1999–2000 Belgian First Division

Template:Short description Template:Infobox football league season The 1999–2000 season of the Jupiler League was held between August 6, 1999, and May 11, 2000. Sporting Anderlecht became champions.

Promoted teams

Template:Location map+ These teams were promoted from the second division at the start of the season:

• KV Mechelen (second division champions)
• Verbroedering Geel (playoff winner)

Relegated teams

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

• Verbroedering Geel
• Lommel

Anderlecht's title success

Anderlecht became champions on April 21, 2000, after the defeat of rival Club Brugge at Herman Vanderpoortenstadion to Lierse 1-0 as, prior to these results, they were 7 points ahead of Brugge with 3 matches to go. The next day Anderlecht beat Racing Genk 4-1 and then Standard Liège 2-0.

Battle for Europe

Club Brugge and Gent qualified for the UEFA Cup.

The relegation dog fight

Charleroi avoided relegation with a controversial draw against Anderlecht on the last day of the season. Anderlecht were already champions and played with Enzo Scifo who had previously signed a deal with Charleroi. However, the result was irrelevant as Geel lost their last match to Club Brugge and were thus relegated with Lommel.

Top goal scorers

Scorer	Goals	Team
Template:Flagicon Ole Martin Årst	30	Gent
Template:Flagicon Toni Brogno	30	Westerlo
Template:Flagicon Jan Koller	20	Anderlecht
Template:Flagicon David Paas	19	Harelbeke
Template:Flagicon Eric Van Meir	15	Lierse
Template:Flagicon Tomasz Radzinski	14	Anderlecht
Template:Flagicon Dante Brogno	14	Charleroi
Template:Flagicon Marcin Żewłakow	14	Mouscron
Template:Flagicon Pär Zetterberg	14	Anderlecht

See also

• 1999–2000 in Belgian football

References

• Template:In lang Sport.be website - Archive