2013–14 Belgian Pro League

Club Brugge
Longest winning run	9 matches; Standard Liège
Longest unbeaten run	16 matches; Standard Liège
Longest winless run	16 matches; Mons
Longest losing run	6 matches; Genk
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The 2013–14 season of the

Charleroi and finished on 18 May 2014 with Anderlecht grabbing their 33rd title due to a 3–1 at home against Lokeren

.
During the regular season,
Club Brugge, Genk and Zulte Waregem
. At the halfway point, Genk was closing in on Standard, trailing by one point, but following a series of losses they dropped several places in the standings and eventually they narrowly held on to sixth place and just made it into the title playoffs. Towards the end of the regular season, mainly Club Brugge proved to be a threat as they had narrowed the gap to Standard, closing in to only four points.
The playoffs started with Standard leading on 34 points and Club Brugge right behind them on 32. Both Anderlecht (29 points) and Zulte Waregem (27 points) were at that point considered long shots for the title, while Lokeren on 26 and Genk on 23 were considered to be out of contention. Early in the playoffs, Standard immediately beat Anderlecht and knocked them down to eight points behind, seemingly setting up a final title race between them and Club Brugge. Although Standard had been in the lead since the start of the season, they somehow starting struggling, allowing Club Brugge to overtake them in the standings and become the main title favorite with just four games to go. On 4 May 2014, Club Brugge had the chance to permanently knock Anderlecht out of the race, but somehow lost at home against 10 men, putting Standard back into the lead with Anderlecht now a close second. Standard in turn then lost against Club Brugge, putting Anderlecht into the lead with two games to go, a lead which they kept until the end, winning their 33rd title in a season in which they lost no less than 11 games.
The Europa League playoff groups were won by Oostende and Kortrijk, with Oostende overcoming Kortrijk on penalty kicks although they knew they had not been given a licence for European football. As a result, the fourth placed team in the league, Zulte Waregem, were granted access directly.
In the bottom end of the table, Mons started miserably after finishing 7th the previous season, scoring only three points out of their first 15 matches. Their better second half of the season did not help in avoiding the last place. They were thereby forced to play the relegation playoff together with Oud-Heverlee Leuven, who had been struggling to set up a series of decent results, mainly driven by their horrendous away form, drawing only three matches away from home the whole season, while losing all the others. Mons were relegated on 12 April after yet another 2–0 away to OH Leuven, while Leuven themselves faced relegation on 18 May as they could no longer win the Belgian Second Division final round. Both OH Leuven and Mons had been playing in the Belgian Pro League for three seasons.

Teams

Following the 2012–13 Belgian Pro League, Beerschot were originally relegated to the 2013–14 Belgian Second Division after losing their relegation playoff series against Cercle Brugge. However, as they went bankrupt, the team folded and would later merge with KFCO Wilrijk playing at the first provincial level (fifth level) of Belgian football to form KFCO Beerschot – Wilrijk. Beerschot is replaced by 2012–13 Belgian Second Division champions Oostende, who returned to the highest level after their relegation during the 2004–05 season.
As Cercle Brugge won the
WS Woluwe
, they were saved from relegation, causing Oostende to be the only newcomer in the Belgian Pro League for this season.

Stadia and locations

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Location of the 2013–14 Belgian Pro League teams

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Club	Location	Venue	Capacity
R.S.C. Anderlecht	Anderlecht	Constant Vanden Stock Stadium	21,000
Cercle Brugge K.S.V.	Bruges	Jan Breydel Stadium	29,945
R. Charleroi S.C.	Charleroi	Stade du Pays de Charleroi	25,000
Club Brugge KV	Bruges	Jan Breydel Stadium	29,945
K.R.C. Genk	Genk	Cristal Arena	24,900
K.A.A. Gent	Ghent	Ghelamco Arena	20,000
K.V. Kortrijk	Kortrijk	Guldensporen Stadion	9,500
Lierse S.K.	Lier	Herman Vanderpoortenstadion	14,538
K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen	Lokeren	Daknamstadion	10,000
K.V. Mechelen	Mechelen	Argosstadion Achter de Kazerne	13,123
R.A.E.C. Mons	Mons	Stade Charles Tondreau	12,000
Oud-Heverlee Leuven	Leuven	Den Dreef	9,493
K.V. Oostende	Ostend	Albertpark	8,125
Standard Liège	Liège	Stade Maurice Dufrasne	30,000
Waasland-Beveren	Beveren	Freethiel Stadion	13,290
S.V. Zulte Waregem	Waregem	Regenboogstadion	8,500

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Lierse	Eric Van Meir	Replaced	End of 2012–13 season^[5]	Pre-season	Stanley Menzo	14 May 2013^[5]
Standard Liège	Mircea Rednic	Replaced	End of 2012–13 season^[6]		Guy Luzon	27 May 2013^[6]
Charleroi	Mario Notaro	Replaced	End of 2012–13 season^[7]		Felice Mazzu	1 June 2013^[7]
Club Brugge	Juan Carlos Garrido	Replaced	19 September^[8]	2nd	Michel Preud'homme	19 September^[9]
Mons	Enzo Scifo	Sacked	23 September^[10]	16th	Čedomir Janevski	27 September^[11]
Gent	Víctor Fernández	Sacked	30 September^[12]	8th	Mircea Rednic	1 October^[13]
Waasland-Beveren	Glen De Boeck	Sacked	29 October^[14]	15th	Bob Peeters	5 November^[15]
Mechelen	Harm van Veldhoven	Sacked	30 December^[16]	13th	Franky Vercauteren	5 January^[17]
OH Leuven	Ronny Van Geneugden	Mutual Consent	21 January^[18]	15th	Herman Vermeulen	26 January^[19]
Genk	Mario Been	Sacked	23 February^[20]	6th	Emilio Ferrera	24 February^[21]
OH Leuven	Herman Vermeulen	Replaced	25 February^[22]	15th	Ivan Leko	25 February^[22]
Anderlecht	John van den Brom	Sacked	9 March^[23]	3rd	Besnik Hasi	10 March^[23]
Gent	Mircea Rednic	Sacked	9 April^[24]	EL Playoffs Group A, 4th	Peter Balette	9 April^[24]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Standard Liège	30	20	7	3	59	17	+42	67	Qualification for the Championship play-offs
2	Club Brugge	30	19	6	5	54	28	+26	63
3	Anderlecht	30	18	3	9	61	31	+30	57
4	Zulte Waregem	30	14	11	5	51	38	+13	53
5	Lokeren	30	15	6	9	48	31	+17	51
6	Genk	30	14	3	13	42	39	+3	45
7	Gent	30	12	8	10	39	37	+2	44	Qualification for the Europa League play-offs
8	Kortrijk	30	10	9	11	42	44	−2	39
9	Oostende	30	9	7	14	28	46	−18	34
10	Charleroi	30	8	10	12	36	41	−5	34
11	Cercle Brugge	30	9	6	15	29	55	−26	33
12	Lierse	30	9	5	16	36	53	−17	32
13	Mechelen	30	8	7	15	34	51	−17	31
14	Waasland-Beveren	30	6	13	11	28	35	−7	31
15	OH Leuven	30	6	9	15	30	47	−17	27	Qualification for the Relegation play-offs
16	Mons	30	6	4	20	29	53	−24	22	Qualification for the Relegation play-offs

Home \ Away	AND	CER	CHA	BRU	GNK	GNT	KVK	LIE	LOK	KVM	MON	KVO	OHL	STA	WBE	ZWA
Anderlecht		2–1	5–2	2–0	2–0	4–1	0–1	2–0	2–3	5–0	2–0	4–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–0
Cercle Brugge	0–4		3–0	2–0	1–0	1–4	3–1	2–4	0–3	3–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–5	0–0	1–1
Charleroi	2–1	2–0		2–2	1–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	2–2	0–2	0–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	3–2
Club Brugge	4–0	2–0	2–0		0–2	1–1	3–1	4–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–1
Genk	0–1	1–0	0–3	1–3		1–2	1–0	4–0	0–2	1–0	3–1	3–0	3–0	0–2	0–2	5–2
Gent	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–3	1–2		0–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	0–1
Kortrijk	2–2	4–0	1–1	4–1	2–2	3–0		3–4	3–3	1–2	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–5	2–1	1–1
Lierse	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–3	2–0		1–2	3–0	2–1	0–2	0–0	0–5	1–0	1–2
Lokeren	2–1	3–0	3–1	0–3	3–1	2–2	0–0	1–0		4–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	0–0	2–4
Mechelen	2–1	1–2	0–3	1–2	0–2	0–1	5–2	0–0	1–0		4–2	1–1	4–2	0–2	0–0	2–2
Mons	0–2	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–3	1–0	0–1	1–5	1–0	0–2		3–0	3–2	0–2	1–1	1–1
Oostende	0–3	2–0	1–0	1–2	4–0	0–0	0–0	3–2	0–3	0–3	2–0		1–1	2–4	2–1	1–1
OH Leuven	1–0	3–0	0–0	2–5	1–4	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–2		0–0	4–2	1–0
Standard Liège	1–1	4–0	2–2	0–0	3–1	2–3	2–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–0		2–2	2–0
Waasland-Beveren	0–3	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–2	0–0	4–1	2–0	1–0	1–1		2–2
Zulte Waregem	4–3	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–2	1–0	3–0	1–1	3–1	2–0	2–2	4–2	1–0	2–0

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Anderlecht (C)	10	7	1	2	17	6	+11	51	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Standard Liège	10	4	3	3	14	11	+3	49	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Club Brugge	10	5	1	4	16	11	+5	48	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
4	Zulte Waregem	10	4	2	4	16	15	+1	41	Qualification for the Testmatches
5	Lokeren	10	2	2	6	14	25	−11	34	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round
6	Genk	10	2	3	5	10	19	−9	32

2013–14 Belgian Pro League

Teams

Stadia and locations

Managerial changes

Regular season

League table

Positions by round

Results

Championship playoff

Playoff table

Positions by round

Results

Europa League play-off

Group A

Group B

Europa League play-off final

Testmatches Europa League

Relegation playoff

Season statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

References

Position	Player	Club	Goals
1	Hamdi Harbaoui	Lokeren	22
2	Michy Batshuayi	Standard Liège	21
3	Habib Habibou	Zulte Waregem	20
4	Aleksandar Mitrović	Anderlecht	16
5	Ivan Santini	Kortrijk	15
6	Thorgan Hazard	Zulte Waregem	14
7	Stijn De Smet	Kortrijk	13
7	David Pollet	Charleroi (11)	13
9	Tom De Sutter	Club Brugge	12
	Imoh Ezekiel	Standard Liège	12
	Jelle Vossen	Genk	12

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Geoffrey Mujangi Bia	Standard Liège	Lierse	3–0^[25]	4 August 2013
Ivan Santini	Kortrijk	Lokeren	3–3^[26]	9 August 2013
Matías Suárez	Anderlecht	Charleroi	5–2^[27]	25 August 2013
Michy Batshuayi	Standard Liège	Oostende	4–2^[28]	15 September 2013
David Destorme	Mechelen	Oostende	3–0^[29]	19 October 2013
Ivan Santini	Kortrijk	Club Brugge	4–1^[30]	20 October 2013
Dalibor Veselinović	Waasland-Beveren	Mons	4–1^[31]	18 January 2014
Mbaye Diagne	Lierse	Mons	5–1^[32]	8 February 2014
Habib Habibou	Gent	Cercle Brugge	4–1^[33]	8 March 2014
Cédric Fauré	Charleroi	Cercle Brugge	4–2^[34]	12 April 2014
Habib Habibou	Gent	Waasland-Beveren	4–2^[35]	19 April 2014
Mbaye Diagne	Lierse	Waasland-Beveren	4–2^[36]	26 April 2014
Habib Habibou	Gent	Lierse	4–0^[37]	3 May 2014