The quarter- and semi-finals are played as Two-legged ties, where the team winning both matches on aggregate advances.
The starting five rounds feature only teams of lower divisions and all matches are played during the summer and early fall, mostly in July and August.
The three teams relegated last season from the top division were also allowed to enter in this round.
The top 16 teams of the Belgian First Division 2008–09 are seeded in this round and cannot meet each other.
The draw for the seventh round and the quarter finals was made on 4 November 2009.
[8] On 14 January 2010 it was postponed a third time, which proved problematic as the ongoing bad weather had caused the calendar of most teams to be completely full.
[9] The next round of the cup was to be played on Wednesday 20 January and with league matches planned during the weekend a creative solution was necessary.
After Cercle Brugge and Zulte-Waregem had discussed the case, they decided not to protest against the decision.
[11] With the match between Zulte-Waregem and Cercle Brugge postponed three times and not many options remaining, the decision was made by the Belgian Football Association to play the Anderlecht versus Cercle Brugge in just one leg instead of two, with that match being played at Anderlecht.