1964–65 Tweede Divisie

Tweede Divisie

Season	1964-65
Champions	SC Cambuur
Promoted	SC Cambuur Xerxes
Goals scored	1432
Average goals/game	3.19
← 1963–64 1965–66 →

The Dutch Tweede Divisie in the 1964/1965 season was contested by 31 teams, sixteen of which playing in group A, fifteen in group B. DFC won the championship after beating SC Cambuur in a play-off. Two teams would be promoted: the winners of the championship play-off and the winners of the following promotion competition. This way, it turned out that Xerxes (the number three of group B) would be promoted to the Eerste Divisie after SC Cambuur.

New entrants and group changes

Group A

Entered from amateur football:

• FC Zaanstreek

Entered from the B-group:

• De Graafschap
• AGOVV Apeldoorn
• Vitesse
• FC Wageningen

(Leeuwarden would play as SC Cambuur from this season onwards)

Group B

Relegated from the Eerste Divisie:

• Fortuna Vlaardingen
• BVV

Entered from the A-group:

• HVC
• HVV 't Gooi

Final Tables

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	GF	GA	Pts	GD	Notes
1	SC Cambuur	30	18	8	4	63	29	44	+34	Qualified for Championship play-off.
2	AGOVV Apeldoorn	30	16	7	7	56	41	39	+15	Qualified for Promotion play-off.
3	FC Wageningen	30	16	5	9	60	47	37	+13	Qualified for Best 3rd-place play-off.
4	Vitesse	30	13	10	7	48	39	36	+11
5	HVV Tubantia	30	14	8	8	53	50	36	+3
6	FC Zaanstreek	30	13	9	8	48	33	35	+15
7	Zwartemeer	30	12	10	8	46	33	34	+13
8	RCH	30	11	8	11	46	46	30	0	[Tweede B]
9	sc Heerenveen	30	10	10	10	35	39	30	-4
10	Haarlem	30	10	7	13	43	44	27	-1	[Tweede B]
11	De Graafschap	30	11	3	16	50	54	25	-4
12	ZFC	30	8	9	13	28	34	25	-6
13	HFC EDO	30	8	9	13	39	52	25	-13	[Tweede B]
14	FC Hilversum	30	9	5	16	32	48	23	-16
15	PEC	30	7	6	17	39	69	20	-30
16	Zwolsche Boys	30	3	8	19	35	63	14	-28

^{[Tweede B]} Team moving to Tweede Divisie B next season.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	GF	GA	Pts	GD	Notes
1	DFC	28	20	5	3	71	25	45	+46	Qualified for Championship play-off.
2	Helmondia '55	28	18	5	5	61	44	41	+17	Qualified for Promotion play-off.
3	Xerxes	28	17	6	5	60	31	40	+29	Qualified for Best 3rd-place play-off.
4	Roda JC	28	14	8	6	62	37	36	+25
5	SVV	28	15	5	8	51	43	35	+8
6	VV Baronie	28	10	10	8	49	41	30	+8
7	BVV	28	12	6	10	33	37	30	-4
8	Limburgia	28	12	5	11	46	48	29	-2
9	Fortuna Vlaardingen	28	10	6	12	48	52	26	-4
10	Hermes DVS	28	9	5	14	41	46	23	-5
11	TSV NOAD	28	8	6	14	36	51	22	-15
12	RKVV Wilhelmina	28	9	3	16	56	68	21	-12
13	HVC	28	6	4	18	38	59	16	-21	[Tweede A]
14	HVV 't Gooi	28	4	5	19	26	51	13	-25	Play-off as level on points.
15	LONGA	28	3	7	18	34	79	13	-45

^{[Tweede A]} Team moving to Tweede Divisie A next season.

Play-offs

Several play-offs were held to determine the league champions, who would be promoted to the Eerste Divisie, and who would leave the Professional leagues altogether.

Championship play-off

Team 1	Score	Team 2
SC Cambuur	6 - 2	DFC

SC Cambuur were promoted to the Eerste Divisie, while DFC entered the Promotion Tournament.

Best 3rd-place play-off

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Xerxes	2 - 1	FC Wageningen

Xerxes entered the Promotion tournament.

Promotion tournament

To determine the second team to be promoted. Entering teams:

• the two 2nd-placed from the "regular season",
• the loser of the Championship play-off,
• and the winner of the Best 3rd-place play-off.

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	GF	GA	Pts	GD	Notes
1	Xerxes	3	2	1	0	6	2	5	+4	Promoted to Eerste Divisie.
2	DFC	3	2	0	0	6	3	4	+3
3	Helmondia '55	3	1	1	1	7	5	3	-2
4	AGOVV Apeldoorn	3	0	0	3	2	11	0	-9

Group B 15th Place play-off

Team 1	Score	Team 2
HVV 't Gooi	1 - 1	LONGA

However, LONGA voluntarily relegated themselves to amateur football after the game.
Therefore, a replay, as well as a relegation play-off (involving bottom-finishers Zwolsche Boys from Group A), didn't have to be played (while HVV 't Gooi moved to Tweede Group A next season).

See also

• Eredivisie 1964-65
• Eerste Divisie 1964-65

References

• Netherlands - List of final tables (RSSSF)