This is highest football division in Netherlands, created in 1956 year and contains 18 teams. Each team plays 34 matches during the season, 1 “home” and 1 “away” against every other team from the division. Ranking is changed after each match and teams are arranged according points won. At the end of the season top 2 teams are qualified for UEFA Champion League. The 3rd is qualified for UEFA Europa League, and depending from UEFA ranking 4th team qualifies directly for UEFA Europa League or plays a play-off with next 3 teams for a spot in UEFA Europa League. Last team in the division is directly relegated to lower Eerste Divisie and it`s spot is taken by the winner of Eerste Divisie. Clubs ranked at 16th and 17th place are participating in play-offs with teams taking place 2nd to 8th from Eerste Divisie to determine which 2 teams will play in highest football division for next season.

Eredivisie - Standing

N	Team	P	W	D	L	Pts
1	PSV	30	26	3	1	81
2	Feyenoord	30	22	6	2	72
3	FC Twente	31	19	6	6	63
4	AZ	30	16	7	7	55
5	Ajax	31	13	10	8	49
6	NEC	30	12	11	7	47
7	FC Utrecht	30	12	9	9	45
8	Go Ahead Eagles	30	11	9	10	42
9	Sparta Rotterdam	30	11	7	12	40
10	Heerenveen	30	10	6	14	36
11	Fortuna Sittard	30	9	8	13	35
12	Almere City	31	7	12	12	33
13	PEC Zwolle	30	8	8	14	32
14	Heracles	30	9	5	16	32
15	Excelsior	31	5	11	15	26
16	RKC Waalwijk	30	6	6	18	24
17	FC Volendam	30	4	7	19	19
18	Vitesse	30	4	5	21	-1

UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League Qualifiers
UEFA Europa League Qualifiers
UEFA Conference League Qualifiers Play-off
Relegation Play-off
Relegation