Club Brugge K.V.
The FC Bruges ( officially: Club Brugge KV ) is a football club based in the Belgian city of Bruges. It was founded on 13 November 1891, is one of the oldest and also the most successful clubs in Belgium. In the city of Bruges, he is by far the most popular club next to the Cercle Bruges. The club plays its home games at the 30,000 -seat stadium from Jan Breydel.
The FC Bruges rose to the first Belgian Football League in 1959. Under the successful Austrian coach Ernst Happel 1976, the collection succeeded to the finals of the UEFA Cup and two years later at the European Cup of Champions. But the club lost to the British club Liverpool FC, respectively. In 1988 again succeeded in the semi-finals of the Uefa Cup, but lost the club against Espanyol. Also in 1992 failed the FC Bruges in the semifinals, this time in the European Cup winners to eventual winners Werder Bremen. In the years 1992/93, 2002/ 03, 2003/ 04 and 2005/06 FC Bruges came in the Champions League. In the season 2011/12 the German coach Christoph Daum led the club to the runner-up. Georges Leekens has replaced on the bench in summer 2012 Christoph Daum. In November Leekens was dismissed. The successor Juan Carlos Garrido, who signed a contract until the end of the season with an option for another year.
Achievements
- Belgian champion (13 ) 1920, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2005
- Belgian Cup winners (10 - record winner ) 1968, 1970, 1977, 1986, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2004, 2007
- Belgian Supercup final (13 - record winner ) 1980, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
- Belgian League Cup Winners (1 - record winner ) 1985
Impressions
Choreography at local derby against the KAA Gent (2011)
Squad of the 2013/14 season
As of October 30, 2013
Former Players
Goalkeeper
- Belgium Fernand Boone
- Belgium Dany Verlinden
Defender
- Ghana Eric Addo
- Sweden Kurt Axelsson
- Belgium Fons Bastijns
- Belgium Vital Borkelmans
- Belgium Hugo Broos
- Belgium Philippe Clement
- Belgium Eric Deflandre
- Belgium Georges Leekens
- Democratic Republic of Congo Belgium Hervé Nzelo - Lembi
- Belgium Pascal Plovie
- Belgium Pascal Renier
Midfielder
- Belgium Pierre Carteus
- Slovenia Nastya Čeh
- Belgium January Ceulemans
- Belgium Julien Cools
- Belgium Franky van der Elst
- Belgium Gaëtan Englebert
- Netherlands Henk Houwaart
- Netherlands Nico Rijnders
- Israel Ronny Rosenthal
- Belgium Timmy Simons
- Belgium Lorenzo Staelens
- Croatia Mario Stanic
- Belgium Johnny Thio
- Belgium René Vandereycken
- Belgium Gert Verheyen
- Belgium Sven Vermant
- Germany Marc -André Kruska
- Poland Waldemar Sobota
Striker
- Nigeria Daniel Amokachi
- Bosko Balaban Croatia
- England Roger Davies
- Belgium Marc Degryse
- Australia Frank Farina
- Netherlands Ruud Geels
- Belgium Roger Van Gool
- Belgium Fernand Goyvaerts
- Belgium Raoul Lambert
- Norway Rune Lange
- Peru Andrés Mendoza
- France Jean -Pierre Papin
- Spain Javier Portillo
- Netherlands Rob Rensenbrink
- Denmark January Sørensen
- Croatia Robert Spehar