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The 1998/99 season of the Jupiler League was held between August 21, 1998 and May 16, 1999. Racing Genk 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:

Genk's title success

After a deceiving start of the competition Anderlecht managed to come back at the top of the ranking under the management of Jean Dockx and Franky Vercauteren even beating its long-time rival Standard Liège in a memorable 0-6 demonstration. Two matches before the end of the season, the ranking was as such: 

1. Genk            32 70
2. Club Brugge     32 68
3. Anderlecht      32 64

Those three teams were thus still able to win the championship. While Club Brugge lost its game to Mouscron 2-0, Anderlecht secured a 2-5 win to Genk. However the Racing did win its last match at Harelbeke and it thus became champion.

Battle for Europe

With Genk qualifying for the UEFA Champions League, Anderlecht and Brugge entered the UEFA Cup.

The relegation dog fight

Lommel avoided relegation by winning its last match 2-1 to Charleroi while the newcomer Kortrijk lost to Anderlecht. The other newcomer (Oostende) was already relegated at this moment.


Final league table

P W D L F A GD Pts
C 1 Badge of Genk Genk 34 22 7 5 74 38 +36 73
  2 Badge of Club Brugge Club Brugge 34 22 5 7 65 38 +27 71
  3 Badge of Anderlecht Anderlecht 34 21 7 6 76 39 +37 70
  4 Badge of Mouscron Mouscron 34 19 9 6 76 47 +29 66
  5 Badge of Lokeren Lokeren 34 17 6 11 69 61 +8 57
  6 Badge of Standard Standard Liège 34 17 3 14 55 47 +8 54
  7 Badge of Lierse Lierse 34 16 6 12 72 47 +25 54
  8 Badge of Gent Gent 34 14 10 10 55 59 -4 52
  9 Badge of Sint-Truidense Sint-Truidense 34 14 9 11 52 46 6 51
  10   Germinal Ekeren 34 14 7 13 48 46 +2 49
  11   Harelbeke 34 10 11 13 44 46 -2 41
  12 Badge of Westerlo Westerlo 34 11 7 16 56 62 -6 40
  13   Eendracht Aalst 34 9 8 17 48 66 -18 35
  14 Badge of Charleroi Charleroi 34 7 11 16 40 54 -14 32
  15 Badge of Beveren Beveren 34 8 6 20 33 60 -27 30
  16   Lommel 34 7 7 20 33 56 -23 28
R 17 Badge of Kortrijk Kortrijk 34 6 7 21 49 81 -32 25
R 18 Badge of Oostende Oostende 34 4 10 20 27 79 -52 22

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
Jan Koller 24 Lokeren
Branko Strupar 18 Genk
Souleymane Oulare 17 Genk
Zoran Ban 16 Mouscron
Tomasz Radzinski 15 Anderlecht
Jochen Janssen 15 Westerlo
Filip Fiers 15 Sint-Truidense
Eric Van Meir 14 Lierse

See also

References

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