5	9	48	36	+12	29
6	BVV Den Bosch	26	12	5	9	42	39	+3	29
7	HVC	26	8	11	7	34	31	+3	27	Transferred to Hoofdklasse A
8	De Volewijckers	26	11	4	11	34	53	−19	26	Transferred to Hoofdklasse B
9	DFC	26	10	5	11	41	47	−6	25	Transferred to Hoofdklasse B
10	RBC Roosendaal	26	9	7	10	43	50	−7	25	Relegated to 2nd Division
11	VSV	26	9	6	11	43	43	0	24
12	AGOVV Apeldoorn	26	4	5	17	31	55	−24	13
13	Xerxes	26	3	7	16	23	51	−28	13
14	Be Quick 1887	26	4	4	18	24	64	−40	12

Source: rsssf.com

Results

Home \ Away	AGO	AJA	BQU	BVV	DFC	EIN	ENS	GRA	HVC	RBC	VWK	VSV	VVV	XER
AGOVV		1–4	1–1	0–3	10–0	1–3	0–6	0–2	1–1	1–4	0–1	2–0	1–3	4–1
Ajax	3–1		5–1	4–1	3–2	1–1	3–0	3–0	1–1	3–1	3–0	2–2	2–3	1–1
Be Quick	1–2	1–0		0–1	0–0	1–2	1–3	0–6	0–5	1–1	3–0	1–2	1–7	1–1
BVV	2–1	0–0	1–2		2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–2	5–2	4–4	2–1	2–1	5–2
D.F.C.	3–1	5–3	2–1	1–4		2–3	4–0	1–2	1–2	0–0	5–1	2–0	0–0	1–1
Eindhoven	2–0	2–2	4–0	1–0	3–1		3–0	3–0	1–2	3–2	6–1	3–1	3–1	6–2
SC Enschede	2–2	1–1	2–1	3–1	0–1	1–0		0–2	2–0	6–0	1–0	3–1	2–2	2–0
De Graafschap	1–0	1–1	5–0	1–0	4–1	0–3	5–2		3–1	2–3	0–3	0–0	1–0	2–1
HVC	0–0	0–3	3–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	3–1		2–2	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–2
RBC	3–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–2	3–1	1–1	2–2		1–2	2–2	1–3	1–0
De Volewijckers	1–0	2–2	3–2	3–1	0–2	1–0	0–5	3–2	0–0	0–5		2–2	0–1	1–0
VSV	1–1	0–1	3–2	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–5	5–1	5–0	4–2		0–2	3–0
VVV	4–0	0–0	2–0	4–0	1–2	4–0	1–1	3–2	0–0	3–0	2–0	2–0		2–0
Xerxes	3–0	2–5	1–2	0–0	1–1	0–3	0–2	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–2	1–2	2–2

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship play-off

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	WIL	NAC	PSV	EIN
1	Willem II (C)	6	3	2	1	14	11	+3	8			2–2	3–1	2–0
2	NAC	6	2	2	2	14	12	+2	6		3–1		0–2	2–3
3	PSV Eindhoven	6	1	4	1	10	10	0	6	Qualification for the European Cup first round	3–3	2–2		1–1
4	FC Eindhoven	6	1	2	3	9	14	−5	4		2–3	2–5	1–1

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

References

Netherlands professional football season '54/55

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Eerste Klasse

2023–24

A: West I	AGB De Dijk Fortuna Wormerveer Hillegom Hoofddorp IVV Kolping Boys SCPB '22 RKVV Velsen VIOS-W Vitesse '22 vv ZOB De Zouaven
B: West I	Aalsmeer Argon Batavia '90 BFC DVVA Jodan Boys De Meern Montvoort SV '19 RODA '46 SVL Victoria Woudenberg HSV De Zuidvogels
C: West II	Den Hoorn Die Haghe Forum Sport Honselersdijk LFC Nootdorp RKDEO FC Skillz TAC '90 Valken '68 VELO Voorschoten '97 Wippolder
D: West II	Brielle BVCB DCV Nieuw-Lekkerland NSVV Papendrecht SHO Sliedrecht RV & AV Sparta Spijkenisse Terneuzense Boys XerxesDZB Zuidland
E: South I	Almkerk EFC Emplina RKVV Erp Moerse Boys RBC Roosendaal Sarto Sparta '25 TOP VV TSC VOAB WNC SC 't Zand
F: South II	BSV Limburgia Chèvremont Deurne EHC Mierlo-Hout RKSV Minor SHH Someren Sportclub '25 RKSV De Ster Susteren Valkenswaard Volharding
G: East	CSV Apeldoorn De Bataven Bemmel Bennekom ASV Dronten DTS Ede DUNO NSC Nijkerk RKHVV SDC Putten Voorwaarts Twello SC Woezik WSV
H: East	Achilles '12 SV Dalfsen DOS '37 DZC '68 SV Grol Hulzense Boys RKSV NEO RKZVC Sparta Enschede Stevo SVZW WHC FC Winterswijk
I: North	Alcides Blauw Wit '34 Broekster Boys FC Burgum Drachtster Boys Flevo Boys Go-Ahead Kampen VV Jubbega KHC LSC 1890 SV Marum d'Olde Veste '54 ONS Sneek
J: North	DZOH GRC Groningen GVAV-Rapiditas Hoogezand HZVV Oranje Nassau PKC '83 SVBO Velocitas 1897 VKW Winsum WKE '16 WVV

Seasons
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19th c.	1889 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99
20th c.	1900 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 46 47 48 49 50 61 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99
21st c.	2000 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

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Domestic cups	Albania '54 Belgium Bulgaria Denmark England Faroe Islands '55 Finland '55 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '54 '55 Israel Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Northern Ireland Norway '54 '55 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania '54 '55 Scotland Soviet Union '54 '55 Spain Switzerland Wales Yugoslavia '54 '55
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