The 2016–17 Tweede Divisie football season was the first edition of the Dutch third tier since its initial dissolution from the 1970-71 season and the fifteenth overall using "Tweede Divisie" name. Fourteen teams were completed from the Topklasse Saturday and Sunday divisions. Seven highest-placed teams of each division earned promotion to constitute a new, amateur Tweede Divisie. This change in the league system was approved in a KNVB assembly in December 2014. Thus, the Topklasse and leagues below it decremented by one level, and promotion and relegation between the Tweede Divisie and the Topklasse were implemented.
Teams
Club City 2015–16 season Excelsior Maassluis Maassluis Top 7 in Topklasse Saturday HHC Hardenberg Top 7 in Topklasse Saturday Katwijk Katwijk Top 7 in Topklasse Saturday Kozakken Boys Werkendam Top 7 in Topklasse Saturday Barendrecht Barendrecht Top 7 in Topklasse Saturday Spakenburg Bunschoten-Spakenburg Top 7 in Topklasse Saturday GVVV Veenendaal Top 7 in Topklasse Saturday Lienden Lienden Top 7 in Topklasse Sunday TEC Tiel Top 7 in Topklasse Sunday VVSB Noordwijkerhout Top 7 in Topklasse Sunday Koninklijke HFC Haarlem Top 7 in Topklasse Sunday De Treffers Groesbeek Top 7 in Topklasse Sunday AFC Amsterdam Top 7 in Topklasse Sunday UNA Veldhoven Top 7 in Topklasse Sunday Jong AZ Wijdewormer 3rd in Beloften Eredivisie Jong Twente Hengelo 6th in Beloften Eredivisie Jong Sparta Rotterdam 4th in Beloften Eredivisie Jong Vitesse Arnhem 2nd in Beloften Eredivisie
League standings
Relegation play-offs See (Derde Divisie) Promotion/relegation play-offs Tweede and Derde Divisie.
Number of teams by provinces Number of teams Province Team(s)5Barendrecht, Excelsior Maassluis, Jong Sparta, Katwijk and VVSB4Lienden, Jong Vitesse, TEC and De Treffers3AFC, Jong AZ and Koninklijke HFC2Kozakken Boys and VV UNAHHC and Jong TwenteGVVV and Spakenburg
Attendances
# Club Average 1 Spakenburg 1,670 2 GVVV 1,126 3 HHC 1,090 4 Katwijk 1,084 5 Kozakken Boys 1,015 6 VVSB 821 7 Barendrecht 674 8 De Treffers 657 9 Excelsior Maassluis 655 10 Lienden 553 11 TEC 483 12 UNA 475 13 Jong AZ 419 14 HFC 369 15 Jong Vitesse 346 16 AFC 328 17 Jong Sparta 235 18 Jong Twente 192
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References
External links Tweede Divisie at KNVB.nl