# 1954–55 Netherlands Football League Championship

The Netherlands Football League Championship 1954–1955 was contested by 56 teams participating in four divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of each division of the Netherlands. Willem II won this year's championship by beating NAC, PSV Eindhoven and FC Eindhoven.
This season saw the introduction of professional football in the Netherlands. Initially two competitions began after the summer break: one from the NBVB and one from the KNVB. In November, the NBVB merged into the KNVB and one unified league commenced.
At the end of the season, the four Eerste Klasse Divisions were re-aligned as two Divisions called Hoofdklasse A & B.

## New entrants

48 competitors from last season participated, only in completely other divisions. Last years competitors Bleijerheide merged to form Roda Sport and Juliana merged to form Rapid JC. New entrants were:
* Alkmaar '54
* BVC Amsterdam
* Fortuna
* DFC
* De Graafschap
* Holland Sport
* HVC
* Veendam

## Divisions
### Eerste Klasse A
#### Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | NAC | 26 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 60 | 24 | +36 | 41 | Qualified to Championship play-off |
| 2 | Holland Sport | 26 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 72 | 33 | +39 | 40 | Not participating next season |
| 3 | MVV Maastricht | 26 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 64 | 37 | +27 | 34 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse B |
| 4 | SBV Excelsior | 26 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 47 | 36 | +11 | 31 | |
| 5 | BVC Amsterdam | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 53 | 41 | +12 | 27 | |
| 6 | Emma | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 41 | 47 | −6 | 27 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse B |
| 7 | Stormvogels | 26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 49 | 42 | +7 | 26 | |
| 8 | DOS | 26 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 60 | 53 | +7 | 26 | |
| 9 | Roda Sport | 26 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 48 | 51 | −3 | 26 | |
| 10 | LONGA | 26 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 55 | 65 | −10 | 23 | Relegated to 2nd Division |
| 11 | VV Leeuwarden | 26 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 40 | 59 | −19 | 21 | Relegated to 2nd Division |
| 12 | Zwolsche Boys | 26 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 31 | 59 | −28 | 15 | Relegated to 2nd Division |
| 13 | Veendam | 26 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 38 | 85 | −47 | 14 | Relegated to 2nd Division |
| 14 | Go Ahead | 26 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 27 | 53 | −26 | 13 | Relegated to 2nd Division |

#### Results

| Home \ Away | AMS | DOS | EMA | EXC | GOA | HOL | LEE | LON | MVV | NAC | RSP | STO | VEE | ZBO |
| Amsterdam | | 4–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 3–4 | 3–0 | 4–3 | 1–3 | 3–3 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 1–2 |
| DOS | 4–2 | | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–4 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 4–2 | 1–2 | 1–5 | 3–2 | 6–2 | 6–1 |
| Emma | 1–4 | 0–0 | | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 1–1 |
| Excelsior | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 | | 1–0 | 4–6 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 3–2 |
| Go Ahead | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–5 | 3–5 | | 0–5 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Holland Sport | 4–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 4–2 | | 3–1 | 3–0 | 4–3 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 8–0 | 0–0 |
| Leeuwarden | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | | 5–2 | 1–2 | 1–7 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 3–2 |
| LONGA | 0–0 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | | 3–4 | 0–5 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 7–2 |
| MVV | 1–2 | 5–3 | 6–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 5–1 | | 2–0 | 5–0 | 4–3 | 1–1 | 4–1 |
| NAC | 2–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 5–1 | 2–4 | 0–0 | | 3–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 |
| Roda Sport | 3–2 | 4–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 2–2 | 6–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | | 1–1 | 6–1 | 1–4 |
| Stormvogels | 0–0 | 3–3 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 5–2 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 2–3 | 2–5 | | 6–1 | 0–0 |
| Veendam | 2–2 | 0–4 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 5–1 | 1–1 | 3–5 | 4–5 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 3–3 | | 2–1 |
| Zwolsche Boys | 0–2 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 0–5 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 5–0 | |

### Eerste Klasse B
#### Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Willem II | 26 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 96 | 42 | +54 | 43 | Qualified for Championship play-off |
| 2 | Sparta Rotterdam | 26 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 67 | 42 | +25 | 32 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse A |
| 3 | Fortuna | 26 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 46 | 38 | +8 | 31 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse A |
| 4 | SVV | 26 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 53 | 50 | +3 | 28 | |
| 5 | ADO Den Haag | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 48 | 43 | +5 | 26 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse A |
| 6 | Sittardia | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 57 | 52 | +5 | 26 | |
| 7 | Elinkwijk | 26 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 48 | 45 | +3 | 26 | |
| 8 | HFC EDO | 26 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 42 | 45 | −3 | 26 | |
| 9 | Rigtersbleek | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 49 | 58 | −9 | 26 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse A |
| 10 | DWS | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 35 | 38 | −3 | 24 | Relegated to 2nd Division |
| 11 | sc Heerenveen | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 56 | 68 | −12 | 23 | Relegated to 2nd Division |
| 12 | Heracles | 26 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 56 | 71 | −15 | 21 | Relegated to 2nd Division |
| 13 | Brabantia | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 34 | 68 | −34 | 18 | Relegated to 2nd Division |
| 14 | FC Wageningen | 26 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 33 | 60 | −27 | 14 | Relegated to 2nd Division |

#### Results

| Home \ Away | ADO | BRA | DWS | EDO | ELI | F54 | HEE | HER | RIG | SIT | SPA | SVV | WAG | WIL |
| ADO | | 0–0 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 6–3 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 2–3 |
| Brabantia | 0–6 | | 1–1 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 1–4 | 3–1 | 1–5 |
| DWS | 3–1 | 2–0 | | 0–0 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 5–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 |
| EDO | 2–2 | 4–0 | 2–1 | | 2–1 | 1–2 | 6–0 | 2–0 | 2–4 | 2–1 | 1–5 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 |
| Elinkwijk | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 3–3 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 |
| Fortuna '54 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | | 4–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 2–4 |
| Heerenveen | 2–1 | 6–1 | 0–1 | 1–5 | 1–1 | 1–4 | | 6–0 | 1–5 | 2–2 | 3–6 | 4–4 | 4–2 | 1–1 |
| Heracles | 2–2 | 2–2 | 5–1 | 3–1 | 4–2 | 3–2 | 0–4 | | 5–1 | 2–2 | 4–5 | 3–1 | 2–4 | 2–3 |
| Rigtersbleek | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 1–5 | 1–1 | | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 3–1 | 2–2 |
| Sittardia | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 5–1 | 5–2 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 5–3 | 1–0 | | 1–5 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 7–4 |
| Sparta | 1–1 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 6–0 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 |
| SVV | 2–2 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 | | 3–2 | 0–0 |
| Wageningen | 0–5 | 5–2 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 3–4 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | | 2–6 |
| Willem II | 4–0 | 7–1 | 5–2 | 3–1 | 4–2 | 6–0 | 2–2 | 5–2 | 8–3 | 5–1 | 4–3 | 6–1 | 5–0 | |

### Eerste Klasse C
#### Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | PSV Eindhoven | 26 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 64 | 39 | +25 | 39 | Qualified for Championship play-off and transferred to Hoofdklasse B |
| 2 | Rapid | 26 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 70 | 41 | +29 | 35 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse B |
| 3 | Limburgia | 26 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 53 | 33 | +20 | 34 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse A |
| 4 | GVAV Rapiditas | 26 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 69 | 50 | +19 | 33 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse B |
| 5 | Alkmaar '54 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 41 | 37 | +4 | 28 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse B |
| 6 | EBOH | 26 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 45 | 50 | −5 | 28 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse A |
| 7 | Feijenoord | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 47 | 47 | 0 | 27 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse B |
| 8 | Vitesse Arnhem | 26 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 42 | 44 | −2 | 27 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse A |
| 9 | NOAD | 26 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 41 | 36 | +5 | 26 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse A |
| 10 | HFC Haarlem | 26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 47 | 42 | +5 | 26 | Relegated to 2nd Division. |
| 11 | Enschedese Boys | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 38 | 67 | −29 | 18 | Relegated to 2nd Division. |
| 12 | NEC Nijmegen | 26 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 33 | 49 | −16 | 17 | Relegated to 2nd Division. |
| 13 | Blauw-Wit Amsterdam | 26 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 34 | 62 | −28 | 14 | Relegated to 2nd Division. |
| 14 | Hermes DVS | 26 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 28 | 55 | −27 | 12 | Relegated to 2nd Division. |

#### Results

| Home \ Away | ALK | BLW | EBO | ENB | FEY | GVA | HAA | DVS | LIM | NEC | NOA | PSV | RAP | VIT |
| Alkmaar '54 | | 2–0 | 2–1 | 6–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 6–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–3 | 0–0 |
| Blauw-Wit | 0–1 | | 2–0 | 2–4 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–5 | 1–2 | 2–5 | 2–0 | 1–4 | 3–4 | 2–4 | 4–0 |
| EBOH | 1–0 | 5–2 | | 1–3 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 |
| Enschedese Boys | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–5 | | 0–3 | 1–3 | 1–5 | 3–3 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 0–5 | 0–2 | 4–4 | 1–1 |
| Feijenoord | 2–2 | 3–5 | 0–1 | 1–1 | | 4–6 | 2–0 | 5–3 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 |
| GVAV | 5–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 3–6 | | 2–2 | 6–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–7 | 1–1 | 3–2 |
| Haarlem | 2–1 | 0–0 | 5–3 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 5–4 | | 2–1 | 0–4 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 |
| Hermes DVS | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–4 | 0–0 | 1–2 | | 1–3 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 0–1 |
| Limburgia | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 3–3 | | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 5–2 |
| N.E.C. | 0–2 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | | 0–2 | 3–3 | 1–2 | 2–1 |
| NOAD | 0–0 | 0–0 | 6–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–4 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 0–4 | 0–0 | | 1–3 | 4–2 | 2–3 |
| PSV | 4–2 | 3–1 | 7–3 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–5 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 4–4 | 2–1 | | 1–4 | 3–1 |
| Rapid JC | 5–0 | 4–1 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 3–2 | 4–2 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 0–2 | | 5–1 |
| Vitesse | 1–3 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 | |

### Eerste Klasse D
#### Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | FC Eindhoven | 26 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 59 | 26 | +33 | 39 | Qualified for Championship play-off and transferred to Hoofdklasse A |
| 2 | VVV Venlo | 26 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 54 | 21 | +33 | 37 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse A |
| 3 | AFC Ajax | 26 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 57 | 30 | +27 | 35 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse A |
| 4 | De Graafschap | 26 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 48 | 35 | +13 | 30 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse B |
| 5 | SC Enschede | 26 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 48 | 36 | +12 | 29 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse B |
| 6 | BVV Den Bosch | 26 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 42 | 39 | +3 | 29 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse B |
| 7 | HVC | 26 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 34 | 31 | +3 | 27 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse A |
| 8 | De Volewijckers | 26 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 34 | 53 | −19 | 26 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse B |
| 9 | DFC | 26 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 41 | 47 | −6 | 25 | Transferred to Hoofdklasse B |
| 10 | RBC Roosendaal | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 43 | 50 | −7 | 25 | Relegated to 2nd Division |
| 11 | VSV | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 43 | 43 | 0 | 24 | Relegated to 2nd Division |
| 12 | AGOVV Apeldoorn | 26 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 31 | 55 | −24 | 13 | Relegated to 2nd Division |
| 13 | Xerxes | 26 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 51 | −28 | 13 | Relegated to 2nd Division |
| 14 | Be Quick 1887 | 26 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 24 | 64 | −40 | 12 | Relegated to 2nd Division |

#### Results

| Home \ Away | AGO | AJA | BQU | BVV | DFC | EIN | ENS | GRA | HVC | RBC | VWK | VSV | VVV | XER |
| AGOVV | | 1–4 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 10–0 | 1–3 | 0–6 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 4–1 |
| Ajax | 3–1 | | 5–1 | 4–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 1–1 |
| Be Quick | 1–2 | 1–0 | | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 0–6 | 0–5 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 1–7 | 1–1 |
| BVV | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 5–2 | 4–4 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 5–2 |
| D.F.C. | 3–1 | 5–3 | 2–1 | 1–4 | | 2–3 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 5–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| Eindhoven | 2–0 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 6–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 6–2 |
| SC Enschede | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | | 0–2 | 2–0 | 6–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 |
| De Graafschap | 1–0 | 1–1 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 0–3 | 5–2 | | 3–1 | 2–3 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| HVC | 0–0 | 0–3 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | | 2–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 |
| RBC | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 1–0 |
| De Volewijckers | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–5 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 0–5 | | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 |
| VSV | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–5 | 5–1 | 5–0 | 4–2 | | 0–2 | 3–0 |
| VVV | 4–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | | 2–0 |
| Xerxes | 3–0 | 2–5 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–2 | |

### Championship play-off

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | WIL | NAC | PSV | EIN |
| 1 | Willem II (C) | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 11 | +3 | 8 | | | 2–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 |
| 2 | NAC | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 12 | +2 | 6 | | 3–1 | | 0–2 | 2–3 |
| 3 | PSV Eindhoven | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 6 | Qualification for the European Cup first round | 3–3 | 2–2 | | 1–1 |
| 4 | FC Eindhoven | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 14 | −5 | 4 | | 2–3 | 2–5 | 1–1 | |