How many teams will we start in the Jupiler Pro League next season? Both a competition with sixteen and eighteen teams is still possible. This is not necessary for Patrick Goots: he even thinks fourteen first-graders are sufficient.
“We have been working on slimming down 1A for years,” Goots added Gazet From Antwerp. “And rightly so, I think fourteen clubs are even enough in First Division. That is better for the level and quality, but also economically.”
Many clubs are already struggling financially anyway. “When I was still playing football, sports economist Trudo Dejonghe already said that there were too many clubs and too many clubs fishing in the same pond. And he was right. At that time, first and second class were still full of Kempen teams.”
“And today? Only Westerlo. And then, because there are all those complaints and lawsuits, we go back to and play with eighteen teams. To do what after a year? Back to sixteen, so that three have to degrade? “
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