1999–2000 Belgian First Division

The 1999/2000 season of the Jupiler League was held between August 6, 1999 and May 11, 2000. Sporting Anderlecht became champions.

Promoted teams

These teams were promoted from the second division at the start of the season:

• KV Mechelen (second division champions)
• Verbroedering Geel (playoff winner)

Relegated teams

These teams were relegated to the second division at the end of the season:

• Verbroedering Geel
• Lommel

Anderlecht's title success

Anderlecht became champions on April 21, 2000 after the defeat of rival Club Brugge at Herman Vanderpoortenstadion to Lierse 1-0 as, prior to these results, they were 7 points ahead of Brugge with 3 matches to go. The next day Anderlecht beat Racing Genk 4-1 and then Standard Liège 2-0.

Battle for Europe

Club Brugge and Gent qualified for the UEFA Cup.

The relegation dog fight

Charleroi avoided relegation with a controversial draw against Anderlecht on the last day of the season. Anderlecht were already champions and played with Enzo Scifo who had previously signed a deal with Charleroi. However, the result was irrelevant as Geel lost their last match to Club Brugge and were thus relegated with Lommel.

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	Won	Drw	Lst	GF	GA	Pts	GD	Notes
1	R.S.C. Anderlecht	34	22	9	3	86	36	75	+50	Qualified for 2000-01 UEFA Champions League.
2	Club Brugge	34	21	4	9	70	32	67	+38	Qualified for 2000-01 UEFA Cup.
3	K.A.A. Gent	34	20	3	11	78	54	63	+24
4	R.E. Mouscron	34	16	9	9	67	45	57	+22
5	Standard Liège	34	18	2	14	66	52	56	+14	Qualified for 2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup.
6	K.V.C. Westerlo	34	16	8	10	73	66	56	+7
7	K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot	34	16	7	11	56	45	55	+11
8	K.R.C. Genk	34	16	6	12	63	59	54	+4	Qualified for 2000-01 UEFA Cup.
9	Lierse S.K.	34	15	7	12	65	47	52	+18
10	K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen	34	12	11	11	56	58	47	-2
11	Y.R. K.V. Mechelen	34	12	5	17	47	77	41	-30
12	K.S.C. Eendracht Aalst	34	11	4	19	53	72	37	-19
13	K. Sint-Truidense V.V.	34	10	7	17	41	65	37	-24
14	K.R.C. Zuid-West-Vlaanderen	34	10	5	19	56	72	35	-16
15	K.S.K. Beveren	34	9	8	17	51	69	35	-18
16	R. Charleroi S.C.	34	7	10	17	42	62	31	-20
17	K.F.C. Verbroedering Geel	34	5	13	16	32	60	28	-28	Relegated to Division II.
18	K.F.C. Lommel S.K.	34	5	12	17	35	66	27	-31

Top goal scorers

Scorer	Goals	Team
Ole Martin Årst	30	Gent
Toni Brogno	30	Westerlo
Jan Koller	20	Anderlecht
David Paas	19	Harelbeke
Eric Van Meir	15	Lierse
Tomasz Radzinski	14	Anderlecht
Dante Brogno	14	Charleroi
Marcin Żewłakow	14	Mouscron
Pär Zetterberg	14	Anderlecht

See also

• 1999-2000 in Belgian football

References

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