1998–99 Belgian First Division

96th season of top-tier football in Belgium Belgian First Division 1998–1999 Racing Genk KortrijkOostende Champions League Racing Genk UEFA Cup Club BruggeR.S.C. Anderlecht Jan Koller (24) 306 972 1997–98 1999-2000 The 1998–99 season of the Jupiler League was held between August 21, 1998, and May 16, 1999. Racing Genk became champions. Promoted teams Belgium right 450 Location of teams in Belgian First Division 1998–99 Belgium 50.933333 4.033333 Aalst bottom Belgium 50.833333 4.333333 Anderlecht bottom 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 50.833333 3.266667 Kortrijk left 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 51.233333 2.916667 Oostende top Belgium 51.083333 4.916667 Westerlo right Belgium 50.85 3.3 Harelbeke top These teams were promoted from the second division at the start of the season: Oostende (second division champions) Kortrijk (playoff winner) Relegated teams These teams were relegated to the second division at the end of the season: Kortrijk Oostende Genk's title success After a deceiving start of the competition Anderlecht managed to come back at the top of the ranking under the management of Jean Dockx and Franky Vercauteren even beating its long-time rival Standard Liège in a memorable 0-6 demonstration. Two matches before the end of the season, the ranking was as such: Pos Team Pld Pts 1. Genk 32 70 2. Brugge 32 68 3. Anderlecht 32 64 Those three teams were thus still able to win the championship. While Club Brugge lost its game to Mouscron 2-0, Anderlecht secured a 2-5 win to Genk. However the Racing did win its last match at Harelbeke and it thus became champion. Battle for Europe With Genk qualifying for the UEFA Champions League, Anderlecht and Brugge entered the UEFA Cup. The relegation dog fight Lommel avoided relegation by winning its last match 2-1 to Charleroi while the newcomer Kortrijk lost to Anderlecht. The other newcomer (Oostende) was already relegated at this moment. Final league table main WDL 5 QR GNK Genk BRG Club Brugge AND Anderlecht MOU Mouscron LOK Lokeren STA Standard Liège LIE Lierse GNT Gent STV Sint-Truiden BEE Germinal Ekeren ZWV Harelbeke WES Westerlo EEN Eendracht Aalst CHA Charleroi BEV Beveren LOM Lommel KOR Kortrijk OOS Oostende 22 7 5 74 38 C 22 5 7 65 38 21 7 6 76 39 19 9 6 76 47 17 6 11 69 61 17 3 14 55 47 16 6 12 72 47 14 10 10 55 59 14 9 11 52 46 14 7 13 48 46 10 11 13 44 46 11 7 16 56 62 9 8 17 48 66 7 11 16 40 54 8 6 20 33 60 7 7 20 33 56 6 7 21 49 81 R 4 10 20 27 79 R green1 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round CL2 blue2 Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round UCQ UCQ #ccccff Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round IC2 blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round UC1 #ccccff Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round IC1 red1 Relegation to 1999–2000 Belgian Second Division R R complete Results main FBR grey AAL AND BEV CLU CHA EKE GNK GNT HAR KOR LIE LOK LOM MOU OST STV STA WES Eendracht Aalst 0–0 0–1 0–2 2–2 5–0 1–2 0–2 2–2 1–1 1–4 3–3 3–1 1–4 4–0 1–3 1–0 3–2 Anderlecht 2–1 3–1 2–3 1–1 2–0 3–2 4–0 3–1 3–1 2–0 1–1 3–0 1–1 3–0 1–1 0–1 3–2 Beveren 0–2 2–1 1–2 1–2 2–1 1–0 0–3 0–3 2–2 1–3 1–2 0–0 1–4 5–0 0–1 0–6 1–0 Club Brugge 0–0 2–0 3–1 3–2 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–0 3–0 3–1 4–0 0–1 0–0 2–0 3–2 1–1 5–3 Charleroi 0–1 0–2 1–2 1–2 2–2 1–1 1–1 2–1 2–1 5–0 2–1 1–1 1–3 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–3 Germinal Ekeren 1–0 0–3 1–0 2–0 2–0 0–2 8–1 0–2 2–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–1 2–2 1–0 0–1 0–3 Genk 2–0 2–5 1–0 1–1 2–1 3–2 1–0 2–2 3–1 3–1 3–1 6–0 3–0 3–0 4–1 2–1 3–0 Gent 2–2 3–2 4–1 0–4 1–1 1–3 0–1 0–0 3–1 1–0 2–1 2–2 3–0 1–1 1–1 3–2 2–0 Harelbeke 5–1 1–2 1–1 0–2 1–1 0–4 1–2 2–2 1–0 3–1 3–2 1–1 0–4 2–1 1–1 1–1 1–2 Kortrijk 3–4 0–4 1–0 2–4 2–2 1–2 1–3 3–4 0–0 3–2 0–6 4–1 2–2 2–0 2–2 1–3 4–2 Lierse 3–1 0–0 3–0 5–2 4–0 1–0 1–1 1–2 3–1 5–1 2–3 2–1 1–2 4–2 6–0 3–0 5–1 Lokeren 6–2 2–3 4–3 2–0 3–1 1–1 2–0 1–4 1–0 2–1 2–0 2–1 0–0 1–2 2–1 4–1 3–0 Lommel 0–3 2–2 2–1 2–1 2–1 1–2 0–3 0–1 0–1 3–1 0–0 1–2 2–3 3–0 0–1 3–0 0–1 Mouscron 3–1 2–3 1–0 2–0 3–2 2–2 3–5 7–1 2–2 3–1 0–0 5–1 2–0 2–1 5–1 1–5 2–1 Oostende 4–1 0–2 1–1 1–4 0–0 0–1 1–1 2–2 1–0 1–3 0–6 0–0 1–1 2–4 0–1 2–1 1–1 Sint-Truiden 2–0 1–4 1–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 2–2 1–0 1–0 2–2 3–0 7–0 2–1 0–2 5–0 0–1 0–0 Standard Liège 3–0 0–6 1–2 3–0 2–0 1–0 2–4 2–0 0–2 2–1 2–2 2–4 1–0 2–0 3–0 2–0 2–0 Westerlo 1–1 6–0 0–0 1–2 1–0 2–4 1–1 3–3 0–3 2–0 0–2 4–3 2–1 1–1 7–0 1–4 3–1 complete Top scorers ScorerGoalsTeamCZE Jan Koller24LokerenBEL Branko Strupar18GenkGUI Souleymane Oularé17GenkCRO Zoran Ban16MouscronCAN Tomasz Radzinski15AnderlechtBEL Jochen Janssen15WesterloBEL Filip Fiers15Sint-TruidenseBEL Eric Van Meir14Lierse Attendances No. Club Average attendance Change Highest 1 Anderlecht 20,891 -2,2% 25,485 2 Genk 14,211 33,7% 17,000 3 Standard de Liège 13,265 9,7% 25,000 4 Club Brugge 12,284 -3,3% 26,000 5 Mouscron 7,700 3,0% 8,500 6 Lierse 7,435 -8,4% 12,000 7 STVV 7,088 -4,0% 14,000 8 Gent 7,066 -3,1% 9,000 9 Westerlo 6,182 -2,1% 10,500 10 Eendracht Aalst 5,794 -17,0% 9,000 11 Lokeren 5,600 6,4% 10,000 12 Harelbeke 5,600 8,2% 8,500 13 Lommel 5,559 -14,9% 12,500 14 Kortrijk 4,780 70,0% 9,000 15 Charleroi 4,565 -25,0% 7,000 16 Beveren 4,559 -17,3% 8,500 17 Germinal Ekeren 4,000 -18,6% 8,000 18 Oostende 3,968 23,8% 10,000Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/bel/avebel99.htm Historical attendances European-football-statistics.co.uk July 28, 2026 See also 1998–99 in Belgian football References fr Sport.be website – Archive Category:Belgian Pro League seasons Belgian 1 Category:Long stubs with short prose