The 2025–26

Belgian Division 1 The Belgian Division 1 is a semi-professional division and the third-highest division in the Belgian football league system, one level below the Challenger Pro League. It was created by the Royal Belgian Football Association in 2016, coming in ...

will be the tenth season of the third-tier

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 ...

league. It will be the second season in which the division is split into two groups VV (Voetbal Vlaanderen) and ACFF (Association des Clubs Francophones de Football).

Team changes

Out

The following teams were promoted at the end of the 2024–25 season: * To

Challenger Pro League The Challenger Pro League, previously known as 1B Pro League is the second-highest division in the Football in Belgium, Belgian football Belgian football league system, league system, one level below the Belgian Pro League. It was created by the ...

: ** VV: Jong KAA Gent ** ACFF:

Olympic Charleroi Royal Olympic Club Charleroi, commonly referred to as Olympique Charleroi and abbreviated as ROCC, is a Belgian association football based in Charleroi, Hainaut. The club set to compete in the Challenger Pro League from 2025–26, the second t ...

The following teams were relegated at the end of the 2024–25 season: * To

Belgian Division 2 The Belgian Division 2, commonly referred to as simply Tweede Afdeling (in Dutch) or Division 2 (in French) is the fourth-highest division in the Football in Belgium, Belgian football Belgian football league system, league system, one level below ...

: ** VV: Cappellen, Heist, Young Reds Antwerp ** ACFF:

Binche Binche (; ; Dutch: ''Bing'') is a city and municipality of Wallonia, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. Since 1977, the municipality consists of Binche, Bray, Buvrinnes, Épinois, Leval-Trahegnies, Péronnes-lez-Binche, Ressaix, and Waudrez ...

Tournai Tournai ( , ; ; ; , sometimes Anglicisation (linguistics), anglicised in older sources as "Tournay") is a city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Hainaut Province, Province of Hainaut, Belgium. It lies by ...

In

The following team was relegated from the

: * Jong Genk (to VV group) The following teams were promoted from the

: * VV group: **

Roeselare Roeselare (; ; ) is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Roeselare proper and the towns of Beveren, Oekene and Rumbeke. The name of the city is derived from two ...

(as champions) ** Houtvenne (as champions) **

Diegem Diegem is a town in the municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Machelen, in the Provinces of Belgium, province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium. Diegem's postal code is 1831. The official language of Diegem is Dutch language, Dutch, as in the res ...

(via play-offs) * ACFF group: **

Crossing Schaerbeek Crossing Schaerbeek is a Belgian football club based in Schaerbeek, Brussels. The club plays in the Belgian Division 1, after promotion from the Belgian Division 2 in 2024–25. The club colours are green and white. History The club joined the B ...

(as champions) ** Meux (via play-offs) ** Habay-la-Neuve (via play-offs)

VV

League table

Results

Season statistics

Top scorers

ACFF

Regular Season

League table

Results

Season statistics

Top scorers

References

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Division 1 Scheduled association football competitions