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1917–18 Netherlands Football League Championship

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ2244768 ↗
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The Netherlands Football League Championship 1917–1918 was contested by 51 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. AFC Ajax won this year's championship by beating Go Ahead, Willem II, AFC and Be Quick 1887.

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The public source identifies “1917–18 Netherlands Football League Championship” as football league season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Netherlands, Football and League.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1917, 1918, 1887—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Netherlands, Football and League providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1917–18 Netherlands Football League Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.