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The Netherlands Football League Championship 1888–1889 was the first national football championship in the Netherlands. Seven teams from the cities Amsterdam, The Hague, Haarlem and Rotterdam participated in the competition that would later be called Eerste Klasse West. But since the western football district of the Netherlands was the only one to have a competition at the time, it could be regarded as a national championship. VV Concordia from Rotterdam won the championship, however this championship was not official, since the teams had not played an equal number of matches.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	VV Concordia	7	5	1	1	12	2	+10	11
2	HFC	7	2	3	2	6	4	+2	7
3	HVV Den Haag	6	2	2	2	2	2	0	6
4	VVA	6	1	4	1	3	3	0	6
5	RAP	5	0	4	1	2	3	−1	4
6	Olympia Rotterdam	2	0	0	2	1	8	−7	0
7	Excelsior Haarlem	1	0	0	1	0	4	−4	0

Source: ^[1]

Results

Home \ Away	CON	EXC	HFC	HVV	OLY	RAP	VVA
Concordia		4–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	–	1–1
Excelsior	–		–	–	–	–	–
HFC	–	–		1–0	4–1	–	0–0
HVV	1–0	–	0–0		–	1–0	–
Olympia	–	–	–	–		–	–
RAP	–	–	1–1	0–0	–		1–1
VVA	0–1	–	1–0	–	–	0–0