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....

 1902/1903 was contested by eighteen teams participating in three divisions. This season, the western division had been split in two, creating the Eerste Klasse West-A and the Eerste Klasse West-B. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the three 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...

. 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 Volharding

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...

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New entrants

Eerste Klasse West-A:

• 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....
  
   returned after one year of absence

Eerste Klasse West-B: (new division)

Moved from Division East:

• Hercules

Moved from Division West-A:

• HBS Creayenhout
• Rapiditas Rotterdam
• 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...
  
  

New:

• Quick 1890
• Volharding
  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...
  
  

Eerste Klasse East

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Vitesse	10	9	0	1	42	13	18	Championship play-off
2	PW	10	6	1	3	45	20	13
3	Go Ahead Wageningen	10	5	1	4	31	27	11	Merger to form GVC Wageningen
4	Quick Nijmegen	10	3	2	5	20	29	8
5	Koninklijke UD	10	3	1	6	23	37	7
6	Victoria Wageningen	10	1	1	8	12	47	3	Merger to form GVC Wageningen

Eerste Klasse West-A

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... 1	10	5	4	1	27	10	14	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....	10	4	4	2	18	11	12
3	Ajax Sportman Combinatie Ajax Sportman Combinatie The Ajax Sportman Combinatie is a Dutch football and cricket club, established in 1918 as a merger of the Leidsche Cricket- en Football-Club Ajax and Leidsche Athletiekvereeniging De Sportman.-Ajax:...	10	4	3	3	23	20	11
4	Velocitas	10	5	1	4	21	19	11	Moving to Disivion West-B
5	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...	10	1	6	3	19	27	8
6	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...	10	1	2	7	12	33	4

¹HVV Den Haag also moved to Division West-B next season

Eerste Klasse West-B

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Volharding 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...	10	9	1	0	29	12	19	Championship play-off
2	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:...	10	6	1	3	22	20	13	Moving to Disivion West-A
3	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...	10	4	1	5	20	16	9
4	Hercules	10	4	1	5	24	21	9
5	Rapiditas Rotterdam	10	4	1	5	20	27	9
6	Quick 1890	10	0	1	9	13	32	1	Moving to Disivion West-A

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	4	0	0	11	2	8	Champions
2	Vitesse	4	1	0	3	6	10	2
3	Volharding 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...	4	1	0	3	7	12	2