Netherlands Football League Championship 1903–04
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The Netherlands Football League Championship
1903/1904 was contested by seventeen 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
. HBS Craeyenhout
won this years championship by beating Velocitas and PW.
Eerste Klasse West-A:
Moved from Division West-B:
Eerste Klasse West-B:
Moved from Division West-A:
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....
1903/1904 was contested by seventeen 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...
. 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:...
won this years championship by beating Velocitas and PW.
New entrants
Eerste Klasse East:- GVC Wageningen, the result of a merger between last years competitors Go Ahead Wageningen and Victoria Wageningen
Eerste Klasse West-A:
Moved from Division West-B:
- HBS CraeyenhoutHBS CraeyenhoutHBS Craeyenhout is a Dutch sports team based in The Hague that field teams in association football, cricket and hockey.-Association football:...
- 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...
- Quick 1890
Eerste Klasse West-B:
Moved from Division West-A:
- HFC HaarlemHFC HaarlemHFC 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...
- HVV Den HaagHVV Den HaagHVV 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...
- Velocitas
Eerste Klasse East
| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Note |
| 1 | PW | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 32 | 19 | 11 | Championship play-off |
| 2 | Vitesse | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 15 | 10 | |
| 3 | Koninklijke UD | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 10 | |
| 4 | Quick Nijmegen | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 25 | 5 | |
| 5 | GVC Wageningen | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 4 |
Eerste Klasse West-A
| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Note |
| 1 | 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 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 42 | 15 | 15 | Championship play-off |
| 2 | 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 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 21 | 15 | |
| 3 | 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 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 28 | 23 | 11 | |
| 4 | 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 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 29 | 33 | 10 | |
| 5 | 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 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 25 | 9 | |
| 6 | Quick 1890 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 49 | 0 | Not participating next season |
Eerste Klasse West-B
| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Note |
| 1 | Velocitas | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 18 | 15 | 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... |
10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 31 | 15 | 12 | |
| 3 | Hercules | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 34 | 21 | 11 | |
| 4 | 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 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 27 | 11 | |
| 5 | Rapiditas Rotterdam | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 36 | 8 | |
| 6 | 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 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 41 | 3 | Not participating next season |
Championship play-off
| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Note |
| 1 | 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:... |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | Champions |
| 2 | Velocitas | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 4 | |
| 3 | PW | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 3 |