The 2013–14 season of the Women's BeNe League is the second season of the Belgium and Netherlands' women's football top level league. The defending champion is FC Twente. The season started on 30 August 2013 and is played in a single division contrary to last season.
Originally planned as a 16 team league, one team withdrew before the season and another one withdrew during the season. Thus 14 teams made the final standings.
With six matches to spare Standard Liège already was set as the best placed Belgian side. The league was won by Twente for the second time in a row.
Format The format with a national stage first and a second joint stage was discarded. The seven Dutch and seven Belgian teams played a double round-robin in which played each other two times, thus each team played 26 matches.
Teams The league shall be played by eight Dutch and eight Belgian teams. Eight Belgian teams got a licence for the league, some teams need to for file some obligations. Two club did not return in the League, Zulte Waregem did not apply for a license and Beerschot AC didn't get one due to problems of the club in the male league. Shortly before the start Belgium side K. St-Truidense VV did withdraw from the season.
At 21 January the female soccer club FC Utrecht went bankrupt. The team is out of competition and all games played are taken from the scoreboard. They played their last game on 24 January. Royal Antwerp also left the BeNe League for financial reasons after the season.
Team Country Home city Home ground Standard Fémina de Liège Belgium Liège Complexe Standard de Liège RSC Anderlecht Belgium Anderlecht RSCA Football Academy WD Lierse SK Belgium Lier Herman Vanderpoortenstadion Club Brugge Dames Belgium Bruges Olympiapark Oud-Heverlee Leuven Belgium Heverlee Gemeentelijk Stadion AA Gent Ladies Belgium Ghent PGB-Stadion Royal Antwerp F.C. Belgium Antwerp Bosuilstadion ADO Den Haag Netherlands The Hague Kyocera Stadion FC Twente Netherlands Enschede De Grolsch Veste Telstar Netherlands Velsen TATA Steel Stadion PEC Zwolle Netherlands Zwolle IJsseldelta Stadion SC Heerenveen Netherlands Heerenveen Sportpark Skoatterwâld AFC Ajax Netherlands Amsterdam Sportpark De Toekomst PSV/FC Eindhoven Netherlands Eindhoven Jan Louwers Stadion FC Utrecht Netherlands Utrecht Sportpark Elinkwijk
Standings All teams play in a single group this season. The best placed Belgium and Dutch team qualify for the Champions League. All games played by Utrecht have been deleted from the table. They stood in 11th place after 16 matches, when they were removed from the table.
League table
Results
Topscorers Miedema won the topscorer award with 39 goals.
Pos.PlayerClubGoals1 Vivianne Miedema Heerenveen392 Ellen Jansen Twente243 Pauline Crammer Anderlecht214 Renate Jansen ADO Den Haag205 Vanity Lewerissa Standard196 Anouk Dekker Twente18 Aline Zeler Standard8 Marianne van Brummelen PEC Zwolle16 Tessa Wullaert Standard10 Jill Roord Twente14
References
External links Official website