# Eerste divisie 1973/74

Het seizoen 1973/74 van de Nederlandse Eerste divisie had Excelsior als kampioen. De club uit Rotterdam promoveerde daarmee naar de Eredivisie. Via de nacompetitie pakte Wageningen de tweede plek in de Eredivisie.

## Eerste divisie
### Deelnemende teams

| Club | Plaats | Accommodatie | Capaciteit | Trainer |
| De Volewijckers | Noord-Holland Amsterdam | Buiksloterbanne | 12.500 | Ger Blok |
| Eindhoven | Noord-Brabant Eindhoven | Aalsterweg | 27.000 | Rinus Gosens |
| Excelsior | Zuid-Holland Rotterdam | Woudestein | 11.000 | Ben Peeters |
| FC Den Bosch '67 | Noord-Brabant 's-Hertogenbosch | De Vliert | 25.000 | Jan Remmers |
| FC Dordrecht | Zuid-Holland Dordrecht | Krommedijk | 12.000 | Hans Alleman |
| FC VVV | Limburg Venlo | De Koel | 20.000 | Rob Baan |
| Fortuna | Zuid-Holland Vlaardingen | Floreslaan | 12.000 | Jan van Baaren |
| FSC | Limburg Sittard | De Baandert | 20.000 | Cor Brom |
| Heerenveen | Friesland Heerenveen | Gemeentelijk Sportpark | 15.000 | Lászlo Zalai |
| Helmond Sport | Noord-Brabant Helmond | De Braak | 12.000 | René van Eck Co Prins (a.i.) |
| Heracles | Overijssel Almelo | Bornsestraat | 20.000 | Ron Dellow |
| PEC Zwolle | Overijssel Zwolle | Oosterenkstadion | 15.000 | Georg Keßler |
| SC Amersfoort | Utrecht (provincie) Amersfoort | Birkhoven | 10.000 | Nico van Miltenburg |
| SC Cambuur | Friesland Leeuwarden | Cambuurstadion | 16.000 | Leo Beenhakker |
| SVV | Zuid-Holland Schiedam | Harga | 10.000 | Bob Maaskant |
| Veendam | Groningen (provincie) Veendam | De Langeleegte | 13.000 | Cor van der Gijp Jan de Jong |
| Vitesse | Gelderland Arnhem | Nieuw-Monnikenhuize | 18.000 | Frans de Munck |
| Volendam | Noord-Holland Volendam | Julianastraat | 15.000 | Bruin Steur |
| Wageningen | Gelderland Wageningen | De Wageningse Berg | 16.000 | Fritz Korbach |
| Willem II | Noord-Brabant Tilburg | Gemeentelijk Sportpark | 20.000 | Jan Brouwer |

### Eindstand

| pos | club | gs | w | g | v | pnt | dv | dt | ds |
| 1. | Excelsior | 38 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 52 | 68 | 35 | 33 |
| 2. | Vitesse | 38 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 48 | 68 | 44 | 24 |
| 3. | Heerenveen | 38 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 47 | 53 | 30 | 23 |
| 4. | Wageningen | 38 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 46 | 48 | 36 | 12 |
| 5. | Fortuna SC | 38 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 44 | 47 | 33 | 14 |
| 6. | Helmond Sport | 38 | 17 | 9 | 12 | 43 | 53 | 44 | 9 |
| 7. | PEC Zwolle | 38 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 40 | 55 | 46 | 9 |
| 8. | Volendam | 38 | 16 | 7 | 15 | 39 | 55 | 44 | 11 |
| 9. | SVV | 38 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 39 | 41 | 55 | -14 |
| 10. | Heracles | 38 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 38 | 47 | 39 | 8 |
| 11. | SC Cambuur | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 38 | 47 | 43 | 4 |
| 12. | Eindhoven | 38 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 36 | 42 | 47 | -5 |
| 13. | Fortuna | 38 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 35 | 38 | 44 | -6 |
| 14. | SC Amersfoort | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 35 | 38 | 47 | -9 |
| 15. | FC Dordrecht | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 35 | 45 | 66 | -21 |
| 16. | FC VVV | 38 | 8 | 17 | 13 | 33 | 46 | 53 | -7 |
| 17. | FC Den Bosch '67 | 38 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 30 | 46 | 52 | -6 |
| 18. | Willem II | 38 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 29 | 41 | 65 | -24 |
| 19. | Veendam | 38 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 27 | 44 | 74 | -30 |
| 20. | De Volewijckers | 38 | 8 | 10 | 20 | 26 | 41 | 66 | -25 |

#### Legenda

| Kleur | Kwalificatie voor |
| | Promotie naar de Eredivisie |
| | Nacompetitie voor promotie naar de Eredivisie |

### Uitslagen

| | AME | DBO | CAM | DOR | EVV | EXC | FVL | FOR | HEE | HSP | HER | PEC | SVV | VEE | VIT | VOL | VWK | VVV | WAG | WIL |
| SC Amersfoort | | 2 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 2 – 1 | 0 – 1 | 0 – 3 | 2 – 2 | 0 – 1 | 1 – 2 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 2 – 0 | 2 – 1 | 0 – 5 | 0 – 1 | 2 – 3 | 2 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 2 – 2 |
| FC Den Bosch '67 | 0 – 1 | | 2 – 4 | 6 – 2 | 3 – 0 | 1 – 5 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 2 | 0 – 0 | 5 – 1 | 0 – 2 | 0 – 1 | 4 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 0 – 1 | 2 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 3 – 2 | 2 – 0 |
| SC Cambuur | 0 – 1 | 0 – 0 | | 4 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 0 – 1 | 3 – 0 | 1 – 3 | 1 – 2 | 2 – 2 | 3 – 1 | 1 – 2 | 1 – 1 | 2 – 0 | 3 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 0 – 1 |
| FC Dordrecht | 4 – 1 | 3 – 2 | 1 – 0 | | 1 – 2 | 3 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 2 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 0 | 0 – 2 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 2 – 0 | 2 – 1 | 2 – 1 | 3 – 3 | 1 – 1 | 2 – 2 |
| Eindhoven | 1 – 0 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 2 | | 1 – 1 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 2 | 2 – 2 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 2 – 1 | 3 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 0 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 2 – 0 | 3 – 1 |
| Excelsior | 2 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 0 – 0 | 2 – 2 | 2 – 0 | | 0 – 1 | 1 – 0 | 2 – 0 | 4 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 4 – 3 | 4 – 1 | 2 – 0 | 5 – 1 | 2 – 0 | 4 – 0 | 2 – 0 | 2 – 1 | 2 – 0 |
| Fortuna Vlaardingen | 0 – 4 | 1 – 1 | 2 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 0 – 1 | | 1 – 2 | 2 – 1 | 1 – 2 | 2 – 1 | 3 – 1 | 0 – 0 | 4 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 2 | 1 – 1 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 0 |
| Fortuna SC | 1 – 1 | 0 – 0 | 1 – 2 | 3 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 0 | | 1 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 2 – 0 | 2 – 2 | 2 – 0 | 5 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 3 | 1 – 0 | 3 – 1 | 0 – 1 | 5 – 0 |
| Heerenveen | 3 – 1 | 1 – 0 | 2 – 0 | 4 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 1 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 1 | | 2 – 0 | 0 – 2 | 3 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 3 – 1 | 1 – 2 | 3 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 2 – 0 | 2 – 0 | 3 – 1 |
| Helmond Sport | 3 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 2 – 1 | 4 – 0 | 4 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 0 – 0 | | 1 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 4 – 0 | 3 – 2 | 3 – 0 | 2 – 1 | 2 – 2 | 2 – 1 | 1 – 2 | 1 – 0 |
| Heracles | 1 – 0 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 0 – 0 | 1 – 2 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 4 – 1 | | 1 – 1 | 2 – 2 | 5 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 3 – 1 | 1 – 0 | 0 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 0 – 0 |
| PEC Zwolle | 0 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 2 – 3 | 0 – 0 | 2 – 3 | 2 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 4 – 1 | 2 – 2 | 0 – 0 | | 0 – 1 | 3 – 1 | 1 – 3 | 1 – 0 | 0 – 1 | 3 – 3 | 4 – 1 | 1 – 0 |
| SVV | 1 – 1 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 3 – 0 | 2 – 1 | 2 – 1 | 4 – 1 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 0 – 4 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 1 | | 2 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 2 – 1 | 2 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 3 – 2 |
| Veendam | 2 – 1 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 2 | 2 – 0 | 2 – 4 | 4 – 5 | 2 – 2 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 3 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 3 | 3 – 0 | | 0 – 4 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 3 | 2 – 2 | 0 – 0 | 2 – 0 |
| Vitesse | 0 – 1 | 3 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 2 – 1 | 0 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 3 – 1 | 1 – 3 | 1 – 1 | 0 – 0 | 4 – 2 | 2 – 1 | 5 – 1 | 2 – 0 | | 2 – 1 | 3 – 1 | 4 – 3 | 5 – 0 | 2 – 1 |
| Volendam | 1 – 1 | 3 – 1 | 1 – 2 | 4 – 2 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 2 | 1 – 2 | 5 – 1 | 0 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 0 – 3 | 4 – 0 | 0 – 1 | 1 – 2 | | 6 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 2 – 0 | 3 – 1 |
| De Volewijckers | 1 – 2 | 3 – 3 | 1 – 1 | 0 – 0 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 3 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 2 | 0 – 3 | 2 – 1 | 1 – 2 | 1 – 1 | 2 – 0 | 2 – 4 | 1 – 2 | | 0 – 2 | 1 – 3 | 1 – 1 |
| FC VVV | 2 – 2 | 2 – 2 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 2 | 2 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 0 – 1 | 0 – 0 | 2 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 5 – 1 | 0 – 2 | 2 – 0 | 3 – 3 | 1 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 1 – 1 | | 0 – 1 | 1 – 1 |
| Wageningen | 2 – 0 | 2 – 1 | 5 – 0 | 4 – 0 | 2 – 0 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 3 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 2 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 0 | | 0 – 0 |
| Willem II | 1 – 3 | 0 – 2 | 4 – 3 | 2 – 0 | 4 – 2 | 1 – 1 | 2 – 1 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 5 | 2 – 0 | 1 – 1 | 2 – 5 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 0 | 1 – 2 | 1 – 2 | 2 – 1 | 2 – 2 | |

## Topscorers

| # | Naam | Club | |
| 1. | Herman Veenendaal | Vitesse | 23 |
| 2. | Herman Heskamp | PEC Zwolle | 20 |
| 3. | Hans Bassant | Excelsior | 17 |
| | Lambert Kreekels | Helmond Sport | 17 |
| 5. | Sjaak Roggeveen | Excelsior | 16 |
| | Jan Hoogendoorn | PEC Zwolle | 16 |
| 7. | Jan Groeneweg | SVV | 15 |
| | Gerdo Hazelhekke | Wageningen | 15 |
| | Dick Nanninga | Veendam | 15 |
| 10. | Frans van der Heide | Excelsior | 14 |
| | Lorenz Hilkes | FC VVV | 14 |

## Nacompetitie
### Eindstand

| pos | club | gs | w | g | v | pnt | dv | dt | ds |
| 1. | Wageningen | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 6 |
| 2. | Fortuna SC | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| 3. | Vitesse | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -4 |
| 4. | SC Amersfoort | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -6 |

### Legenda

| Kleur | Kwalificatie voor |
| | Promotie naar de Eredivisie |

### Uitslagen

| | AME | FOR | VIT | WAG |
| SC Amersfoort | | 1 – 2 | 0 – 0 | 1 – 6 |
| Fortuna SC | 0 – 1 | | 2 – 0 | 0 – 0 |
| Vitesse | 0 – 0 | 1 – 3 | | 2 – 2 |
| Wageningen | 2 – 1 | 1 – 1 | 1 – 1 | |
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