Note that this list includes all clubs mentioned in this document, including a
number of foreign ones, but is not necessarily exhaustive.
The short versions of the names on the left hand side are used in this
document; an additional indication of the home town is only included if
a homonymous club from another town appears in the document as well.
The full names on the right hand side appeared at least once in contemporary
publications (usually the "Nederlandsche Sport") but for most clubs other
versions appeared as well: in particular, the words "voetbal" and "football"
as well as "vereeniging" and "club" were often interchanged, sometimes
apparently at random, and while nearly all early Dutch football clubs
originated from an older cricket club, the "cricket" part was not always
included in the name.
Additional information is most welcome.
All clubs in italics were members of the N.V.A.B. at least at some point during the season.
Amersfoort Amersfoort = Amersfoortsche Voetbal Club Quick Amf. = Amersfoortsche Football Club "Quick" [1] Amsterdam A.A.C. = Amsterdamsche Athletische Club [2] A.S.C. en F.C. = Amsterdamsche Studenten Cricket en Football-Club Amstels F.C. = Amstels Football Club Quick Adm. = Amsterdamsche Cricket en Footballclub "Quick" R.A.P. = Amsterdamsche Footballclub "R.U.N. Amstels Progress" Sparta A. = Amsterdamsche Cricket- en Football Club "Sparta" V.V.A. = Voetbal Vereeniging "Amsterdam" [3] Volharding = Amsterdamsche Cricket- en Voetbal Vereeniging "Volharding" Antwerpen (Belgium) Antwerp F.C. = Antwerp Football Club Apeldoorn Robur et Velocitas = Apeldoornsche Cricket- en Footballvereeniging "Robur et Velocitas" Breda Cadetten = Cadetten Voetbal-Vereeniging "Quick" [army] Bussum Bussumsche F.C. [possibly Leonidas] Delft Concordia = Delftsche Cricket en Voetbal Vereeniging "Concordia" D.S.V.V. = Delftsche Studenten Voetbal-Vereeniging Gymnasium = Delftsche Voetbalvereeniging "Gymnasium" [4] Enschede (usually spelled Enschedé at the time) Prinses Wilhelmina = Enschedesche Football Club "Prinses Wilhelmina" Frankfort (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Hollandia = voetbalclub "Hollandia" Gouda Olympia = Goudsche Cricket- en Football-Club "Olympia" Den Haag (official name: 's-Gravenhage) H.V.V. = Haagsche Voetbalvereeniging Haarlem De Damiaatjes = Haarlemsche Athletiek Club "De Damiaatjes" (did not play football) H.F.C. = Haarlemsche Football-Club Haarlem = Haarlemsche Cricket- en Football Club "Haarlem" Sparta H. = Haarlemsche Football-Club "Sparta" Den Helder (Willemsoord) Adelborsten = Adelborsten Voetbal Vereeniging "Concordia" [navy] Hilversum Hilversum = Hilversumsche Football Club Londen (London, England) Barnes F.C. = Barnes Football Club Nijmegen Quick N. = Nijmeegsche Cricket- en Football Club "Quick" [5] Quick Step = Nijmeegsche Cricket- en Football Club "Quick Step" Roermond Thor = Voetbal- en Athletieke Club "Thor" Rotterdam Achilles = Rotterdamsche Voetbal Club "Achilles" R.C. en V.V. = Rotterdamsche Cricket en Voetbal Vereeniging [6] Rapiditas = Rotterdamsche Cricket- en Football-Club "Rapiditas" Sparta R. = Rotterdamsche Cricket- en Football-Club "Sparta" Victoria = Rotterdamsche Cricket- en Football-Club "Victoria" Tiel Voorwaarts = Tielsche Voetbal-Vereeniging "Voorwaarts" [7] Utrecht Hercules = Utrechtsche Football Club "Hercules" Klein-Hercules = Utrechtsche Football Club "Klein-Hercules" Wageningen Go Ahead = Wageningsche Cricket- en Football-Club "Go-Ahead" [1] Founded on Oct 1, 1890. [2] Founded on Oct 28, 1891. [3] Dissolved on Feb 20, 1892. [4] Founded on Dec 8, 1891. [5] Founded on Apr 10, 1888. [6] Merger of Concordia and Olympia on Sep 13, 1891. [7] Founded on Nov 15, 1891.
At a board meeting on Nov 21, 1891, in Leiden, it was decided to use goal average (deeling) as tie-breaker in case of equality on points (or rather points/match ratio) as opposed to the goal difference rule en vigueur in the 1890/91 season.
In December 1891 Hollandia, based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, joined the N.V.A.B.; in March 1892 they were followed by Thor, a football and athletics club in Roermond just founded by P.W. Calkoen (an athlete who also ran under the nom de plume "Ajamblanda" – the Malay translation of his family name); Thor were the first club from the southeastern province of Limburg to join the federation (and the only one to do so in the nineteenth century). However, both Hollandia and Thor resigned again within a year.
At the general meeting on May 8, 1892, in the "Zuid-Hollandsch Koffiehuis" in Den Haag, the federation was officially renamed: "Nederlandsche Voetbal- en Athletiek-Bond" (instead of "De Nederlandsche Voetbal- en Athletische Bond").
Final Table:
1.R.A.P. (Amsterdam) 9 8 0 1 45- 9 16 Champions
2.R.C. en V.V. (Rotterdam) 9 5 2 2 30-12 12
3.H.F.C. (Haarlem) 9 3 2 4 29-22 8 [g.a.: 1.32]
4.H.V.V. (Den Haag) 9 3 2 4 13-14 8 [g.a.: 0.93]
5.Victoria (Rotterdam) 9 2 1 6 12-35 5
-.V.V.A. (Amsterdam) withdrew;
record at withdrawal: 5 0 1 4 4-41 1
[Oct 25, 1891; Malieveld, Den Haag]
H.V.V. 5-0 Victoria
[this was exactly the same result as in the first match of the 1892/93 season]
[Nov 1, 1891; Den Haag]
H.V.V. 2-5 R.C. en V.V.
[Nov 8, 1891; Den Haag]
H.V.V. 1-1 H.F.C.
[Nov 8, 1891; Rotterdam]
R.C. en V.V. 1-2 R.A.P.
[Nov 22, 1891; cavalerie-kazerne, Kleverlaan, Haarlem]
H.F.C. 2-5 R.A.P.
[Nov 22, 1891; achter den Heuvel, aan den ouden Delfhavenschen weg, Rotterdam]
Victoria 2-1 R.C. en V.V.
[Nov 29, 1891; Amsterdam]
R.A.P. 7-0 Victoria
[Nov 29, 1891; Malieveld, Den Haag]
H.V.V. 1-0 V.V.A. [abandoned in 70']
[V.V.A. walked off with 20 minutes left in protest against the goal; they had
pulled the same stunt almost exactly one year before (Nov 30, 1890) against
R.A.P. and had not played any Eerste Klasse match since, only remaining at
the top level thanks to the leniency of the bondsvergadering in Utrecht on
May 3, 1891; needless to say their behaviour drew unfavourable comment]
[Dec 27, 1891; Amsterdam]
R.A.P. 16-0 V.V.A.
[this match set a new record for highest win, easily trumping the 9-0 of H.F.C.
against Olympia on Apr 12, 1891; the record would stand until Jan 11, 1931, so
for more than 39 years, when Ajax defeated V.U.C. 17-0]
[Dec 27, 1891; Rotterdam]
R.C. en V.V. 4-1 H.F.C. [played early afternoon, start 13.35]
Victoria 2-1 H.F.C. [played late afternoon]
[H.F.C. had been more successful at their previous double-header in Rotterdam, on
Mar 29, 1891, when they had beaten both Concordia and Olympia, 6-2 on aggregate]
[Jan 3, 1892; Den Haag]
H.V.V. 1-2 R.A.P.
[Jan 3, 1892; Rotterdam?]
R.C. en V.V. 8-0 V.V.A.
[Jan 10, 1892; Amsterdam]
V.V.A. 4-4 Victoria
[Feb 14, 1892; Amsterdam]
R.A.P. 2-3 R.C. en V.V. [after (double) protest; originally 3-2]
[Feb 14, 1892; cavalerie-kazerne, Kleverlaan, Haarlem]
H.F.C. 12-0 V.V.A.
[as neither club had yet collected 2 points before the match, it was relevant
for possible relegation, but within a week the losing club had been dissolved]
[Feb 14, 1892; achter den Heuvel, aan den ouden Delfhavenschen weg, Rotterdam]
Victoria 0-1 H.V.V.
NB: on Feb 20, V.V.A. (again) withdrew from the competition and were dissolved;
their "results" remained valid for their opponents.
[Feb 28, 1892; Amsterdam]
R.A.P. 4-1 H.F.C.
[Feb 28, 1892; Rotterdam]
R.C. en V.V. 0-0 H.V.V.
[Mar 20, 1892; cavalerie-kazerne, Kleverlaan, Haarlem]
H.F.C. 2-1 H.V.V.
[Mar 20, 1892; Rotterdam]
Victoria 0-3 R.A.P.
[H. Blijdenstein 0-1, H. Blijdenstein 0-2, N.N. 0-3; half-time: 0-1]
[this win guaranteed R.A.P. the championship]
[R.A.P.: Altes; Kampers, V.d. Linde; Boerhave, Hülsmann, Schröder;
Wichers, H. Blijdenstein, Stollé, J. Blijdenstein, J. Reisiger;
ref: L.J. Wijnands]
Table (Mar 21):
1.R.A.P. (Amsterdam) 8 7 0 1 41- 8 14 Champions
2.R.C. en V.V. (Rotterdam) 7 4 1 2 22- 9 9
3.H.V.V. (Den Haag) 8 3 2 3 12-10 8
4.H.F.C. (Haarlem) 7 2 1 4 20-17 5
5.Victoria (Rotterdam) 7 2 1 4 8-22 5
-.V.V.A. (Amsterdam) withdrew;
record at withdrawal: 5 0 1 4 4-41 1
[Mar 27, 1892; Amsterdam]
R.A.P. 4-1 H.V.V.
[Mar 27, 1892; Rotterdam]
R.C. en V.V. 6-1 Victoria
[Apr 3, 1892; cavalerie-kazerne, Kleverlaan, Haarlem]
H.F.C. 2-2 R.C. en V.V.
[Apr 10, 1892; cavalerie-kazerne, Kleverlaan, Haarlem]
H.F.C. 7-3 Victoria
Final Table:
1.R.A.P. (Amsterdam) 9 8 0 1 45- 9 16 Champions
2.R.C. en V.V. (Rotterdam) 9 5 2 2 30-12 12
3.H.F.C. (Haarlem) 9 3 2 4 29-22 8 [g.a.: 1.32]
4.H.V.V. (Den Haag) 9 3 2 4 13-14 8 [g.a.: 0.93]
5.Victoria (Rotterdam) 9 2 1 6 12-35 5
-.V.V.A. (Amsterdam) withdrew;
record at withdrawal: 5 0 1 4 4-41 1
NB: a proposal by (H.V.V. member) Coops at the general meeting on May 8, 1892,
viz. to discount the results of the matches played by V.V.A., was rejected
(5 votes against, 2 in favour, 7 abstentions); it was opposed by W. Mulier
(federation president) because then his club, H.F.C., would have lost third
place on goal average to H.V.V. – if accepted, both would have had 6 points,
H.V.V., whose match against V.V.A. was abandoned at 1-0, with a 12-14 goal
record (thus an average of 0.86), H.F.C., who had defeated V.V.A. 12-0 in
the latter's last ever match, with a 17-22 goal record (an average of 0.77).
Cross-Table: home records: away records:
RAP RCV HFC HVV Vic VVA HP HW HD HL HF HA HPts AP AW AD AL AF AA APts
R.A.P. xxx 2-3 4-1 4-1 7-0 16-0 4 3 0 1 17- 5 6 4 4 0 0 12- 4 8
R.C.V.V. 1-2 xxx 4-1 0-0 6-1 8-0 4 2 1 1 11- 4 5 4 2 1 1 11- 8 5
H.F.C. 2-5 2-2 xxx 2-1 7-3 12-0 4 2 1 1 13-11 5 4 0 1 3 4-11 1
H.V.V. 1-2 2-5 1-1 xxx 5-0 1a0 4 1 1 2 9- 8 3 4 1 1 2 3- 6 3
Victoria 0-3 2-1 2-1 0-1 xxx 4 2 0 2 4- 6 4 4 0 0 4 4-25 0
V.V.A. 4-4 xxx
NB: for a fair comparison, the home/away records do not include results against V.V.A.;
1a0 indicates match abandoned at 1-0.
Note that although all member clubs of the N.V.A.B. who did not play in the Eerste Klasse automatically belonged to the Tweede Klasse, only five clubs inscribed to enter the competition.
Original Set-Up: First Stage [to be played until Jan 1] Quick Adm. - Haarlem Go Ahead bye Hercules bye Sparta R. bye Second Stage [to be played until Feb 1] Hercules - Go Ahead Sparta R. - Quick Adm./Haarlem Final [to be played until Mar 1] Eventually the following matches were played: First Stage [Jan 10, 1892; Amsterdam] Quick Adm. n/p Haarlem [Haarlem could not field a team] [Jan 17, 1892; achter het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam] Quick Adm. 1-0 Haarlem Second Stage (Semi-finals) [Jan 31, 1892; achter het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam] Quick Adm. 2-1 Sparta R. [aet] [Sparta protested on two groúnds: Quick had used a substitute without asking permission and extra time had lasted only 2x7.5 minutes instead of 2x15; both protests were (unanimously) rejected at a board meeting on Feb 18 in Leiden] [Feb 7, 1892; Amersfoort] Hercules 1-1 Go Ahead [aet] [extra time lasted 15 minutes (2x7.5) instead of 30, as the Hercules players had to catch a train back to Utrecht] [Feb 28, 1892; Amersfoort] Go Ahead 4-0 Hercules [replay Feb 7] Final [Mar 27, 1892; Amersfoort] Go Ahead n/p Quick Adm. [Quick showed with four players] [Go Ahead were awarded the match (by 1-0) and the medal belonging to the second class championship but declined to accept the title on a walk-over]
NB: includes matches by reserve sides, but not those involving "adspiranten";
additional information is welcome.
[Oct 11, 1891; Nijmegen]
Quick N. 1-0 Quick Step
[Oct 18, 1891; Haarlem]
Haarlem 4-0 Amstels F.C.
[Oct 25, 1891; Rotterdam]
Sparta R. II 4-3 Rapiditas
[Nov 1, 1891; achter den Heuvel, aan den ouden Delfhavenschen weg, Rotterdam]
Sparta R. 4-1 R.C. en V.V. II
[Nov 1, 1891; Varkensweide, Zutphen]
Prinses Wilhelmina 1-3 Go Ahead
[Nov 8, 1891; Nijmegen]
Quick Step 1-2 Quick N.
[Nov 15, 1891; Amsterdam]
Quick Adm. 3-0 R.A.P. II
[Nov 15, 1891; Apeldoorn]
"Apeldoorn" 3-5 Amersfoort
[it is likely but not certain that the hosts were in fact Robur et Velocitas,
who hosted Go Ahead two weeks later]
[Nov 15, 1891; Rotterdam]
Rapiditas 5-2 Victoria II
[Nov 15, 1891; Utrecht]
Hercules 0-1 Sparta R.
[Nov 22, 1891; achter het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam]
Amstels F.C. 2-1 Volharding
[Nov 22, 1891; Den Haag]
H.V.V. II 1-3 Sparta R.
[Nov 22, 1891; Gouda]
Olympia G. 1-7 Rapiditas
[Nov 29, 1891; Apeldoorn]
Robur et Velocitas 0-17 Go Ahead
[Dec 6, 1891; Utrecht]
Hercules 2-0 Quick Adm.
County Match [Dec 13, 1891; Amsterdam]
Noord-Holland 8-0 Zuid-Holland
[first "county" football match since Mar 16, 1890]
[Dec 13, 1891; Amsterdam]
Sparta A. 1-4 Quick Adm. II
[Dec 13, 1891; Utrecht]
Klein-Hercules 0-1 Hilversum
[Dec 20, 1891; Amsterdam]
Amstels F.C. 5-1 R.A.P. II
[Dec 20, 1891; Utrecht]
Hercules 6-2 Amersfoort
Army/Navy Match [Dec 28, 1891; Koningskade, Den Haag]
Adelborsten 1-1 Cadetten
[first ever "army-navy" match]
[Jan 3, 1892; Apeldoorn]
Robur et Velocitas 4-1 Amersfoort
[Jan 3, 1892; Rotterdam]
Victoria 2-1 Haarlem
[Jan 31, 1892; Bussum]
"Bussumsche F.C." 0-6 Amersfoort
[possibly the hosts were in fact "Leonidas"]
[Jan 31, 1892; Hilversum]
Hilversum 0-7 Amstels F.C.
[Feb 7, 1892; Amersfoort]
Amersfoort 2-0 Go Ahead II
Varsity Match [Feb 7, 1892; Malieveld, Den Haag]
D.S.V.V. 1-1 A.S.C. en F.C. [played in the morning]
[first "Varsity" match; two players of the Amsterdam side, Boerhave and Proost,
both of R.A.P., also played in the County Match in Rotterdam in the afternoon,
as did referee Schröder]
County Match [Feb 7, 1892; Rotterdam]
Zuid-Holland 2-3 Noord-Holland [played in the afternoon]
[return game for the first match on Dec 13]
[Feb 14, 1892; Rotterdam (?)]
Rapiditas 2-3 Hercules
[Feb 14, 1892; Utrecht]
Klein-Hercules 2-0 Quick Amf.
[Feb 28, 1892; Rotterdam]
Sparta R. 4-1 H.V.V. II
[Mar 6, 1892; Haarlem]
Sparta H. 3-0 Haarlem II
[Mar 13, 1892; Rotterdam]
Sparta R. 12-0 Rapiditas
[Mar 19 (or 20?), 1892; Rotterdam]
Rapiditas 7-2 Achilles
[Mar 20, 1892; Amsterdam]
Amstels F.C. 1-5 Quick Adm.
[Mar 20, 1892; Haarlem (?)]
Haarlem 0-2 Volharding
[Mar 20, 1892; Tiel]
Voorwaarts 1-7 Go Ahead II
[Mar 27, 1892; Koekamp, Haarlem]
H.F.C. II 3-0 Haarlem
[Apr 3, 1892; achter het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam]
A.A.C. 1-3 R.A.P. II
[Apr 3, 1892; Den Haag]
H.V.V. 8-0 Sparta R.
[Apr 24, 1892; voor de "Phoenix", Haarlem]
Haarlem II 6-0 Sparta A.
After having played three times in Breda against Rotterdam club sides in 1890 (against Concordia in March and November and against Olympia in October), this season Antwerp F.C. travelled all the way to Rotterdam to take on the new club which had resulted from the merger of their two earlier opponents. As on each of the previous three occasions, the Britons travelled back to Belgium beaten.
[Dec 20, 1891; Rotterdam]
R.C. en V.V. 5-0 Antwerp F.C.
[V.d. Laan 1-0, V.d. Laan 2-0, V.d. Linden 3-0, Roussel 4-0, Roussel 5-0; half-time: 2-0]
[R.C. en V.V.: Schuld; Hooykaas, Bicker Caarten; Krantz, v.d. Linden, P. Timmermans;
W. Bakker, V.d. Laan, Roussel, Timmermans, J. Bakker;
Antwerp: Menzel; Buffham, Rivez; Walther, Hermann, Heyder;
Chapman, Malchair, Jacobs, Leyton, Price]
Cancelled visit Barnes F.C.
A tour of Barnes F.C., who had agreed to play four matches in the first week of January, eventually did not materialise, the English calling the trip off three days before the first match, apparently because of frosty weather in the Netherlands. Similar visits by British sides to the Netherlands had been cancelled in previous years, usually a few weeks before the scheduled dates, provoking the following exasperated comment in the "Nederlandsche Sport": "In het voorbijgaan zij echter gezegd, dat de wijze, waarop nu reeds eenige jaren achtereen een loopje wordt genomen met den Bond, zeer on-Engelsch is, en het is waarlijk niet te verwonderen, dat er weinigen meer worden gevonden, die in de komst van Engelsche voetballers gelooven, vóórdat zij ze zien."
The following matches had been planned:
[Jan 1, 1892; cavalerie-kazerne, Kleverlaan, Haarlem]
Noord-Holland n/p Barnes F.C. [Barnes scratched]
[Noord-Holland: Tromp; V.d. Linde, Van Wijck; Schröder, Burkens, Beltman;
Frans Reisiger, Meijer, Stollé, Mulier, Kampers]
[Jan 2, 1892; Wielerbaan, Scheveningen]
Zuid-Holland n/p Barnes F.C. [Barnes scratched]
[Zuid-Holland: Schuld; Voswinkel, Vening Meinesz.; V.d. Bosch, V.d. Linde, Hooykaas;
Jacq. Bakker, W. Coops, Van Lanschot Hubrecht, Hartog, Jan Kan]
[Jan 3, 1892; Wielerbaan, Scheveningen]
Nederland n/p Barnes F.C. [Barnes scratched]
[Nederland: Schuld; V.d. Linde, Van Wijck; Schröder, V.d. Bosch, Hooykaas;
Frans Reisiger, Meijer, Van Lanschot Hubrecht, Mulier, Kampers;
this appears to have been the first ever Dutch XI selection;
eventually the first match played by a representation of the
N.V.A.B. took place on Feb 6, 1894, against Felixstowe F.C.]
[Jan 5, 1892; Amsterdam]
R.A.P. n/p Barnes F.C. [Barnes scratched]
list of first class champions.
list of second level champions.
Main source: "Nederlandsche Sport" (available through Delpher)
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