1997–98 Belgian First Division

95th season of top-tier football in Belgium Belgian First Division 1997–1998 8 August 1997 - 10 May 1998 Club Brugge K.R.C. Genk RWDMAntwerp Champions League Club Brugge Cup Winners' Cup Racing Genk UEFA Cup Beerschot ACAnderlecht Intertoto Cup RC HarelbekeLommel Branko Strupar (22) 306 904 1996–97 1998-99 The 1997–98 season of the Jupiler League was held between 8 August 1997 and 10 May 1998. Club Brugge became champions. Promoted teams Belgium right 450 Location of teams in Belgian First Division 1997–98 Belgium 50.933333 4.033333 Aalst bottom Belgium 50.833333 4.333333 AnderlechtMolenbeek bottom Belgium 51.2247 4.4625 Antwerp right Belgium 51.2 4.25 Beveren bottom Belgium 51.216667 4.4 Germinal Beerschot top Belgium 51.216667 3.233333 Club Brugge bottom Belgium 50.4 4.433333 Charleroi Belgium 50.833333 5.2 Sint-Truiden bottom Belgium 50.966667 5.5 Genk bottom Belgium 51.05 3.733333 Gent bottom Belgium 50.633333 5.566667 Standard Belgium 51.116667 4.583333 Lierse bottom Belgium 51.1 3.983333 Lokeren bottom Belgium 51.233333 5.3 Lommel right Belgium 50.733333 3.216667 Mouscron Belgium 51.083333 4.916667 Westerlo right Belgium 50.85 3.3 Racing Club Harelbeke top These teams were promoted from the second division at the start of the season: Beveren (second division champions) Westerlo (playoff winner) Relegated teams These teams were relegated to the second division at the end of the season: RWDM Antwerp Brugge's title success Club Brugge ended in first place 18 points ahead of Racing Genk. Battle for Europe Sporting Anderlecht finally qualified for the UEFA Cup by ending in 4th place as Genk (2nd) and Brugge (1st) played the Cup final. The third team to qualify for the UEFA Cup was Germinal Ekeren (3rd). The relegation dog fight RWDM was relegated following a 1-1 draw at Charleroi as the newcomer Beveren managed to draw against Germinal Ekeren on the 33rd matchday. With 4 points more than RWDM the club from Waasland then lost to Anderlecht on the last matchday whereas RWDM easily beat Lokeren by 5-1. Final league table main WDL QR y BRG Club Brugge GNK K.R.C. Genk BEE K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot AND R.S.C. Anderlecht HRB Racing Club Harelbeke LOK K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen LIE Lierse S.K. GNT K.A.A. Gent STA Standard Liège MOU R.E. Mouscron LOM K.F.C. Lommel S.K. WES K.V.C. Westerlo CHA R. Charleroi S.C. STV K. Sint-Truidense V.V. EEN K.S.C. Eendracht Aalst BEV K.S.K. Beveren RWDM R.W.D. Molenbeek ANT R. Antwerp F.C. 26 6 2 78 29 20 6 8 65 40 17 7 10 60 48 16 9 9 53 37 15 10 9 50 31 16 4 14 68 68 14 8 12 54 45 11 14 9 50 44 11 10 13 53 50 11 8 15 39 45 10 11 13 46 50 9 14 11 52 56 9 12 13 46 57 8 13 13 32 45 9 9 16 51 66 7 11 16 30 48 8 7 19 39 74 6 7 21 38 71 #b0ee90 Qualified for 1998–99 UEFA Champions League Club Brugge competed in the UEFA Cup after losing their Champions League Second Qualifying Round tie. CL #f0e68c Qualified for 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup CWC #97deff Qualified for 1998–99 UEFA Cup UC UC #ccffff Qualified for 1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup IC IC #ffb0b0 Relegated to Division II R R complete Results main FBR grey AAL AND ANT BEV CLU CHA EKE GNK GNT HAR LIE LOK LOM MOL MOU STV STA WES Eendracht Aalst 2–3 2–0 3–0 1–4 7–2 1–3 1–1 2–0 3–2 1–3 1–5 2–1 0–2 1–3 3–2 1–1 2–3 Anderlecht 3–1 2–2 2–0 0–1 3–1 4–0 0–2 2–2 1–0 2–0 5–0 2–0 0–2 1–2 1–0 2–0 1–0 Antwerp 1–1 0–1 1–0 0–1 2–4 3–2 2–1 0–0 0–2 3–2 1–2 2–1 1–0 1–2 0–4 3–5 0–0 Beveren 0–0 0–1 0–2 1–2 1–0 0–1 0–2 1–1 1–0 1–2 3–0 2–2 1–0 1–1 1–1 2–3 2–0 Club Brugge 4–1 2–1 3–2 3–1 3–2 1–3 2–0 2–1 2–1 2–1 5–0 2–0 4–1 1–0 6–0 0–0 3–1 Charleroi 1–1 3–0 2–1 0–0 2–2 3–2 1–2 1–1 3–3 3–0 2–0 1–2 1–1 3–0 0–0 2–1 1–1 Germinal Ekeren 2–3 1–0 2–0 1–1 2–2 5–0 4–3 1–3 0–2 1–1 4–2 1–0 3–1 2–2 1–0 0–3 1–0 Genk 3–2 2–1 1–1 3–0 3–0 4–0 4–2 2–1 1–0 1–3 1–0 3–0 3–0 0–2 0–0 1–1 5–5 Gent 0–0 1–1 0–0 3–2 0–4 3–1 0–2 1–2 0–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 3–4 0–0 1–1 4–1 6–0 Harelbeke 2–1 1–1 3–1 1–1 0–1 0–0 3–1 2–0 3–0 0–2 3–2 1–1 4–1 5–1 3–1 2–0 0–0 Lierse 1–1 0–1 2–1 2–0 2–4 1–1 1–1 1–2 1–2 1–1 3–0 1–4 1–1 2–0 1–0 3–1 3–1 Lokeren 4–1 2–1 5–0 1–2 1–1 3–2 1–3 1–5 3–2 1–0 4–2 2–1 5–0 2–1 0–2 1–3 3–0 Lommel 2–2 2–2 5–2 3–1 1–1 2–1 1–1 3–1 0–1 0–0 1–2 1–5 3–1 1–0 1–1 2–2 2–1 Molenbeek 1–1 2–2 2–0 1–1 0–2 1–2 0–4 1–1 0–2 0–1 0–3 5–1 1–2 2–1 2–0 1–4 1–2 Mouscron 2–0 2–2 2–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 0–1 0–2 1–1 1–0 2–0 1–3 2–1 4–0 1–3 3–2 0–2 Sint-Truiden 2–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–2 2–0 2–0 0–2 3–3 1–2 0–5 2–2 0–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–0 Standard Liège 3–0 1–2 2–2 1–2 0–3 2–0 0–2 3–0 3–3 0–1 0–0 1–3 1–0 4–0 1–1 2–0 2–2 Westerlo 0–3 2–2 5–2 3–0 2–2 1–1 1–1 0–2 0–1 2–2 1–1 3–3 1–1 5–1 2–1 4–1 2–0 complete Top goal scorers ScorerGoalsTeamCRO Branko Strupar22Racing GenkCAN Tomasz Radzinski19Germinal EkerenDEN Peter Lässen15Eendracht AalstBEL Gunther Hofmans15Germinal EkerenGUI Souleymane Oularé14Racing Genk Attendances No. Club Average attendance Change Highest 1 Anderlecht 21,353 10,3% 28,161 2 Club Brugge 12,706 -3,4% 16,000 3 Standard de Liège 12,088 -2,1% 20,000 4 Genk 10,629 20,1% 17,000 5 Lierse 8,118 -5,8% 14,000 6 Mouscron 7,476 -4,1% 9,000 7 STVV 7,382 -11,0% 13,500 8 Gent 7,294 -0,9% 16,000 9 Eendracht Aalst 6,982 4,5% 9,000 10 Lommel 6,529 -5,1% 12,500 11 Westerlo 6,312 109,2% 10,500 12 Charleroi 6,088 4,3% 14,000 13 Beveren 5,512 71,9% 9,000 14 Lokeren 5,265 -9,6% 13,000 15 Harelbeke 5,176 -3,3% 9,000 16 Germinal Beerschot 4,912 16,8% 8,000 17 Molenbeek 4,647 -15,1% 8,000 18 Antwerp 3,941 -38,5% 7,000Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/bel/avebel98.htm Historical attendances European-football-statistics.co.uk August 28, 2026 See also 1997–98 in Belgian football References fr Sport.be website – Archive Category:Belgian Pro League seasons Belgian 1 Category:Long stubs with short prose