1999–2000 Belgian First Division

The 1999–2000 season of the Jupiler League was held between August 6, 1999, and May 11, 2000. Sporting Anderlecht became champions.

Belgian First Division

Season	1999–2000
Champions	Anderlecht
Relegated	Geel Lommel
Champions League	Anderlecht
UEFA Cup	Club Brugge Gent
Matches played	306
Goals scored	1,032 (3.37 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ole Martin Årst Toni Brogno (30 each)
← 1998–99 2000–01 →

Promoted teams

Aalst

Anderlecht

Beveren

Germinal Beerschot

Club Brugge

Charleroi

Sint-Truiden

Genk

Gent

Standard

Lierse

Lokeren

Lommel

Mechelen

Mouscron

Verbroedering Geel

Westerlo

Harelbeke

Location of teams in 1999–2000 Belgian First Division

These teams were promoted from the second division at the start of the season:

• KV Mechelen (second division champions)
• Verbroedering Geel (playoff winner)

Relegated teams

These teams were relegated to the second division at the end of the season:

• Verbroedering Geel
• Lommel

Anderlecht's title success

Anderlecht became champions on April 21, 2000, after the defeat of rival Club Brugge at Herman Vanderpoortenstadion to Lierse 1-0 as, prior to these results, they were 7 points ahead of Brugge with 3 matches to go. The next day Anderlecht beat Racing Genk 4-1 and then Standard Liège 2-0.

Battle for Europe

Club Brugge and Gent qualified for the UEFA Cup.

The relegation dog fight

Charleroi avoided relegation with a controversial draw against Anderlecht on the last day of the season. Anderlecht were already champions and played with Enzo Scifo who had previously signed a deal with Charleroi. However, the result was irrelevant as Geel lost their last match to Club Brugge and were thus relegated with Lommel.

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Anderlecht (C)	34	22	9	3	86	36	+50	75	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Club Brugge	34	21	4	9	70	32	+38	67	Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
3	Gent	34	20	3	11	78	54	+24	63
4	Mouscron	34	16	9	9	67	45	+22	57
5	Standard Liège	34	18	2	14	66	52	+14	56	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
6	Westerlo	34	16	8	10	73	66	+7	56
7	Germinal Beerschot	34	16	7	11	56	45	+11	55
8	Genk	34	16	6	12	63	59	+4	54	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
9	Lierse	34	15	7	12	65	47	+18	52	Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
10	Sporting Lokeren	34	12	11	11	56	58	−2	47
11	Mechelen	34	12	5	17	47	77	−30	41
12	Eendracht Aalst	34	11	4	19	53	72	−19	37
13	Sint-Truiden	34	10	7	17	41	65	−24	37
14	Harelbeke	34	10	5	19	56	72	−16	35
15	Beveren	34	9	8	17	51	69	−18	35
16	Charleroi	34	7	10	17	42	62	−20	31
17	Geel (R)	34	5	13	16	32	60	−28	28	Relegation to 2000–01 Belgian Second Division
18	Lommel (R)	34	5	12	17	35	66	−31	27

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AAL	AND	GBA	BEV	CLU	CHA	GEE	GNK	GNT	HAR	LIE	LOK	LOM	MEC	MOU	STV	STA	WES
Eendracht Aalst		2–3	1–2	2–4	0–2	0–3	1–0	1–3	4–2	3–0	2–3	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–5	2–0	1–2	1–1
Anderlecht	4–1		2–2	5–2	1–1	3–0	4–0	1–3	1–2	2–0	2–0	5–0	3–3	5–0	3–2	2–1	2–0	3–0
Germinal Beerschot	3–2	1–3		2–0	5–3	3–0	4–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	3–1	0–0	0–1	3–1	2–0	3–2
Beveren	0–2	0–0	1–4		2–3	1–1	1–1	1–4	0–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–4	0–2	4–0
Club Brugge	3–0	0–2	2–0	3–1		3–1	4–0	2–0	1–3	1–2	1–0	6–1	3–1	6–0	1–2	4–0	5–2	2–0
Charleroi	0–1	1–1	3–0	2–3	0–2		1–3	2–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–4	1–1	1–4	2–1	1–1	1–4	1–2
Geel	1–2	0–0	0–2	1–1	0–2	0–0		1–1	1–5	3–2	2–1	3–0	0–0	3–0	1–4	1–2	0–0	2–3
Genk	2–1	1–4	4–0	4–1	1–0	1–2	1–0		0–1	4–3	2–2	1–1	1–2	3–1	2–2	0–2	4–0	1–1
Gent	4–0	0–3	1–3	4–1	2–0	3–2	1–1	0–2		4–2	2–0	1–1	6–2	6–1	2–3	4–2	1–5	2–3
Harelbeke	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–5	1–1	4–1	3–0	1–2	1–2		0–3	2–3	5–1	5–2	1–1	3–2	3–4	3–1
Lierse	5–2	0–3	3–1	1–3	1–0	2–0	2–2	5–0	2–1	2–0		1–2	4–0	5–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	7–0
Lokeren	5–1	2–3	1–1	5–2	2–5	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–4	2–0	5–1		2–1	0–2	3–2	3–0	5–3	0–0
Lommel	3–3	3–3	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–3	0–2	1–0	1–0		0–2	0–4	4–1	2–1	2–2
Mechelen	2–0	2–5	2–0	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	0–2	4–0	4–3	0–0	1–0		1–3	3–2	2–4	2–2
Mouscron	1–1	0–2	1–1	3–0	1–2	2–1	3–1	5–0	5–3	4–2	3–3	0–0	0–0	2–0		3–0	1–3	2–1
Sint-Truiden	1–5	0–4	2–0	0–2	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–5	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	3–1	0–0		2–0	2–1
Standard Liège	3–1	0–0	1–0	3–1	0–1	1–3	3–0	5–1	0–2	1–3	3–1	1–2	4–1	2–1	2–0	2–1		4–0
Westerlo	3–2	5–0	3–2	3–2	1–0	1–1	4–1	6–6	4–2	4–1	0–2	3–3	1–0	8–0	3–0	3–2	2–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goal scorers

Scorer	Goals	Team
Ole Martin Årst	30	Gent
Toni Brogno	30	Westerlo
Jan Koller	20	Anderlecht
David Paas	19	Harelbeke
Eric Van Meir	15	Lierse
Tomasz Radzinski	14	Anderlecht
Dante Brogno	14	Charleroi
Marcin Żewłakow	14	Mouscron
Pär Zetterberg	14	Anderlecht

See also

• 1999–2000 in Belgian football

References

• (in French) Sport.be website - Archive