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The Eredivisie (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈeːrədiˌvizi]; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands.
All the leagues are connected by a promotion and relegation system, but in order to be promoted to the Eerste Divisie a club has to submit a solid business plan to be approved by the Royal Dutch Football Association, as well as meet certain stadium demands, and some other demands that the association stated for all the teams in the top two leagues.
Feyenoord Rotterdam ([ˈfɛiənoːrt]) is a Dutch professional football club based in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football.Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the club changed to various names before settling on being called after its neighbourhood in 1912 as SC Feijenoord, updated in 1974 to SC Feyenoord, [1] and then to Feyenoord in 1978, when it split from the ...
Eredivisie, literally translated to English as Honorary Division, refers to the top level of competition in Netherlands in a number of sports, most commonly association football. Professional sport leagues that utilize the title include:
The Dutch football champions are the winners of the highest league in Dutch football, which since 1956 is the Eredivisie. The championship was first awarded in 1898. Until 1954 the national champion was determined by means of a championship competition between the champions of the different regions.
Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (Dutch pronunciation:), also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or commonly Ajax, is a Dutch professional football club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football.
Eredivisie a: Period champion: Round 1 if it is a low ranked club, semi-finals if it is a highly ranked club. Eredivisie or Eerste Divisie depends on whether the team wins the pools final. High-ranked clubs: Playoff Semi-finals: Eredivisie or Eerste Divisie depends on whether the team wins the pools final. Lower-ranked club: Playoff Round 1
It organises the main Dutch football leagues (Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie), the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup, and the Dutch men's and women's national teams. For three seasons in the 2010s, the KNVB and its Belgian counterpart operated a joint top-level women's league, the BeNe League , until the two countries dissolved the league after the ...