1916–17 Netherlands Football League Championship
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Netherlands Football League Championship The Eredivisie (; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is a professional association football league in the Netherlands and the highest level of the Dutch football league system. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start ...
1916–1917 was contested by 35 teams participating in four divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern, northern, southern and western football division of the
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. Go Ahead won this year's championship by beating
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, Willem II and
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New entrants

Eerste Klasse East: *Promoted from 2nd Division: SC Enschede Eerste Klasse North: (new Division) * Achilles 1894,
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, GSAVV Forward, LAC Frisia 1883, Velocitas 1897 & WVV Winschoten Eerste Klasse South: *Promoted from 2nd Division: Zeelandia Middelburg Eerste Klasse West: *Promoted from 2nd Division:
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Divisions


Eerste Klasse East


Eerste Klasse North


Eerste Klasse South


Eerste Klasse West


Championship play-off


References


RSSSF Netherlands Football League Championships 1898-1954
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