2025–26 Belgian Pro League

The 2025–26 Belgian Pro League (officially known as the Jupiler Pro League due to sponsorship reasons) is the 123rd season of top-tier football in Belgium.

Belgian Pro League

Season	2025–26
Dates	25 July 2025 – 25 May 2026
← 2024–25 2026–27 → All statistics correct as of 18 April 2025.

Format change

The Belgian Pro League will expand to 18 teams for the 2026–27 season, after completion of the relegation play-offs, no teams will be relegated automatically and last team will be required to play a promotion/relegation decider against the winner of the 2025–26 Challenger Pro League promotion play-offs. The winner of this decider will play in the 2026–27 Belgian Pro League.^[1]

Teams

Zulte Waregem and La Louvière were promoted respectively as champions and runners-up of the 2024–25 Challenger Pro League. Zulte Waregem returned to the top level after just two seasons, while La Louvière play in top tier for the first time in their history for this season since folding of RAA Louviéroise (including four seasons playing at the third level). If counting the predecessor, they returned after a 19 year absence. They replaced Beerschot and Kortrijk who were relegated at the end of previous season.

Stadiums and locations

Anderlecht

Antwerp

Bruges

Charleroi

Dender EH

Genk

Gent

La Louvière

Mechelen

Standard Liège

OH Leuven

Sint-Truiden

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Union SG

Westerlo

Zulte Waregem

Bruges teams
Cercle Brugge
Club Brugge

Locations of the 2025–26 Belgian Pro League teams

Matricule	Club	Location	Venue	Capacity
35	Anderlecht	Anderlecht, Brussels	Constant Vanden Stock Stadium	21,500
1	Antwerp	Antwerp	Bosuilstadion	16,144
12	Cercle Brugge	Bruges	Jan Breydel Stadium	29,042
22	Charleroi	Charleroi	Stade du Pays de Charleroi	14,000
3	Club Brugge	Bruges	Jan Breydel Stadium	29,042
3900	Dender EH	Denderleeuw	Van Roystadion	06,429
322	Genk	Genk	Cegeka Arena	24,956
7	Gent	Ghent	Planet Group Arena	20,000
94	La Louvière	La Louvière	Easi Arena	8,050
25	Mechelen	Mechelen	AFAS-stadion Achter de Kazerne	16,700
18	OH Leuven	Leuven	Den Dreef	10,000
373	Sint-Truiden	Sint-Truiden	Stayen	14,600
16	Standard Liège	Liège	Stade Maurice Dufrasne	30,023
10	Union SG	Forest, Brussels	Stade Joseph Marien	09,400
2024	Westerlo	Westerlo	Het Kuipje	08,035
5381	Zulte Waregem	Waregem	Regenboogstadion	12,500

Number of teams by area

#	Province or region	Team(s)
3	Antwerp	Antwerp, Mechelen and Westerlo
	West Flanders	Cercle Brugge, Club Brugge and Zulte Waregem
2	Brussels	Anderlecht and Union SG
	East Flanders	Dender EH and Gent
	Hainaut	Charleroi and La Louvière
	Limburg	Genk and Sint-Truiden
1	Flemish Brabant	OH Leuven
	Liège	Standard Liège

Personnel and kits

Club	Manager	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Shirt sponsors (front)	Shirt sponsors (back)	Shirt sponsors (sleeve)	Shorts sponsor
Anderlecht	Besnik Hasi		Joma
Antwerp	Stef Wils		Stanno
Cercle Brugge	Onur Cinel		Puma
Charleroi	Rik De Mil		QNT Sport
Club Brugge	Nicky Hayen		Castore
Dender EH	Vincent Euvrard		Mills
Genk	Thorsten Fink		Nike
Gent	Ivan Leko		Craft
La Louvière	Frédéric Taquin		Puma
Mechelen	Frederic Vanderbiest		Erreà
OH Leuven	David Hubert		Stanno
Sint-Truiden	Wouter Vrancken		Olympic Sportswear
Standard Liège	Mircea Rednic		Macron
Union SG	Sébastien Pocognoli		Nike
Westerlo	Issame Charaï		Nike
Zulte Waregem	Sven Vandenbroeck		Patrick

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Gent	Danijel Milićević	Sacked	30 June 2025[2][3][4]	Pre-season	Ivan Leko	5 June 2025[2]
Standard Liège	Ivan Leko	Signed by Gent			Mircea Rednic	16 June 2025[5]
OH Leuven	Chris Coleman	Sacked			David Hubert	16 June 2025[6]
Westerlo	Timmy Simons	Mutual consent			Issame Charaï	17 June 2025[7]
Cercle Brugge	Bernd Storck				Onur Cinel	19 June 2025[8]
Antwerp	Andries Ulderink	End of contract			Stef Wils	22 June 2025[9]

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Union SG	3	2	1	0	9	3	+6	7	Qualification for the Europa League and Champions' play-offs[a]
2	Sint-Truiden	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7	Qualification for the Champions' play-offs
3	Mechelen	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7
4	Anderlecht	2	2	0	0	7	2	+5	6
5	Club Brugge	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
6	Standard Liège	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	4
7	Westerlo	3	1	0	2	5	7	−2	3	Qualification for the Europe play-offs
8	Gent	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3
9	Charleroi	2	0	2	0	3	3	0	2
10	Antwerp	2	0	2	0	2	2	0	2
11	Dender EH	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2
12	Genk	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	1
13	Zulte Waregem	2	0	1	1	2	4	−2	1	Qualification for the Relegation play-offs
14	Cercle Brugge	3	0	1	2	0	4	−4	1
15	OH Leuven	2	0	1	1	2	7	−5	1
16	La Louvière	2	0	0	2	0	3	−3	0

Updated to match(es) played on 9 August 2025. Source: Jupiler Pro League (in Dutch)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Away matches won; 6) Away goal difference; 7) Away goals scored; 8) Play-off.^[10]
Notes:

1. The regular season winner will qualify for the 2026–27 UEFA Europa League if not earning 2026–27 UEFA Champions League in the playoff.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after the completion of each round, with postponed matches and points deductions only included when occurring. Teams with fewer matches played are shown with their position underlined, with each line representing one fewer match.

Colored cells refer to being in Champions' Play-offs (green), in Europe Play-offs (blue) or Relegation play-offs (red).

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Anderlecht	1	1
Union SG	7	2
Sint-Truiden	2	3
Standard Liège	3	4
Mechelen	7	5
Club Brugge	4	6
Westerlo	16	7
Gent	14	8
Charleroi	5	9
Antwerp	9	10
Dender EH	11	11
Genk	13	12
Zulte Waregem	9	13
Cercle Brugge	11	14
OH Leuven	6	15
La Louvière	15	16

Updated to match(es) played on 3 August 2025. Source: vbal4.be

Results

Home \ Away	MEC	AND	STR	STA	CLU	CHA	OHL	USG	ANT	ZWA	CER	DEN	GNK	GNT	LAL	WES
Mechelen		–	–	–	2–1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Anderlecht	–		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	5–2
Sint-Truiden	–	–		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2–0	–	3–1	–	–
Standard Liège	–	–	–		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1–1	–	–	–	–
Club Brugge	–	–	–	–		–	–	–	–	–	2–0	–	2–1	–	–	–
Charleroi	–	–	1–1	–	–		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
OH Leuven	–	–	–	–	–	2–2		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Union SG	–	–	–	–	–	–	5–0		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Antwerp	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1–1		–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Zulte Waregem	1–1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		–	–	–	–	–	–
Cercle Brugge	–	0–2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		–	–	–	–	–
Dender EH	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0–0		–	–	–	–
Genk	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1–1	–	–	–		–	–	–
Gent	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2–3	–	–	–	–	–		1–0	–
La Louvière	–	–	–	0–2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		–
Westerlo	0–1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	3–1	–	–	–	–	–

Updated to match(es) played on 9 August 2025. Source: Kalender Pro League 2025-26
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

As of 9 August 2025

Despite teams not playing the same amount of matches due to the play-offs, goals during the play-offs do count in determining the top scorer.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Raul Florucz	Union Saint-Gilloise	3
	Thorgan Hazard	Anderlecht
	Ryotaro Ito	Sint Truiden
4	Adriano Bertaccini	Sint Truiden Anderlecht	2
	Vincent Janssen	Antwerp
	Christos Tzolis	Club Brugge

Notes

See also

• 2025–26 Challenger Pro League
• 2025–26 Belgian Division 1
• 2025–26 Belgian Division 2
• 2025–26 Belgian Division 3
• 2025–26 Belgian Cup