Neptunus is a professional baseball and softball club in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Following its 2014 championship season, the club signed a sponsorship contract for the 2015 through 2017 seasons with Curaçao and competes under the name Curaçao Neptunus. The club has a revenue of 1 million euros. Neptunus is the most successful team in the

Honkbal Hoofdklasse 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 pl ...

, the top level of professional

baseball in the Netherlands Baseball in the Netherlands started in , having been introduced to the country by English teacher J.C.G Grasé of Amsterdam, following a holiday to America. The first professional baseball league (now the Honkbal Hoofdklasse) began in . The n ...

. It has won the

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20 times. That includes seven consecutive titles from 1999 to 2005. During that dominant stretch, Neptunus also won the continental

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five consecutive times from 2000 to 2004. In 2010, the team set a single-season Dutch league record by winning 39 games. The club evolved out of the multi-sports club SC Neptunus, which was founded on 1 June 1900. The baseball department was founded on 3 May 1943 and the softball department on 17 June 1973. Although the club fielded a

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team in the past, Neptunus is primarily known for baseball and softball.

Honours

National

Hoofdklasse The Vierde Divisie (; "Fourth Division"), formerly known as Hoofdklasse () is the second-highest league of amateur football in the Netherlands, and the fifth tier in general. Background The league was divided into two sections: Saturday and Sunda ...

: 20 (record) :: 1981, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2024 * KNBSB Cup: 15 :: 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017

International

: 10 :: 1994, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2015, 2017, 2018 *

European Super Cup The UEFA Super Cup is an annual super cup football match organised by UEFA and contested by the winners of the two main European club competitions: the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. The competition's official name was original ...

: 7 :: 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003

European Champions Cup record

References

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