1902–03 Netherlands Football League Championship

Netherl. Football Championship
Season	1902-1903
Champions	HVV Den Haag (6th title)
← 1901–02 1903–04 →

The Netherlands Football League Championship 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. HVV Den Haag won this year's championship by beating Vitesse and Volharding.

New entrants

Eerste Klasse West-A:

Sparta Rotterdam 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

New:

Quick 1890
Volharding

Divisions

Eerste Klasse East

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	GF	GA	Pts	GD	Notes
1	Vitesse	10	9	0	1	42	13	18	+29	Qualified for Championship play-off.
2	PW	10	6	1	3	45	20	13	+25
3	Go Ahead Wageningen	10	5	1	4	31	27	11	+4	Merged to form GVC Wageningen.
4	Quick Nijmegen	10	3	2	5	20	29	8	-9
5	Koninklijke UD	10	3	1	6	23	37	7	-14
6	Victoria Wageningen	10	1	1	8	12	47	3	-35	Merged to form GVC Wageningen.

Eerste Klasse West-A

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	GF	GA	Pts	GD	Notes
1	HVV Den Haag	10	5	4	1	27	10	14	+17	Qualified for Championship play-off. ^[1]
2	Sparta Rotterdam	10	4	4	2	18	11	12	+7
3	Ajax Sportman Combinatie	10	4	3	3	23	20	11	+3
4	Velocitas	10	5	1	4	21	19	11	+2	Moved to Division West-B.
5	HFC Haarlem	10	1	6	3	19	27	8	-8	Moved to Division West-B.
6	RAP	10	1	2	7	12	33	4	-21

^[1] HVV Den Haag also moved to Division West-B for next season.

Eerste Klasse West-B

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	GF	GA	Pts	GD	Notes
1	Volharding	10	9	1	0	29	12	19	+17	Qualified for Championship play-off.
2	HBS Craeyenhout	10	6	1	3	22	20	13	+2	Moved to Division West-A.
3	Koninklijke HFC	10	4	1	5	20	16	9	+4	Moved to Division West-A.
4	Hercules	10	4	1	5	24	21	9	+3
5	Rapiditas Rotterdam	10	4	1	5	20	27	9	-7
6	Quick 1890	10	0	1	9	13	32	1	-19	Moved to Division West-A.

Championship play-off

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Lst	GF	GA	Pts	GD
1	HVV Den Haag	4	4	0	11	2	8	+9
2	Vitesse	4	1	3	6	10	2	-4
3	Volharding	4	1	3	7	12	2	-5

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