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Intriguing news from the Belgian league...
On 14 April 2021 news was released that Oostende had not received a Belgian professional football license for the 21/22 season, a requirement to play at the top two levels of Belgian football.
For Oostende, a lack of financial transparency, together with generally poor quality and incompleteness of the submitted report, is given as the main reason by the committee for not awarding a license.
Oostende will launch an appeal as well, with the BAS to rule on the matter before the 10th of May. The club is allowed to add new documents to its case, should they however still not receive a licence after appeal, they will be relegated to an appropriate level of Belgium’s pyramid.
On 14 April 2021 news was released that Oostende had not received a Belgian professional football license for the 21/22 season, a requirement to play at the top two levels of Belgian football.
For Oostende, a lack of financial transparency, together with generally poor quality and incompleteness of the submitted report, is given as the main reason by the committee for not awarding a license.
Oostende will launch an appeal as well, with the BAS to rule on the matter before the 10th of May. The club is allowed to add new documents to its case, should they however still not receive a licence after appeal, they will be relegated to an appropriate level of Belgium’s pyramid.
