2024–25 Belgian Division 1

Belgian Division 1
Season	2024–25
Dates	31 August 2024 - 29 May 2025
	← 2023–24 2025–26 →

The 2024–25 Belgian Division 1 is the ninth season of the third-tier football league. It is the first season in which the division is split into two groups VV and ACFF.

Team changes

Out

RAAL La Louvière were promoted to the Challenger Pro League as champions.
Lokeren-Temse were promoted to the Challenger Pro League as runners-up.
Sint-Eloois-Winkel folded at the end of last season.
Visé was refused a license and forced to relegate.

In

SL16 FC were relegated from the Challenger Pro League.
Belisia Bilzen and Mons as champions in the VV B and ACFF divisions of the Belgian Division 2.
Ninove was automatically promoted as runners-up of the VV A division of the Belgian Division 2 as champions Eendracht Aalst had been refused a license.
On VV-side, four teams were promoted via the Promotion play-offs VV: Jong Cercle, Hasselt, Lyra-Lierse Berlaar and Merelbeke.
On ACFF-side, all four teams taking part in the Promotion play-offs ACFF were promoted: Binche, Rochefort, Tournai and Tubize-Braine.
Furthermore, two more spots were available on ACFF side, awarded to highest eligible finishers Stockay and Union SG B.

Format changes

Expanding regionalization to all of amateur football for this season saw the league's twenty-eight teams split into two groups:

VV consisting of sixteen teams, which will play 38 matches with no play-off.
ACFF consisting of twelve teams, which will play 22 matches with play-off matches, as finishing top six clubs will battle for promotion play-off and bottom six clubs will battle for relegation play-off.

VV

Locations of the 2024–25 Belgian National Division 1 VV teams

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Tienen	17	10	2	5	29	15	14	32	Promoted to the Challenger Pro League
2	Ninove	18	9	5	4	24	13	11	32
3	Jong KAA Gent	17	9	4	4	34	23	11	31
4	Knokke	18	7	9	2	28	18	10	30
5	Hasselt	17	8	4	5	25	15	10	28
6	Belisia	17	8	4	5	26	23	3	28
7	Lyra-Lierse Berlaar	17	7	5	5	33	27	6	26
8	Thes	18	7	4	7	32	30	2	25
9	Hoogstraten	17	7	4	6	25	24	1	25
10	Dessel	18	7	3	8	36	30	6	24
11	Jong Cercle	17	6	4	7	22	28	−6	22
12	Young Reds Antwerp	17	4	8	5	23	27	−4	20
13	Cappellen	17	5	4	8	25	36	−11	19
14	OH Leuven U-23	17	4	4	9	20	31	−11	16
15	Merelbeke	17	2	5	10	16	33	−17	11	Relegation to Division 2
16	Heist	17	1	5	11	16	41	−25	8	Relegation to Division 2

Updated to match(es) played on 19 January 2025. Source: Nationaal : 1st klasse (in Dutch)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Away matches won.^[1]

Results

Home \ Away	TIE	GNT	BEL	HAS	NIN	KNO	TES	HOO	LLB	DES	CER	CAP	YRA	OHL	MER	HEI
Tienen	—	1–0	26 Jan	2–1	1–0	16 Mar	9 Feb	12 Jan	0–3	2–1	6 Apr	4–0	13 Apr	23 Feb	2–0	3–0
Jong KAA Gent	1 Feb	—	0–1	1–2	8 Mar	2–1	18 Jan	12 Apr	22 Mar	3–1	15 Feb	11 Jan	1–1	5 Apr	2–2	2–2
Belisia	0–4	16 Mar	—	27 Apr	1–2	23 Feb	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–3	3–0	30 Mar	2 Feb	12 Jan	1–1	9 Feb
Hasselt	8 Mar	0–3	0–0	—	1–0	18 Jan	5 Apr	22 Mar	15 Feb	2–0	1–1	3–0	3–0	1–0	12 Apr	25 Jan
Ninove	29 Mar	3–1	12 Apr	15 Mar	—	1–0	11 Jan	0–0	1 Feb	1–1	2–1	18 Jan	0–1	2–0	2–0	22 Feb
Knokke	2–0	26 Jan	1–1	2–2	16 Feb	—	23 Mar	2 Feb	3–1	12 Jan	9 Mar	2–2	1–0	2–0	30 Mar	13 Apr
Thes	0–1	2–2	15 Feb	2–1	2–1	2–2	—	3–2	3–3	1–1	1 Feb	12 Apr	2–1	15 Mar	5–0	29 Mar
Hoogstraten	0–0	0–4	5 Apr	1–0	8 Feb	1–2	22 Feb	—	1–2	15 Mar	27 Apr	0–1	18 Jan	3–0	2–1	2–1
Lyra-Lierse Berlaar	2–2	1–2	18 Jan	1–0	2–2	8 Feb	27 Apr	29 Mar	—	22 Feb	0–1	2–2	2–2	25 Jan	4–1	15 Mar
Dessel	18 Jan	29 Mar	8 Mar	1 Feb	22 Mar	2–2	5–0	2–3	5–1	—	3–2	4–1	15 Feb	12 Apr	3–1	0–1
Jong Cercle	1–0	0–4	0–0	23 Feb	26 Jan	0–0	0–4	2–4	13 Apr	9 Feb	—	16 Mar	30 Mar	2–0	19 Jan	4–2
Cappellen	22 Mar	2–3	1–3	9 Feb	0–1	5 Apr	2–1	25 Jan	9 Mar	27 Apr	1–2	—	2–2	2–2	15 Feb	3–2
Young Reds Antwerp	2–0	8 Feb	0–4	11 Jan	0–0	27 Apr	25 Jan	2–2	6 Apr	2–1	0–4	22 Feb	—	3–3	15 Mar	5–0
OH Leuven U23	1–3	0–2	4–2	30 Mar	27 Apr	1–2	3–1	16 Feb	0–2	3–2	23 Mar	2 Feb	9 Mar	—	1–0	19 Jan
Merelbeke	27 Apr	22 Feb	22 Mar	0–3	5 Apr	1–1	8 Mar	1–3	11 Jan	25 Jan	4–2	0–1	1–1	8 Feb	—	3–0
Heist	15 Feb	27 Apr	1–3	1–4	1–1	1–1	0–1	8 Mar	1–2	5 Apr	11 Jan	1–5	22 Mar	1–1	1 Feb	—

Updated to match(es) played on 15 December 2024. Source: Nationaal : 1st klasse (in Dutch)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 15 December 2024.^[2]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Tibe Vanhaeren	Thes	11
2	Yacine Bentayeb	Dessel	10
3	Nicolas Orye	Hasselt	9
4	Jordy Peffer	Lyra-Lierse Berlaar	8
4	Laurens Symons	Cappellen	8
6	Abubakar Abdullahi	Jong KAA Gent	7
	Umar Abubakar	Jong KAA Gent
	Jef Colman	Heist
	Franck Idumbo-Muzambo	OH Leuven U23
	Vancy Mabanza	Tienen

6 goals (6 players)

5 goals (6 players)

4 goals (11 players)

2 goals (29 players)

1 goal (69 players)

2 own goals (1 player)

Maxim Volant (Lyra-Lierse Berlaar, scored for Belisia and Young Reds Antwerp)

1 own goal (9 players)

Nando Nöstlinger (Cappellen, scored for Hasselt)
Seppe Somers (Cappellen, scored for Dessel)
Lars Michiels (Dessel, scored for Lyra-Lierse Berlaar)
Axel Dierickx (Heist, scored for Cappellen)
Mats Sterkens (Lyra-Lierse Berlaar, scored for Dessel)
Gianni Vets (Lyra-Lierse Berlaar, scored for Cappellen)
Koen Weuts (Lyra-Lierse Berlaar, scored for Dessel)
Gillis Verhelst (Merelbeke, scored for Cappellen)
Sam Vanaken (Thes, scored for Belisia)

ACFF

Locations of the 2024–25 Belgian National Division 1 ACFF teams

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Mons (Q)	18	11	5	2	35	13	22	38	Qualification for Promotion play-offs
2	Tubize-Braine (Q)	18	11	4	3	38	18	20	37
3	Olympic Charleroi (Q)	18	11	4	3	42	23	19	37
4	Virton	18	10	2	6	28	24	4	32
5	Rochefort	18	7	6	5	25	25	0	27
6	Stockay	18	7	4	7	27	28	−1	25
7	Zébra Élites	18	5	7	6	19	23	−4	22	Qualification for Relegation play-offs
8	Tournai	18	4	8	6	17	23	−6	20
9	Union Namur	18	5	3	10	20	33	−13	18
10	Binche	18	3	7	8	25	33	−8	16
11	Union SG B	18	3	5	10	19	33	−14	14
12	SL16 FC	18	2	3	13	16	35	−19	9

Updated to match(es) played on 19 January 2025. Source: Nationaal : 1st klasse (in Dutch)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Away matches won.^[3]
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated

Results

Home \ Away	MON	OLC	TUB	VIR	ROC	STO	ZEB	UNA	TOU	BIN	USG	STL
Mons	—	2–2	25 Jan	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	2–0	5–0	16 Feb	3–1
Olympic Charleroi	18 Jan	—	3–2	2–1	2–3	2–1	8 Feb	3–0	2–0	4–1	1–1	3–1
Tubize-Braine	0–0	4–1	—	0–1	18 Jan	1–2	4–2	2–1	3–1	1–0	2–1	8 Feb
Virton	0–2	0–2	0–3	—	1–3	1–0	0–1	18 Jan	1–1	8 Feb	4–2	11 Jan
Rochefort	12 Jan	2–1	1–1	26 Jan	—	0–0	2–2	0–3	9 Feb	1–1	1–3	1–0
Stockay	9 Feb	1–4	1–1	2–3	2–1	—	3–2	5–1	1–1	1–1	19 Jan	2–1
Zébra Élites	3–2	0–4	11 Jan	16 Feb	0–0	25 Jan	—	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–0
Union Namur	0–5	3–3	16 Feb	1–3	0–2	12 Jan	2–0	—	1–0	2–3	0–0	26 Jan
Tournai	0–0	16 Feb	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–0	18 Jan	1–2	—	1–1	2–0	0–0
Binche	0–2	25 Jan	1–3	1–4	16 Feb	0–2	1–2	1–1	11 Jan	—	1–1	5–0^[a]
Union SG B	2–3	11 Jan	0–3	1–2	0–3	5–1	0–0	8 Feb	25 Jan	0–5^[b]	—	0–2
SL16 FC	1–2	1–3	0–1	1–2	1–2	16 Feb	0–3	0–2	5–1	19 Jan	0–3	—

Updated to match(es) played on 14 December 2024. Source: Nationaal : 1st klasse (in Dutch)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ The match between Binche and SL16 FC ended 1–2, but the result was converted into a 5–0 forfeit win for Binche as SL16 FC was not able to provide the identity documents for all players present.^[4]
^ The match between Union SG B and Binche ended 2–2, but the result was converted into a 0–5 forfeit win for Binche as Union SG B did not comply with regulation B4.121 which states that at least half of the registered players must have been trained in the club and at least two-thirds of all registered players have been trained in Belgium.^[5]

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 14 December 2024.^[6]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Léandro Rousseau	Olympic Charleroi	11
2	Cristian Makaté	Union SG B	10
3	Qendrim Bakija	Stockay	8
	Dylan De Belder	Mons
	Dieudonné Lwangi	Union Namur
6	Loris Brogno	Mons	7
7	Mathieu Cornet	Rochefort	6
	Tyron Crame	Tubize-Braine
	Roman Ferber	Olympic Charleroi
	Simon Paulet	Olympic Charleroi