2005–06 Belgian First Division

Belgian First Division

Season	2005–06
Champions	Anderlecht
Relegated	La Louvière
Champions League	Anderlecht Standard Liège
UEFA Cup	Club Brugge Zulte Waregem
Matches played	306
Goals scored	769 (2.51 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tosin Dosunmu (18 goals)
← 2004–05 2006–07 →

The 2005–06 season of the Belgian Jupiler League began on August 5, 2005 and ended on May 5, 2006. Anderlecht won the title on the last day of competition.

Promoted teams

Anderlecht

Beveren

Brussels

Germinal Beerschot

Club Brugge
Cercle Brugge

Charleroi

Sint-Truiden

Genk

Gent

Standard

Lierse

Lokeren

La Louvière

Mouscron

Roeselare

Zulte Waregem

Westerlo

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Location of teams in Belgian First Division 2005–06

These teams were promoted from the second division at the start of the season:

• S.V. Zulte-Waregem (second division champion)
• K.S.V. Roeselare (playoff winner)

Relegated teams

This team was relegated to the second division at the end of the season:

• R.A.A. Louviéroise

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Anderlecht (C)	34	20	10	4	72	27	+45	70	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Standard Liège	34	19	8	7	51	28	+23	65	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Club Brugge	34	18	10	6	51	33	+18	64	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4	Gent	34	18	7	9	48	34	+14	61	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
5	Genk	34	16	9	9	52	38	+14	57
6	Zulte Waregem	34	14	7	13	51	49	+2	49	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
7	Germinal Beerschot	34	13	8	13	45	45	0	47
8	Lokeren	34	12	11	11	48	49	−1	47
9	Westerlo	34	13	7	14	42	48	−6	46
10	Molenbeek Brussels Strombeek	34	12	10	12	30	30	0	46
11	Charleroi	34	11	12	11	39	39	0	45
12	Roeselare	34	10	11	13	44	42	+2	41	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
13	Cercle Brugge	34	10	8	16	38	56	−18	38
14	Mouscron	34	11	4	19	43	43	0	37
15	Sint-Truiden	34	8	10	16	36	49	−13	34
16	Beveren	34	9	6	19	35	55	−20	33
17	Lierse (O)	34	8	8	18	22	52	−30	32	Qualification to the Relegation play-offs
18	La Louvière (R)	34	4	14	16	26	56	−30	26	Relegation to 2006–07 Belgian Second Division

Source:
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Relegation/Promotion play-off

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lierse (O)	6	4	0	2	13	7	+6	12	Retained place in 2006–07 Belgian First Division
2	Lommel	6	3	1	2	11	9	+2	10
3	VW Hamme	6	3	0	3	8	9	−1	9
4	Geel	6	1	1	4	8	15	−7	4

Source:
(O) Play-off winners

Results

Home \ Away	AND	GBA	BEV	CER	CLU	CHA	GNK	GNT	LIE	LOK	LOU	BRU	MOU	ROE	STV	STA	WES	ZWA
Anderlecht		3–1	4–0	2–2	2–2	3–1	4–1	3–0	3–0	1–1	6–0	2–0	3–1	5–1	3–0	2–0	5–0	3–0
Germinal Beerschot	2–0		3–1	5–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	2–1	4–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–2	4–0	2–2	0–1	2–0
Beveren	0–1	0–0		5–1	0–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	4–1	1–3	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	4–1	2–1
Cercle Brugge	0–2	3–0	1–1		0–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	3–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–3	2–2	2–4
Club Brugge	0–2	2–0	1–0	2–0		2–1	3–0	2–1	3–1	0–1	4–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–1
Charleroi	1–1	2–0	4–0	0–1	3–3		2–1	2–0	0–1	3–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	2–0
Genk	3–3	1–0	2–0	3–1	2–2	0–0		2–1	1–0	2–2	5–0	1–0	1–0	4–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	3–1
Gent	0–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	4–1	2–2	2–0		1–1	1–2	3–0	2–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–3
Lierse	0–0	0–2	2–0	0–4	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–3		2–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–2	2–1	0–2
Lokeren	2–2	1–2	1–1	2–1	2–0	4–2	1–1	1–2	1–0		3–2	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–2	0–0	3–2	2–3
La Louvière	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	2–3	1–1	1–0	1–1		0–3	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–3	0–3	2–2
Brussels	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–0		0–1	1–0	0–0	3–1	1–0	1–1
Mouscron	0–1	4–1	1–3	6–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–2	5–0	0–2	2–1	1–1		0–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	0–1
Roeselare	0–2	5–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	4–0	4–1	0–1	5–0		1–1	0–0	0–2	0–3
Sint-Truiden	3–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–3	0–1	3–6	1–0		0–0	0–1	2–0
Standard Liège	2–0	3–1	1–3	7–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–2	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–0		1–0	1–2
Westerlo	2–1	1–3	4–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	3–0	0–5	3–2	2–1	0–2		2–2
Zulte Waregem	1–2	2–1	2–2	3–1	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	4–1	2–1	1–5	1–2	1–2

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goal scorers

Scorer	Goals	Team
Tosin Dosunmu	18	Germinal Beerschot
Mohammed Tchité	16	Standard Liège
Aristide Bancé	15	Lokeren
Boško Balaban	13	Club Brugge
Kevin Vandenbergh	12	Racing Genk
Wagneau Eloi	11	Roeselare
Mbo Mpenza	11	Anderlecht

See also

• 2005–06 in Belgian football

References

• (in French) Sport.be website