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after which the league splits into two halves, with the top 6 teams battling for promotion to the Belgian First Division A which only goes to the top team at the end of the season after 32 matches, while the bottom 6 also meet each other but with the goal of avoiding finishing last as this team will be relegated. Promotion/relegation playoffs are no longer organized, only the top and the bottom team at the end of the season change leagues. Furthermore, U23 teams will be able to be relegated from or promoted into the Belgian First Division B, but cannot earn promotion to the Belgian First Division A. The league was renamed to
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From the 2023–24 season onwards, the league was expanded again to 16 teams, as from this season 4 teams U23 from top tier club will play in separate competitions but rather join the regular competition. After the end of the season, two teams will be directly promoted to Belgian Pro League, four teams
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From the 2022–23 season, the league was expanded to 12 teams, as from this season U23-teams no longer play in separate competitions but rather join the regular competition. To accommodate this expansion, the league format was changed again. Now all teams play a regular round-robin round (22 matches),
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The 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons no longer involved two separate competitions, but rather one quadruple round-robin league in which all teams play each other four times. At the end of the season, the top-ranked team was crowned champions and promoted, while the second-placed team earned a two-legged
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During Belgian Second Division era from 1973 to 2016, the second division winner and the play-off winner promote to the first division. From 2016 on, the second division winner is no longer guaranteed promotion. The league is divided in two periods of 15 games. The winners of a period compete each
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will battle in the promotion play-off round with 6 matches. The team that finishes in top position at Play-off round will battle against the 2nd of the relegation play-offs in the Belgian Pro League. The two bottom teams will be directly relegated to Belgian National Division 1.
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which was ineligible for promotion/relegation as a youth team). However, the general meeting of the Pro League decided on 16 March that no team would be relegated, as the
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For the remaining teams, until 2019, the top three teams (excluding the promoted team), played together with the teams finishing in the positions 7 through 15 of the
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in which all 8 teams played each other twice. The winners of both competitions faced each other in a two-legged playoff with the winner crowned champions and
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went bankrupt and was removed as a team. As a result, Tubize remained in the Belgian First Division B while the matricule of Lierse was removed.
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which saw the number of professional clubs reduced to 24 and the number of teams at the second level of the football pyramid to 8.
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other in a final. If a team wins both periods, no final is played and it automatically rises to the highest level. In 2017,
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were relegated as they were refused a professional football license due to insufficient proof of financial solvency.
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went bankrupt and was removed as a team. As a result, Seraing remained in the Challenger Pro League.
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became champion of the league, but no promotion was allowed because they did not win a period.
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prohibiting amateur football, causing no team to be promoted from that league to fill the gap.
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had been canceled due to measures taken by the Belgian government against the spread of
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for a place in the top division. The team finishing in last place was relegated to the
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acquired the broadcasting rights to all professional league games (1A, 1B and the
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The Belgian First Division B was created in 2016 as the successor of the
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was refused a professional football licence and thus relegated instead.
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would have been relegated due to finishing in last place (except for
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broadcasts one random game every week. As of the 2020–21 season,
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were promoted as the First Division A was expanded to 18 teams.
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From its inception in 2016 until 2020, the season consisted of
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RWD Molenbeek lost the promotion playoff and was not promoted.
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Seraing won the promotion playoff and was promoted as well.
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For the 2024–25 season the following clubs will take part.
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promotion playoff against the 17th-place finisher from the
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finished in 15th place and would have been relegated,
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broadcasts every game whilst it sponsored the league,
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It was created by the 1276:no playoffs this season 231:Belgian Second Division 209:Belgian Second Division 207:in 2016, replacing the 2070:Bosnia and Herzegovina 199:, one level below the 188:, previously known as 2538:Challenger Pro League 2507:Serbia and Montenegro 1808:Challenger Pro League 1746:Challenger Pro League 1682:Site-Sportmagazine-NL 1002:Past results overview 329:Challenger Pro League 186:Challenger Pro League 22:Challenger Pro League 1462:coronavirus pandemic 655:class=notpageimage| 2417:2. Oberliga Südwest 2166:Republic of Ireland 2018:leagues of Europe ( 349:Members for 2024–25 23: 2396:2. Bundesliga Nord 1859:Lierse Kempenzonen 1761:Belgian Division 3 1756:Belgian Division 2 1741:Belgian Pro League 1496:Lierse Kempenzonen 827:Lierse Kempenzonen 287:UEFA Europa League 257:Competition format 253:played the final. 201:Belgian Pro League 95:Belgian Pro League 21: 2525: 2524: 2403:2. 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