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Current season, competition or edition: 2025 Honkbal Hoofdklasse season | |
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| Formerly | Eerste Klasse |
|---|---|
| Sport | Baseball |
| Founded | 1922 |
| No. of teams | 8 |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Confederation | KNBSB |
| Most recent champion(s) | Neptunus (20 titles) (2024) |
| Most titles | Neptunus (20 titles) |
| Sponsor(s) | Lucky Day |
| Level on pyramid | 1 |
| Related competitions | European Cup Holland Series |
The Honkbal Hoofdklasse (Dutch for Major League Baseball) is the highest level of professional baseball in the Netherlands. It is an eight-team league overseen by the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB).
Games are played principally on weekends with one game during the week. 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 followed a promotion and relegation system with the Honkbal Overgangsklasse until 2022. Many of the official team nicknames have contained the name of the club's sponsor.
The top two teams each year participated in the European Cup until that tournament restructured in 2024.[1]
- ^ "WBSC Europe announces the launch of the Baseball European Champions Cup, alongside the restructuring of European club competitions". WBSC Europe. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
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