The 2007–08

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season in

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, 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 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 ** .gent, ...

played in the

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and got eliminated in the final round. Likewise

Genk Genk () is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality and City status in Belgium, city located in the Belgian Provinces of Belgium, province of Limburg (Belgium), Limburg near Hasselt. The municipality comprises only the town of Genk itself. It ...

got beaten in the second qualifying round of the Champions League, while

Anderlecht Anderlecht (; ) is one of the List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, 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, B ...

got knocked out of that same tournament in the third qualifying round which allowed them to take part in the

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together with

Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège ( ; ; ) or simply Standard in Belgium, is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Liège. They are one of the most successful clubs in Belgium, having won t ...

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 29,042. They pl ...

. 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 and has the Anderlecht stadium named after him. * François Sterchele, 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 Royal Football Club de Liège (more commonly known as RFC Liège) is a professional football club based in Liège, capital of Liège Province, Belgium. The team currently play in Challenger Pro League, the second tier in Belgian football. It ...

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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