The Belgian remunerated football license is a license giving permission to a Belgian football club to play in the Belgian Second Division. It is delivered by the Belgian Football Association. To play in the Jupiler League, a club must obtain the Belgian professional football license and thus several clubs in the second division hold this license.

[edit] Terms

To get the license, a club must among others:

• have at least 15 non amateur players;
• have a light system giving a luminosity of at least 400 lux at the start of its second season in the second division if it plays in the evening;
• have a ground height between 100 and 110 meters and width between 60 and 75 meters;
• have a stadium capacity of at least 3,000 with a minimum of 750 seats.

A club that does not get its license is relegated to (or remains in) the third division. Furthermore, if it failed to get its license due to economic reasons, it starts the competition with a handicap of 3 points (or 1 point per period), except if it did not ask for a license.

[edit] External links

• (French) Belgian FA website - Terms