The following article is a summary of the 2021–22

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

season in Belgium, which was the 119th season of competitive football in the country and ran from August 2021 until June 2022.

Men's football

League season

Promotion and relegation

The following teams had achieved promotion or suffered relegation going into the 2021–22 season.

Belgian First Division A

=Regular season

Belgian First Division B

Amateur Leagues

=Belgian National Division 1

=Belgian Division 2

Division VFV A

Division VFV B

Division ACFF

Belgian Division 3

=Division VFV A

=Division VFV B

=Division ACFF A

=Division ACFF B

Cup competitions

Transfers

UEFA competitions

Champions

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 ...

qualified directly for the group stage of the Champions League, while runners-up

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 ...

started in the qualifying rounds where they lost out, causing them to drop into the

Europa League The UEFA Europa League (UEL), usually known simply as the Europa League, is an annual association football, football club competition organised since 1971 by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European footb ...

. Third-placed

Antwerp Antwerp (; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third-largest city in Belgium by area at , after ...

also played the Europa League after coming through one qualifying round. Fourth and fifth from the previous season,

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 ...

and

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, ...

respectively, had the change to qualify for the

2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League The 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League was the inaugural season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA. The final was played at the Arena Kombëtare in Tirana, Albania, with Rom ...

, but only Gent succeeded, while Anderlecht were eliminated in the last round of qualifying.

European qualification for 2022–23 summary

Managerial changes

This is a list of changes of managers within Belgian professional league football:

First Division A

First Division B

Notes

References

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Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...