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....

 1915/1916 was contested by 26 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...

. Willem II won this years championship by beating 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...

 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....

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New entrants

Eerste Klasse South: (returning after one season of suspension due to World War I

World 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...

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• MVV
• 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...
  
  
• RVV Roermond

Eerste Klasse East

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	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	9	3	2	32	17	21	Championship play-offs
2	Quick Nijmegen	14	9	2	3	20	9	20
3	Koninklijke UD	14	6	3	5	27	23	15
4	HVV Tubantia	14	6	2	6	28	31	14
5	Robur et Velocitas	14	6	1	7	37	36	13
6	Vitesse	14	5	1	8	31	35	11
7	Be Quick Zutphen	14	4	2	8	29	37	10
8	GVC Wageningen	14	4	0	10	17	33	8

Eerste Klasse South

The Eerste Klasse South returned after being suspended for one season due to World War I

World 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...

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Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Willem II	14	12	2	0	65	15	26	Championship play-offs
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...	14	7	3	4	35	20	17
3	Velocitas	14	7	2	5	36	29	16
4	MSV Maastricht	14	6	4	4	26	29	16
5	MVV MVV Maastricht MVV Maastricht is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Maastricht, founded on April 2, 1902...	14	7	1	6	22	21	15
6	Wilhelmina	14	3	4	7	20	33	10
7	RVV Roermond	14	2	5	7	22	44	9	Not participating next season
8	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....	14	1	1	12	12	47	3

Eerste Klasse West

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....	18	11	3	4	55	28	25	Championship play-offs
2	DFC	18	11	2	5	45	34	24
3	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	8	4	6	37	37	20
4	Quick	18	8	3	7	37	28	19
5	VOC	18	7	5	6	26	30	19
6	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	6	5	7	35	38	17
7	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	6	4	8	35	43	16
8	Hercules	18	6	3	9	25	38	15
9	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	6	2	10	32	41	14
10	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	3	5	10	27	37	11

Championship play-offs

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Willem II	4	2	1	1	5	6	6	5	Champions
2	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...	4	1	2	1	4	6	4	4
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....	4	1	1	2	3	7	9	3