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==Promoted teams== ==Promoted teams==

Revision as of 11:30, 19 December 2009

The 1997/98 season of the Jupiler League was held between August 8, 1997 and May 10, 1998. Club Brugge became champions.

Promoted teams

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

Relegated teams

These teams were relegated to the second division at the end of the season:

Brugge's title success

Club Brugge ended in first place 18 points ahead of Racing Genk.

Battle for Europe

Sporting Anderlecht finally qualified for the UEFA Cup by ending in 4th place as Genk (2nd) and Brugge (1st) played the Cup final. The third team to qualify for the UEFA Cup was Germinal Ekeren (3rd).

The relegation dog fight

RWDM was relegated following a 1-1 draw at Charleroi as the newcomer Beveren managed to draw against Germinal Ekeren on the 33rd matchday. With 4 points more than RWDM the club from Waasland then lost to Anderlecht on the last matchday whereas RWDM easily beat Lokeren by 5-1.

Final league table

P W D L F A GD Pts
C 1   Club Brugge 34 26 6 2 78 29 49 84
  2   Genk 34 20 6 8 65 40 25 66
  3   Germinal Ekeren 34 17 7 10 60 48 12 58
  4   Anderlecht 34 16 9 9 53 37 16 57
  5   Harelbeke 34 15 10 9 50 31 19 55
  6   Lokeren 34 16 4 14 68 68 0 52
  7   Lierse 34 14 8 12 54 45 9 50
  8   Gent 34 11 14 9 50 44 6 47
  9   Standard Liège 34 11 10 13 53 50 3 43
  10   Mouscron 34 11 8 15 39 45 -6 41
  11   Lommel 34 10 11 13 46 50 -4 41
  12   Westerlo 34 9 14 11 52 56 -4 41
  13   Charleroi 34 9 12 13 46 57 -11 39
  14   Sint-Truidense 34 8 13 13 32 45 -13 37
  15   Eendracht Aalst 34 9 9 16 51 66 -15 36
  16   Beveren 34 7 11 16 30 48 -18 32
R 17   RWDM 34 8 7 19 39 74 -35 31
R 18   Antwerp 34 6 7 21 38 71 -33 25

P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points; C = Champions; R = Relegated

Top goal scorers

Scorer Goals Team
Branko Strupar 22 Racing Genk
Tomasz Radzinski 19 Germinal Ekeren
Peter Lässen 15 Eendracht Aalst
Gunther Hofmans 15 Germinal Ekeren
Souleymane Oulare 14 Racing Genk

See also

References

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