The tournament was divided into a preliminary round and a final round. The eight participating teams first played a simple round-robin tournament . The first four played for the title in Poule Haute , the last four in Poule Basse against relegation. The total of the team points (2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a defeat), then the number of board points (3 points for a win, 2 points for a draw, 1 point for a one loss, 0 points for an uncompromising loss). For the final placement, both the points from the preliminary round and the points from the final round were taken into account.
Game dates
The competitions were held on September 28, October 12 and 26, November 30, December 14, 2008, January 25, February 1 and 15, March 8 and 29, 2009.
Preliminary round
The field of participants turned out to be a two-tier society, so that the division of the final rounds was determined ahead of time. The teams that qualified for the Poule Haute won all of their competitions against the teams that qualified for the Poule Basse. Preliminary decisions had already been made in both the title fight and the relegation battle. Leader of the table De Sprénger Echternach was three points ahead of second-placed Gambit Bonnevoie , at the other end of the table the second team from Cercle d'échecs Dudelange was three points behind the saving sixth place, and Esch Rochade Reine was even five points behind .
After the preliminary round, Schëffleng and Differdange's second team were almost saved, and they couldn't take this good starting position out of their hands. Esch gave the last place to Dudelange's second team and thus avoided relegation, as a place in the national division became free in the coming season.
