1959–60 Tweede Divisie

The Dutch Tweede Divisie in the 1959–60 season was contested by 25 teams, twelve of which playing in group A, thirteen in group B.

Tweede Divisie

Season	1959–60
Champions	HFC EDO Be Quick
Promoted	HFC EDO EBOH Be Quick Enschedese Boys
Relegated	Xerxes Velocitas 1897 VV Rheden ONA
Goals scored	940
Average goals/game	3.26
← 1958–59 1960–61 →

Eight teams would play against relegation this season in a play-off. Two teams already had to play in it on the basis of last season's results: ONA and Velocitas 1897. The other six participants were the lowest ranked teams of this season. The changes were part of an attempt by the KNVB to make the Tweede Divisie one league next year. Also, one extra team would be promoted to the Eerste Divisie this year, through a play-off between the third-place finishers of both groups.

New entrants and group changes

Tweede Divisie A Relegated from the Eerste Divisie HFC Haarlem Roda Sport Entered from the B-group: NEC

Tweede Divisie B Entered from the A-group: FC Hilversum Velox SV Zeist

Final tables

Tweede Divisie A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	HFC EDO	22	14	3	5	38	38	0	31	Promoted to Eerste Divisie
2	Roda Sport	22	11	6	5	43	22	+21	28	Promotion play-off as level on points
3	EBOH	22	11	6	5	40	30	+10	28
4	Haarlem	22	10	6	6	45	33	+12	26
5	De Valk	22	10	2	10	35	40	−5	22
6	RKVV Wilhelmina	22	9	3	10	37	29	+8	21
7	LONGA	22	5	10	7	43	42	+1	20
8	NEC	22	9	2	11	33	35	−2	20
9	ONA	22	8	2	12	35	52	−17	18	Qualified for Relegation play-offs based on last season
10	UVS	22	6	7	9	36	40	−4	17[a]	Qualified for Relegation play-offs
11	VV Baronie	22	6	5	11	33	44	−11	17
12	Xerxes	22	5	4	13	26	39	−13	14

Source: rsssf.com
Notes:

1. 2 points deducted.

Tweede Divisie B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Be Quick	24	12	7	5	40	29	+11	31	Promoted to Eerste Divisie
2	sc Heerenveen	24	12	4	8	48	29	+19	28	Promotion play-off as level on points
3	Enschedese Boys	24	10	8	6	44	32	+12	28
4	Velox	24	11	5	8	41	41	0	27
5	Velocitas 1897	24	10	4	10	46	35	+11	24	Qualified for Relegation play-offs based on last season
6	PEC	24	10	4	10	35	44	−9	24
7	HVV Tubantia	24	8	7	9	42	42	0	23
8	SV Zeist	24	8	7	9	32	45	−13	23
9	FC Hilversum	24	6	10	8	26	33	−7	22
10	VV Oldenzaal	24	7	8	9	34	44	−10	22
11	VV Rheden	24	6	9	9	31	34	−3	21	Qualified for Relegation play-offs
12	Zwolsche Boys	24	7	6	11	37	42	−5	20
13	VV Zwartemeer	24	7	5	12	40	46	−6	19

Source: rsssf.com

Promotion play-offs / Tweede Divisie A

Team 1	Score	Team 2
EBOH	2 - 1 (a.e.t.)	Roda Sport

EBOH were promoted to Eerste Divisie.

Promotion play-offs / Tweede Divisie B

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Enschedese Boys	2 - 0 (a.e.t.)	sc Heerenveen

Enschedese Boys were promoted to Eerste Divisie.

The two losing sides played off for the final promotion spot:

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
sc Heerenveen	4 - 0	Roda Sport	4 - 0	0 - 0

sc Heerenveen were promoted to Eerste Divisie.

Relegation play-offs

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	VV Zwartemeer	14	7	6	1	23	11	+12	20
2	UVS	14	8	3	3	28	12	+16	19
3	Zwolsche Boys	14	6	7	1	25	17	+8	19
4	VV Baronie	14	6	1	7	19	20	−1	13	Relegation play-off as level on points
5	Xerxes	14	5	3	6	18	19	−1	13
6	Velocitas 1897	14	4	5	5	17	20	−3	13
7	VV Rheden	14	3	4	7	14	25	−11	10	Relegated to amateur football
8	ONA	14	2	1	11	12	32	−20	5

Source: rsssf.com

Play-off

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	VV Baronie	2	2	0	0	2	0	+2	4
2	Xerxes	2	1	0	1	4	1	+3	2	Relegated to amateur football
3	Velocitas 1897	2	0	0	2	0	5	−5	0

Source: rsssf.com

See also

• 1959–60 Eredivisie
• 1959–60 Eerste Divisie

References

• Netherlands - List of final tables (RSSSF)