The Eredivisie is the highest level of professional association football in the Netherlands and the top tier of the Dutch football league system. It was founded in 1956, two years after professional football began in the country, when the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) abandoned its regional league system and the eighteen best clubs played directly for the national title. Today it has 18 clubs, each meeting every other club twice a season, once at home and once away. The bottom two clubs are relegated to the second level, the Eerste Divisie, while its champions and runners-up are promoted automatically; the club third from bottom enters promotion and relegation play-offs. The winner takes the Dutch national championship. Ajax have won the most titles with 36, followed by PSV Eindhoven with 27 and Feyenoord with 16, and these three are known as the Big Three of Dutch football. The league has carried several sponsor names, among them PTT Telecompetitie, KPN Eredivisie, Holland Casino Eredivisie and VriendenLoterij Eredivisie.
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is a professional association football league in the Netherlands
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the highest level of the Dutch football league system
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Each club meets every other club twice during the season, once at home and once away.
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The league was founded in 1956
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is a professional association football league in the Netherlands
View the SourceKostas Lamprou (Wikipedia)
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the Greek goalie was finally handed his Eredivisie debut with Ajax
Royal Dutch Football Association (Wikipedia)
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It organises the main Dutch football leagues (Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie)
Anass Achahbar (Wikipedia)
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in the 81st minute of the Eredivisie home match against Heerenveen
Charlison Benschop (Wikipedia)
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he signed for Eredivisie club Fortuna Sittard
Viktor Elm (Wikipedia)
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His first Eredivisie goal came on 8 February 2009
Marcel Stutter (Wikipedia)
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He played two seasons for NEC in the Eredivisie
Boy Waterman (Wikipedia)
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Waterman played his first Eredivisie match for AZ against Willem II.
Adam Maher (Wikipedia)
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Eredivisie: 2014-15, 2015-16
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