Association football league

Football league
The Eredivisie ( dutch pronunciation : [ ˈeːrədivizi ] ; “Honour Division” or “Premier Division” ) is the highest charge of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the begin of professional football in the Netherlands. It is considered one of the best european leagues and widely regarded as one of the better leagues in the world. As of the 2020–21 season, it is ranked the 7th best league in Europe by UEFA. [ 1 ]

The Eredivisie consists of 18 clubs. Each club meets every other club twice during the season, once at home and once away. At the end of each temper, the two clubs at the bed are automatically relegated to the second gear level of the Dutch league system, the Eerste Divisie ( First Division ), while the ace and runner-up of the Eerste Divisie are automatically promoted to the Eredivisie. The club finishing third base from the bed of the bottom of the Eredivisie goes to separate promotion/relegation play-offs with eight high-placed clubs from the Eerste Divisie. The achiever of the Eredivisie claims the dutch national backing. Ajax has won the most titles, with 35 national titles. PSV Eindhoven are next with 24, and Feyenoord follow with 15. Since 1965, these three clubs have won all but three Eredivisie titles ( the 1981 and 2009 titles went to AZ and FC Twente won the 2010 style ). Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord are known as the “ Big Three “ or “ traditional crown Three ” of Dutch football. They are the merely clubs in their current forms to have never been relegated out of the Eredivisie since its formation. A fourth club, FC Utrecht, is the product of a 1970 amalgamation between three of that city ‘s clubs, one of which, VV DOS, had besides never been relegated out of the Eredivisie. From 1990 to 1999, the official name of the league was PTT Telecompetitie ( after the patronize, PTT Telecom ), which was changed to KPN Telecompetitie ( because PTT Telecom changed its mention to KPN Telecom in 1999 ) and to KPN Eredivisie in 2000. From 2002 to 2005, the league was called the Holland Casino Eredivisie. Since the 2005–06 season, the league has been sponsored by the Sponsorloterij ( lottery ), but for legal reasons its name could not be attached to the league ( the dutch government was against the name, because the Eredivisie would, after Holland Casino ‘s sponsorship, so far again be sponsored by a company providing games of chance ). On 8 August 2012 it was made public that baron Rupert Murdoch had secured the rights to the Eredivisie for 12 years at the expense of 1 billion euros, beginning in the 2013–14 season. [ 2 ] Within this conduct the five largest Eredivisie clubs should receive 5 million euros per year for the duration of the contract. [ 3 ] In 2020, the Eredivisie was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

history [edit ]

From the initiation of the Dutch national football championship in 1898 until 1954, the deed was decided through play-offs by a handful of clubs who had previously won their regional league. [ 4 ] The rival was strictly an amateurish one ; the Royal Dutch Football Association ( KNVB ) rejected any form of requital and suspended players who were caught receiving wage or transplant fees. [ 5 ] The call for professional football grew in the early fifties after many national team members left to play afield in search for fiscal benefits. [ 6 ] The KNVB would normally suspend these players, preventing them from appearing for the Dutch national team. After the North Sea flood tide of 1953, the dutch players abroad ( chiefly playing in the French league ) organised a charity match against the french home team in Paris. The match was boycotted by the KNVB, but after the meet dutch players defeated the french ( 2–1 ), the Dutch populace witnessed the heights that could be achieved through professional football. [ 7 ] To serve the growing interest, a dissident professional football association ( the NBVB ) and league were founded for the 1954–55 temper. [ 8 ] On 3 July 1954, the KNVB met with a group of concerned amateur club chairmen, who feared the best players would join the professional teams. The meet, dubbed the slaapkamerconferentie ( ‘bedroom conference ‘ ), led to the Association reluctantly accepting semi-professionalism. [ 5 ] meanwhile, both the KNVB and the NBVB started their separate competition. The first professional football match was contested between Alkmaar and Venlo. [ 5 ] The leagues went on for football team rounds, before a amalgamation was negotiated between the two federations in November. Both leagues were cancelled and a new, combined competition emerged immediately. De Graafschap, Amsterdam, Alkmaar and Fortuna ’54 from the NBVB were accepted to the fresh league. other clubs merged, which led to new names like Rapid J.C., Holland Sport and Roda Sport. The first ( semi- ) professional league was won by Willem II. [ 9 ] For the 1956–57 season, the KNVB abandoned the regional league system. The Eredivisie was founded, in which the eighteen best clubs countrywide directly played for the league claim without play-offs. The inaugural address members of the Eredivisie in 1956 were Ajax, BVC, BVV, DOS, EVV, Elinkwijk, SC Enschede, Feijenoord, Fortuna ’54, GVAV, MVV, NAC, NOAD, PSV, Rapid J.C., Sparta, VVV ’03 and Willem II. [ 10 ] Ajax was the beginning team to claim the title that season. [ 10 ]

stream teams ( 2021–22 ) [edit ]

* Cambuur finished first and Go Ahead Eagles finished second in the 2020-21 Eerste Divisie. NEC finished 7th and defeated NAC Breda in the playoff final. a establish member of the Eredivisie
bacillus Never been relegated from the Eredivisie
c Founding member of the Eredivisie ( as Sportclub Enschede )
five hundred Founding member of the Eredivisie ( as VV DOS and USV Elinkwijk )

Maps [edit ]

Champions [edit ]

* As Rapid JC.

Playoffs [edit ]

european rival [edit ]

Position Playoff Qualification to
1st  – Champions League Group Stage
2nd  – Champions League 3rd qualifying round of the League Path.
3rd/4th  – Conference League 3rd qualifying round
4th–7th/5th–8th Europa League 4th vs 7th and 5th vs 6th or 5th vs 8th and 6th vs 7th; the two winners play each other to qualify for:
Europa Conference League 2nd qualifying round
KNVB Cup winners  – Europa League Play-off Round (Group stage if the Europa Conference League winners have already qualified for the UCL through their domestic league)

relegation [edit ]

Position Playoff What happens next
16th Nacompetitie One Eredivisie team play the semi finals against an Eerste Divisie team. Who wins will compete in the poule final for a place in the Eredivisie.
17th-18th – Direct relegation to the Eerste Divisie

attendance [edit ]

Since the begin of the league, there have been three clubs with an attendance much higher than the others : Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord. Clubs like Heerenveen, FC Utrecht and FC Groningen besides have fairly boastfully fanbases. The unconstipated season average league attendance was just over 7,000 in 1990, but this figure has risen precipitously over the years thanks to the opening of fresh stadiums and the expansion of existing ones nationally. average attendance for the 2018–19 season was 18,010, with Ajax having the largest ( 52,987 ) and Excelsior having the smallest ( 4,223 ). Ajax ‘s figures however differ from those provided by the Johan Cruyff Arena since the club counts all tickets sold alternatively of the count of people going through the turnstiles .

all-time rank ( since 1956 ) [edit ]

Last updated following the 2017–18 season
Playing in the Eredivisie
Playing in the Eerste Divisie
Playing in the amateur leagues
Club has been disestablished or merged into another club

player records [edit ]

Appearances [edit ]

Goals [edit ]

Last updated following the 2019–20 season [11]

top scorers [edit ]

Last updated following the 2020–21 season.[11]

Media coverage [edit ]

Eredivisie teams and major UEFA and FIFA competitions [edit ]

The following sixteen international tournaments were won by Eredivisie teams :
The UEFA Super Cup was founded by a dutch reporter named Anton Witkamp and Ajax ‘s 1973 succeed was the inaugural time the tournament was contested formally. The following 24 european finals took rate at Dutch venues, or are scheduled to take home at them :

  • Eredivisie (1956–1990)
  • PTT-Telecompetitie (1990–1999)
  • KPN-Telecompetitie (1999–2000)
  • KPN Eredivisie (2000–2002)
  • Holland Casino Eredivisie (2002–2005)
  • Eredivisie (2005–present)

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