The Eredivisie ( English: "Honorary Division") is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA.
The top division consists of 18 clubs. Each club faces every other club twice during the season, once at home and once away. At the end of each season, the bottom club is automatically relegated to the second level of the Dutch league system, the Eerste Divisie (First Division), with the champion of the Eerste Divisie automatically promoted to the Eredivisie. The next two clubs from the bottom of the Eredivisie go to separate promotion/relegation play-offs. The play-offs are played in two groups. Each group has one Eredivisie club and three high-placed clubs from the Eerste Divisie. In both promotion/relegation play-off groups, each club plays a home-and-away series with the other clubs. The winner of each play-off group plays in the following season's Eredivisie, with the other teams going to the Eerste Divisie.
The winner of the Eredivisie claims the Dutch national championship. AFC Ajax have won the most titles, 24 (32 national titles). PSV Eindhoven are next with 18 (21), and Feyenoord follow with 9 (14). Since 1965, these three clubs have won all except for three titles (the 1981 and 2009 titles went to AZ and FC Twente won the 2010 title).
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Nu am mai tradus si nu am gasit ceva mai complex in limba Romana.
Este cunoscut faptul ca primul esalon olandez este una din cele mai spectaculoase competitii de fotbal din Europa. Spectaculozitatea este data de tactica ofensiva folosita de majoritatea echipelor care participa.
Ideea de baza este ca din 1965 pana in prezent, titlul de campioana a fost castigat mereu de numai trei echipe - Ajax Amsterdam, PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord Rotterdam- cu exceptia a trei sezoane cand AZ Alkmaar - 1981 si 2009 -, respectiv FC Twente in 2010, au reusit sa opreasca dominatia celor trei granzi.
Campioana sezonului 2012-2013 este Ajax Amsterdam. Aceasta a castigat al 24- lea titlu la diferenta de 7 puncte fata de marea rivala, PSV Eindhoven. Cei din urma au reusit performanta de a inscrie 103 goluri, insa acestea nu au fost mai eficiente ca numai cele 31 goluri primite de campioni, acestia avand cea mai buna aparare din prima Liga.
Tot in sezonul recent incheiat, Cupa Olandei- "KNVB Beker" - a fost castigata de AZ Alkmaar, acestia trecand in finala de nefericitii de la PSV, scor 2-1.
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