The 2016–17 Eerste Divisie, known as Jupiler League for sponsorship reasons, is the sixty-first season of Eerste Divisie since its establishment in 1955. It will begin in August 2016 with the first matches of the season and will end in May 2017 with the returns of the finals of the promotion/relegation play-offs, involving also the 16th- and 17th-placed teams from the 2016–17 Eredivisie. The fixtures were announced on 14 June 2016.