2006–07 Belgian First Division

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Belgian First Division
Season2006–07
ChampionsAnderlecht
RelegatedLierse
Beveren
Champions LeagueAnderlecht
Genk
UEFA CupStandard Liège
Club Brugge
Matches played306
Goals scored853 (2.79 per match)
Top goalscorerFrançois Sterchele
(21 goals)

The 2006–07 season of the Belgian First Division began on July 28, 2006, and concluded on May 19, 2007. The championship was decided in the penultimate round on May 12, 2007, when Anderlecht moved five points clear of runners-up Genk to retain the title and win their 29th League Championship. At the other end of the table, the struggle to avoid automatic relegation went on until the final round, and it was Lierse who eventually prevailed. Having spent the entire season at the bottom of the standings and only just managing to close an eleven-point gap up to 17th, the Lier side won their last game to climb past Beveren and send the latter down to the Second Division. However, Lierse went on to lose the playoffs and was relegated anyway.

Clubs[]

Eighteen teams played in the 2006-07 first division. Twelve teams were from Flanders, four clubs from Wallonia and just two clubs from the Brussels-Capital Region.

New teams[]

La Louvière had been relegated at the end of the previous season with Mons replacing them as they won the Belgian Second Division. Lierse had managed to win the promotion playoff and thus they remained in the first division.

Overview[]

2006–07 Belgian First Division is located in Belgium
Anderlecht
Anderlecht
Beveren
Brussels
Brussels
Germinal Beerschot
Germinal Beerschot
Club Brugge Cercle Brugge
Club Brugge
Cercle Brugge
Charleroi
Sint-Truiden
Sint-Truiden
Genk
Gent
Standard
Lierse
Lokeren
Lokeren
Mons
Mons
Mouscron
Roeselare
Zulte Waregem
Westerlo
Location of teams in Belgian First Division 2006–07
Club Location Current manager Previous managers during Season 2006-2007
R.S.C. Anderlecht Anderlecht Belgium Franky Vercauteren none
Standard Liège Liège Belgium Michel Preud'homme Netherlands Johan Boskamp
Club Brugge Bruges North Macedonia Cedomir Janevski Belgium Emilio Ferrera
K.A.A. Gent Ghent Belgium Georges Leekens none
K.R.C. Genk Genk Belgium Hugo Broos none
K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot Antwerp Belgium Marc Brys none
S.V. Zulte-Waregem Waregem Belgium Francky Dury none
K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen Lokeren Serbia Slavoljub Muslin Belgium Ariël Jacobs
K.V.C. Westerlo Westerlo Belgium Herman Helleputte none
F.C. Molenbeek Brussels Strombeek Sint-Jans-Molenbeek France Albert Cartier none
R. Charleroi S.C. Charleroi Belgium Philippe Van de Walle Belgium Jacky Mathijssen
K.S.V. Roeselare Roeselare Belgium Dirk Geeraerd none
R.E. Mouscron Mouscron Belgium Ariël Jacobs Belgium
Cercle Brugge K.S.V. Bruges Belgium Harm van Veldhoven none
K. Sint-Truidense V.V. Sint-Truiden Belgium Peter Voets Belgium Thomas Caers, Netherlands Henk Houwaart
K.S.K. Beveren Beveren Belgium Belgium Walter Meeuws
Lierse S.K. Lier Norway Kjetil Rekdal Netherlands René Trost
R.A.E.C. Mons Mons Belgium José Riga none

Manager changes[]

  • August 30 - Standard Liège fires Johan Boskamp.
  • August 30 - Michel Preud'homme quits his job as technical director to take up the job of manager with Standard Liège.
  • October 29 - Lokeren fires Ariël Jacobs.
  • November 7 - Thomas Caers quits his job as manager of Sint Truiden as he feels the players don't respect him anymore after a series of bad results.
  • November 13 - René Trost agrees with the management of Lierse to split up and each go their own way. At that time Lierse is in last position, with two points out of 12 matches.
  • November 22 - Lierse finds a new manager as Kjetil Rekdal is contracted to try to keep the team in the first division. In Sint Truiden, Henk Houwaart is the new manager.
  • November 26 - Lokeren announces that Slavoljub Muslin will sign a contract as the new manager within the next few days.
  • January 28 - After losing 0-1 at home to Roeselare, the staff of Club Brugge is under fire from supporters and media yet again. The day after, coach Emilio Ferrera and assistant Franky Van der Elst get fired and sports director Marc Degryse chooses to resign himself. A former Macedonian ex-player, Cedomir Janevski, is appointed as the new manager.
  • February 1 - At R.E. Mouscron, resigns after disappointing results and is given another job at the club. Ariël Jacobs is the new coach.
  • March 19 - Marc Brys announces he will finish the season as trainer at K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot, but will then quit his job. No new trainer is announced to replace him.
  • March 25 - Walter Meeuws is fired at K.S.K. Beveren, assistant-coach becomes caretaker until the end of the season.
  • March 26 - Next season, Cercle Brugge K.S.V. coach Harm Van Veldhoven will take up the job at K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot. Cercle Brugge are looking for a new coach.
  • April 3 - Sint-Truiden fires Henk Houwaart. Assistant-trainer Peter Voets takes over.
  • April 15 - At Lokeren, assistant coach announces he will leave the club after 12 years and take up the job of head coach at second division team Oud-Heverlee Leuven next season. In Leuven, Guido Brepoels had announced a few weeks earlier that he was leaving at the end of the season to take up the job at another second division team, KVSK United.
  • April 20 - Ariël Jacobs, head coach at Mouscron, is named by many sources to become the new assistant coach of Franky Vercauteren at Anderlecht next season. Glen De Boeck, his assistant coach at that time, is applying for a job at Cercle Brugge. Franky Van der Elst is doing the same thing and a decision concerning the new coaching team of Cercle Brugge for the new season is said to be announced soon.
  • April 23 - Glen De Boeck will be the head coach of Cercle Brugge during the upcoming season.
  • April 26 - Club Brugge announces that Charleroi coach Jacky Mathijssen will be their new head coach for the upcoming season. Coach Cedomir Janevski is offered a position as his assistant but is still considering the offer.
  • April 28 - As both Club Brugge and Charleroi are still in the running for the fifth place and thus also possibly a ticket for European football next season, chairman Abbas Bayat decides to fire coach Jacky Mathijssen. Later that day the supporters chant Mathijssen's name during the match between Charleroi and Lokeren to express their unhappiness with Bayat's decision. Philippe Van de Walle is the caretaker for the four remaining matches of the season.

League standings[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Anderlecht (C) 34 23 8 3 75 30 +45 77 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2 Genk 34 22 6 6 71 37 +34 72 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3 Standard Liège 34 19 7 8 62 38 +24 64 Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4 Gent 34 18 6 10 56 40 +16 60 Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
5 Charleroi 34 17 9 8 51 40 +11 60
6 Club Brugge 34 14 9 11 58 40 +18 51 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
7 Germinal Beerschot 34 14 9 11 52 46 +6 51
8 Westerlo 34 12 10 12 41 44 −3 46
9 Mons 34 12 8 14 41 41 0 44
10 Mouscron 34 10 12 12 51 55 −4 42
11 Roeselare 34 10 9 15 50 72 −22 39
12 Cercle Brugge 34 10 8 16 31 36 −5 38
13 Molenbeek Brussels Strombeek 34 8 14 12 39 50 −11 38
14 Zulte Waregem 34 9 10 15 40 54 −14 37
15 Sint-Truiden 34 9 8 17 39 52 −13 35
16 Lokeren 34 5 15 14 32 48 −16 30
17 Lierse (R) 34 6 8 20 33 66 −33 26 Qualification to the Relegation play-offs
18 Beveren (R) 34 5 10 19 31 64 −33 25 Relegation to 2007–08 Belgian Second Division
Source:[citation needed]
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Promotion and relegation playoff[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Mechelen (P) 6 5 1 0 11 3 +8 16 Promotion to 2007–08 Belgian First Division
2 Antwerp 6 3 1 2 7 4 +3 10
3 Lierse (R) 6 3 0 3 10 8 +2 9 Relegation to 2007–08 Belgian Second Division
4 Kortrijk 6 0 0 6 4 17 −13 0
Source:[citation needed]
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Fixtures and results[]

Home \ Away AND STA CLU GNT GNK GBA ZWA LOK WES BRU CHA ROE MOU CER STV BEV LIE MON
Anderlecht 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–4 1–0 0–0 2–0 1–0 6–0 3–2 3–2 2–1 2–0 2–0 8–1 2–0 4–1
Standard Liège 0–0 1–0 0–1 2–1 2–2 1–1 3–1 3–0 2–1 1–2 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–2 0–0 3–2 1–0
Club Brugge 2–2 4–4 5–0 0–1 1–0 4–1 2–2 2–0 4–1 2–0 0–1 5–1 3–3 1–0 2–0 4–0 0–0
Gent 2–1 2–1 0–0 1–3 1–2 1–1 3–1 2–0 3–3 2–1 2–0 1–3 0–2 3–1 2–1 4–0 4–1
Genk 1–1 1–1 0–0 3–1 4–0 3–1 1–0 3–1 3–1 0–2 3–0 3–2 3–0 2–0 1–0 3–0 5–1
Germinal Beerschot 1–3 1–3 4–0 0–3 2–1 1–1 1–2 0–0 3–0 1–1 3–0 6–2 1–0 3–2 1–0 2–3 2–1
Zulte-Waregem 0–4 3–1 2–1 3–2 2–2 0–2 1–1 2–2 0–1 1–0 4–2 0–0 1–2 3–0 2–1 2–1 1–2
Lokeren 1–1 2–1 3–2 1–1 0–1 0–0 0–2 1–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–4 0–2
Westerlo 3–4 1–1 1–2 1–1 0–1 1–1 4–2 4–1 1–1 0–1 2–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 2–1
Brussels 0–1 0–3 1–1 1–1 3–1 1–2 2–0 0–0 0–1 0–2 6–2 1–1 0–0 2–2 2–0 2–1 1–0
Charleroi 1–1 2–5 1–1 1–0 4–1 3–3 2–1 4–3 1–2 1–0 2–1 1–0 2–1 2–1 2–1 0–0 1–0
Roeselare 0–5 2–3 3–2 1–3 3–3 1–1 3–1 2–2 2–0 1–1 1–3 2–1 1–0 3–2 2–1 2–0 2–1
Mouscron 1–1 2–0 2–1 0–3 2–2 1–0 3–0 1–1 4–0 2–2 2–1 2–2 2–1 1–0 4–2 2–2 2–2
Cercle Brugge 0–1 0–2 1–0 0–1 0–1 1–2 2–0 0–0 4–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 2–1 0–1 2–2 2–1 3–0
Sint-Truiden 2–4 0–3 2–3 0–1 1–2 2–0 2–2 1–0 0–2 2–2 1–1 1–1 1–1 2–0 3–2 4–0 1–0
Beveren 1–1 0–3 0–2 1–0 0–5 1–1 1–0 3–2 0–3 2–2 2–2 2–2 3–1 1–1 1–2 1–1 0–0
Lierse 1–4 1–3 1–2 1–4 0–3 2–3 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–1 2–1 3–1 3–3 0–2 0–0 0–1 0–0
Mons 3–1 2–3 1–0 0–1 5–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 1–2 6–1 1–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–1
Source:[citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers[]

Player Team Goals
1 Belgium François Sterchele Germinal Beerschot 21
2 Nigeria Patrick Ogunsoto Westerlo 20
Democratic Republic of the Congo Mohammed Tchité Anderlecht 20
4 Bosnia and Herzegovina Adnan Ćustović Mouscron 18
5 Croatia Boško Balaban Club Brugge 16
6 Togo Adékambi Olufadé Gent 15
7 Argentina Nicolás Frutos Anderlecht 14
Serbia Milan Jovanović Standard Liège 14
9 Egypt Ahmed Hassan Anderlecht 12
10 Belgium Dieter Dekelver Cercle Brugge (4) and Westerlo (7) 11
Mali Mahamadou Dissa Beveren 11
Croatia Goran Ljubojević Genk 11
Belgium Kevin Vandenbergh Genk 11

See also[]

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