The
Netherlands Football League Championship
The Eredivisie (; ''"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. It is c ...
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 Arnhem
Vitesse may refer to:
* Vitesse Models, a diecast model car company
* Vitesse (band), Dutch rock band
* Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, a car
* Rover 216 Vitesse, a car
* Rover 3500 Vitesse, a car
* Rover 800 Vitesse, a car
* Triumph Vites ...
and
Volharding.
New entrants
Eerste Klasse West-A:
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Sparta Rotterdam
Sparta Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club based in Rotterdam. Established on 1 April 1888, Sparta Rotterdam is the oldest professional football team in the Netherlands.
Sparta currently compete in the Eredivisie, the top flight ...
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
Koninklijke Haarlemsche Football Club (Royal Haarlem Football Club) is a football club based in Haarlem, Netherlands. It is the oldest existing club in Dutch football, founded by Pim Mulier in 1879. During the club's early years the team only ...
''New:''
*
Quick 1890
*
Volharding
Divisions
Eerste Klasse East
Eerste Klasse West-A
Eerste Klasse West-B
Championship play-off
References
RSSSF Netherlands Football League Championships 1898-1954
{{DEFAULTSORT:1902-03 Netherlands Football League Championship
Netherlands Football League Championship seasons
1902 in Dutch sport
1903 in Dutch sport