1918–19 Netherlands Football League Championship

Netherl. Football Championship

Season	1918–1919
Champions	AFC Ajax (2nd title)
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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 year's championship by beating Go Ahead, AFC, Be Quick 1887 and NAC.

New entrants[]

Eerste Klasse East:

• Promoted from 2nd Division: (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:

Divisions[]

Eerste Klasse East[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Go Ahead	18	15	0	3	49	16	+33	30	Qualified for Championship play-off
2	SC Enschede	18	12	5	1	42	16	+26	29
3	Quick Nijmegen	18	11	4	3	51	19	+32	26
4		18	8	3	7	23	22	+1	19
5		18	8	2	8	26	23	+3	18
6		18	6	4	8	28	29	−1	16
7		18	6	4	8	32	47	−15	16
8	Vitesse Arnhem	18	3	5	10	26	50	−24	11
9		18	4	2	12	19	37	−18	10
10		18	1	3	14	15	52	−37	5	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	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Be Quick 1887	16	16	0	0	87	12	7.250	32	Qualified for Championship play-off
2	Velocitas 1897	16	11	3	2	49	22	2.227	25
3	MVV Alcides	12	5	3	4	17	27	0.630	13
4	LAC Frisia 1883	12	4	3	5	44	28	1.571	11
5	WVV Winschoten	10	3	2	5	23	26	0.885	8
6	GSAVV Forward	15	3	5	7	40	48	0.833	11
7	Veendam	15	4	2	9	20	58	0.345	10
8	Achilles 1894	14	4	1	9	35	54	0.648	9
9		12	1	1	10	10	50	0.200	3

Eerste Klasse South[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	NAC	16	13	2	1	45	11	+34	28	Qualified for Championship play-off
2	Willem II	16	10	2	4	48	22	+26	22
3	Zeelandia Middelburg	16	10	1	5	33	29	+4	21
4	MVV Maastricht	16	5	4	7	35	27	+8	14
5		16	6	2	8	34	36	−2	14
6	NOAD	16	5	3	8	23	34	−11	13
7	VVV Venlo	16	6	1	9	18	36	−18	13
8		16	3	4	9	16	38	−22	10
9		16	3	3	10	21	40	−19	9	Relegated to 2nd Division

Eerste Klasse West-A[]

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

Eerste Klasse West-B[]

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	AFC	22	17	3	2	58	20	+38	37	Qualified for Championship play-off.[a]
2		22	10	8	4	43	26	+17	28	Division moving to Second Tier
3	Feijenoord	22	10	7	5	53	37	+16	27
4	VVA	22	11	4	7	43	36	+7	26
5	HVV 't Gooi	22	8	9	5	27	18	+9	25
6		22	10	5	7	43	35	+8	25
7	De Spartaan	22	9	4	9	39	29	+10	22
8	SVV	22	5	8	9	28	29	−1	18
9		22	6	5	11	34	44	−10	17
10		22	7	5	10	28	45	−17	17[b]
11	Hermes DVS	22	4	8	10	22	33	−11	16
12		22	2	0	20	10	76	−66	4

Championship play-off[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		AJA	GOA	AFC	BEQ	NAC
1	AFC Ajax	8	5	3	0	16	6	+10	13			0–0	2–0	3–2	2–1
2	Go Ahead	8	3	3	2	12	10	+2	9		2–2		2–2	4–2	2–1
3	AFC	8	3	3	2	9	8	+1	9		1–1	1–0		2–3	2–0
4	Be Quick 1887	8	2	2	4	11	20	−9	6		0–4	1–0	0–0		2–2
5	NAC	8	1	1	6	10	14	−4	3		0–2	1–2	0–1	5–1

References[]

• RSSSF Netherlands Football League Championships 1898-1954
• RSSSF Eerste Klasse Oost
• RSSSF Eerste Klasse Noord
• RSSSF Eerste Klasse Zuid
• RSSSF Eerste Klasse West