Jupiler Pro League

Jupiler Pro League

The Belgian Division 1A football championship, currently called "Jupiler Pro League", official name from its sponsor "Jupiler" is the level highest national Belgian football competition since 1895. It brings together 18 first teams from professional clubs from different provinces. This national competition is played in two phases: the regular season and the play-offs.

The most successful Belgian clubs in this competition are the RSC Anderlecht with 34 titles, the Football Club Brugge with 16, the Union Saint-Gilloise with 11 and the Standard with 10. On this web page you can see, consult all the results of the matches of the seasons going from 2023-2024 to 2009-2010.

The Pro League in streaming

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The Different Phases

Regular Competition

The Jupiler Pro League part "Regular Season" is played in 30 Days from August to March.

The Play-offs

Play-offs 1

PO1: the TOP 4 of the top ranked first clubs play back and forth matches. The number of points of the classic championship is divided into 2 to start these Play-offs 1.

Play-offs 2

PO2: Belgian clubs classified from 5th to 8th place compete in Play-offs 2. These clubs are divided into a group of four. All teams start these PO2s with zero points and meet twice (home and away).

European tickets

The Belgian Champion: qualified for the group stage of the Champions League

Second Belgian league: qualified for the third qualifying round of the Champions League

Winner of the Belgian Cup: qualified for the Europa League group stage

Winner of the classic phase of the league: qualified for the third qualifying round Europa League

Winner of the POI - POII test match: qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round

Play-offs

From the 2020-2021 season, an additional D1B club will have the opportunity to join. The decision on promotion or retention will be made through 2 round-trip play-offs between 15th in Jupiler Pro League and second in D1B.

Structure of Belgian football

Here are the 2 levels of the football championship divisions close to the D1A:

  1. Higher level of competition; none.
  2. Lower competition level, named Division 1B or Proximus League

History of the name

1895-1904 Championship Cup

1904-1926 First Division

1926-1952 Division of Honor

1952-1993 First Division

1993-2008 Jupiler League

2008-2016 Jupiler Pro League

2016-present Jupiler Pro League (1A)

Official website

The JPL category of the sport.be website represents the official site. Here is the link: no have in English