2010–11 Belgian Second Division Explained

Season:	2010–11
League Topscorer:	Hamdi Harbaoui (25 goals)
Matches:	306
Total Goals:	901
Biggest Home Win:	4-0 (FC Verbroedering Dender EH vs K Rupel Boom FC) and 5-1 (RAEC Mons vs AFC Tubize)
Biggest Away Win:	0-5 (KVSK United Overpelt-Lommel at K Rupel Boom FC)
Highest Scoring:	1-5 (FC Verbroedering Dender EH at KV Turnhout), 5-1 (RAEC Mons vs AFC Tubize), 2-4 (CS Visé at R Boussu Dour Borinage and RAEC Mons at RFC Tournai), 3-3 (RAEC Mons vs OH Leuven and KSK Heist vs KV Turnhout)
Longest Wins:	FC Verbroedering Dender EH (5 games), from 28 August to 25 September
Longest Unbeaten:	Waasland-Beveren (12 games, streak ongoing), since 25 August
Longest Losses:	RFC Tournai (7 games, streak ongoing), since 25 September
Nextseason:	2011–12

The 2010–11 season of the Belgian Second Division (also known as EXQI League for sponsorship reasons) started on Wednesday 18 August 2010 and finished in May 2011. OH Leuven won the title on the penultimate matchday after a 2–2 draw away to Antwerp. Mons also got promoted after winning the playoffs.

Team changes

As a result of the bankruptcy of Mouscron in the first division, the team was automatically demoted to third division. No extra team was promoted to fill this spot and the league therefore moved from 19 teams to the more convenient 18.

In

Roeselare relegated from the Pro League
Heist promoted from Third Division A
Visé promoted from Third Division B
Rupel Boom promoted after winning the third division playoffs

Out

Lierse was promoted to the Pro League
Eupen won the second division final round and was therefore also promoted to the Pro League.
Ronse lost the third division playoffs and was subsequently relegated.
Beveren did not apply for a professional license due to financial problems. As a result, they were automatically relegated, but they chose to merge with second division team K.V. Red Star Waasland to form Waasland-Beveren and as such remain in second division.
Liège was relegated to the Third Division.

Team information

Personnel and locations

Club	City	Current manager
	Denderleeuw	Vital Borkelmans
	Sint-Jans-Molenbeek	Chris van Puyvelde
	Leuven	Ronny Van Geneugden
	Lommel	Franky Van der Elst
	Antwerp	Colin Andrews
	Tubize	Felice Mazzu
	Heist-op-den-Berg	Cis Bosschaerts
	Wetteren	Wim De Corte
	Boom	Peter Van Wambeke
	Tienen	Daniël Nassen
	Mons	Geert Broeckaert
	Tournai	Patrick Asselman
	Roeselare	Nico Vanderdonck
	Beveren	Dirk Geeraerd
	Turnhout	Luc Beyens
	Ostend	Thierry Pister
	Boussu	Michel Wintacq
	Wezet	José Riga

Regular season

Period winners

The season is divided into three periods. The first ten matchdays form period 1, matchdays 11 to 22 form period two and the last 12 form period three. The three period winners take part in the Belgian Second Division final round together with the winner of the 2010–11 Belgian Pro League relegation playoff. The winner of this final round gets to play in the 2011–12 Belgian Pro League. In case one or more periods are won by the team winning the league or in case one team wins multiple periods, the extra places go the teams finishing the highest in the league not already qualified. So in the theoretical case that one team wins all three periods and becomes the league champion, then the teams in positions 2, 3 and 4 will take part in the final round.