Summary
The Eerste Divisie consists of 20 clubs, who play each other in a double round-robin league, with each club playing the other club home and away. Each club plays every other club once in the first half of the season before the league takes a winter break around the Christmas and New Years holiday season. The second half of the season sees the same fixtures as the first half, with the stadiums changed, although the two halves are not played in the same order.
At the end of each season, the champion of the Eerste Divisie is automatically promoted to the Eredivisie. Eight other clubs enter the Nacompetitie, a promotion/relegation playoff that includes the 16th- and 17th-place clubs in the Eredivisie. The following teams qualify for the Nacompetitie:If the club that wins a period has qualified for the Nacompetitie by winning a previous period, its place is filled by the next-best club in that period that has not already qualified. Usually, the clubs that qualify for the Nacompetitie turn out to be the 2nd- through 9th-placed clubs in the final table. Clubs in the Nacompetitie face each other in a knock-out system with the numbers 16 and 17 of the Eredivisie for two places in next seasons Eredivisie.
Fixtures and Results
Results
| League | Kick-off Time | Home | VS | Away | Half | Initial H / G / C | Events | Half  Full |
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| NLD ED | 24/05/04 02:04 | 1 [13] VVV | 2 : 0 | Ajax Reserves[14] 1 | 0 : 0 | -0.75 / 3.25 / 10 |  
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6 : 0 | 7 : 3 |  |
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| NLD ED | 24/05/04 02:04 | 2 [6] De Graafschap | 2 : 2 | FC Utrecht Reserves[20] 3 | 1 : 1 | -1.5 / 3.5 / 10 | 
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0 : 2 | 5 : 3 | |
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| NLD ED | 24/05/04 02:03 | 1 [7] NAC | 2 : 2 | ADO Den Haag[5] 2 | 0 : 2 | -0.25 / 2.75 / 9.5 | 
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1 : 2 | 4 : 5 | |
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| NLD ED | 24/05/04 02:02 | 1 [2] Roda JC | 2 : 0 | Cambuur Leeuwarden[12] 2 | 0 : 0 | -1.25 / 3.5 / 10.5 |
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3 : 0 | 3 : 4 | |
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| NLD ED | 24/05/04 02:02 | 2 [11] Helmond Sport | 2 : 0 | FC Eindhoven[15] 4 | 1 : 0 | -0.5 / 3.0 / 10 |
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3 : 4 | 7 : 6 | |
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| NLD ED | 24/05/04 02:01 | 4 [4] FC Dordrecht | 1 : 1 | Willem II[1] 1 | 1 : 0 | 0.0 / 3.0 / 10.5 | 
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2 : 4 | 3 : 12 | |
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| NLD ED | 24/05/04 02:01 | 2 [16] Telstar | 1 : 1 | FC Groningen[3] 3 | 1 : 0 | +1.0 / 3.0 / 10 |
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3 : 4 | 5 : 11 | |
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| NLD ED | 24/05/04 02:01 | 1 [8] AZ Reserves | 2 : 3 | Maastricht[10] 21 | 1 : 2 | -0.5 / 3.5 / 9.5 | 
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2 : 1 | 5 : 2 | |
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| NLD ED | 24/05/04 02:00 | 1 [17] PSV Reserves | 4 : 1 | Top Oss[19] 2 | 1 : 0 | -0.75 / 3.25 / 10 | 
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4 : 1 | 5 : 3 | |
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| NLD ED | 24/05/04 02:00 | 2 [18] FC Den Bosch | 1 : 2 | FC Emmen[9] 1 | 0 : 1 | +0.25 / 2.75 / 9.5 |
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6 : 2 | 11 : 3 | |
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Table
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Position Team Win Draw Lose GF : GA Points 1 
Willem II
22 10 5 74 : 33 76 2 
Roda JC
21 12 4 69 : 32 75 3 
FC Groningen
21 9 7 69 : 30 72 4 
FC Dordrecht
18 14 5 73 : 50 68 5 
ADO Den Haag
17 12 8 70 : 47 63 6 
De Graafschap
19 6 12 60 : 50 63 7 
NAC
15 10 12 62 : 55 55 8 
Emmen
16 6 15 57 : 59 54 9 
Maastricht
15 8 14 62 : 60 53 10 
AZ Reserves
15 8 14 58 : 60 53 11 
Helmond Sport
14 8 15 51 : 54 50 12 
VVV
13 9 15 53 : 56 48 13 
Cambuur Leeuwarden
13 7 17 70 : 73 46 14 
Ajax Reserves
10 10 17 53 : 65 40 15 
FC Eindhoven
8 16 13 43 : 57 40 16 
PSV Reserves
10 7 20 60 : 79 37 17 
Telstar
9 8 20 45 : 65 35 18 
FC Den Bosch
8 9 20 38 : 66 33 19 
Top Oss
10 3 24 31 : 65 33 20 
FC Utrecht Reserves
5 10 22 31 : 73 25
