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List of Belgium national football team managers

The male Belgian national (association) football team has been under the supervision of 25 different permanent managers and two caretakers since 1910.[1][2] Before 1910 and in 1919, a committee of the RBFA presided by Édouard de Laveleye selected the players. Initially supervised by foreigners, it would take until 1930 for team Belgium to be officially led by a Belgian (Hector Goetinck).

As of 1 December 2022, coach Roberto Martínez is the most successful (permanent) manager that Belgium has ever had in statistical terms, with an average of 2.26 points per match. He achieved third place at the 2018 World Cup and kept Belgium in the number one spot on the FIFA World Ranking for over three years. With this he outperformed the coach that previously brought Belgium successes at international tournament end stages, Guy Thys, who led his team to the 1980 European Championship final and six years later to the semi-finals of the World Cup in Mexico.

Managers edit

Manager Nat. Tenure Pld W D* L Win % Pts/G[A] Major tournaments**
Selection committee (1) — 1904–1909 19 8 1 10 42.11 1.32   SO 1908
William Maxwell (1)   1910–1913 23 11 3 9 47.83 1.57   SO 1912
Charles Bunyan   1914 4 0 0 4 0.00 0.00 —
Selection committee (2) — 1914–1919 1 0 1 0 0.00 1.00 —
William Maxwell (2)   1920–1928 56 18 10 28 32.14 1.14   SO 1920 – Winners[B]
  SO 1924 – Round 2
Viktor Löwenfeld   1928–1930 11 5 2 4 45.45 1.55   SO 1928 – Quarter-finals
Hector Goetinck (1)   1930–1934 31 7 5 19 22.58 0.84   WC 1930 – Round 1
  WC 1934 – Round 1
Jules Turnauer   1935 3 0 1 2 0.00 0.33 —
Jack Butler   1935–1939 32 8 7 17 25.00 0.97   WC 1938 – Round 1
  SO 1936
Hector Goetinck (2)   1939–1940 0 0 0 0 — — —
Selection committee (3) — 1940–1943 0 0 0 0 — — —
François Demol   1944–1946 8 2 2 4 25.00 1.00 —
Bill Gormlie   1947–1953 44 18 9 17 40.91 1.43   WC 1950[C]
Doug Livingstone   1953–1954 13 5 6 2 38.46 1.62   WC 1954 – Group stage
André Vandeweyer   1955–1957 17 4 2 11 23.53 0.82 —
Louis Nicolayct   1957 1 1 0 0 100.00 3.00 —
Géza Toldi   1957–1958 6 1 2 3 16.67 0.83   WC 1958
Constant Vanden Stock[D]   1958–1968 68 28 11 29 41.18 1.40   EC 1960,[E] WC 1962, EC 1964,
WC 1966, EC 1968
Raymond Goethals   1968–1976 44 25 8 11 56.82 1.89   WC 1970 – Group stage
  EC 1972 – Third place
  WC 1974, EC 1976
Guy Thys (1)   1976–1989 101 45 24* 32 44.55 1.57   WC 1978
  EC 1980 – Runners-up
  WC 1982 – Round 2
  EC 1984 – Group stage
  WC 1986 – Fourth place
  EC 1988
Walter Meeuws   1989–1990 6 2 3 1 33.33 1.50 —
Guy Thys (2)   1990–1991 13 4 4 5 30.77 1.23   WC 1990 – Round of 16
  EC 1992
Paul Van Himst   1991–1996 36 19 5 12 52.78 1.72   WC 1994 – Round of 16
  EC 1996
Wilfried Van Moer   1996 5 2 2 1 40.00 1.60 —
Georges Leekens (1)   1997–1999 29 10 10* 9 34.48 1.38   WC 1998 – Group stage
Robert Waseige   1999–2002 34 16 11[F] 7 47.06 1.74   EC 2000 – Group stage
  WC 2002 – Round of 16
Aimé Anthuenis   2002–2005 29 12 7 10 41.38 1.48   EC 2004, WC 2006
René Vandereycken   2005–2009 30 10 7 13 33.33 1.23   EC 2008, WC 2010
Franky Vercauterenct   2009 5 0 1 4 0.00 0.20 —
Dick Advocaat   2009–2010 5 3 0 2 60.00 1.80 —
Georges Leekens (2)   2010–2012 19 8 7 4 42.10 1.63   EC 2012
Marc Wilmots[G]   2012–2016 49[H] 33 8 8 67.35 2.18   WC 2014 – Quarter-finals
  EC 2016 – Quarter-finals
Roberto Martínez   2016–2022 80 56 13 11 70.00 2.26   WC 2018 – Third place
  NL Finals 2019
  EC 2020 – Quarter-finals
  NL Finals 2021 – Fourth place
  WC 2022 – Group stage
  NL Finals 2023
Domenico Tedesco     2023– 12 8 4 0 66.67 2.33   EC 2024 – TBD
Totals 834 369 176 289 44.24 1.54 25 out of 48 tournaments
* Draws include knockout matches decided via penalty shoot-out.
** Abbreviations: SO = Summer Olympics, WC = FIFA World Cup, EC = UEFA European Championship, NL = UEFA Nations League
(1), (2) first term, second term
ct caretaker manager
Last updated: Belgium v. England, 26 March 2024. Statistics include official FIFA-recognised matches only.

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ According to the "three points for a win" standard
  2. ^ Even though William Maxwell was the official manager then, in the tournament Raoul Daufresne coached the squad.
  3. ^ Belgium withdrew from the qualifiers.
  4. ^ Manager Vanden Stock only selected the players; under him, the Red Devils were consecutively trained by Viktor Havlicek (1958–60), Henri Dekens (1960–61), Arthur Ceuleers (1961–65) and Raymond Goethals (1966–68).
  5. ^ Belgium did not enter the qualifiers.
  6. ^ During a 2001 friendly draw against Czech Republic, assistants Vince Briganti and Jacky Munaron managed the team as Waseige recovered from cardiac bypass surgery.[2]
  7. ^ Wilmots was only a caretaker in his first two matches against Montenegro and England.[3] In June, first the player group and later also the Belgian Football Association chose him as permanent coach.[4][5]
  8. ^ Note that the friendlies against Romania on 14 November 2012 and against Luxembourg on 26 May 2014 are not FIFA-recognised due to an excessive number of substitutions.[6]

References edit

  1. ^ "Belgium national football team match results". eu-football.info. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  2. ^ a b Hassanin Mubarak (7 Aug 2003). "Belgium National Team Coaches". RSSSF archive of coaches 1904–. RSSSF. Retrieved 14 Sep 2013.
  3. ^ Maarten Delvaux; Bart Lagae (15 May 2012). "Marc Wilmots voorlopig interim-bondscoach". De Standaard (in Dutch).
  4. ^ janm (6 Jun 2012). "Marc Wilmots is nieuwe bondscoach tot 2014". De Standaard (in Dutch).
  5. ^ Gunther De Vos (4 Jun 2012). "Rode Duivels willen verder met Wilmots". De Standaard (in Dutch).
  6. ^ "Rules & Governance - Law 3: The number of players". The Football Association. Retrieved 25 Oct 2014.
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