Dutch Eredivisie and KNVB Beker winners

Name changes and notes

•  1: Prior to the setup of the Eredivisie in 1956/57, the Championship was decided by a Championship play-off league consisting of the winners from regional classes. These were initially the West & East class, later joined by the South, then North classes. The West & South class later had two classes each. Producing 6 regional classes in total.
•  2: RAP were an Amsterdam football & cricket club. After merging with Volharding they formed VRA, now only a cricket club.
•  3: Any team with an * next to their name, indicates that they were playing their reserve team in the KNVB Beker for that year.
•  4: The Quick that won the league in 1908, followed by the KNVB Beker in 1909-11 & 1916, are a team from Den Haag, now playing in the amateur leagues.
•  5: Willem II were renamed Willem II Tilburg in 2004.
•  6: Go Ahead were renamed Go Ahead Eagles in 1971.
•  7: Racing Club Haarlem, who started life in 1911 as HFC Achilles, changed their name to Racing Club Heemstede in 1965.
•  8: Be Quick are a team from Groningen, now known as Be Quick 1887.
•  9: Heracles were renamed Heracles Almelo in 1974.
• 10: ADO Den Haag were known as ADO until 1971, then FC Den Haag until 1996.
• 11: The Quick that won the 1949 KNVB Beker & finished as runners up in the 1909/10 Championship are a team from Nijmegen, now called Quick 1888.
• 12: Feyenoord originally spelled their name Feijenoord. They changed it to Feyenoord in 1973.

Mergers

Acronyms

Research and Dutch cricket

The above is a two day research of Dutch football clubs and their ever changing names.

If there are any errors, due to my misinterpreting Dutch, I'm open to extra input. Just send a correction to us. Any changes will be credited to the poster.

What amazed me while researching this, was the number of amateur clubs that were set up as cricket or rugby clubs initially. It seems football was an after thought. What is more amazing is that the Dutch are still playing it!

I've cross referenced as much as possible and added links to the new club website where possible. Many thanks goes to the RSSSF Archive, which was an invaluable source of information whenever an insolvable fact was needed. If you need to find a football answer, it will be on there somewhere.