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| sport    = Ice hockey
| founded  = 1975
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| teams    = 12
| country  = [[File:Flag of Belgium.svg.png|20px]] [[Belgium]]
| champion = [[IHC Leuven]] II
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'''Belgian Division I''' is the second level of ice hockey in [[Belgium]]. The league is one rank below the [[Belgian Hockey League]]. For the 2012-2013 season it was merged with two teams of the defunct [[North Sea Cup]] to become the "Belgian Elite League".  

The competition was known as the Belgian Division I until the 2009-10 season, when it merged with the [[Belgian Division II]] to form the Belgian National League.

The National League was restarted for the 2014-15 season. In 2016-17, Belgian Division II was re-started as the third-level league.

==2018-19 teams==
* [[Bulldogs Liege]] II
* [[Cold Play Leest]]
* {{Flagicon|LUX}} [[IHC Beaufort]]
* [[Gullegem Jets]]
* [[HYC Herentals]] II
* [[HYC Herentals]] III
* [[IHC Leuven]] II
* [[Olympia Heist op den Berg]] 
* [[Phantoms Antwerp]] II
* [[White Caps Turnhout]] 

==Champions==
*2023-24 IHC Leuven II (IA), IHC Leuven III (IB)
*2022-23 Phantoms Antwerp
*2021-22 Phantoms Antwerp
*2020-21 ''not completed due to COVID-19''
*2019-20 HYC Herentals II
*2018-19 IHC Leuven II 
*2017-18 Cold Play Leest
*2016-17 Cold Play Leest 
*2015-16 IHC Leuven II
*2012-2015 ''not played''
*2011-12 Antwerp/Deurne
*2010-11 IHC Leuven (Division 1), IHC Leuven II (Division 2)
*2009-10 Bulldogs Liege
*2008-09 Yeti Bears Eeklo
*2007-08 Leuven II
*2006-07 ''not played''
*2005-06 Haskey Hasselt
*2004-05 HYC Herentals
*2003-04 Liege
*2002-03 Liederkerke
*2001-02 Liederkerke
*2000-01 Liederkerke
*1999-00 Haskey Hasselt
*1998-99 Liege
*1997-98 HYC Herentals 2
*1996-97 Eeklo
*1995-96 Liege
*1994-95 Turnhout
*1993-94 Turnhout
*1992-93 Eeklo
*1991-92 Eeklo (also reported as Leuven)
*1990-91 Leuven
*1989-90 Deurne
*1988-89 Duerne
*1987-88 White Caps Turnhout
*1986-87 Olympia Heist-op-den-berg 2
*1985-86 Haskey Hasselt
*1984-85 Shape (* or Olympia Heist-op-den-berg)
*1983-84 Liege
*1982-83 Olympia Heist-op-den-berg 2
*1981-82 Haskey Hasselt
*1980-81 Shape (* or Brussels)
*1979-80 Shape (also reported as Omp Charleroi)
*1978-79 Omp Charleroi
*1977-78 Brussels 2
*1976-77 Pingouins Jambes
*1975-76 Brussels 2
(* Some sources indicate that [[Shape]] played their games "out of competition". Thus, the second-highest finishing team [listed in parenthesis] would've been awarded the title. However, the [[Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation]] officially recognizes Shape as champions in those seasons.)

==External links==
*[http://www.rbihf.be/leagues.php?cat=NAT Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation]

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[[Category:Ice hockey leagues]]