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Dutch Tweede Divisie

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Established
1956 (70 years old)

First Recorded Event
2021-08-21

Current Season
2025-2026

Current Round
33

Level Above
Dutch Eerste Divisie

Level Below
Netherlands Derde Divisie Saturday

Sport
Soccer

Location
The Netherlands

Gender
Male

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23 May	AFCAFC	1:30pm	HHC HardHHC Hardenberg
23 May	BVV BareBVV Barendrecht	1:30pm	ExcelsioExcelsior Maassluis
23 May	De TreffDe Treffers	1:30pm	HSV HoekHSV Hoek
23 May	KoninkliKoninklijke HFC	1:30pm	SV SpakeSV Spakenburg
23 May	IJsselmeIJsselmeervogels	1:30pm	ACVACV
23 May	Jong AlmJong Almere City	1:30pm	GVVVGVVV
23 May	VV KatwiVV Katwijk	1:30pm	Jong SpaJong Sparta Rotterdam
23 May	KozakkenKozakken Boys	1:30pm	Quick BoQuick Boys
23 May	RijnsburRijnsburgse Boys	1:30pm	RKAV VolRKAV Volendam
Results
16 May	SV SpakeSV Spakenburg	2 - 1	VV KatwiVV Katwijk
16 May	RKAV VolRKAV Volendam	5 - 2	BVV BareBVV Barendrecht
16 May	Quick BoQuick Boys	2 - 2	IJsselmeIJsselmeervogels
16 May	Jong SpaJong Sparta Rotterdam	1 - 4	De TreffDe Treffers
16 May	HSV HoekHSV Hoek	2 - 0	RijnsburRijnsburgse Boys
16 May	HHC HardHHC Hardenberg	3 - 3	KozakkenKozakken Boys
16 May	GVVVGVVV	1 - 1	AFCAFC
16 May	ExcelsioExcelsior Maassluis	0 - 1	Jong AlmJong Almere City
16 May	ACVACV	1 - 0	KoninkliKoninklijke HFC
09 May	De TreffDe Treffers	0 - 0	SV SpakeSV Spakenburg

Description

Tweede Divisie (English: Second Division) is the highest amateur (and historically the lowest professional) football league in the Netherlands. It was established in 1956, together with the Eredivisie and the Eerste Divisie. Between 1956 and 1960 and between 1962 and 1966, the league consisted of two divisions, Tweede Divisie A and Tweede Divisie B. The league was disbanded in 1971. Six clubs were promoted to the Eerste Divisie (De Volewijckers, FC Eindhoven, FC VVV, Fortuna Vlaardingen, PEC and Roda JC), while the other eleven teams became amateur clubs.

Plans for a new, amateur Tweede Divisie, to be made up of 4 reserve teams and 14 Topklasse clubs, were approved in a KNVB assembly in December 2014. Thus, the Topklasse, renamed the Derde Divisie (English: Third Division), and leagues below decremented by one level, and furthermore, promotion and relegation among the second to fourth divisions were implemented starting in 2016–17. Despite its amateurism, the league obligates its clubs to have a minimum number of players under contract. No first team will be promoted to the Eerste Divisie until after 2022–23, but from the end of 2020–21 at first, the highest-ranked second (i.e., reserve) team gains promotion, while the lowest-ranked reserves are relegated to a new under-21 division. An under-23 competition has been established for the Tweede Divisie's amateur clubs that are not directly eligible for its under-21 equivalent. Because of the 2020–21 season's cancellation, promotion or relegation is likely to be deferred to the end of 2021–22.


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Teams

ACV		AFC		BVV Barendrecht
De Treffers		Excelsior Maass		GVVV
HHC Hardenberg		HSV Hoek		IJsselmeervogel
Jong Almere Cit		Jong Sparta Rot		Koninklijke HFC
Kozakken Boys		Quick Boys		Rijnsburgse Boy
RKAV Volendam		SV Spakenburg		VV Katwijk

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