1888–89 Netherlands Football League Championship

The Netherlands Football League Championship 1888–1889 was the first national football championship in the Netherlands. Seven teams from the cities Amsterdam, The Hague, Haarlem and Rotterdam participated in the competition that would later be called Eerste Klasse West. But since the western football district of the Netherlands was the only one to have a competition at the time, it could be regarded as a national championship. VV Concordia from Rotterdam won the championship, however this championship was not official, since the teams had not played an equal number of matches.

Netherl. Football Championship

Season	1888–1889
Champions	VV Concordia (1st title)
Matches played	17
Goals scored	26 (1.53 per match)
1889–90 →

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	VV Concordia	7	5	1	1	12	2	+10	11
2	Koninklijke HFC	7	2	3	2	6	4	+2	7
3	HVV Den Haag	6	2	2	2	2	2	0	6
4	VVA	6	1	4	1	3	3	0	6
5	RAP	5	0	4	1	2	3	−1	4
6	Olympia Rotterdam	2	0	0	2	1	8	−7	0
7	Excelsior Haarlem	1	0	0	1	0	4	−4	0

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Results

Home \ Away	CON	EXC	HFC	HVV	OLY	RAP	VVA
VV Concordia		4–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	–	1–1
Excelsior Haarlem	–		–	–	–	–	–
Koninklijke HFC	–	–		1–0	4–1	–	0–0
HVV Den Haag	1–0	–	0–0		–	1–0	–
Olympia Rotterdam	–	–	–	–		–	–
RAP	–	–	1–1	0–0	–		1–1
VVA	0–1	–	1–0	–	–	0–0

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Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

• RSSSF Netherlands Football League Championships 1898-1954