The 2010–11 season of the

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(also known as EXQI League for sponsorship reasons) started on Wednesday 18 August 2010 and finished in May 2011.

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won the title on the penultimate matchday after a 2–2 draw away to

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also got promoted after winning the playoffs.

Team changes

As a result of the bankruptcy of

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in the first division, the team was automatically demoted to third division. No extra team was promoted to fill this spot and the league therefore moved from 19 teams to the more convenient 18.

In

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relegated from the Pro League * Heist promoted from Third Division A *

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promoted from Third Division B * Rupel Boom promoted after winning the third division playoffs

Out

* Lierse was promoted to the Pro League *

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won the second division final round and was therefore also promoted to the Pro League. *

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lost the third division playoffs and was subsequently relegated. *

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did not apply for a professional license due to financial problems. As a result, they were automatically relegated, but they chose to merge with second division team K.V. Red Star Waasland to form

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and as such remain in second division. *

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was relegated to the Third Division.

Team information

Personnel and locations

Regular season

League table

Period winners

The season is divided into three periods. The first ten matchdays form period 1, matchdays 11 to 22 form period two and the last 12 form period three. The three period winners take part in the

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together with the winner of the

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relegation playoff Promotion and relegation is used by sports leagues as a process where teams can move up and down among divisions in a league system, based on their performance over a season. Leagues that use promotion and relegation systems are sometimes call ...

. The winner of this final round gets to play in the

2011–12 Belgian Pro League The 2011–12 season of the Belgian Pro League (also known as ''Jupiler Pro League'' for sponsorship reasons) was the 109th season of top-tier football in Belgium. It began on 29 July 2011 with the first match of the regular season and ended in M ...

. In case one or more periods are won by the team winning the league or in case one team wins multiple periods, the extra places go the teams finishing the highest in the league not already qualified. So in the theoretical case that one team wins all three periods and becomes the league champion, then the teams in positions 2, 3 and 4 will take part in the final round.

Period 1

Period 2

Period 3

Results

Top scorers

;25 goals * Hamdi Harbaoui ''(

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)'' ;21 goals * Kevin Oris ''( Royal Antwerp F.C.)'' ;20 goals * Jeroen Ketting ''(

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)'' ;18 goals * Mustapha Jarju ''( R.A.E.C. Mons)'' ;17 goals * Guillaume Legros ''( C.S. Visé)'' * Kamel Ouejdide ''( Boussu Dour Borinage)'' ;16 goals * Bram Criel ''( K.S.K. Heist)'' * Jan de Langhe ''( K. Standaard Wetteren)'' ;15 goals * Jordan Remacle ''(

)'' ;14 goals * Jérémy Perbet ''( R.A.E.C. Mons)'' * Dalibor Veselinović ''(

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References

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