2017–18 Club Brugge KV season

Club Brugge
2017–18 season
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)
	← 2016–17 2018–19 →

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.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	RUS	Vladimir Gabulov
3	MF	BEL	Timmy Simons
5	DF	FRA	Benoît Poulain
6	MF	NED	Jordy Clasie (on loan from Southampton)
7	FW	BRA	Wesley
8	FW	ISR	Lior Refaelov (Vice-captain)
9	FW	BEL	Jelle Vossen
10	FW	MLI	Abdoulay Diaby
11	FW	SEN	Krépin Diatta
14	DF	CRO	Ivan Tomečak
17	FW	BEL	Anthony Limbombe
18	GK	BEL	Guillaume Hubert
19	FW	BEL	Thibault Vlietinck
20	MF	BEL	Hans Vanaken


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	DF	BEL	Dion Cools
22	GK	USA	Ethan Horvath
24	DF	NED	Stefano Denswil
25	MF	NED	Ruud Vormer (Captain)
30	MF	ZIM	Marvelous Nakamba
32	GK	NED	Kenneth Vermeer (on loan from Feyenoord)
35	DF	SUI	Saulo Decarli
40	MF	BEL	Jordi Vanlerberghe
42	FW	NGA	Emmanuel Dennis
44	DF	BEL	Brandon Mechele
55	DF	SRB	Erhan Mašović
96	DF	BEL	Ahmed Touba
TBD	DF	CRO	Matej Mitrovic (on loan from Beşiktaş)
TBD	DF	DEN	Alexander Scholz

Club friendlies[edit]

24 June 2017	Club Brugge	9–0	VV Westkapelle
19:00		Summary

28 June 2017	Oudenaarde	0–6	Club Brugge
19:00		Summary

1 July 2017	Torhout	0–2	Club Brugge
19:00		Summary

15 July 2017	Club Brugge	1–3	AZ
19:00		Summary

21 July 2017	Club Brugge	0–2	Athletic Bilbao
19:00		Summary

Competitions[edit]

Belgian First Division A[edit]

Regular season[edit]

Results summary[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
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

Source: Belgian First Division A (in Dutch), Soccerway
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
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]

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	D	D	D	D	W	W
Position	2	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Updated to match(es) played on 16 April 2018. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Play-offs[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	CLU	STA	AND	GNT	GNK	CHA
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	—

Source: Soccerway
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
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]

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Ground	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H
Result	W	L	L	W	D	D	L	W	D	L
Position	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Updated to match(es) played on 20 May 2018. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches[edit]

29 July 2017 1	Lokeren	0–4	Club Brugge	Lokeren
18:00	Kehli 35' Marić 81' Mpati 83'	Report	Mechele 5' Dennis 17', 24' Palacios 32' Nakamba 45+1' Mirić 55' (o.g.)	Stadium: Daknamstadion Attendance: 7,441 Referee: Sébastien Delferière

6 August 2017 2	Club Brugge	3–1	Eupen	Bruges
20:00	Vossen 32' (pen.) Dennis 65' Limbombe 86' Diaby 90+1'	Report	Diagne 19' Blondelle 28' Lotiès 90+3'	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	Dufour 35' 42'	Report	Dennis 5' 30' Vormer 16' Wesley 38' Vossen 82'	Stadium: Schiervelde Stadion Referee: Jonathan Lardot

30 November 2017 Round of 16	Zulte Waregem	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Club Brugge	Waregem
20:45	Baudry 35' De fauw 67' (pen.) Leya 72' Šaponjić 86' Kaya 90+1'	Report	Vossen 4' Cools 26' Mechele 53' Nakamba 63' Dennis 83' 106' 107' Limbombe 98'	Stadium: Regenboogstadion Attendance: 6,268 Referee: Sébastien Delferière

16 January 2018 Quarter-finals	Club Brugge	5–1	Sporting Charleroi	Bruges
20:45	Vanaken 11' 63' Mechele 22' 33' Wesley 35'	Report	N'Ganga 24'	Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Bart Vertenten

31 January 2018 Semi-finals 1st Leg	Standard Liège	4–1	Club Brugge	Liège
20:45	Emond 19' 25' 54' Cavanda 30' Edmilson Junior 57' 72'	Summary	Clasie 41' Vormer 72' Dennis 76' Mitrović 82'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Nicolas Laforge

8 February 2018 Semi-finals 2nd Leg	Club Brugge	3–2 (4–6 agg.)	Standard Liège	Bruges
21:00	Vanaken 41' 90+5' Vormer 60' Abdoulay Diaby 62' Clasie 75'	Summary	Orlando Sá 4' 42' M'Poku 15' Gillet 34' Laifis 44' Agbo 55' Marin 63' Emond 71'	Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Bart Vertenten

UEFA Champions League[edit]

26 July 2017 Third qualifying round 1st Leg	Club Brugge	3–3	İstanbul Başakşehir	Bruges
21:00	Dennis 5' Denswil 16' 78'	Summary	Mossoró 59' 73' Epureanu 60' Elia 63'	Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 26,788 Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni

2 August 2017 Third qualifying round 2nd Leg	İstanbul Başakşehir	2–0 (5–3 agg.)	Club Brugge	Istanbul
19:45	Adebayor 7' Júnior Caiçara 10' Clichy 24' Višća 34'	Summary	Dennis 23' Denswil 42' Vormer 65'	Stadium: Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium Attendance: 9,168 Referee: István Kovács (referee)

UEFA Europa League[edit]

17 August 2017 Play-off round 1st Leg	Club Brugge	0–0	AEK Athens	Bruges
20:45	Wesley 66' Vormer 74' Denswil 90'	Report	Livaja 15' Vranješ 23' Hélder Lopes 54' Ćosić 68'	Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 27,115 Referee: Viktor Kassai

24 August 2017 Play-off round 2nd leg	AEK Athens	3–0 (3–0 agg.)	Club Brugge	Athens
20:00	Christodoulopoulos 27' (pen.) André Simões 39' 90+1' Bakakis 50'	Report	Palacios 25' Nakamba 63'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 14,275 Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano

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
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	RUS	Vladimir Gabulov	10	0	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
18	GK	BEL	Guillaume Hubert	6	0	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
22	GK	USA	Ethan Horvath	19	0	15	0	0	0	2	0	2	0
32	GK	NED	Kenneth Vermeer	8	0	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	DEN	Alexander Scholz	6	0	3+2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
5	DF	FRA	Benoît Poulain	20	1	17+1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0
14	DF	CRO	Ivan Tomečak	6	1	3+2	1	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
15	DF	CRO	Matej Mitrovic	12	1	10	0	1+1	1	0	0	0	0
21	DF	BEL	Dion Cools	41	3	32+3	3	5	0	0	0	0+1	0
24	DF	NED	Stefano Denswil	40	4	33	2	3	0	2	2	2	0
35	DF	SUI	Saulo Decarli	13	1	10+1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0
44	DF	BEL	Brandon Mechele	48	5	40	3	5	2	2	0	1	0
55	DF	SRB	Erhan Mašović	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
96	DF	BEL	Ahmed Touba	5	0	2+1	0	0	0	1+1	0	0	0
Midfielders
3	MF	BEL	Timmy Simons	9	0	3+5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
6	MF	NED	Jordy Clasie	25	1	10+10	0	2+3	1	0	0	0	0
20	MF	BEL	Hans Vanaken	48	15	36+3	12	5	3	0+2	0	2	0
25	MF	NED	Ruud Vormer	49	14	38+2	13	5	1	2	0	2	0
30	MF	ZIM	Marvelous Nakamba	44	0	31+4	0	4+1	0	2	0	2	0
40	MF	BEL	Jordi Vanlerberghe	8	0	2+5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
7	FW	BRA	Wesley	44	13	29+9	11	3+2	2	0	0	0+1	0
8	FW	ISR	Lior Refaelov	22	2	5+13	2	0	0	2	0	0+2	0
9	FW	BEL	Jelle Vossen	35	9	11+17	7	1+3	2	1	0	2	0
10	FW	MLI	Abdoulay Diaby	41	16	26+8	15	4	1	0+1	0	1+1	0
11	FW	SEN	Krépin Diatta	8	0	6+2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	FW	BEL	Anthony Limbombe	39	6	29+3	6	5	0	0	0	1+1	0
19	FW	BEL	Thibault Vlietinck	4	0	2+2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	FW	NGA	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	FRA	Ludovic Butelle	6	0	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF	BEL	Björn Engels	5	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	0
11	FW	COL	José Izquierdo	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0+2	0
13	DF	COL	Helibelton Palacios	10	0	3+2	0	0+1	0	2	0	2	0
16	DF	COL	Germán Mera	2	0	1+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	DF	BEL	Laurens De Bock	8	0	4+2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
43	FW	FRA	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.

[title-1] "Club Brugge win Belgian title". Yahoo. 13 May 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2020.

[2] "First Division A 2016/2017 - Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 26 July 2016.

[3] "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.

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Grounds	Het Rattenplein (1891–1912) De Klokke (1912–1975) Jan Breydel Stadium (1975–present) Schiervelde Stadion (Club NXT & Club YLA)
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League competitions	First Division A First Division B First Amateur Division Second Amateur Division Third Amateur Division
Cup competitions	Belgian Cup (Final) Super Cup
Transfers	Summer 2017 Winter 2017–18 Summer 2018
UEFA competitions	Champions League Europa League
Related to national team	2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying (Group H) Roberto Martínez
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First Division B	Beerschot Wilrijk Cercle Brugge Lierse OH Leuven Roeselare Tubize Union SG Westerlo
2017–19 Belgian football fraud scandal

First-team squad[edit]

Club friendlies[edit]

Competitions[edit]

Belgian First Division A[edit]

Regular season[edit]

Results summary[edit]

Results by matchday[edit]

Play-offs[edit]

Results summary[edit]

Results by matchday[edit]

Matches[edit]

Belgian Cup[edit]

UEFA Champions League[edit]

UEFA Europa League[edit]

Statistics[edit]

Squad appearances and goals[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]