On Friday, Aristote Nkaka stayed 90 minutes on the bench during the match of Ostend against Zulte-Waregem. He seems to have lost his place that he won last season because the club knows he will play at Anderlecht next season. Ostend won the game with 3-1. Read more »
Dieumerci Mbokani returns to the Jupiler Pro League. Not to Anderlecht, but to FC Antwerp. The Great Old announced Saturday evening that the former striker of Anderlecht signed a contract for one season. Read more »
Anderlecht lost their first points of the season on Sunday against Bruges. The home team won 2-1 and take over the lead in the ranking. Anderlecht are now following, one point behind. Read more »
With a nice 12 out of 12 in the pocket, Anderlecht will go to Bruges for the game against last season's champion. After four games against smaller clubs, this is the first major test. Will Anderlecht, with Ognjen Vranjes, get Club on their knees? Read more »
Today, the first top game of this season is played: Club Bruges - Anderlecht. The players will play in a sold out Jan Breydel Stadium, the game will be led by Bart Vertenten. The kick-off is scheduled at 2.30 pm. Read more »
Evhenii Makarenko is selected by the national coach of Ukraine for the games against the Czech Republic on September 6 and against Slovakia on September 9. It is his first selection for Ukraine since March 5, 2014. Read more »
RSC Anderlecht appealed against the suspension of Ognjen Vranjes. It would dispute the indicative table of target penalties for certain offenses, but has since stepped off that. Anderlecht accept the new indicative table as drawn up and approved by the Pro League. The Purple & White hopes for a partially provisional sentence for Vranjes. Read more »
Sunday Chidzambga, national coach of Zimbabwe, has just announced a preselection of 28 names for the game against Congo-Brazzaville. Anderlecht attacker Knowledge Musona is in this preselection. The game takes place on September 7 and is part of the qualifying campaign for the Africa Cup 2019. Read more »
Bubacarr Sanneh played with Midtjylland in the Europa League against Malmö yesterday (2-2). The defender stood the entire match between the lines and got a yellow card after 70 minutes. In the meantime, Anderlecht-president Marc Coucke has started following Sanneh on Twitter. Read more »
Anderlecht filed an appeal against the suspension that the Disputes Committee issued on Tuesday for Ognjen Vranjes. Anderlecht lawyer Luk Deleu still disputes the validity of the indicative table. The appeal will be dealt with tomorrow at 1 pm. Read more »
The national women's football team Red Flames, has two qualifying games on the schedule for the 2019 World Cup. National coach Yves Serneels selected no less than eight Anderlecht-players in his pre-selection. Tine De Caigny, Laura Deloose, Laura De Neve, Justien Odeurs, Ella Van Kerkhoven (photo), Elke Van Gorp, Charlotte Tison & Sarah Wijnants. Read more »
Although his management said that the transfer was blown off because no financial agreement was found, Het Nieuwsblad knows that the physical capacities of Sikou Niakité are the cause of his transfer to Anderlecht. His engine is too limited. Read more »
The Disputes Committee has not approved the request from Anderlecht lawyer Luk Deleu to deal with the file of Ognjen Vranjes after the weekend. It just made a statement today and suspended Vranjes for three games. The Bosnian thus misses the game against Club Brugge. Read more »
Anderlecht played a friendly game against OH Leuven from 1B this afternoon. In this game, players who did not play or hardly play in the competition were given minutes. Anderlecht won with 5-0. Read more »
Anderlecht will play a friendly game against OH Leuven this afternoon. The Purple & White wants players who have to leave or are physically less than 100 per cent to get their match rhythm. The duel takes place in Tubize behind closed doors. Read more »
Yesterday evening, the second matchday was scheduled in the Reserves competition. Anderlecht got a visit in Tubize from Club Brugge. The young group of coach Jonas De Roeck won the game easily with 4-1. The purple-white goals were scored by Dhauholou, Nzita, Verschaeren (photo) and Doku. Read more »
Purple & White appeals against the 3-day suspension that the Prosecutor proposed for Vranjes yesterday. This would make that the defender would miss the games against Bruges, Antwerp and Genk. Vranjes got this suspension for a tough tackle with two feet ahead. Read more »
Sunday, the top game is on the program, RSC Anderlecht moves to the Jan Breydel Stadium for the game against Club Brugge. Bart Vertenten has been appointed to lead this game in the right direction. Rien Vanyzere and Thibaud Nijssen are his assistants. Bram Van Driessche is the fourth official. Read more »
Antonio Milic and Ivan Santini have been called up for Croatia. National coach Zlatko Dalic calls on them for the friendly game against Portugal on 6 September. Five days later Croatia plays its first Nations League game against Spain. Read more »
The prosecutor of the Belgian Union has come to a verdict about the red card of Ognen Vranjes and proposes a suspension of three match days, plus a 3000 euro fine. As a result, the defender would miss the games against Club Brugge, Antwerp and Genk. The final decision now lies with the Disputes Committee, after which RSC Anderlecht can also appeal. Read more »
Davy Roefplayed with Waasland-Beveren against STVV. The game ended at 2-2. This is the third draw for the Waaslanders. They are now 12th in the ranking. Read more »
Tonight the top game is on the program for RSC Anderlecht U21. In the national football center in Tubeke they receive Club Brugge as part of the second matchday for reserves. Jonas De Roeck announced a selection of 18 players for this game.
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Adrien Trebel scored Friday with a free kick just outside the box. The Anderlecht-captain had tried it 10 minutes earlier with a delicious lob from 50 meters. The ball landed on the crossbar. Trebel was also the boss on the midfield and led Anderlecht to a relatively smooth 2-0 win. Not surprising that the audience regularly sang: "Allez Trebel, reste avec nous." But what about that? Is he staying or not? Read more »
Ognjen Vranjes received a deserved red card ten minutes before the end of Anderlecht - Mouscron. The Bosnian went with his two feet forward to his opponent. Chances are that he is suspended against Club Brugge because of this. Read more »
Anderlecht also won its fourth game of the season. Captain Trebel led Anderlecht to a 2-0 win with two free kicks. Before the break, he scored himself, after the break he offered Dimata a goal. Only downside was the deserved red card for Vranjes. Read more »
Anderlecht and Mouscron are starting the fourth game day tonight. Anderlecht is the proud leader with the maximum of the points. Mouscron dangles at the bottom of the ranking and is still pointless. Read more »
Andy Najar devoured the seventy minutes against Al Batin well. Hein Vanhaezebrouck said that at his press conference yesterday. Yet we will not have to expect him today. "We are not going to take any risks with him, he must first play an entire game." Read more »
According to Het Laatste Nieuws, the future of Josué Sa lies at the Turkish Kasimpasa. The newspaper reports that the loan will soon be completed. Kasimpasa will probably also be given an option to take over the Portuguese on a permanent base. Read more »
The players of the U18 who did not play against Ajax on Tuesday, played on Wednesday a frienldy game against an American selection U17. Despite some nice attempts, the game ended in 0-0. Read more »
Andy Najar and Ryota Morioka showed positive things during the friendly game against Al-Batin. Najar played seventy minutes and seems relieved of his hamstring injury. Morioka showed that he picked up the good advice from Hein Vanhaezebrouck. Read more »
Anderlecht played a 0-0 draw yesterday afternoon in a friendly game against the Saudi team Al Batin. Hein Vanhaezebrouck had among put players on the pitch who are not really needed at this point, such as Kara Mbodj, Lukasz Teodorczyk, Ivan Obradovic and Josué Sa. Read more »
The U18 and U21 played a friendly game on Tuesday against Ajax Amsterdam. The U21 started with a 1-2 victory against the U19 of Ajax. Afterwards, the U18 of Anderlecht lost 3-1 against the U17 of Ajax. Read more »
