Club Brugge K.V.

Club Brugge K.V.
Full name	Club Brugge Koninklijke Voetbalvereniging
Nickname(s)	Blauw-Zwart (Blue-Black), Club
Founded	1891
Ground	Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges (Capacity 29,997)
Chairman	Michel D'Hooghe
Head Coach	Jacky Mathijssen
League	Jupiler League
2006-07	Jupiler League, 6th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Club Brugge K.V. is a football club from Bruges in Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and is one of the top clubs in Belgium. Its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,997. The clubs major rivals are R.S.C. Anderlecht from Brussels, and they share the Jan Breydel Stadium with Cercle Brugge K.S.V.. Club Brugge is the only Belgian club to have played the European Cup (forerunner of the current UEFA Champions League) final so far, they were beaten by Liverpool F.C. in 1978. They also lost in the 1976 UEFA Cup final to Liverpool.

Contents 1 Honours 2 Players 2.1 Current squad 2007/08 2.2 Reserves 2007/08 2.3 Noted players 3 Coaches 4 Presidents 5 European record 6 External links

Honours

• Belgian First Division champions: 13
  

1919-20, 1972-73, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1979-80, 1987-88, 1989-90, 1991-92, 1995-96, 1997-98, 2002-03, 2004-05

• Belgian Cup winners: 10
  

1967-68, 1969-70, 1976-77, 1985-86, 1990-91, 1994-95, 1995-96, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2006-07

• Belgian Supercup winners: 13
  

1980, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

• Bruges Matins winners: 14
  

1979, 1981, 1984, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007

• Kirin Cup winners: 1
  

1981

Players

Current squad 2007/08

As of November 22, 2007:

No. Position Player 1 GK Stijn Stijnen 3 MF Sven Vermant 4 DF Joos Valgaeren 5 DF Michael Klukowski 6 MF Philippe Clement 7 MF Koen Daerden 8 MF Gaëtan Englebert 9 FW Dušan Đokić 10 FW Wesley Sonck 11 MF Jonathan Blondel 13 GK Glenn Verbauwhede 14 MF Jeroen Simaeys 15 DF Štěpán Kučera 16 MF Elrio van Heerden

No. Position Player 18 MF Ivan Leko 19 FW Daniel Chávez 20 GK Yves Lenaerts 21 DF Jorn Vermeulen 22 MF Karel Geraerts 23 FW François Sterchele 24 DF Brian Priske 25 FW Salou Ibrahim 26 DF Birger Maertens 28 FW Brecht Capon 29 MF Gertjan De Mets 30 DF Antolin Alcaraz 32 DF Alexandre Jansen da Silva

Reserves 2007/08

No. Position Player 17 DF Robbe van Ruyskenvelde 27 FW Alandson Jansen da Silva 31 DF Dwayne Dildick

No. Position Player 34 DF Niels De Loof GK Tom Vandenbossche

Noted players

Eric Addo Daniel Amokachi Boško Balaban Laszlo Balint Fons Bastijns Fernand Boone Hugo Broos Kenneth Brylle Tomislav Butina Pierre Carteus Nastja Ceh Andres Mendoza Jan Ceulemans Ray Clarke Philippe Clement Julien Cools Roger Davies Eric Deflandre Marc Degryse Laszlo Disztl René Eijkelkamp Khalilou Fadiga Frank Farina Zoran Filipović Ruud Geels Peter Houtman Aleksandar Ilić Manasseh Ishiaku Edgaras Jankauskas Birger Jensen Eddie Krieger Raoul Lambert Rune Lange

Georges Leekens Ulrik Le Fèvre Walter Meeuws Andres Mendoza Ibrahim Nader El-Sayed Paul Okon Anton Ondrus Jean-Pierre Papin Pascal Plovie Javier Portillo Wilfried Puis Robbie Rensenbrink Ronny Rosenthal David Rozehnal Rolf Rüssmann Bengt Saeternes Timmy Simons Jan Sørensen Ronald Spelbos Robert Spehar Lorenzo Staelens Mario Stanic Alin Stoica Antoni Szymanowski Johnny Thio Franky Van der Elst Roger Van Gool Joos Valgaeren René Vandereycken Gert Verheyen Dany Verlinden Sven Vermant

Coaches

Hector Goetinck (1930-1933) Gerard Delbeke (1933-1934 and 1939-1945) Arthur Volckaert (1934-1936) Karl Schrenk (1936-1938) Robert De Veen (1938-1939) Louis Versyp (1945-1950) William Kennedy (1950-1951) Félix Schavy (1951-1957) Norberto Höfling (1957-1963 en 1967-1968) Juan Schwanner (1963) Henri Dekens (1963-1965) Ladislav Dupal (1965-1967) Milorad Pavić (1967-1969) Frans De Munck (1969-1971) Leo Canjels (1971-1973) Jaak De Wit (1973-1974) Ernst Happel (1974-1978) Andreas Beres (1978-1979)

Mathieu Bollen (1979) Han Grijzenhout (1979-1980) Gilbert Gress (1980-1981) Spitz Kohn (1981) Henri Coppens (1981-1982) Raymond Mertens (1981-1982) Georg Kessler (1982-1984) Henk Houwaert (1984-1989) Georges Leekens (1989-1991) Hugo Broos (1991-1997) Erik Gerets (1997-1999) René Verheyen (1999-2000) Trond Sollied (2000-2005) Jan Ceulemans (2005-2006) Emilio Ferrera (2006-2007) Cedomir Janevski (2007) Jacky Mathijssen (current coach)

Presidents

• Philippe Delescluze (1891-1900)
• Albert Seligmann (1900-1902)
• Alfons De Meulemeester (1903-1914)
• Albert Dyserynck (1919-1931)
• Fernand Hanssens (1932-1937)
• Emile De Clerck (1937-1959)
• André De Clerck (1959-1973)
• Fernand De Cleck (1973-1999)
• Michel Van Maele (1999-2003)
• Dr. Michel D'Hooghe (2003- )

European record

As of December 19, 2006:

Competition	A	B	C	D	E	F	G
UEFA Champions League	14	77	32	16	29	106	93
Cup Winners' Cup	6	28	15	3	10	41	33
UEFA Cup	20	103	49	18	36	192	137

A = appearances, B = matches played, C = won, D = drawn, E = lost, F = goals for, G = goals against.

External links

• Official website (Dutch) / (French) / (English)
• Official Fan Federation (Dutch)
• Blue Army - Fan Association & Fan-zine (Dutch)
• UEFA page (English)

Jupiler League 2007/08 This box:  •  • edit
RSC Anderlecht | FC Brussels | Cercle Brugge | Charleroi SC | Club Brugge | FCV Dender | Excelsior Mouscron | RC Genk | AA Gent | Germinal Beerschot | SC Lokeren | KV Mechelen | AEC Mons | SV Roeselare | Sint-Truidense VV | Standard Liège | VC Westerlo | SV Zulte-Waregem
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Football in Belgium This box:  •  • edit
League competitions The FA Cup competitions and awards Jupiler League Belgium Cup Second division Women Supercup Third division (A, B) List of clubs Golden Shoe Promotion (A, B, C, D) List of venues Professional football awards
UEFA Cup 2007-08 This box:  •  • edit
Advanced to the Knockout Stage Aberdeen • AEK Athens • Anderlecht • Atlético Madrid • Basel • Bayer Leverkusen • Bayern Munich • Benfica • Bolton Wanderers • Bordeaux • Brann • Everton • Fiorentina • Galatasaray • Getafe • Hamburg • Helsingborg • Marseille • Nuremberg • Panathinaikos • PSV Eindhoven • Rangers • Rosenborg • Slavia Prague • Spartak Moscow • Sporting Braga • Sporting CP • Tottenham Hotspur • Villarreal • Werder Bremen • Zenit St-Petersburg • Zürich Eliminated in Group Stage Aalborg BK • Aris • Austria Vienna • AZ • Copenhagen • Dinamo Zagreb • Elfsborg • Hapoel Tel Aviv • Larissa • Lokomotiv Moscow • Mladá Boleslav • Panionios • Red Star Belgrade • Rennes • Sparta Prague • Toulouse Eliminated in First Round AIK • Ajax • Anorthosis Famagusta • Artmedia Bratislava • BATE Borisov • Belenenses • Blackburn Rovers • CSKA Sofia • Club Brugge • Dinamo Bucharest • Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk • Dyskobolia Grodzisk • Empoli • Groningen • Häcken • Hammarby • Heerenveen • Erciyesspor • Lens • Litex Lovech • Lokomotiv Sofia • Metalist Kharkiv • Midtjylland • Odense • Paços Ferreira • Palermo • Rabotnički • Rapid Bucharest • Rapid Vienna • Red Bull Salzburg • Sampdoria • Sarajevo • Sion • Sochaux • Standard Liège • Tampere United • Twente • União Leiria • Vålerenga • Zaragoza