Due to the intentional loss, GVVV, which finished second, took the last period title. Barendrecht is allowed to play the play-offs as the highest finishing club without a period title because it takes over the period title from champion ACV. If Barendrecht had won, not GVVV but Sparta Nijkerk would have won the last period. That hadn’t mattered to GVVV, but it did to Sparta. That club has filed a complaint with the KNVB, which is now investigating the matter. Barendrecht has also acknowledged that it lost on purpose, because a defeat was more favorable for that club than a defeat.