1939–40_Netherlands_Football_League_Championship

1939–40 Netherlands Football League Championship

Football league season

The Netherlands Football League Championship 1939–1940 was contested by 52 teams participating in five divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern, northern, southern and two western football divisions of the Netherlands. Feijenoord won this year's championship by beating Blauw-Wit Amsterdam, Heracles, Juliana and GVAV Rapiditas.

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This season's championship was not considered official. Owing to the start of World War II, not all teams played an equal number of matches.

Divisions

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Heracles	18	12	2	4	36	20	+16	26	Qualified for Championship play-off
2	NEC Nijmegen	18	11	2	5	51	27	+24	24
3	AGOVV Apeldoorn	17	10	3	4	38	17	+21	23
4	HVV Tubantia	17	9	2	6	34	37	−3	20
5	Go Ahead	18	7	5	6	34	27	+7	19
6	HVV Hengelo	17	5	6	6	27	35	−8	16
7	SC Enschede	17	6	1	10	31	35	−4	13
8	FC Wageningen	17	4	5	8	28	47	−19	13
9	Quick Nijmegen	17	5	1	11	31	46	−15	11
10	Enschedese Boys	18	4	1	13	26	45	−19	9

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	GVAV Rapiditas	18	14	2	2	58	25	+33	30	Qualified for Championship play-off
2	HSC	17	9	3	5	44	28	+16	21
3	Veendam	18	9	3	6	44	40	+4	21
4	Sneek Wit Zwart	16	9	2	5	39	29	+10	20
5	sc Heerenveen	16	8	1	7	54	49	+5	17
6	Achilles 1894	16	6	4	6	49	49	0	16
7	Velocitas 1897	16	6	3	7	35	36	−1	15
8	VV Leeuwarden	16	4	3	9	34	54	−20	11
9	WVV Winschoten	17	4	2	11	33	58	−25	10
10	Be Quick 1887	16	1	3	12	27	49	−22	5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Juliana	21	15	4	2	79	24	+55	34	Qualified for Championship play-off
2	FC Eindhoven	22	12	5	5	57	32	+25	29
3	NOAD	20	13	3	4	45	30	+15	29
4	MVV Maastricht	21	13	2	6	48	28	+20	28
5	Willem II	21	10	5	6	42	36	+6	25
6	PSV Eindhoven	21	8	6	7	40	29	+11	22
7	LONGA	19	7	4	8	38	43	−5	18
8	NAC	20	7	4	9	30	38	−8	18
9	HVV Helmond	20	4	4	12	24	65	−41	12
10	Limburgia	20	5	1	14	31	48	−17	11
11	BVV Den Bosch	20	3	4	13	27	55	−28	10
12	RFC Roermond	19	3	2	14	23	56	−33	8

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Blauw-Wit Amsterdam	18	14	1	3	45	24	+21	29	Qualified for Championship play-off
2	ADO Den Haag	18	13	2	3	55	25	+30	28	Division West-II next season
3	DWS	18	12	3	3	50	29	+21	27	Division West-II next season
4	VSV	18	9	3	6	55	32	+23	21
5	HVV 't Gooi	18	7	5	6	39	44	−5	19	Division West-II next season
6	AFC Ajax	18	7	3	8	35	37	−2	17
7	Stormvogels	18	5	4	9	25	34	−9	14	Division West-II next season
8	HFC Haarlem	18	5	1	12	40	61	−21	11
9	KFC	18	3	2	13	32	62	−30	8	Division West-II next season
10	DOS	18	1	4	13	35	63	−28	6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Feijenoord	18	12	5	1	51	16	+35	29	Qualified for Championship play-off
2	Sparta Rotterdam	18	9	5	4	66	44	+22	23
3	HBS Craeyenhout	18	10	3	5	56	47	+9	23	Division West-I next season
4	Hermes DVS	18	7	6	5	51	46	+5	20
5	DFC	18	8	3	7	35	30	+5	19
6	DHC	18	6	6	6	45	40	+5	18
7	RFC	18	7	3	8	37	34	+3	17	Division West-I next season
8	VUC	18	6	4	8	39	58	−19	16
9	Xerxes	18	4	5	9	39	63	−24	13
10	CVV Mercurius	18	0	2	16	18	59	−41	2