Honkbal Hoofdklasse

Honkbal Hoofdklasse
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024 Honkbal Hoofdklasse season
FormerlyEerste Klasse
SportBaseball
Founded1922
No. of teams9
CountryNetherlands
ConfederationKNBSB
Most recent
champion(s)
Neptunus
(20 titles)
(2024)
Most titlesNeptunus
(20 titles)
Sponsor(s)Lucky Day
Level on pyramid1
Related
competitions
European Cup

The Honkbal Hoofdklasse (Dutch for Major League Baseball) is the highest level of professional baseball in the Netherlands. It is an eight-team league that plays a 42-game schedule and is overseen by the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB).

Games are played principally on weekends. 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 two best teams participate in the European Cup.