Belgian remunerated football license

The Belgian remunerated football license is a license giving permission to a Belgian football club to play in the Belgian First Amateur Division. It is delivered by the Belgian Football Association. To play at the professional level, a club must obtain the Belgian professional football license. As a result, any club willing to promote must apply for such a license in the year they believe to be achieving promotion.

To get the license, a club must among others:

A club that does not get its license is relegated to (or remains in) the Belgian First Amateur 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.

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