The 2024–25 Belgian Division 1 is the ninth season of the third-tier football league. It is the first season in which the division is split into two groups VV and ACFF.
Team changes Out RAAL La Louvière were promoted to the Challenger Pro League as champions. Lokeren-Temse were promoted to the Challenger Pro League as runners-up. Sint-Eloois-Winkel folded at the end of last season. Visé was refused a license and forced to relegate.
In SL16 FC were relegated from the Challenger Pro League. Belisia Bilzen and Mons as champions in the VV B and ACFF divisions of the Belgian Division 2. Ninove was automatically promoted as runners-up of the VV A division of the Belgian Division 2 as champions Eendracht Aalst had been refused a license. On VV-side, four teams were promoted via the Promotion play-offs VV: Jong Cercle, Hasselt, Lyra-Lierse Berlaar and Merelbeke. On ACFF-side, all four teams taking part in the Promotion play-offs ACFF were promoted: Binche, Rochefort, Tournai and Tubize-Braine. Furthermore, two more spots were available on ACFF side, awarded to highest eligible finishers Stockay and Union SG B.
Format changes Expanding regionalization to all of amateur football for this season saw the league's twenty-eight teams split into two groups: VV consisting of sixteen teams, which will play 30 matches with no play-off. ACFF consisting of twelve teams, which will play 22 matches with play-off matches, as finishing top six clubs will battle for promotion play-off and bottom six clubs will battle for relegation play-off.
VV
League table
Results
Season statistics Top scorers .
Rank Player Club Goals1 Yacine BentayebDessel222 Umar AbubakarJong KAA Gent213 Stan BraemKnokke194 Tibe VanhaerenThes165 Nicolas OryeHasselt15 Jordy PefferLyra-Lierse Berlaar6 Jef ColmanHeist137 Laurens SymonsCappellen128 Mehdi BounouHasselt119 Javan NgoyiDessel1010 Abubakar AbdullahiJong KAA Gent9 Vancy MabanzaTienen Jassim MazouzJong KAA Gent Sam ValckeHasseltBelisia Ivan YaganTienen11 Nico BinstMerelbeke8 Alain LufiraNinove Louange MuhireNinoveKnokke Jeroen MeeuwisHoogstraten Justin PietersKnokke Lucas PrudhommeKnokke Luka VereeckenYoung Reds Tiemen WijnenBelisia Bilzen
ACFF
Regular season League table
Results
Play-offs Promotion play-offs
Relegation play-offs
Season statistics Top scorers .
Rank Player Club Goals1 Léandro RousseauOlympic Charleroi202 Cristian MakatéUnion SG B193 Roman FerberOlympic Charleroi134 Dieudonné LwangiUnion Namur125 Tyron CrameTubize-Braine11 Sekou KonéStockay7 Dylan De BelderMons10 Oumar TraoréBinche9 Nelson Azevedo-JanelasUnion SG B9 Qendrim BakijaStockay Loris BrognoMons12 Axel LauwrensensTubize-Braine8 Simon PauletOlympic Charleroi14 Mohamed Asri Union SG B7 Raymond Asante Zébra Élites Yann GbouaSL16 FC
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