Cezar Titor article – published on Sunday, May 25, 2025 22:52 / Updated Sunday, May 25, 2025 22:59
After a 90-year expectation, the Royale Union Saint-Gilloise is Belgian's new champion!
Saint-Gilloise has imposed today against Gent, score 3-1. Promise David succeeded a “Doppietta”, after Frajo Ivanovic opened the score for the band prepared by Sebastien Pocognoli.
Before this stage, Club Brugge was a single point away from Union. The team in black and blue failed to win in the last stage anyway: 1-1 with Antwerp. After the last final whistle of the match, Fiesta began in the vicinity of Brussels.
Photo. Anthological images from the title feast of Union Saint-Gilloise
The “old lady” of Belgium was one of the most successful Belgian teams in the first half of the 20th century, winning 11 champion titles, all before World War II, the last in the 1934-1935 season. The club has fallen and followed decades in the lower echelons.
In 2021, after a 48 -year break, the team returned to the elite of Belgian football, being close to the title even in the first season of return: PRimul place in the regular season, four points away from Club Brugge, at the end of the play-off.
He qualified in the play-off every year since then, missing for a single point both in 2023 and 2024, to the detriment of Antwerp, respectively Club Brugge. Today the wait has ended, And “Les Unionists” are champions again in Belgium, after 90 years!
The supporters invaded the land, the surroundings of the small arena being also blocked by the supporters prepared to celebrate the historical triumph: the first title in the modern era.
The team will go straight into the Champions League groupsticking another premiere in the history of the club: the presence in the main phase of the hottest continental football competition. On the other hand, Club Brugge will go to the third preliminary round of the Champions League.
Video impressed with “Fiesta” to the Royale Union Saint-Gilloise
