2017–18 Club Brugge KV season
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2017–18 season | ||||
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Chairman | Bart Verhaeghe | |||
Head coach | Ivan Leko | |||
Stadium | Jan Breydel Stadium | |||
Belgian First Division A | 1st | |||
Belgian Cup | Semi-finals | |||
UEFA Champions League | Third qualifying round | |||
UEFA Europa League | Play-off round | |||
Top goalscorer | League: Abdoulay Diaby (15) All: Abdoulay Diaby (16) | |||
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The 2017–18 season was Club Brugge's 126th season in existence and the club's 58th consecutive season in the top flight of Belgian football. Club Brugge participated in the Belgian First Division A, Belgian Cup and on the European stage in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.
The club would win their 15th league this season, edging out closest competitors Standard Liège by 3 points following the championship round.[1] The result was clinched in the penultimate match of the season, after a 1–1 draw away to Standard.[1]
The season covered the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.
First-team squad
[edit]- As of 15 January 2018
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Club friendlies
[edit]24 June 2017 | ![]() | 9–0 | ![]() | |
19:00 | Summary |
28 June 2017 | ![]() | 0–6 | ![]() | |
19:00 | Summary |
21 July 2017 | ![]() | 0–2 | ![]() | |
19:00 | Summary |
Competitions
[edit]Belgian First Division A
[edit]Regular season
[edit]Results summary
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Club Brugge | 30 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 68 | 33 | +35 | 67 | Qualification for the championship play-offs |
2 | Anderlecht | 30 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 49 | 42 | +7 | 55 | |
3 | Charleroi | 30 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 46 | 30 | +16 | 51 | |
4 | Gent | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 45 | 27 | +18 | 50 | |
5 | Genk | 30 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 44 | 36 | +8 | 44 |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Away matches won; 7) Play-off.[2]
Overall | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
30 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 68 | 33 | +35 | 67 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 44 | 16 | +28 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 24 | 17 | +7 |
Last updated: 11 March 2018.
Source: [citation needed]
Results by matchday
[edit]A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss
Play-offs
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | CLU | STA | AND | GNT | GNK | CHA | |
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1 | Club Brugge (C) | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 12 | +5 | 46 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage | — | 4–4 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 6–0 | |
2 | Standard Liège | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 9 | +11 | 43 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round | 1–1 | — | 2–1 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 1–0 | |
3 | Anderlecht | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 15 | −3 | 40 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage | 1–0 | 1–3 | — | 0–2 | 1–2 | 3–1 | |
4 | Gent | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 39 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | — | 0–0 | 0–1 | |
5 | Genk (O) | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 38 | Qualification for the Europa League play-off final | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | — | 4–1 | |
6 | Charleroi | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 22 | −13 | 34 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 | — |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points without (possible) half points added due to rounding; 3) Position obtained during the Regular season[3]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners
Results summary
[edit]Overall | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 12 | +5 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Last updated: 20 May 2018.
Source: [citation needed]
Results by matchday
[edit]A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss
Matches
[edit]29 July 2017 1 | Lokeren | 0–4 | Club Brugge | Lokeren |
18:00 | Report | Stadium: Daknamstadion Attendance: 7,441 Referee: Sébastien Delferière |
6 August 2017 2 | Club Brugge | 3–1 | Eupen | Bruges |
20:00 | Report | Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 25,723 Referee: Alexandre Boucaut |
Belgian Cup
[edit]20 September 2017 Round of 32 | Roeselare | 1–5 | Club Brugge | Roeselare |
20:30 |
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Report | Stadium: Schiervelde Stadion Referee: ![]() |
30 November 2017 Round of 16 | Zulte Waregem | 2–3 (a.e.t.) | Club Brugge | Waregem |
20:45 | Report | Stadium: Regenboogstadion Attendance: 6,268 Referee: ![]() |
16 January 2018 Quarter-finals | Club Brugge | 5–1 | Sporting Charleroi | Bruges |
20:45 | Report |
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Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: ![]() |
31 January 2018 Semi-finals 1st Leg | Standard Liège | 4–1 | Club Brugge | Liège |
20:45 | Emond ![]() ![]() ![]() Cavanda ![]() Edmilson Junior ![]() ![]() |
Summary | Clasie ![]() Vormer ![]() Dennis ![]() Mitrović ![]() |
Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 15,000 Referee: ![]() |
8 February 2018 Semi-finals 2nd Leg | Club Brugge | 3–2 (4–6 agg.) | Standard Liège | Bruges |
21:00 | Vanaken ![]() ![]() Vormer ![]() Abdoulay Diaby ![]() Clasie ![]() |
Summary | Orlando Sá ![]() ![]() M'Poku ![]() Gillet ![]() Laifis ![]() Agbo ![]() Marin ![]() Emond ![]() |
Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 22,000 Referee: ![]() |
UEFA Champions League
[edit]26 July 2017 Third qualifying round 1st Leg | ![]() | 3–3 | ![]() | Bruges |
21:00 | Dennis ![]() Denswil ![]() ![]() |
Summary | Mossoró ![]() ![]() Epureanu ![]() Elia ![]() |
Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 26,788 Referee: ![]() |
2 August 2017 Third qualifying round 2nd Leg | ![]() | 2–0 (5–3 agg.) | ![]() | Istanbul |
19:45 | Adebayor ![]() Júnior Caiçara ![]() Clichy ![]() Višća ![]() |
Summary | Dennis ![]() Denswil ![]() Vormer ![]() |
Stadium: Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium Attendance: 9,168 Referee: ![]() |
UEFA Europa League
[edit]17 August 2017 Play-off round 1st Leg | ![]() | 0–0 | ![]() | Bruges |
20:45 | Report |
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Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 27,115 Referee: ![]() |
24 August 2017 Play-off round 2nd leg | ![]() | 3–0 (3–0 agg.) | ![]() | Athens |
20:00 |
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Report | Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 14,275 Referee: ![]() |
Statistics
[edit]Squad appearances and goals
[edit]- Last updated on 20 May 2018.
No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Belgian Division | Belgian Cup | UEFA Champions League | UEFA Europa League | |||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||
Goalkeepers | |||||||||||||
1 | GK | ![]() |
Vladimir Gabulov | 10 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
18 | GK | ![]() |
Guillaume Hubert | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
22 | GK | ![]() |
Ethan Horvath | 19 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
32 | GK | ![]() |
Kenneth Vermeer | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Defenders | |||||||||||||
2 | DF | ![]() |
Alexander Scholz | 6 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
5 | DF | ![]() |
Benoît Poulain | 20 | 1 | 17+1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
14 | DF | ![]() |
Ivan Tomečak | 6 | 1 | 3+2 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
15 | DF | ![]() |
Matej Mitrovic | 12 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
21 | DF | ![]() |
Dion Cools | 41 | 3 | 32+3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
24 | DF | ![]() |
Stefano Denswil | 40 | 4 | 33 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
35 | DF | ![]() |
Saulo Decarli | 13 | 1 | 10+1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
44 | DF | ![]() |
Brandon Mechele | 48 | 5 | 40 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
55 | DF | ![]() |
Erhan Mašović | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
96 | DF | ![]() |
Ahmed Touba | 5 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Midfielders | |||||||||||||
3 | MF | ![]() |
Timmy Simons | 9 | 0 | 3+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
6 | MF | ![]() |
Jordy Clasie | 25 | 1 | 10+10 | 0 | 2+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
20 | MF | ![]() |
Hans Vanaken | 48 | 15 | 36+3 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
25 | MF | ![]() |
Ruud Vormer | 49 | 14 | 38+2 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
30 | MF | ![]() |
Marvelous Nakamba | 44 | 0 | 31+4 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
40 | MF | ![]() |
Jordi Vanlerberghe | 8 | 0 | 2+5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Forwards | |||||||||||||
7 | FW | ![]() |
Wesley | 44 | 13 | 29+9 | 11 | 3+2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
8 | FW | ![]() |
Lior Refaelov | 22 | 2 | 5+13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
9 | FW | ![]() |
Jelle Vossen | 35 | 9 | 11+17 | 7 | 1+3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
10 | FW | ![]() |
Abdoulay Diaby | 41 | 16 | 26+8 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
11 | FW | ![]() |
Krépin Diatta | 8 | 0 | 6+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
17 | FW | ![]() |
Anthony Limbombe | 39 | 6 | 29+3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
19 | FW | ![]() |
Thibault Vlietinck | 4 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
42 | FW | ![]() |
Emmanuel Dennis | 38 | 12 | 12+18 | 7 | 1+3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Players who have made an appearance this season but have left the club | |||||||||||||
1 | GK | ![]() |
Ludovic Butelle | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | DF | ![]() |
Björn Engels | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
11 | FW | ![]() |
José Izquierdo | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
13 | DF | ![]() |
Helibelton Palacios | 10 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
16 | DF | ![]() |
Germán Mera | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
28 | DF | ![]() |
Laurens De Bock | 8 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
43 | FW | ![]() |
Jérémy Perbet | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Club Brugge win Belgian title". Yahoo. 13 May 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ^ "First Division A 2016/2017 - Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
- ^ "Reglement 2017-2018 Boek B: De koepelorganisatie KBVB en haar deelorganisaties" [General Rules 2017-2018 Book B: The overall organisation KBVB and its subsidiaries] (PDF) (in Dutch). Royal Belgian FA. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in Dutch, French, English, and Spanish)
- Official Facebook Fanpage
- Official Twitter account
- Official Fan Federation (in Dutch)
- Blue Army – Fan Association & Fan-zine (in Dutch)
- Club Brügge KV XtraTime Fanpage (in English)
- Club Brügge at UEFA.COM (in English)
- Club Brügge at EUFO.DE
- Club Brügge at Weltfussball.de
- Club Brügge at Football Squads.co.uk
- Club Brügge at National Football Teams.com
- Club Brügge at Football Lineups.com