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  • OT - How close was this for a finish?

    My former club, I played for them, coached the youth goalies for about 10 years and was assistant coach of the "selection" (We had 8 teams, 3 played at a serious level and were the "selection" sides, the other 5 were "beer teams"?

    Last season the 1st team played in what is the 8th level of Dutch football (was 7th in my day ). Finished 3rd, level on points with the #1 and #2 thanks to them both having had, respectively, 1 and 2 points deducted for infringements. GD was 23, 21 and 19.

    In the same League next season, it looks like. Champs promote automatically. There are 2 places available in the playoffs. They go to the "Period Champions". It's a 24 game season, it is split into 2 "periods" of 12 games. The 2 period winners enter the playoffs unless one of them is also the champions, in which case the #2 from that period gets a playoff place. Naturally, if the Champs also finished top of both periods then the #2 from both would be in the playoffs. Unless, of course, the same team finished 2nd in both periods, in which case the #3 from P2 would take the 2nd PO place.

    Bekijk de actuele stand, het volledige programma en alle uitslagen van de Zaterdag 3e klasse B - 2025/2026 - District West 1. Amateurvoetbal in Nederland, overzichtelijk op HollandseVelden.nl.

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    Not sure how it happened but they ended up in the playoffs after all. Won the first round game 2-0, quite easily. Last Saturday, they won the 2nd round game 1-0. Not sure how, though. Best team in the first half, hit the post, 3 good saves from the oppo keeper. 43rd minute, our DM was given a straight red. We all thought that was that. 2nd half came and went. Pegged back by the oppo and managing the odd breakout and reached 90, still at 0-0. extra time. First half started the same way the 2nd half of normal time had gone. 10 minutes in, our keeper caught the ball and lumped it forward, well into oppo territory. We had one player who outsprinted their defence, their keeper came out for the ball, got completely done by the bounce and our man of the moment gently stroked the ball, unhindered into the empty net. The oppo huffed and puffed their way through the rest of the game without seriously testing our keeper.

    Next Saturday it's the Final, played on neutral ground. The oppo played last season in the League higher, avoided auto relegation but had to go through the playoffs. All to play for.

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