Women's football in Belgium is recorded at least as early as

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, when the

Belgium women's national football team The Belgium women's national football team, nicknamed the Belgian Red Flames, represents Belgium in international women's football. It is controlled by the Royal Belgian Football Association, the governing body for football in Belgium. Their home ...

played an annual series of matches against

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, from 1926 until 1932. These were organized with the FSFSF. Belgium's only win was in the

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match in Paris, 2–1. The last game in this series was played in

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on 3 April 1932 and ended 0–0.

Club competitions

League football was first played between 1924 and 1934, with the Atalante de Jette club winning five of the eleven tournaments, including the last four. League football was resurrected in 1972 with the formation of the First Division.

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 ...

won 15 championships, with

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and Sint-Truidense winning five each. The 2012/13 season saw the first Division being replaced by the short lived

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which was a joint venture with teams from

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. During the first two of its three seasons Liege were runners up, whilst they triumphed in the 2014/15 season. Currently the

Super League Vrouwenvoetbal The Belgian Women's Super League (Dutch: Super League ''Vrouwenvoetbal/Belgisch Vrouwenvoetbal Kampioenschap''; French: ''Superligue/Championnat de Belgique féminin de football''; German: ''Superliga/Belgische Frauenfußballmeisterschaft'') is t ...

is the 8 club top tier league of Women's football in Belgium.

won the first two championships, with

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having won the following four. Below the top league sit the nationwide, 14 team First and Second Divisions. The Third Division, although nationwide, is split into two groups. The lower tiers are regionalised. The national cup competition, the

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has run annually since 1977. Anderlecht (10 wins), Liège (8) and K.F.C. Rapide Wezemaal (6) are the most successful clubs to 2020. Each season since the inception of the

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(now the

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) in 2001 the league champions have taken part in European club competition. As of 2021/22 the sole Belgian team to reach the quarter-final stage was Rapide Wezemaal in 2007/08

National football team

The

was founded and played their first match in the 1976. Their current home ground is

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, a 10,000 seat stadium in

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. They have attempted to qualify for each

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since its inception in 1991, but have yet to succeed. Their best result came in

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where they reached the play off stage. They have entered qualification for each of the

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, making their first finals in

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and then repeated the feat for

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. The team reached their highest position in the

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in December 2019 (17th) and their lowest in November 2010 (35th). Their most capped player is

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and hit their highest scorer is

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, both of whom are currently (November 2021) active players. They also have teams at Under-21, U-19, U-17, U-16, and U-15 levels.

References

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