The following article is a summary of the 2017–18
football
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season in Belgium, which is the 1145th season of competitive football in the country and runs from July 2017 until June 2018.
National teams
Belgium national football team
Belgium qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup following a 1–2 win in and against
Greece
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on 3 September 2017. Being seeded, Belgium was then paired with
England
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,
Panama
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Tunisia
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in Group G.
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification process was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations to decide 31 of the 32 teams which would play in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, with Russia qualifying automatically as hosts. All 210 ...
2018 FIFA World Cup
The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national Association football, football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awa ...
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Friendlies
Belgium women's national football team
Belgium made their debut at the UEFA Women's Euro tournament in 2017, being eliminated in a group with Denmark and Netherlands, who would both go on to play the final.
The team also played the first six of their eight qualification matches for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, starting strongly with three wins.
UEFA Women's Euro 2017
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
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2018 Cyprus Cup
Friendly
Men's football
League season
Promotion and relegation
The following teams had achieved promotion or suffered relegation going into the 2017–18 season.
Belgian First Division A
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Belgian First Division B
Belgian First Amateur Division
Belgian Second Amateur Division
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Cup competitions
Transfers
UEFA competitions
Champions
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 ...
qualified directly for the group stage of the
Champions League, while runners-up
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. started in the qualifying rounds. As cup winner,
Zulte Waregem
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qualified directly for the group stage of the
Europa League
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, while
Gent
Gent is a shortened form of the word gentleman. It may also refer to:
* Ghent (Dutch: Gent), a Belgian city
** K.A.A. Gent, a football club from Ghent
** K.R.C. Gent, a football club from Ghent
** Gent RFC, a rugby club in Ghent
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and
Oostende started in the qualifying rounds.
Overall, Belgian football clubs performed very poorly during the 2017–18 season, as both Club Brugge, Gent and Oostende failed to qualify for the group stages. Anderlecht only managed to win one match in the Champions League and although Zulte Waregem scored 7 points in their Europa League group they were also eliminated, causing all Belgian teams to be eliminated from European football before the winter break.
* Anderlecht was drawn in group B of the
2017–18 UEFA Champions League
The 2017–18 UEFA Champions League was the 63rd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 26th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.
The final was pla ...
together with giants
Paris Saint-Germain and
Bayern Munich
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and looked to be battling it out with
Celtic
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Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
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for the third place. Anderlecht lost the first 5 matches before winning 0–1 in Glasgow, but as they needed to overcome an earlier 0–3 home loss to become third, they were eliminated.
* Club Brugge first failed to qualify for the
group stage of the
2017–18 UEFA Champions League
The 2017–18 UEFA Champions League was the 63rd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 26th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.
The final was pla ...
after losing out to
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before being eliminated by
AEK Athens in the
Play-off round.
* In the same manner as Anderlecht but in the Europa League rather than the Champions League, Zulte Waregem had also qualified directly for the group stage and failed to progress. Zulte Waregem also faced strong competition, being drawn against
Lazio
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Nice
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and
Vitesse. Following 1–5 and 2–0 losses against Nice and Lazio respectively, they managed to obtain four points from their two duels with Vitesse. On the fifth matchday, an away loss to Nice meant elimination from the competition, but they finished the competition in style, with a 3–2 home win against Lazio.
* Gent, who reached the round of 16 of the
2016–17 UEFA Europa League
The 2016–17 UEFA Europa League was the 46th season of Europe's secondary club association football, football tournament organised by UEFA, and the eighth season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
The 2017 UEFA Eu ...
, now immediately lost out to minnows
Rheindorf Altach in the second qualifying round.
* Oostende entered European football for the first time in the history of the club. They were drawn against French giants
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...
and held them to a 0–0 draw at home. As they head earlier lost 4–2 in Marseille, they were also eliminated.
European qualification for 2018–19 summary
Managerial changes
This is a list of changes of managers within Belgian professional league football (Belgian First Division A and Belgian First Division B):
See also
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2017–18 Belgian First Division A
The 2017–18 Belgian First Division A was the 115th season of top-tier football in Belgium. The season began on 28 July 2017 and concluded on 20 May 2018. The fixtures were announced in early June 2017. Anderlecht were the defending champions b ...
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2017–18 Belgian First Division B
The 2017–18 season of the Belgian First Division B began in August 2017 and ended in April 2018. It was the second season of the First Division B following a change in league format from the old Belgian Second Division. The fixtures were announ ...
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2017–18 Belgian First Amateur Division
The 2017–18 Belgian First Amateur Division was the second season of the third-tier association football, football league in Belgium, as it was established in 2016. The fixtures were announced near the end of June 2017.
Although R. Knokke FC, Kn ...
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2017–18 Belgian Second Amateur Division
The 2017–18 Belgian Second Amateur Division is the second season of the division in its current format, placed at the fourth-tier of football in Belgium.
The division consists of three separate leagues, each containing 16 teams. Leagues A and B ...
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2017–18 Belgian Third Amateur Division
The 2017–18 Belgian Third Amateur Division is the second season of the division in its current format, replacing the former Belgian Fourth Division.
Team changes In
* Menen, Grimbergen, Woluwe-Zaventem, Couvin-Mariembourg, Givry and Namur we ...
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2017–18 Belgian Cup
The 2017–18 Belgian Cup, called the Croky Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 63rd season of Belgium's annual football cup competition. The competition began on 28 July 2017 and ended with the final on 17 March 2018. Zulte Waregem were the defe ...
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2017 Belgian Super Cup
The 2017 Belgian Super Cup was a football match that took place on 22 July 2017 between Anderlecht, winners of the 2016–17 Belgian First Division A and Zulte Waregem, winners of the 2016–17 Belgian Cup. For the first time in Belgian football, a ...
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References
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