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 Eerste klasse 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.
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The Honkbal Hoofdklasse has been the highest level of competitive baseball in the Netherlands since 1958, when it was elevated over the former Eerste Klasse by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Honkbal Bond, the forerunner of the KNBSB. The Eerste Klasse served as the top baseball competition in the Netherlands from its establishment in 1922 until 1957, excluding 1945 when play was suspended due to World War II. The Hoofdklasse has been organized by the KNBSB since 1971.
Until 1986 the winner of the season was also crowned the national champion, with the exception of 1972 and 1973, when a best-of-fiveHolland Series was held between the top two teams to determine the champion. Since 1987 the Holland Series has been held annually at the end of the season to determine the national champion. The series is currently held in a best-of-seven format.
In 2021 the Eerste Klasse was reinstated as the second level of Dutch professional baseball and the league to which teams from the Hoofdklasse are relegated at the end of the season. This was also the case from 1958 to 1986 and 2001 to 2009. In the intervening periods, from 1987 to 2000 and 2010 to 2020, the Overgangsklasse operated as the secondary professional baseball league in the Netherlands.
Following the 2021 Season the KNBSB decided to end relegation and promotion and operate the Hoofdklasse with fixed teams. The reform is part of broader efforts to improve the league's quality of play and national visibility. The tournament was also expanded to 9 teams for the 2022 season.[1] The Silicon Storks, who were slated to be relegated, will remain in the Hoofdklasse alongside the RCH Pinguins, who had earned a promotion to the top league.[2]
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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 HoofdklasseCurrent season competition or edition 2022 Honkbal Hoofdklasse seasonSportBaseballFounded1922No of teams8CountryNetherlandsMost recentchampion s Amsterdam Pirates 7th 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 Eerste klasse 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 Contents 1 History 1 1 Results 2 Current clubs 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksHistory editThis section has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Dutch July 2017 Click show for important translation instructions Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate rather than simply copy pasting machine translated text into the English Wikipedia Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low quality If possible verify the text with references provided in the foreign language article You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Dutch Wikipedia article at nl Honkbal hoofdklasse see its history for attribution You should also add the template Translated nl Honkbal hoofdklasse to the talk page For more guidance see Wikipedia Translation Parts of this article those related to information on the 2013 season that could be replaced with more recent seasons need to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information September 2017 This section needs expansion with more in depth history of the league examining key figures and periods in the development of the league teams joining influence of Major League Baseball etc You can help by adding to it September 2017 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Honkbal Hoofdklasse has been the highest level of competitive baseball in the Netherlands since 1958 when it was elevated over the former Eerste Klasse by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Honkbal Bond the forerunner of the KNBSB The Eerste Klasse served as the top baseball competition in the Netherlands from its establishment in 1922 until 1957 excluding 1945 when play was suspended due to World War II The Hoofdklasse has been organized by the KNBSB since 1971 Until 1986 the winner of the season was also crowned the national champion with the exception of 1972 and 1973 when a best of five Holland Series was held between the top two teams to determine the champion Since 1987 the Holland Series has been held annually at the end of the season to determine the national champion The series is currently held in a best of seven format In 2021 the Eerste Klasse was reinstated as the second level of Dutch professional baseball and the league to which teams from the Hoofdklasse are relegated at the end of the season This was also the case from 1958 to 1986 and 2001 to 2009 In the intervening periods from 1987 to 2000 and 2010 to 2020 the Overgangsklasse operated as the secondary professional baseball league in the Netherlands Following the 2021 Season the KNBSB decided to end relegation and promotion and operate the Hoofdklasse with fixed teams The reform is part of broader efforts to improve the league s quality of play and national visibility The tournament was also expanded to 9 teams for the 2022 season 1 The Silicon Storks who were slated to be relegated will remain in the Hoofdklasse alongside the RCH Pinguins who had earned a promotion to the top league 2 Results edit Hoofdklasse Records 3 Rank Team Titles First Last1st Neptunus Rotterdam 19 1981 20182nd Haarlem Nicols 12 1965 19893rd Blauw Wit Amsterdam 9 1923 1946Sparta Feyenoord 9 1963 19745thAmsterdam Pirates 7 1987 20236th OVVO Amsterdam 6 1949 19557th SC Haarlem 5 1929 1941Schoten Haarlem 5 1947 1961Kinheim Haarlem 5 1978 201210th Ajax Amsterdam 4 1924 194811th Quick Amsterdam 3 1922 1935EHS Haarlem 3 1954 1962Amstel Tijgers 3 1979 1986HCAW Bussum 3 1996 202215th AGHC Amsterdam 2 1926 192716th VVGA Amsterdam 1 1933HHC Haarlem 1 1936Seagulls Amsterdam 1 1939EDO Haarlem 1 1958ADO Den Haag 1 1992Hoofddorp Pioniers 1 1997Current clubs edit nbsp nbsp L amp D Pirates nbsp Amersfoort nbsp Neptunus nbsp HCAW nbsp DSS nbsp Twins nbsp Storks nbsp Pioniers nbsp RCH Team City Stadium Ref CapacityDSS Kinheim Haarlem Pim Mulier Sportpark 4 2 500Quick Amersfoort Amersfoort XL Lease Park Dorrestein 5 400Curacao Neptunus Rotterdam Neptunus Familiestadion 6 2 460L amp D Amsterdam Amsterdam Sportpark Ookmeer 7 500Twins Oosterhout Oosterhout Slotbosse toren Park 8 500HCAW Bussum Rob Hoffmann Vallei 9 1 000Silicon Storks The Hague Sportpark Kijkduin Schapenatjesduin 10 1 000Hoofddorp Pioniers Hoofddorp Sportpark Pioniers 11 1 000RCH Pinguins Heemstede Heemsteedse Sportparken 400See also editHonkbal Rookie League Baseball in the Netherlands Baseball awards Netherlands Baseball awards EuropeReferences edit Visser Seb Hoofdklasse vanaf 2022 op slot Silicon Storks blijft er als negende team in HonkbalSoftbal nl 29 October 2021 Accessed 10 December 22021 https honkbalsoftbal nl 2021 10 29 hoofdklasse vanaf 2022 op slot silicon storks blijft er als negende team in RCH Pinguins H1 dwingt promotie af RCH Pinguins 17 October 2021 Accessed 10 December 2021 https www rch pinguins nl p 11411 List of Dutch champions Archived 2014 12 26 at the Wayback Machine in Dutch DSS de Nederlandse honkbalsite Retrieved March 11 2015 Quick Amersfoort de Nederlandse honkbalsite Retrieved May 26 2019 Curacao Neptunus de Nederlandse honkbalsite Retrieved March 11 2015 L amp D Amsterdam de Nederlandse honkbalsite Retrieved March 11 2015 Twinsbaseball nl HCAW de Nederlandse honkbalsite Retrieved March 11 2015 Silicon Storks de Nederlandse honkbalsite Retrieved May 26 2019 Vaessen Pioniers de Nederlandse honkbalsite Retrieved March 11 2015 External links editde Nederlandse honkbalsite Dutch KNBSB Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Federation Dutch Connor Joe Welcome to the Netherlands ESPN MLB January 17 2006 Retrieved 2009 12 16 Remington Alex Honkbal Netherlands Bids to Host MLB in 2014 FanGraphs September 1 2011 Retrieved 2011 09 03 2008 Netherlands Baseball All Star Team and MVP fan vote at de Nederlandse honkbalsite November 10 2008 Mister Baseball All about Baseball amp Softball in Europe nbsp nbsp This article about sports in the Netherlands is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article relating to baseball in Europe is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Honkbal Hoofdklasse amp oldid 1181531590, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
