2025–26 RAAL La Louvière season

RAAL La Louvière
2025–26 season
Manager	Frédéric Taquin
Stadium	Easi Arena
Belgian Pro League	9th
Belgian Cup	Pre-season
Highest home attendance	8,050 vs Standard Liège & Union Saint-Gilloise
Lowest home attendance	6,478 vs Club Brugge
Biggest defeat	La Louvière 0–2 Standard Liège
	← 2024–25

The 2025–26 season is the ninth in the history of Royal Association Athlétique Louviéroise La Louvière and the club's first-ever season in the Belgian Pro League, the nation's top football division. The team is also competing in the Belgian Cup this season.

Squad

Transfers In

Pos.	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
FW	Mouhamed Belkheir	Fortuna Sittard	€300,000	1 July 2025
DF	Matthis Riou	Guingamp	Free	1 July 2025
FW	Pape Moussa Fall	Metz	Loan	25 July 2025	^[1]
DF	Yllan Okou	Bastia	Free	3 August 2025
DF	Thierry Lutonda	PEC Zwolle	Undisclosed	7 August 2025	^[2]
FW	Jerry Afriyie	Al Qadsiah	Loan	24 August 2025	^[3]

Transfers Out

Pos.	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Fadel Gobitaka	RFC Liège	Free	1 July 2025
GK	Arno Valkenaers	Mons		1 July 2025
MF	Thierno Diallo	Olympic Charleroi	Loan	9 July 2025
FW	Raphaël Eyongo	Olympic Charleroi	Loan	12 July 2025
DF	Hady Camara	RFC Seraing	Free	17 July 2025	^[4]
DF	Luka Hoedaert	Tubize-Braine	Loan	18 July 2025
DF	Victor Corneillie	Olympic Charleroi	Free	24 July 2025
MF	Kenny Nagera	Rodez	Undisclosed	7 August 2025	^[5]
DF	Daan Klomp	Cavalry FC	Contract terminated	8 August 2025	^[6]
DF	Tristan Loiseaux	Stockay	Free	26 August 2025

Friendlies

The team held a training camp in the Netherlands.

28 June 2025	La Louvière	0–0	FC Differdange 03
	Gillot 81'

2 July 2025

La Louvière

2–4

Tubize-Braine

5 July 2025

Mechelen

1–0

La Louvière

12 July 2025

Gent

1–1

La Louvière

19 July 2025

La Louvière

1–2

Lokeren

19 July 2025

La Louvière

1–0

Union Namur

Competitions

Overall record

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Belgian Pro League	26 July 2025	21 March 2026	Matchday 1	8	3	1	4	7	9	−2	037.50
Belgian Cup	29 October 2025		Round of 16	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Total				8	3	1	4	7	9	−2	037.50

Last updated: 20 September 2025
Source: Competitions

Belgian Pro League

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
12	OH Leuven	30	9	7	14	32	43	−11	34	Qualification for the Europe play-offs
13	Zulte Waregem	30	8	8	14	38	47	−9	32	Qualification for the Relegation play-offs
14	Cercle Brugge	30	7	10	13	39	47	−8	31
15	La Louvière	30	6	13	11	30	37	−7	31
16	Dender EH	30	3	10	17	24	51	−27	19

Source: Jupiler Pro League (in Dutch)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Away matches won; 6) Away goal difference; 7) Away goals scored; 8) Play-off.^[7]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	CLU	USG	STR	AND	GNT	MEC
1	Club Brugge (C)	10	8	1	1	32	9	+23	57	Qualification for the Champions League league phase	—	5–0	2–0	4–2	5–0	6–1
2	Union SG	10	6	2	2	16	10	+6	53	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round	2–1	—	1–0	5–1	0–0	3–0
3	Sint-Truiden	10	4	2	4	14	11	+3	43	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round^[a]	1–2	2–1	—	2–0	1–1	3–0
4	Anderlecht	10	3	2	5	16	23	−7	33	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round	1–3	1–3	3–1	—	3–1	2–2
5	Gent (O)	10	0	6	4	4	14	−10	29	Qualification for the European competition play-off	0–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	—	1–1
6	Mechelen	10	1	3	6	9	24	−15	29		2–2	0–1	1–4	1–2	1–0	—

Source: Jupiler Pro League (in Dutch), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points without (possible) half points added due to rounding; 3) Regular season finishing position.^[8]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners
Notes:

↑ Union SG won the 2025–26 Belgian Cup and qualified for the Champions League through finishing in the top two, the Europa League play-off round berth was therefore transferred to Sint-Truiden.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	GNK	STA	CHA	WES	ANT	OHL
1	Genk	10	4	5	1	11	6	+5	38	Qualification for the European competition play-off	—	1–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	0–0
2	Standard Liège	10	5	2	3	17	11	+6	37		0–0	—	0–2	1–2	1–2	2–1
3	Charleroi	10	5	2	3	12	8	+4	34		2–0	1–2	—	0–1	2–1	1–1
4	Westerlo	10	4	1	5	14	17	−3	33		1–2	1–2	2–0	—	2–4	3–3
5	Antwerp	10	4	1	5	12	16	−4	31		1–2	0–5	0–1	2–0	—	2–0
6	OH Leuven	10	1	3	6	9	17	−8	23		0–2	1–3	0–2	0–2	3–0	—

Source: Jupiler Pro League (in Dutch), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points without (possible) half points added due to rounding; 3) Regular season finishing position.^[9]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	ZWA	CER	LAL	DEN
1	Zulte Waregem	6	5	1	0	15	6	+9	48		—	2–2	4–0	2–1
2	Cercle Brugge	6	3	1	2	14	11	+3	41		2–3	—	3–0	2–1
3	La Louvière	6	1	0	5	5	13	−8	34		0–2	4–1	—	0–1
4	Dender EH (R)	6	2	0	4	7	11	−4	25	Qualification for the promotion/relegation play-offs	1–2	1–4	2–1	—

Source: Jupiler Pro League (in Dutch), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Regular season finishing position.^[10]
(R) Relegated

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
8	3	1	4	7	9	−2	10	2	1	1	2	2	0	1	0	3	5	7	−2

Last updated: 20 September 2025.
Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	L	L	W	L	D	L	W	W
Position	15	16	11	13

Updated to match(es) played on 20 September 2025. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

26 July 2025 1	La Louvière	0–2	Standard Liège	La Louvière
20:45			Henry 5' Ilaimaharitra 39' (pen.)	Stadium: Easi Arena Attendance: 8,050 Referee: Lawrence Visser

2 August 2025 2	Gent	1–0	La Louvière	Ghent
20:45	Ito 87'		Lahssaini 88'	Stadium: Planet Group Arena Attendance: 10,412 Referee: Nathan Verboomen

10 August 2025 3	La Louvière	1–0	Charleroi	La Louvière
13:30	Camara 16' (o.g.)			Stadium: Easi Arena Attendance: 8,001 Referee: Nicolas Laforge

17 August 2025 4	Sint-Truiden	2–1	La Louvière	Sint-Truiden
16:00	Vanwesemael 20' Goto 90+1'		Mendy 70'	Stadium: Stayen Attendance: 6,047 Referee: Bert Verbeke

25 August 2025 5	La Louvière	0–0	Union Saint-Gilloise	La Louvière
18:30	Liongola 8' Maës 29'		Rodríguez 33' Niang 71' Vanhoutte 82'	Stadium: Easi Arena Attendance: 8,050 Referee: Nathan Verboomen

30 August 2025 6	Mechelen	3–2	La Louvière	Mechelen
16:00	Schoofs 25' Lauberbach 90', 90+5'		De Wolf 69' (o.g.) Halhal 86' (o.g.)	Stadium: Achter de Kazerne Attendance: 11,069 Referee: Massimiliano Ledda

13 September 2025 7	La Louvière	1–0	Club Brugge	La Louvière
20:45	Faye 24'		Spileers 29' Tzolis 90+7'	Stadium: Easi Arena Attendance: 6,478 Referee: Bert Put

20 September 2025 8	OH Leuven	1–2	La Louvière	Leuven
16:00 UTC+2	Kaba 8' Gil 47' Dussenne 65' Maertens 90+4' Terho 90+6'		Afriyie 16', 27', 89' Liongola 78' Maisonneuve 90+6'	Stadium: Den Dreef

Belgian Cup

29 October 2025 Round of 16

Heist

v

La Louvière

References

↑ "FC Metz: Pape Moussa Fall joins RAAL La Louvière on loan". OneFootball. July 24, 2025.
↑ Media, RAAL (August 7, 2025). "Un nouveau Loup | Thierry Lutonda".
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↑ "Challenger Pro League - le défenseur français Hady Camara quitte la Louvière pour Seraing".
↑ "Mercato : Bienvenue Kenny Nagera !". August 7, 2025.
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↑ "Bondsreglement Titel 7: Competities" [Association Rules Title 7: Competitions] (PDF). Royal Belgian Football Association. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 September 2020.
↑ "BOEK P" [BOOK P] (PDF). Belgian FA. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
↑ "BOEK P" [BOOK P] (PDF). Belgian FA. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
↑ "BOEK P" [BOOK P] (PDF). Belgian FA. Retrieved 3 May 2021.

[table_note_res_ELPO0.10437245997804-8] Union SG won the 2025–26 Belgian Cup and qualified for the Champions League through finishing in the top two, the Europa League play-off round berth was therefore transferred to Sint-Truiden.

[1] "FC Metz: Pape Moussa Fall joins RAAL La Louvière on loan". OneFootball. July 24, 2025.

[2] Media, RAAL (August 7, 2025). "Un nouveau Loup | Thierry Lutonda".

[3] ↑

[4] "Challenger Pro League - le défenseur français Hady Camara quitte la Louvière pour Seraing".

[5] "Mercato : Bienvenue Kenny Nagera !". August 7, 2025.

[6] ↑

[7] "Bondsreglement Titel 7: Competities" [Association Rules Title 7: Competitions] (PDF). Royal Belgian Football Association. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 September 2020.

[9] "BOEK P" [BOOK P] (PDF). Belgian FA. Retrieved 3 May 2021.

[10] "BOEK P" [BOOK P] (PDF). Belgian FA. Retrieved 3 May 2021.

[11] "BOEK P" [BOOK P] (PDF). Belgian FA. Retrieved 3 May 2021.

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