Belgium national under-18 football team
Appearance
Nickname(s) | Little Red Devils | ||
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Association | Royal Belgian Football Association | ||
Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | ||
Head coach | Wesley Sonck | ||
Captain | Frederik Spruyt | ||
Most caps | Jean-Francois Gillet (19) | ||
Top scorer | Émile Mpenza (6) | ||
FIFA code | BEL | ||
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FIFA ranking | |||
Current | 10 |
The Belgium national under-18 football team is a feeder team for the main Belgium national football team.
The team plays an annual friendly tournament. In addition, it only plays practice matches. The team mainly intends to prepare players from Belgium Under 17 for Belgium Under 19.
From 1948 to 2001, an annual European Under-18 Championship was played. In 1977, Belgium won the tournament. In 2002, the tournament was transformed into a European Under-19 football championship.[1]
Recent results[edit]
28 April 2014 2014 Slovakia Cup | Belgium | 0–2 | Norway | |
15:00 | Report (in Dutch) | Espejord 6' Skimmeland 37' |
29 April 2014 2014 Slovakia Cup | Russia | 3–0 | Belgium | |
15:00 | Mayrovich 29' Chernov 46' Makarov 50' |
Report (in Dutch) |
2 May 2014 2014 Slovakia Cup | Belgium | 1–4 | Czech Republic | |
11:00 | Verviest 34' | Report (in Dutch) | Toml 18' Batka 39' Takács 51' Suchan 79' |
5 November 2014 Friendly | Belgium | 1–2 | Switzerland | Centre national de formation Tubize |
19:00 | Dimata 81' | [ Summary] | Babic 8' Oliveira 15' (pen.) |
Attendance: 200 |
Current squad[edit]
The following players were called up for the friendly against Austria on 14 September 2016. [1]
No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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FW | Benjamin Bambi | 12 April 1999 | Heist | |||
Jelle Bataille | 20 May 1999 | Oostende | ||||
Andreas Burssens | 17 March 1999 | Gent | ||||
Milan Corryn | 4 April 1999 | Anderlecht | ||||
Jarno De Smet | 5 February 1999 | Club Brugge | ||||
Hannes Delcroix | 28 February 1999 | Anderlecht | ||||
Jerome Deom | 19 April 1999 | Standard Liège | ||||
Robbie D'Haese | 25 February 1999 | Oostende | ||||
MF | Xian Emmers | 20 July 1999 | Inter | |||
Daan Foulon | 23 March 1999 | Anderlecht | ||||
Natanael Frenoy | 8 January 1999 | Standard Liège | ||||
Soufiane Karkache | 2 July 1999 | Club Brugge | ||||
Mike Trésor | 28 May 1999 | Anderlecht | ||||
MF | Paolo Sabak | 10 February 1999 | Genk | |||
GK | Mile Svilar | 27 August 1999 | Anderlecht | |||
DF | Zinho Vanheusden | 29 July 1999 | Inter | |||
Louis Verstraete | 4 May 1999 | Gent | ||||
Marten Wilmots | 29 January 1999 | Standard Liège |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Belgium [U18]". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 16 June 2021.