The 2006–07 season is the 104th competitive season in Belgian football.

Overview Following promotion from the Belgian Second Division, Mons have returned to the Belgian First Division immediately after dropping to the second division during the 2004–2005 season. La Louvière has dropped from the first division after finishing last, they were also refused a licence which caused them to drop two levels and so they now play in the Belgian Third Division.

Honours CompetitionWinnerBelgian First DivisionAnderlechtCupClub BruggeSupercupAnderlechtSecond divisionDender EHThird division ATournaiThird division BOlympic Charleroi

Events

June June 12, 2006 – Fixtures for the 2006-07 Belgian First Division released.

July July 13, 2006 – Roeselare is the first Belgian team to compete in Europe this season as they take part in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup. They win their very first European match ever, 2–1, against Macedonian side Vardar away in Skopje. July 16, 2006 – In the Intertoto Cup, Gent loses the first leg of their tie with Grasshoppers Zürich 2–1 in Zürich. July 22, 2006 – The Belgian Supercup, played at the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium between Anderlecht and Zulte-Waregem, is abandoned at half-time at a score of 0–0 due to heavy rainfall. July 22, 2006 – Gent manages a 1–1 draw at home to Grasshoppers, and so does not progress to in UEFA Cup, losing 2–3 on aggregate. July 24, 2006 – The Profliga announced that the Supercup match between Anderlecht and Zulte-Waregem will be replayed on 1 September. However, both teams confirmed that the match will be replayed, but that they have not agreed on the date yet. July 27, 2006 – Roeselare qualifies for the second round of the UEFA Cup after defeating Vardar for the second time, this time by a comfortable 5–1 margin, winning 7–2 on aggregate. July 28, 2006 – Standard Liège escapes from big names as Valencia, Liverpool and Ajax in the UEFA Champions League draw as they get drawn together with the winner of the match between ND Gorica and Steaua București in the third qualification round. Steaua looks to become the opponent as they already have won the first leg of the match over Gorica. July 28, 2006 – Club Brugge and Roeselare receive their opponents in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup: FK Sūduva and Ethnikos Achna, respectively. July 28, 2006 – Club Brugge plays Gent in the first match of the domestic season, winning 5–0. July 29, 2006 – Official start of the first division with five more matches.

August August 2, 2006 – It is now sure that Steaua București will be the opponent of Standard Liège in the third qualification round of the Champions League as they also beat ND Gorica in the return leg. August 9, 2006 – Steaua București, the opponent of Standard Liège in the third qualification round of the Champions League, has the best chances of progressing to the group stage as the first leg ends 2–2 at Sclessin in Liège. August 10, 2006 – Both FK Sūduva and Ethnikos Achna FC prove not strong enough for Club Brugge and K.S.V. Roeselare respectively as both Belgian teams win their first match. K.S.V. Roeselare won 2–1 at home and still has some work to do in the return leg in Cyprus while Club Brugge looks sure of progressing to the UEFA Cup proper as they won 0–2 away from home in Sūduva stadium, Marijampolė. August 16, 2006 – The match between Belgium and Kazakhstan (141st on the FIFA World Rankings) ends in a scoreless 0–0 draw and just like the previous qualifying campaigns the "Red Devils" don't get off to a good start. August 23, 2006 – Standard Liège start good in the second leg of the third qualification round of the Champions League as they score after three minutes already away to Steaua București and almost manage to make it 0-2 a few minutes later. However, in the end they lose 2-1 after two goals from Valentin Badea. As a result, Standard Liège will play in the UEFA Cup. Elsewhere, R.S.C. Anderlecht loses to Real Madrid 2–1 in the Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu. In Belgium, the Second Division 2006-07 season gets underway, as the first matchday is played. August 24, 2006 – In the heat of Cyprus, K.S.V. Roeselare gets stomped 5-0 by Ethnikos Achna FC and so loses its 2–1 lead from the first leg, they are eliminated from European football for this season. Extreme amounts have been registered at the betting agencies always predicting a large win for the Cypriots, as a result UEFA is investigating this match and others of Ethnikos Achna FC for corruption/bribery. Club Brugge makes a few mistakes as Lithuanian team FK Sūduva manage to come back to 2-2 after having led 2–0, however they then pump up the pace and finally it ends 5–2. Club Brugge goes on into the Uefa Cup first round. Meanwhile, R.S.C. Anderlecht gets drawn into group H of the UEFA Champions League together with AC Milan, Lille OSC and AEK Athens. Their first match is scheduled on September 13 at home to Lille OSC. August 25, 2006 – The draw for the Uefa Cup first round is concluded, Club Brugge gets paired with Slovak champions MFK Ružomberok, Standard Liège has to play against Celta de Vigo from Spain and Zulte-Waregem faces a long trip to Moscow to meet up with FC Lokomotiv Moscow. Club Brugge and Zulte-Waregem get to play their first match away from home, Standard Liège starts with hosting the first leg. August 30, 2006 – Johan Boskamp gets fired as manager of Standard Liège after only scoring 2 out of 12 in the league and failure to qualify for the UEFA Champions League. The technical director at Standard Liège, Michel Preud'homme, takes over his job.

September September 6, 2006 – After the bad start to the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying campaign, Belgium now beats Armenia in Yerevan by a narrow 1-0 margin. Daniel Van Buyten scores with a well placed header a few minutes before halftime. Belgium played a moderate match with low quality of play, however the abominable state of the field was also a reason for that. September 9, 2006 – In the first division, on matchday 5, leaders R.S.C. Anderlecht lose their perfect record as a late goal by R.E. Mouscron's Adnan Ćustović ends the game in a 1–1 draw. Meanwhile, Standard Liège win their first match of the season, 1–3 away to Lierse S.K. September 11, 2006 – It is announced that the Belgian Supercup between league champions R.S.C. Anderlecht and cup winners S.V. Zulte-Waregem, which was originally abandoned at half time due to excessive rain on July 22, will be replayed on 20 December. September 13, 2006 – R.S.C. Anderlecht has not won their opening match for several years in the UEFA Champions League and also this year they don't manage to win. Against Lille OSC, the match ends in a 1–1 draw as both teams had several chances, Anderlecht mainly in the first half and Lille mainly in the second half. September 14, 2006 – FC Lokomotiv Moscow is very patient as they wait for good chances to appear against S.V. Zulte-Waregem in the Uefa Cup first round match and their tactics seem to pay off as after 90 minutes Loskov and Ivanović have set the 2–0 on the board. However, in the 94th minute, Jonas Vandermarliere scores the all-important away goal and thereby causes the return match to be very exciting. Meanwhile, Standard Liège is overrun for 90 minutes at home as they struggle to create any chances against Celta de Vigo, in the end they're lucky to just lose 0-1 and as they leave the field, they are booed by the home crowd. In Slovakia, Club Brugge struggles in the opening few minutes against MFK Ružomberok, but then they take over and after a free-kick goal by Boško Balaban they control the match to prevent the Slovak team from scoring, in which they succeed to make for a 1–0 victory away from home. September 26, 2006 – Again a 1–1 draw for R.S.C. Anderlecht in the UEFA Champions League, this time against AEK Athens. Anderlecht took the lead in the first half through Nicolás Frutos but the equaliser followed just minutes later from Júlio César. September 28, 2006 – Return matches of the first round of the UEFA Cup 2006-07: Standard Liège plays a decent match, but when Karel Geraerts misses a penalty kick, the morale is gone and eventually Celta de Vigo wins the return match 3–0. Against MFK Ružomberok, Club Brugge plays very poorly but eventually they go through after a last minute equaliser by Boško Balaban. The stunt of the day comes from S.V. Zulte-Waregem as they beat FC Lokomotiv Moscow 2–0 at home to go through into the group stage. September 30, 2006 – In the first division, joint leaders R.S.C. Anderlecht and K.R.C. Genk play against each other on the 8th matchday. Anderlecht, at that time recognised by many as the most probable champions for the current season solely on strength of the squad, loses out 1–4 on their home ground, where they had not been beaten since February 2005. Genk are the new leaders.

October October 3, 2006 – The draw for the Uefa Cup 2006-07 Group Stage is concluded, with Club Brugge ending up in group B together with Bayer Leverkusen, Beşiktaş, Dinamo Bucharest and Tottenham Hotspur while S.V. Zulte-Waregem gets paired with Ajax, Sparta Prague, Espanyol and Austria Vienna in group F. October 6, 2006 – The KBVB/URBSFA met with representatives of the city of Brussels and together they agreed to renew the contract concerning the King Baudouin Stadium and extend it to June 30, 2008. As of November 15, 2006 against Poland national football team on, the Belgium national team will play in the King Baudouin Stadium again. October 7, 2006 – In the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying tournament, Belgium loses 1–0 to Serbia in Belgrade. In the first half, the Belgians never got into trouble but did not create many chances themselves, while in the second half it was Serbia having control. Serbia scored with more than half an hour to go through Nikola Žigić and Belgium tried to respond, but never managed to score. October 11, 2006 – Belgium easily beats Azerbaijan 3–0 in Anderlecht. For the first time since long, the Belgian team manages to score more than one goal when it matters. October 17, 2006 – After a red card for Daniele Bonera early in the second half, it looked promising for R.S.C. Anderlecht to take some points in the UEFA Champions League match at home to A.C. Milan. However they did not manage to score whereas Kaká for Milan did with a slightly deviated shot from about 20 meters. The game ended 0–1. October 19, 2006 – In the UEFA Cup 2006-07, Bayer Leverkusen holds Club Brugge to a 1–1 draw in Bruges. In Vienna, S.V. Zulte-Waregem beats Austria Vienna 4–1 with the help of three goals from Tim Matthys. October 21–22, 2006 – Apart from Mons, who already joined (and got eliminated) in round 4, the other teams from the first division enter the Belgian Cup in round 6 during this weekend. Charleroi, Beveren and Lokeren lose to Hamme, Lierse and Antwerp respectively on Saturday. While on Sunday Cercle Brugge and Brussels, two more teams from the first division are also knocked out of the cup. With one more match of Round 6 to go, only 11 remain. For Lierse, this is the very first victory this season, as they are in last position in the league with just 1 point out of 9 matches. October 25, 2006 – KV Mechelen is the last team to qualify for Round 7 of the Belgian Cup as they beat Germinal Beerschot 1-0 after extra time. October 26, 2006 – The draw for the Seventh round of the Belgian Cup yields no big clashes as Standard Liège and R.S.C. Anderlecht get home matches against Division Two teams and RC Genk and Club Brugge also play at home against Mouscron and Westerlo. October 29, 2006 – After losing in the cup to Belgian Second Division team Antwerp and a 4–1 loss to Westerlo in the league, Ariël Jacobs is the second manager to get fired this season as he is sacked by Lokeren.

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