2000–01 Belgian First Division

The 2000–01 season of the Jupiler League began on August 12, 2000, and ended on May 20, 2001. Anderlecht became champions.

Belgian First Division

Season	2000–01
Champions	Anderlecht
Relegated	Harelbeke Mechelen
Champions League	Anderlecht
UEFA Cup	Club Brugge Standard Liège Westerlo
Matches played	306
Goals scored	930 (3.04 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tomasz Radzinski (23 goals)
← 1999–2000 2001–02 →

Promoted teams

Aalst

Anderlecht

Antwerp

Beveren

Germinal Beerschot

Club Brugge

Charleroi

Sint-Truiden

Genk

Gent

Standard

Lierse

Lokeren

La Louvière

Mechelen

Mouscron

Westerlo

Harelbeke

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Location of teams in Belgian First Division 2000–01

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

• Antwerp (second division champion)
• Louviéroise (playoff winner)

Relegated teams

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

• Harelbeke
• KV Mechelen

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Anderlecht (C)	34	25	8	1	88	25	+63	83	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Club Brugge	34	23	9	2	83	24	+59	78	Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
3	Standard Liège	34	16	12	6	71	44	+27	60
4	Sporting Lokeren	34	16	9	9	58	41	+17	57	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
5	Gent	34	16	9	9	61	49	+12	57	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
6	Germinal Beerschot	34	17	3	14	62	53	+9	54
7	Mouscron	34	15	8	11	63	49	+14	53
8	Westerlo	34	15	8	11	61	53	+8	53	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
9	Charleroi	34	14	5	15	51	65	−14	47
10	Lierse	34	12	7	15	44	51	−7	43
11	Genk	34	11	9	14	45	51	−6	42
12	Antwerp	34	11	7	16	38	45	−7	40
13	Sint-Truiden	34	9	8	17	44	54	−10	35
14	Beveren	34	9	8	17	30	64	−34	35
15	La Louvière	34	6	12	16	32	56	−24	30
16	Eendracht Aalst	34	7	8	19	33	65	−32	29
17	Harelbeke (R)	34	8	4	22	36	79	−43	28	Relegation to 2001–02 Belgian Second Division
18	Mechelen (R)	34	4	10	20	40	72	−32	22

Source:
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AAL	AND	ANT	GBA	BEV	CLU	CHA	GNK	GNT	HAR	LIE	LOK	LOU	MEC	MOU	STV	STA	WES
Eendracht Aalst		1–5	0–4	2–0	1–1	0–2	4–0	4–2	1–4	0–0	1–3	2–2	1–0	1–3	1–0	4–1	1–1	1–2
Anderlecht	3–0		2–0	7–0	4–0	2–0	7–2	1–0	2–1	4–3	5–2	8–0	2–0	1–0	3–3	3–2	0–0	3–2
Antwerp	0–0	0–3		1–2	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–3
Germinal Beerschot	2–0	0–1	3–1		2–0	2–3	0–2	5–1	1–3	2–1	6–0	2–0	3–1	4–1	4–1	1–0	1–0	3–1
Beveren	1–0	1–3	2–1	2–1		0–2	1–2	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	0–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–3	1–4
Club Brugge	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–2	6–0		1–0	6–0	6–2	0–0	1–0	3–1	3–0	5–2	2–2	5–0	1–1	2–2
Charleroi	0–0	0–4	1–0	2–1	5–0	0–4		2–1	4–3	5–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	4–2	1–3	1–7	2–3	2–2
Genk	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–1		1–1	4–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	4–0	3–0	2–2	1–2
Gent	1–0	2–1	4–2	3–1	5–0	0–2	1–1	2–1		2–1	2–3	3–2	2–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–1
Harelbeke	2–4	1–4	2–0	3–0	3–2	0–6	1–0	1–2	2–1		1–0	1–6	2–2	1–0	0–1	0–4	3–4	0–4
Lierse	2–0	0–0	4–1	1–1	3–0	0–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	4–1		1–4	1–2	1–1	1–4	2–1	1–1	1–2
Lokeren	2–0	0–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–2	1–1	3–0	2–0		3–1	3–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–0
La Louvière	3–0	0–1	2–2	0–5	2–3	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–2	0–2	0–0		2–2	1–3	1–0	0–4	3–1
Mechelen	4–1	0–2	0–3	2–3	2–2	1–1	4–3	0–0	3–3	2–0	1–1	0–3	0–0		1–5	1–2	0–4	0–1
Mouscron	2–0	1–2	3–2	3–0	0–0	1–2	3–0	2–0	2–2	4–3	1–2	2–1	0–0	4–2		1–0	1–1	3–5
Sint-Truiden	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–2	1–0	1–2	1–3	2–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–4		1–1	1–2
Standard Liège	7–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	4–2	0–4	4–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	3–2	0–5	3–0	2–0	3–3	1–1		5–3
Westerlo	1–1	2–2	2–1	1–2	1–2	0–2	0–1	5–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	4–6	2–2

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

Top scorers

Scorer	Goals	Team
Tomasz Radzinski	23	Anderlecht
Jan Koller	22	Anderlecht
Nenad Jestrović	20	Mouscron
Gert Verheyen	17	Club Brugge
Marcin Żewłakow	16	Mouscron
Ole Martin Årst	14	Standard Liège

See also

• 2000–01 in Belgian football

References

• (in French) Sport.be website - Archive