Standard Liège

Standard Liege, official name Royal Standard Club de Liège, is one of the most successful football clubs in Belgium and based in Liege. He plays in the Belgian first division.

  • 5.1 Most of the games
  • 5.2 Most goals

History

The Royal Standard Club de Liège was founded on 1 April 1900 by students as a standard FC. In 1923 he added the club name, by awarding royal predicate. The club name was originally inspired by standard de Paris, a formerly popular French club. 1996, the former first division RFC Seraing joined the club.

Standard Liege, the second in the eternal league table of Belgium, has so far been ten times Belgian champion and won six times the Belgian Cup. According to the club also had many international appearances. He came in 1982 in the European Cup Winners' Cup to the finals before, but after it lost to an early 1-0 lead at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona close to the FC Barcelona 1-2. Former Moenchengladbach and Footballer of the Year of Europe Allan Simonsen scored one of the goals for the Catalans.

On 20 April 2008, the team was able to secure through a 2-0 against RSC Anderlecht, the Belgian Championship for the first time since 1983 in predetermining end home game. After the season champion coach Michel Preud'homme extended his contract ending and moved to KAA Gent. When deciding Preud'hommes against further involvement in Liege was the duration of his new contract, the sticking point. While the coach favored a two-year contract, the club would rather complete a one-year contract. From June 2008 to February 2010 the team was coached by former Romanian national team László Bölöni.

In the 2008 /09 season standard could defend the title after two play-off matches against RSC Anderlecht. The playoffs were necessary after both clubs had finished the season with 77 points and 24 wins respectively. The goal difference does not matter in Belgium.

After a 1-1 first-leg victory against the standard record champion in the return match in Liege 1-0. It was the tenth title of Liege.

The contract was terminated with Bölöni On February 10, 2010 and the technical director Dominique D' Onofrio took over the training of the team until the end of the season.

Stadium

The club plays its home games in the third- largest stadium in Belgium, the built in 1984 Maurice Dufrasne Stadium, unofficially called Stade Sclessin from. The stadium has a capacity of around 30,000 spectators.

Achievements

  • Belgian champion (10 ) 1958, 1961, 1963, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1982, 1983, 2008, 2009
  • Belgian Cup winners (6 ) 1954, 1966, 1967, 1981, 1993, 2011
  • European Cup Winners' Cup finalist 1982

Well-known former players of the club history

Goalkeeper

  • Belgium Gilbert Bodart
  • Fabián Carini Uruguay
  • Belgium Jean Nicolay
  • Belgium Christian Piot
  • Michel Preud'homme Belgium
  • Croatia Vedran Runje

Defender

  • Rabiu Afolabi Nigeria
  • Belgium Jacques Beurlet
  • Brazil Dante Bonfim
  • Daniel van Buyten Belgium
  • Portugal Jorge Costa
  • Brazil André Cruz
  • Belgium Eric Deflandre
  • Belgium Nicolas Dewalque
  • Serbia Ivica Dragutinović
  • Nigeria Joseph Enakarhire
  • Régis Genaux Belgium
  • Belgium Eric Gerets
  • Belgium Philippe Léonard
  • Belgium Walter Meeuws
  • United States Oguchi Onyewu
  • Belgium Gerard Plessers
  • Romania Mircea Rednic
  • Belgium Michel Renquin
  • Belgium Jean Thissen

Midfielder

  • Belgium Roberto Bisconti
  • Belgium Jean -Marc Bosman
  • Sérgio Conceição Portugal
  • Belgium Jos Daerden
  • Belgium Pierre Dalem
  • Steven Defour Belgium
  • Belgium Didier Ernst
  • Marouane Fellaini of Belgium
  • Netherlands Arie Haan
  • Luxembourg Guy Hellers
  • Belgium Léon Jeck
  • Belgium Jean Mathonet
  • Wilfried van Moer Belgium
  • Portugal Almami Moreira
  • Croatia Milan Rapaić
  • Belgium Léon Semmeling
  • Iceland Ásgeir Sigurvinsson
  • Belgium Henri Thellin
  • Belgium Guy Vander Missen
  • Belgium Jonathan Walasiak
  • Belgium Marc Wilmot
  • Axel Witsel of Belgium

Striker

Most games

Most games

Most goals

Former coach

  • Netherlands Arie Haan
  • Belgium Robert Waseige
  • Netherlands Aad de Mos
  • Belgium Dominique D'Onofrio
  • Netherlands Johan Boskamp
  • Michel Preud'homme Belgium
  • Netherlands Ron Jans

Women's Soccer

The women's football department has played the 2012/2013 season in the League BeNe Red and was in the Eerste Klasse since its foundation in 1975, 14 times champion. In addition, you could also win 5 times the Belgian Super Cup, as well as two times the BeNe Super Cup. Among the top performers for years include the Belgian internationals Kelly Ickmans, Maud Coutereels, Julie Biesmans, Audrey Demoustier, Cécile De Gernier, Aline Zeler, Davina Philtjens and the Moroccan national team Ibtissam Bouharat.

Basketball

In a standard basketball department is also operated for decades. In the most important European competition this sport, the national champion trophy, managed to Liege 1969 semi-finals. In addition, they played several times with the Korac Cup, where they also reached the semifinals in 1972. The national championship won standard three times, 1968, 1970 and 1977.

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