July 13, 2006 –
Roeselare is the first Belgian team to compete in Europe this season as they take part in the first qualifying round of the
UEFA Cup. They win their very first European match ever, 2–1, against Macedonian side
Vardar away in
Skopje.
July 22, 2006 – Gent manages a 1–1 draw at home to Grasshoppers, and so does not progress to in UEFA Cup, losing 2–3 on
aggregate.
July 24, 2006 – The Profliga announced that the Supercup match between Anderlecht and Zulte-Waregem will be replayed on 1 September. However, both teams confirmed that the match will be replayed, but that they have not agreed on the date yet.
July 27, 2006 – Roeselare qualifies for the second round of the UEFA Cup after defeating Vardar for the second time, this time by a comfortable 5–1 margin, winning 7–2 on aggregate.
July 28, 2006 –
Standard Liège escapes from big names as
Valencia,
Liverpool and
Ajax in the
UEFA Champions League draw as they get drawn together with the winner of the match between
ND Gorica and
Steaua București in the third qualification round. Steaua looks to become the opponent as they already have won the first leg of the match over Gorica.
July 28, 2006 –
Club Brugge and Roeselare receive their opponents in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup:
FK Sūduva and
Ethnikos Achna, respectively.
July 28, 2006 – Club Brugge plays Gent in the first match of the domestic season, winning 5–0.
July 29, 2006 – Official start of the first division with five more matches.
August 16, 2006 – The match between
Belgium and
Kazakhstan (141st on the
FIFA World Rankings) ends in a scoreless 0–0 draw and just like the previous qualifying campaigns the "Red Devils" don't get off to a good start.
August 24, 2006 – In the heat of
Cyprus,
K.S.V. Roeselare gets stomped 5-0 by
Ethnikos Achna FC and so loses its 2–1 lead from the first leg, they are eliminated from European football for this season. Extreme amounts have been registered at the betting agencies always predicting a large win for the
Cypriots, as a result
UEFA is investigating this match and others of
Ethnikos Achna FC for corruption/bribery.
Club Brugge makes a few mistakes as
Lithuanian team
FK Sūduva manage to come back to 2-2 after having led 2–0, however they then pump up the pace and finally it ends 5–2.
Club Brugge goes on into the
Uefa Cup first round. Meanwhile,
R.S.C. Anderlecht gets drawn into group H of the
UEFA Champions League together with
AC Milan,
Lille OSC and
AEK Athens. Their first match is scheduled on September 13 at home to
Lille OSC.
September 6, 2006 – After the bad start to the
UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying campaign,
Belgium now beats
Armenia in
Yerevan by a narrow 1-0 margin.
Daniel Van Buyten scores with a well placed header a few minutes before halftime. Belgium played a moderate match with low quality of play, however the abominable state of the field was also a reason for that.
September 11, 2006 – It is announced that the
Belgian Supercup between league champions
R.S.C. Anderlecht and cup winners
S.V. Zulte-Waregem, which was originally abandoned at half time due to excessive rain on July 22, will be replayed on 20 December.
September 13, 2006 –
R.S.C. Anderlecht has not won their opening match for several years in the
UEFA Champions League and also this year they don't manage to win. Against
Lille OSC, the match ends in a 1–1 draw as both teams had several chances, Anderlecht mainly in the first half and Lille mainly in the second half.
September 14, 2006 –
FC Lokomotiv Moscow is very patient as they wait for good chances to appear against
S.V. Zulte-Waregem in the
Uefa Cup first round match and their tactics seem to pay off as after 90 minutes
Loskov and
Ivanović have set the 2–0 on the board. However, in the 94th minute,
Jonas Vandermarliere scores the all important away goal and thereby causes the return match to be very exciting. Meanwhile,
Standard Liège is overrun for 90 minutes at home as they struggle to create any chances against
Celta de Vigo, in the end they're lucky to just lose 0-1 and as they leave the field, they are booed by the home crowd. In
Slovakia,
Club Brugge struggles in the opening few minutes against
MFK Ružomberok, but then they take over and after a free-kick goal by
Boško Balaban they control the match to prevent the Slovakian team from scoring, in which they succeed to make for a 1–0 victory away from home.
September 30, 2006 – In the first division, joint leaders
R.S.C. Anderlecht and
K.R.C. Genk play against each other on the 8th matchday. Anderlecht, at that time recognised by many as the most probable champions for the current season solely on strength of the squad, loses out 1–4 on their home ground, where they had not been beaten since February 2005. Genk are the new leaders.
October 6, 2006 – The
KBVB/URBSFA met with representatives of the city of Brussels and together they agreed to renew the contract concerning the
King Baudouin Stadium and extend it to June 30, 2008. As of November 15, 2006 against
Poland national football team on, the
Belgium national team will play in the King Baudouin Stadium again.
October 7, 2006 – In the
2008 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying tournament,
Belgium loses 1–0 to
Serbia in
Belgrade. In the first half, the Belgians never got into trouble but did not create many chances themselves, while in the second half it was Serbia having control. Serbia scored with more than half an hour to go through
Nikola Žigić and Belgium tried to respond, but never managed to score.
October 11, 2006 –
Belgium easily beats
Azerbaijan 3–0 in
Anderlecht. For the first time since long, the Belgian team manages to score more than one goal when it matters.
October 17, 2006 – After a red card for
Daniele Bonera early in the second half, it looked promising for
R.S.C. Anderlecht to take some points in the
UEFA Champions League match at home to
A.C. Milan. However they did not manage to score whereas
Kaká for Milan did with a slightly deviated shot from about 20 meters. The game ended 0–1.
October 21–22, 2006 – Apart from
Mons, who already joined (and got eliminated) in round 4, the other teams from the first division enter the
Belgian Cup in round 6 during this weekend.
Charleroi,
Beveren and
Lokeren lose to
Hamme,
Lierse and
Antwerp respectively on Saturday. While on Sunday
Cercle Brugge and
Brussels, two more teams from the first division are also knocked out of the cup. With one more match of
Round 6 to go, only 11 remain. For
Lierse, this is the very first victory this season, as they are in last position in the league with just 1 point out of 9 matches.
November 1, 2006 –
R.S.C. Anderlecht loses by a harsh 4-1 margin to
A.C. Milan in the
UEFA Champions League, although they had numerous chances in the last half-hour to come back to 3–2.
Kaká had however already scored three times.
November 7, 2006 –
Thomas Caers quits his job as manager of
Sint Truiden as he feels the players don't respect him anymore after a series of bad results. Meanwhile, rumours are saying
Lokeren could soon be giving
Slavoljub Muslin a contract with the club as their new manager.
November 13, 2006 –
René Trost agrees with the management of
Lierse to split up and each go their own way. At that time Lierse is in last position, with two points out of 12 matches.
November 15, 2006 – The
Belgium national team loses their home match against
Poland 0-1 after a shameful performance in which they did not succeed in creating good scoring opportunities.
November 23, 2006 – In the
UEFA Cup 2006–07,
Club Brugge plays a good match but is not rewarded as they only manage a 1–1 draw against
Romanian side
Dinamo Bucharest, they now need to win against
Beşiktaş J.K. to have a chance of progressing. In
Barcelona,
S.V. Zulte-Waregem gets beaten 6-2 by
Espanyol and so they lose their good looking goal difference, however they still have a good chance of progressing.
November 26, 2006 –
Lokeren announces that
Slavoljub Muslin will sign a contract as the new manager within the next few days.
November 30, 2006 – Because of beneficial results in Group F,
S.V. Zulte-Waregem is qualified for the next round of the
UEFA Cup 2006-07 without playing themselves. They still have one match left in the group phase against
Ajax Amsterdam.
December 8, 2006 –
RC Genk, already sure of being in first position at the half way mark of the championship after only 15 out of 34 matches, lose their first match of the season in and against
Charleroi by a big 4-1 margin. However they still have six-point lead over
R.S.C. Anderlecht and seven over
Club Brugge, although both those teams have played one match less and so could close in to three and four points respectively with just one match to go before the winter-break.
December 13, 2006 –
Ajax Amsterdam is too strong for
S.V. Zulte-Waregem, as Zulte-Waregem gets beaten 0–3 at home in the
UEFA Cup 2006-07. However they were already sure of qualifying for the next round.
December 16, 2006 – On the last day of the first half of the season,
Lierse finally manages to win a match in the first division as they beat
Lokeren 1–0.
RC Genk end 2006 with 40 points, three points clear of
R.S.C. Anderlecht and seven over
Gent.
Club Brugge are nine points behind but have one match left against their city-rivals,
Cercle Brugge.
December 20, 2006 – The
Belgian Supercup, originally planned to be played on July 22 but abandoned due to heavy rainfall, is won by title-holders
R.S.C. Anderlecht as they beat cup-winners
S.V. Zulte-Waregem 3–1.
January
January 13–14, 2007 – In the
Seventh round of the Belgian Cup, the current top five of the first division all progress to the quarter-finals together with
Division Two teams
Antwerp,
Kortrijk and
KV Mechelen.
January 17, 2007 –
Mbark Boussoufa of
R.S.C. Anderlecht wins the
Belgian Golden Shoe as the best player of 2006. In the second half of the 2005–06 season he helped
Gent to reach fourth place and in the current season he was one of the better players of Anderlecht. Anderlecht is the big winner of the day as the top-4 of the overall rankings are also Anderlecht players and all the side awards go to Anderlecht players,
Daniel Zítka is chosen to be the best goalkeeper,
Lucas Biglia wins the rookie of the year award and
Mohammed Tchité scored the most beautiful goal of the season, away to
Brussels.
January 28, 2007 – After losing 0–1 at home to
Roeselare and a disappointing fifth place in the standings, 12 points behind leaders
RC Genk,
Emilio Ferrera is fired as manager of
Club Brugge.
Cedomir Janevski is appointed as the new manager.
February 7, 2007 – The
Red Devils lose 0–2 at home to the
Czech Republic. Yet another bad result makes few people in Belgium believe that Belgium will not lose to
Portugal in March.
February 28, 2007 – In the league,
K.R.C. Genk and
R.S.C. Anderlecht seem to be the two only teams left able to win the title as they are several points ahead of
Standard Liège and
K.A.A. Gent in third and fourth. With a match Genk vs. Anderlecht coming up in two weeks which will probably be decisive for the championship, all eyes are on the quarter-finals of the
Belgian Cup match between both those teams. In a very exciting match, Anderlecht wins the first leg 0–1 in
Genk and has a good chance to progress to the semi-finals. The other quarter finals:
Antwerp 0-1
Standard Liège,
Club Brugge 2-1
Kortrijk and
Gent 2-1
KV Mechelen.
March
March 11, 2007 – The
Genk–
Anderlecht match ends in a 1–1 draw, meaning Genk retains its two-point lead over Anderlecht with nine matches to play.
March 24, 2007 – Belgium loses 4–0 to
Portugal in a qualifying match for Euro 2008. After a scoreless first-half,
Cristiano Ronaldo and
Ricardo Quaresma lead Portugal to victory.