The club is historically one of the three clubs that dominate the Dutch national football league ( Eredivisie ), the others being PSV and Feyenoord.

The season saw an unbeaten run in the national league and the final season for Frank Rijkaard, while striker Patrick Kluivert came off the bench to score a late winner to beat AC Milan in the final of the Champions League.

The AFL is the List of sports attendance figures # Top 10 in average attendance | most attended national competition in Australia and the only fully professional league for Australian football in the world.

This description prompted the first suggestions of regular interstate club competition and of overcoming the dichotomy and establishing a national league.

The new agreement tied independent contracts to the reserve-clause national league contracts.

Aged 14, he amassed 745 runs in the schoolboys ' league, with an average of 126. 16 per innings, which earned him selection for the Trinidad national under-16 team.

" 1992 saw the team repeat as national champions, becoming the first team to do so in league history and saw the start of the club's first youth team, the Blue Jays.

Water-based synthetic turfs enable the ball to be transferred more quickly than on the original sand-based surfaces and it is this characteristic that has made them the surface of choice for international and national league competitions.

Tasmania is not represented by teams in national rugby union, rugby league, netball, soccer, or basketball leagues.

The national rugby league team are nicknamed the wolfhounds, and the Irish Rugby Football Union, which governs rugby union, changed the name of the country's A ( second-level ) national team in that code to the Ireland Wolfhounds in 2010.

Overall, they have won fifty-three official titles on the national and international stage, more than any other Italian club: a record twenty-eight league titles, a record nine Italian cups and five national super cups and, with eleven titles in confederation and inter-confederation competitions ( two Intercontinental Cups, two European Champion Clubs ' Cup / UEFA Champions Leagues, one European Cup Winners ' Cup, a record three UEFA Cups, one UEFA Intertoto Cup and two UEFA Super Cups ) the club currently ranks fourth in Europe and seventh in the world with the most trophies won.

This competition, for national knockout cup winners and high-placed league teams, was launched by UEFA in 1971 as a successor of both the former UEFA Cup and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup ( also begun in 1955 ).

In April 1927, José María Acha, a director at Arenas Club de Getxo, first proposed the idea of a national league in Spain.

The first attempt at a national major league was the short-lived National Association, which existed from 1871 to 1875.

Benetton Rugby has since become a major force in Italian rugby, with 11 league titles and supplying many players to the national team.

He struggled to adapt to the English game and failed to score in the club's next five league matches, prompting ridicule by the national press.

Sixteen years after the formation of the club and a mere three years after they were promoted to the highest level of Dutch football Feijenoord earned their first honours by capturing the national league championship in 1924.

In the 2002 – 03 season, the club managed to finish third in the national league, as well as reach the final of the Dutch Cup ( which was lost 1 – 4 to FC Utrecht ), but in the following years, Feyenoord disappointed in both the national league and the Dutch Cup.

Despite the efforts, Feyenoord underperformed once again in the national league, finishing in a disappointing sixth place.

Turku Titans is a lacrosse club based in Turku with a relevantly successful history with three silver medals and one gold medal in the national lacrosse league in Finland.

Some national languages like Finnish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian ( Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ) and Bulgarian have a very regular spelling system with a nearly one-to-one correspondence between letters and phonemes.

Some ANACs are very regional or local in scope, while others are state -/ province-or area-code-wide: there appears to be no consistent national system for them.

Regarding institutional reforms, the party was a long-time supporter of presidentialism and a plurality voting system, and came to support also federalism and to fully accept the alliance with Lega Nord, although the relations with that party were tense at times, especially about issues regarding national unity.

Despite the Democratic majority in Congress, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by George J. Mitchell failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994.

The idea was to optimize the system of national defense, to legalize one politics of sustainable defense and to integrate the three Forces, rationalizing their activities.

In addition, the Bundestag has a minimum threshold of either 5 % of the national party vote or three ( directly elected ) constituency representatives for a party to gain additional representation through the system of proportional representation.

Currently, three schools exist in Barcelonnette: a public nursery school, a public elementary school, and a private school ( under a contract by which the teachers are paid by the national education system ).

This system would be implemented into the national response plan for bioweapons attacks in the Netherlands.

After the Congressional hearings in early 2005, and with the scrutiny of the sports and national media upon this issue, Selig put forth a proposal for a stricter performance-enhancing drug testing regime to replace the current system.

Europe, which also has a large biotechnology sector and an impressive education system, has encountered trouble in creating uniform standards as the European community attempts to supplant some of the national jurisdictional barriers that still exist.

Canada's system, described below, avoids regional variability of federal law by giving national jurisdiction to both layers of appellate courts.

Among many achievements, Henry institutionalized common law by creating a unified system of law " common " to the country through incorporating and elevating local custom to the national, ending local control and peculiarities, eliminating arbitrary remedies and reinstating a jury system – citizens sworn on oath to investigate reliable criminal accusations and civil claims.

A social-market economy is a nominally free-market system where government intervention in price formation is kept to a minimum but the state provides significant services in the area of social security, unemployment benefits and recognition of labor rights through national collective bargaining arrangements.

There is no possibility for the national judicial system to investigate these cases.

For many decades thereafter, historians derided the Parliamentary Republic as a quarrel-prone system that merely distributed spoils and clung to its laissez-faire policy while national problems mounted.

The privatized national pension system ( AFP ) has encouraged domestic investment and contributed to an estimated total domestic savings rate of approximately 21 % of GDP.

The extensive Chilean protected areas system includes 32 national parks, 48 natural reserves and 15 natural monuments.

The country is noted for its national park system, administered by SINAC ( Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservacion, or " National System of Conservation Areas ").

Croatia has a three-tiered, independent judicial system governed by the Constitution of Croatia and national legislation enacted by the Sabor.

The International Monetary Fund uses a variant system when referring to national currencies.

We think you can only do it by moving forward to a new world — a world of law, the abolition of national armaments with a world force and a world economic system.

The national railroad system, once the country's main mode of transport for freight, has been neglected in favor of road development and now accounts for only about a quarter of freight transport.

Currently, there is no system in place that awards only one state or national title.

The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act created a federal system, in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the States — the evolved status of the colonies.