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1968–69 Eerste Divisie

13th season of the second-tier football league in Netherlands

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ2643829 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1968–69 season was contested by 18 teams, one less than in the previous season. This was because no teams relegated from the 1967–68 Eredivisie. Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging (SVV) won the championship.

New entrants

Promoted from the 1967–68 Tweede Divisie:

Helmond Sport

Veendam

FC Wageningen

League standings

Relegation play-off

Volewijckers and FC Eindhoven played a relegation play-off at a neutral venue (Vitesse)

FC Eindhoven were relegated to the Tweede Divisie.

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The public source identifies “1968–69 Eerste Divisie” as 13th season of the second-tier football league in Netherlands. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Eerste, Divisie and 13th.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 1967—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Eerste, Divisie and 13th providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1968–69 Eerste Divisie” 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.