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The Belgium national football team [b] has represented Belgium in men's international football since their maiden match in 1904. The squad is under the global jurisdiction of FIFA and is governed in Europe by UEFA—both of which were co-founded by the Belgian team's supervising body, the Royal Belgian Football Association. Periods of regular ...
The Belgium national football team represents the country of Belgium in international association football.It is fielded by the Royal Belgian Football Association, the governing body of football in Belgium, and competes as a member of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), which encompasses the countries of Europe.
The Royal Belgian Football Association, which governs the team, co-founded the international governing bodies FIFA (in 1910) and UEFA (in 1954). As of October 2015, Belgium qualified for 12 FIFA World Cups and 5 UEFA European Championships (including an automatical qualification as co-hosts in 2000). In the periods 1920–1938, 1970–2002 and ...
The Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA; Dutch: Koninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond; French: Union royale belge des sociétés de football association; German: Königlicher Belgischer Fußballverband) is the governing body of football in Belgium.
The UEFA European Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations). Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current name in 1968.
It includes Belgian footballers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category contains past and present players of the senior Belgium national football team (but not players who have only been capped at Olympic, Under-21 or other junior levels).
With football's rapid growth in popularity in the late 19th century, several football clubs came into existence in Belgium. In 1926, the Royal Belgian Football Association decided to introduce matricule numbers to tell the clubs apart and assigned a matricule to each existing club by order of registration.
The Belgian Pro League (Dutch: Eerste klasse; French: Championnat de Belgique de football; German: Pro League), officially the Jupiler Pro League (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʑypilɛr ˈproː ˌlik]) for sponsor Jupiler, is the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium.