The 2007–08

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

season in Belgium, which is the 105th season of competitive football in the country.

Honours

League competitions

Belgian First Division

Belgian Second Division

European Club Results

''Note that the Belgian team's score is given first'' This season, Gent played in the Intertoto Cup and got eliminated in the final round. Likewise Genk got beaten in the second qualifying round of the Champions League, while

Anderlecht Anderlecht (, ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and Saint-Gilles, as well as the ...

got knocked out of that same tournament in the third qualifying round which allowed them to take part in the UEFA Cup together with Standard Liège and

Club Brugge (), known simply as Club Brugge (in English also: ''Club Bruges''), is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges, Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,062.

. In the UEFA Cup, Anderlecht managed to get the furthest, namely into the last 16.

European qualification for 2008-09 summary

Deaths

* Constant Vanden Stock, 93, honorary president, former president and player of

died by natural causes on April 19, 2008. He also managed the Belgium national team for ten years, is the father of current Anderlecht president

Roger Vanden Stock Roger Vanden Stock (born 13 August 1942) is the former president of Anderlecht, a Belgian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' no ...

and has the Anderlecht stadium named after him. *

François Sterchele François Sterchele (14 March 1982 – 8 May 2008) was a Belgian professional footballer who played for Germinal Beerschot and Club Brugge. The striker was the top scorer of the Jupiler League in 2006–07. Sterchele died in a single-pers ...

, 26, the forward of

died in a single-person car accident on May 8, 2008. *

Victor Wégria Victor Lucien Wégria (4 November 1936 – 5 June 2008) was a Belgian footballer who played as a striker. He played mostly for RFC Liège, and later joined Standard Liège. Wégria finished four times top scorer of the Jupiler League (in 1959, ...

, 71, former player and trainer of RFC Liège is one of the best players in the history of the club. He was four times top scorer in the Belgian top division (in 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963) and was capped five times by the Belgium national football team. He died by natural causes on June 6, 2008

References

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