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«Red Devils»

84 Matches
48 wins
19 draws
17 losses
182–77 Goals
+105 Difference
2.2 Scored per game
Form W 1 Jul · Home Senegal · 3:2 W 7 Jul · Away USA · 4:1 L 10 Jul · Away Spain · 1:2 W 25 Sep · Away Italy · 2:0 L 28 Sep · Home France · 0:1 W 2 Oct · Home Turkey · 3:0

The stadium's own history is bound up with tragedy and rebuilding, but the team that calls it home carries the older name of the two: Red Devils, coined by a journalist in 1906 for the red shirts and, pointedly, for the speed of racing driver Camille Jenatzy.

The federation itself dates from 1904, and the side lost its first international, 3–3 to France in Uccle, before joining FIFA twenty days later as a founding member. What followed took decades to pay off. Belgium won Olympic gold on home soil in Antwerp in 1920, then spent much of the rest of the century missing tournaments outright — the 1974 and 1978 World Cups, Euro 2004, the 2006 World Cup among them.

Between those two poles sits a genuine peak under Guy Thys, who took the team to the 1980 European Championship final and to fourth place at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. The next one arrived only after 2010, when a generation built around Kevin De Bruyne, Eden Hazard and Romelu Lukaku — the last of them the side's record scorer with 93 goals — held the number one FIFA ranking for over three years under Roberto Martínez and beat England in the 2018 play-off to finish third in Russia.

The fixture that still sharpens attention more than any other is against the Netherlands, played as the Low Countries derby, with France standing as the older rival — the same France that Belgium had already faced, and drawn with, in Uccle in May 1904.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
5 Oct UEFA Nations League France A
2 Oct UEFA Nations League Turkey H 3:0 W
28 Sep UEFA Nations League France H 0:1 L
25 Sep UEFA Nations League Italy A 2:0 W
10 Jul World Cup Spain A 1:2 L
7 Jul World Cup USA A 4:1 W

Standing

UEFA Nations League

Group stage · League A - Group A

# Team M W D L Goals Pts
1 France 4 3 1 0 7:2 10
2 Italy 4 2 1 1 8:5 7
3 Belgium 4 2 0 2 6:5 6
4 Turkey 4 0 0 4 2:11 0
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Team statistics

matches counted in total: 84
84 Matches
48 wins
19 draws
17 losses
182–77 Goals
+105 Difference
2.2 Scored per game
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 84
48wins: 48 · 57% 19draws: 19 · 22% 17losses: 17 · 20%
wins draws losses
Scored and conceded last matches
1 Jul · Home Senegal · 3:2
7 Jul · Away USA · 4:1
10 Jul · Away Spain · 1:2
25 Sep · Away Italy · 2:0
28 Sep · Home France · 0:1
2 Oct · Home Turkey · 3:0
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 84 45 39
Scored 182 110 72
Conceded 77 37 40
Scored per game 2.2 2.4 1.8
Conceded per game 0.9 0.8 1.0
Difference +105 +73 +32

Key players

by appearances over the last year
Youri Marion A. Tielemans Midfielder 12 Matches Dodi Lukebakio Midfielder 12 Matches Nicolas Thierry Raskin Midfielder 12 Matches J. Saez Defender 12 Matches Brandon Mechele Defender 12 Matches Timothy Castagne Defender 12 Matches Kevin De Bruyne Midfielder 12 Matches Maxim De Cuyper Defender 12 Matches

Squad of Belgium

by appearances over the last year
Number Player Position Age Matches
8 Youri Marion A. Tielemans Midfielder 12
14 BE Dodi Lukebakio Midfielder 29 12
23 BE Nicolas Thierry Raskin Midfielder 25 12
18 J. Saez Defender 12
4 Brandon Mechele Defender 12
21 Timothy Castagne Defender 12
7 Kevin De Bruyne Midfielder 12
5 Maxim De Cuyper Defender 12
1 Senne Lammens Goalkeeper 12
17 BE Charles Marc De Ketelaere Forward 25 12
3 Arthur Nicolas Theate Defender 11
16 BE Koni De Winter Defender 24 11
15 Nathan Ngoy Defender 11
20 Hans Vanaken Midfielder 10
9 Romelu Lukaku Forward 10
22 Matias Fernandez-Pardo Forward 9
19 Diego Manuel Jadon da Silva Moreira Midfielder 9
6 Axel Laurent Angel Lambert Witsel Midfielder 9
15 Thomas André A. Meunier Defender 9
22 Alexis Saelemaekers Forward 9
10 Leandro Trossard Forward 8
13 Mike Penders Goalkeeper 8
11 Jérémy Baffour Doku Midfielder 8
24 Amadou Ba Zeund Georges Mvom Onana Midfielder 8
1 Thibaut Nicolas Marc Courtois Goalkeeper 7
2 Zeno Debast Defender 6
22 BE Mika Marcel Godts Midfielder 21 5
12 Maarten Vandevoordt Goalkeeper 5
11 Ikoma-Loïs Openda Forward 5
6 R. Lavia Midfielder 3
16 Mandela Keita Midfielder 2
13 BE Jari De Busser Goalkeeper 26 2
19 BE Lucas Frédéric Stassin Forward 21 2
25 N. De Kat Midfielder 2
13 Matz Sels Goalkeeper 2
19 Malick Martin Fofana Forward 1

Fixtures of Belgium

Honours of Belgium

  • FIFA World Cup 1986 1
  • Olympic Games 1920 1
  • UEFA European Championship 1980 1
  • FIFA World Cup 2018 1
  • Olympic Games 1900 1
  • UEFA European Championship 1972 1

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