Structure in a Complete Chaos

The current system we have in the majority of the team sports leagues in Europe date back to a time when all teams were amateur teams and players stayed with their teams for their entire careers.

The system is now an anachronism and commercially unviable.

Belgium pro football can maximum sustain 16 teams and even that is a stretch.

And only workable in a franchise system where the teams are not subject to demotion at the end of the season. Delaying the implementation of a franchise league will only lead to ever increased bankruptcies and not only in the Belgian Professional Football League. Even Premiership, Bunsdesliga, Serie A and Laliga will eventually have to change to a franchise system for survival. Tottenham Hotspurs is currently proving my point. If they relegade, the team will lose hundreds of millions of UK Pounds in value and its survival will be in doubt.

But back to the Belgian League. Even today it is hard to identify 16 teams which can survive on an operational basis. I would say only 5 are sustainable as an ongoing business on an operational level.