Honkbal Hoofdklasse

The Honkbal Hoofdklasse (Dutch for Major League Baseball) is the highest level of professional baseball in the Netherlands. It is an eight-team league that plays a 42-game schedule and is overseen by the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB).

Honkbal Hoofdklasse
Current season, competition or edition:
2019 Honkbal Hoofdklasse season
SportBaseball
Founded1922
No. of teams8
CountryNetherlands
Most recent
champion(s)		Amsterdam Pirates (5th title)

Games are played principally on weekends. The season runs from April to September and is followed by the playoffs among the four best teams, which culminates in the Holland Series. Both of the playoff rounds are best-of-five. The league follows a promotion and relegation system with the Honkbal Overgangsklasse so that the composition of both levels changes from year to year. Many of the official team nicknames contain the name of the club's corporate sponsor.

The two best teams participate in the European Cup.

History

Results
Hoofdklasse Records[1]
Rank Team Titles First Last
1st Neptunus 19 1981 2018
2nd Haarlem Nicols 12 1965 1989
3rd Blauw-Wit Amsterdam 9 1923 1946
Sparta/Feyenoord 9 1963 1974
5th OVVO Amsterdam 6 1949 1955
6th SC Haarlem 5 1929 1941
Schoten Haarlem 5 1947 1961
Kinheim 5 1978 2012
9th Amsterdam Pirates 4 1987 2019
Ajax 4 1924 1948
11th Quick Amsterdam 3 1922 1935
EHS Haarlem 3 1954 1962
Amstel Tijgers 3 1979 1986
14th HCAW 2 1996 1998
15th VVGA Amsterdam 1 1933
HHC Haarlem 1 1936
Seagulls Amsterdam 1 1939
EDO Haarlem 1 1958
ADO 1 1992
Pioniers 1 1997

2013 season

The 2013 Honkbal Hoofdklasse season began on April 11, 2013. Mampaey The Hawks from Dordrecht competed in the Hoofdklasse for the first time. Sparta/Feyenoord, the relegated team from the 2012 season, was declared bankrupt by the Rotterdam court on November 22, 2012[2] and did not compete in the Overgangsklasse.

Current clubs
L&D Pirates
Amersfoort
Neptunus
HCAW
DSS
Twins
Storks
Pioniers

2019 season
TeamCityStadiumRef
DSS Haarlem Pim Mulier Sportpark [3]
Quick Amersfoort Amersfoort XL Lease Park Dorrestein [4]
Curaçao Neptunus Rotterdam Neptunus Familiestadion [5]
L&D Amsterdam Amsterdam Sportpark Ookmeer [6]
Twins Oosterhout Oosterhout Slotbosse toren Park [7]
HCAW Bussum Rob Hoffmann Vallei [8]
Silicon Storks The Hague Sportpark Kijkduin-Schapenatjesduin [9]
Hoofddorp Pioniers Hoofddorp Sportpark Pioniers [10]

See also

References
  1. List of Dutch champions Archived 2014-12-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)
  2. http://insolventies.rechtspraak.nl/pdf.ashx?ID=rot.12.821.F.V.01
  3. "DSS". de Nederlandse honkbalsite. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  4. "Quick Amersfoort". de Nederlandse honkbalsite. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
  5. "Curaçao Neptunus". de Nederlandse honkbalsite. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  6. "L&D Amsterdam". de Nederlandse honkbalsite. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  7. http://twinsbaseball.nl
  8. "HCAW". de Nederlandse honkbalsite. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  9. "Silicon Storks". de Nederlandse honkbalsite. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
  10. "Vaessen Pioniers". de Nederlandse honkbalsite. Retrieved March 11, 2015.


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