General
For general information about women’s lacrosse check out the Wikipedia article Women’s Lacrosse.
In The Netherlands, women play with an experimental set of lacrosse rules. Most different is the fact that in the Dutch league women play with only 10 players on the field instead of 12 players. Most of the rules however, are still the same as the international women’s lacrosse rules.
Eligibility
(2009/2010)
Players of division 1 and 2 have to play a minimum of two games of the total games in this season 2009/2010, with the team they want to play with in the play-offs, to be considered eligible for participation in the play-offs.
(2010/2011 onwards)
Players of division 1 have to play 50 percent plus 1 game of the total games throughout the regular season, with the team they want to play with in the play-offs, to be considered eligible for participation in the play-offs. All players of division 2 have to play a minimum of 2 games with the team they want to play with in the play-offs throughout the regular season to be considered eligible for participation in the play-offs.
Players of division 2 can play no more than 1 game with a team in a higher division if they want to be eligible for participation in the play-offs.
If a player is injured and can not play enough games to be eligible to play in the play-offs, a doctor’s note including type of injury, date of occurrence and recovery period can be send to the NLB. Games played in the period the player is injured will not contribute to the total amount of games.
Playoffs structure
After regular competition, the number one will play the number eight, the number two will play number seven, number three will play number 6 and number 4 will play number 5. The winners of these games will advance to the playoffs. There, the winner of number 1 vs. number 8 will play against the winner of number 4 vs. number 5 and the winner of number 2 vs. number 7 will play the winner of number 3 vs. number 6.
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