1918–19 Netherlands Football League Championship

Netherl. Football Championship
Season	1918-1919
Champions	AFC Ajax (2nd title)
← 1917–18 1919–20 →

The Netherlands Football League Championship 1918/1919 was contested by 52 teams participating in five divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern, northern, southern and two western football divisions of the Netherlands. AFC Ajax won this years championship by beating Go Ahead, AFC Amsterdam, Be Quick 1887 and NAC.

1 New entrants
2 Divisions
3 References

New entrants

Eerste Klasse East:

Promoted from 2nd Division: ZAC (returning after six seasons of absence)

Eerste Klasse North:

Promoted from 2nd Division: MVV Alcides

Eerste Klasse South:

Promoted from 2nd Division: NOAD

Eerste Klasse West-B:

Promoted from 2nd Division: SV Fortuna Wormerveer

Divisions

Eerste Klasse East

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	GF	GA	Pts	GD	Notes
1	Go Ahead	18	15	0	3	49	16	30	+33	Qualified for Championship play-off.
2	SC Enschede	18	12	5	1	42	16	29	+26
3	Quick Nijmegen	18	11	4	3	51	19	26	+32
4	EFC PW 1885	18	8	3	7	23	22	19	+1
5	HVV Tubantia	18	8	2	8	26	23	18	+3
6	Koninklijke UD	18	6	4	8	28	29	16	-1
7	ZAC	18	6	4	8	32	47	16	-15
8	Vitesse	18	3	5	10	26	50	11	-24
9	Be Quick Zutphen	18	4	2	12	19	37	10	-18
10	GVC	18	1	3	14	15	52	5	-37	Relegated to 2nd Division.

Eerste Klasse North

Not all matches were played owing to poor ground conditions.
Therefore, rankings were based on games played and average points, which explains why some teams are ranked higher despite having less points.

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	GF	GA	PtAv	GD	Notes
1	Be Quick 1887	16	16	0	0	87	12	2.00	+75	Qualified for Championship play-off.
2	Velocitas 1897	16	11	3	2	49	22	1.56	+27
3	MVV Alcides	14	5	3	4	17	27	0.93	-10
4	LAC Frisia 1883	12	4	3	5	44	28	0.92	+16
5	WVV Winschoten	10	3	2	5	23	26	0.80	-3
6	GSAVV Forward	15	3	5	7	40	48	0.73	-8
7	Veendam	15	4	2	9	20	58	0.67	-38
8	Achilles 1894	14	4	1	9	35	54	0.64	-19
9	HSC	12	1	1	10	10	50	0.25	-40

Eerste Klasse South

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	GF	GA	Pts	GD	Notes
1	NAC	16	13	2	1	45	11	28	+34	Qualified for Championship play-off.
2	Willem II	16	10	2	4	48	22	22	+26
3	Zeelandia Middelburg	16	10	1	5	33	29	21	+4
4	MVV Maastricht	16	5	4	7	35	27	14	+8
5	CVV Velocitas	16	6	2	8	34	36	14	-2
6	NOAD	16	5	3	8	23	34	13	-11
7	VVV Venlo	16	6	1	9	18	36	13	-18
8	RKVV Wilhelmina	16	3	4	9	16	38	10	-22
9	HVV Helmond	16	3	3	10	21	40	9	-19	Relegated to 2nd Division.

Eerste Klasse West-A

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	GF	GA	Pts	GD	Notes
1	AFC Ajax	22	19	3	0	70	11	41	+59	Qualified for Championship play-off.
2	Blauw-Wit Amsterdam	22	13	4	5	45	27	30	+18
3	HFC Haarlem	22	14	1	7	54	35	29	+19
4	Sparta Rotterdam	22	11	5	6	53	33	27	+20
5	HBS Craeyenhout	22	10	4	8	37	27	24	+10
6	VOC	22	8	6	8	30	29	22	+1
7	Koninklijke HFC	22	8	6	8	29	41	22	-12
8	HVV Den Haag	22	7	7	8	45	40	21	+5
9	UVV Utrecht	22	5	6	11	24	52	16	-28
10	DFC	22	4	5	13	24	45	13	-21
11	HC & CV Quick	22	2	6	14	13	45	10	-32
12	USV Hercules	22	3	3	16	26	65	9	-39	Relegated to 2nd Division.

Eerste Klasse West-B

The Eerste Klasse West-B would become Second Tier next season.

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	GF	GA	Pts	GD	Notes
1	AFC Amsterdam	22	17	3	2	58	20	37	+38	Qualified for Championship play-off. ^[1]
2	VV Concordia	22	10	8	4	43	26	28	+17	Division moving to Second Tier
3	Feijenoord	22	10	7	5	53	37	27	+16
4	VVA	22	11	4	7	43	36	26	+7
5	HVV 't Gooi	22	8	9	5	27	18	25	+9
6	SV Fortuna Wormverveer	22	10	5	7	43	35	25	+8
7	De Spartaan	22	9	4	9	39	29	22	+10
8	SVV	22	5	8	9	28	29	18	-1
9	DVS Rotterdam	22	6	5	11	34	44	17	-10
10	RFC	22	7	5	10	28	45	17	-17	2 points deducted.
11	Hermes DVS	22	4	8	10	22	33	16	-11
12	Dordrecht	22	2	0	20	10	76	4	-66

^[1] AFC Amsterdam moved to the Eerste Klasse West next season.

Championship play-off

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	GF	GA	Pts	GD
1	AFC Ajax	8	5	3	0	16	6	13	+10
2	Go Ahead	8	3	3	2	12	10	9	+2
3	AFC Amsterdam	8	3	3	2	9	8	9	+1
4	Be Quick 1887	8	2	2	4	11	20	6	-19
5	NAC	8	1	1	6	10	14	3	-4

References

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