With Mario Stroeykens, Noah Sadiki and Alonzo Engwanda, three Anderlecht players came into action with the Belgian U20. In the friendly game against Norway, which the Belgians won 2-1, Stroeykens even scored the first goal. Read more »
In a friendly game against of Japan, Fabio Silva was injured in the very first minute. Silva went deep and collided with the Japanese goalkeeper. The severity of the injury is not yet known, but Silva was still able to leave the field on his own power. Read more »
The Norwegian U21 won a friendly game against their Czech peers 0-4 today. Kristian Arnstad came in after 72 minutes. Four minutes later, he scored Norway's third goal from the penalty spot.... Read more »
Still want to catch an Anderlecht game during the World Cup? Come to the RSCA Futures. During the World Cup, they play three times at Lotto Park. Anderlecht is selling a mini-season ticket for these three games at the advantageous price of 30 euros. Read more »
Théo Leoni was the only first team player to play with the RSCA Futures on Sunday. At least for Futures coach Guillaume Gillet, that's not a problem. "You certainly won't hear me whining if I only have to do it with youngsters," he said. Read more »
1B Goalkeeper Rik Vercauteren was between the posts against Dender for the second time in a row. "It's a pity we didn't win again," he said after the match. "We play beautiful football according to the club's DNA, but we also have to match that with results." Read more »
The RSCA Futures lost 2-1 at FC Dender last night. Enock Agyei (pictured) had given the visitors the lead, but Stefano Marzo gave Dender the victory with two goals. Read more »
Anderlecht has added a third World Cup entrant. Left back Moussa N'Diaye was called up by Senegal because the naturalization papers of Aliou Cissé Ismail Jakobs did not come in order in time. Purple and White announced the news on social media. Read more »
The players who do not have international duties are now taking their winter break. Friday, Nov. 25, they are expected back at Neerpede. Earlier there was also talk of scheduling some kind of winter training camp, but no further details about that are known yet. Read more »
Anderlecht is not yet sure whether it will continue with Robin Veldman as head coach. On Monday, the various parties will meet for the first time on this matter. Anderlecht wants to work with Veldman in the longer term and therefore doubts whether keeping him T1 is the best option. Read more »
The RSCA Futures drew 2-2 yesterday at Club NXT. Purple and White seemed to be on their way to victory after goals by Lucas Stassin and Simion Michez (pictured), but Lennert Mertens saved a point for the Bruges U23 in the 91st minute. Read more »
Anderlecht has just announced a selection of twenty players for the cup game against Lierse. Among them no Jan Vertonghen, Yari Verschaeren and Sebastiano Esposito. Read more »
Will Anderlecht continue with Robin Veldman as head coach? The Dutchman is not currently occupied with it, he said at his press conference yesterday. "The chairman and I are in daily contact, but mainly about match-related matters. The evaluation about me personally will happen during the World Cup break." Read more »
Speaking to regional Dutch broadcast Rijnmond Sport, Henk van Stee says he was one of the candidates to become technical director at Anderlecht. "But I agreed with my family that I will stay in the Netherlands," he says. Read more »
Romelu Lukaku paid a visit to Anderlecht's youth academy a few days ago. The U8 players were very happy to have their picture taken with the top scorer of the Red Devils. Lukaku is currently rehabilitating in Belgium from a hamstring injury. Read more »
The RSCA Futures won 3-0 tonight against SL16 FC, Standard's U23 team. Chris Lokesa (pictured) was the big standout. He scored twice and gave the assist for Hubert's goal, although you could call that a Lokesa goal as well.
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Ghana's national coach has announced a pre-selection of 55 players for the World Cup in Qatar. One of them is Majeed Ashimeru.Mo Dauda, loaned to Tenerife by Anderlecht with a mandatory purchase option, is also among them. Read more »
Robin Veldman talked about a lot of things after the game against Silkeborg. Happiness prevailed, but he also saw things that could be even better. "I am very happy for Anderlecht, but also have to give Silkeborg compliments," he said. Read more »
A happy Jan Vertonghen spoke to Sporza after the game against Silkeborg, but he was also stern. After halftime, the ancien saw a lot go wrong. "It's incredible: we didn't hold a ball, put poor pressure and left the center open all the time," Vertonghen said. Read more »
The Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen reported today that Casper Tengstedt is in Anderlecht's interest. Purple-White are said to have started watching the 22-year-old striker, who has already scored 13 times this season, on several occasions in recent weeks. Read more »
In this holiday period and before a trip to OHL on Saturday, coaches René Peeters and Benoit Haegeman reviewed their selection in a friendly match against FC Utrecht yesterday. RSCA won 2-0, one goal per half, thanks to Amadou Diallo and Ebenezer Agyei (photo) Read more »
Roel Clément is making an immediate switch from the U14 staff to the one of the first team. This is what Het Laatste Nieuws knows. Clément thus solves the problem that head coach Robin Veldman does not have the required Pro Licence diploma. Clément, who has been working at purple and white for many years, does. Read more »
Alexis Saelemaekers is currently in Belgium to rehabilitate from a knee injury. Het Laatste Nieuws sought him out and of course Anderlecht came up for discussion. "It hurts to see the club of my heart go through such a difficult period," the Milan player told the paper. Read more »
Five Anderlecht players were active with the national U17 in the European Championship qualifying round the past few days. Michiel Haentjens, Ethan Butera (photo), Kais Barry, Ismaël Baouf and Lilian Vergeyelen experienced a nice five days. They won all three of their matches. Read more »
Anderlecht have announced a squad of 23 players who will travel to Denmark for Thursday's Conference League match against Silkeborg. Benito Raman has recovered from his injury and is back in the selection. Yari Verschaeren will also travel along. Read more »
The Belgian U16 national team starts today the friendly tournament in Val-de-Marne (Fr) together with Switzerland, Italy and France. For this gathering, national coach David Penneman has called up 4 players from the RSCA Academy. Maël Debondt (photo), Nunzio Engwanda-Ongena, Konstantinos Karetsas and Alexander Reumers will wear the colours of the Diablotins. Read more »
Based on reports in Croatian media, Het Laatste Nieuws and Le Soir write this afternoon that Anderlecht want to strengthen with Dion Beljo in January. This 20-year-old striker currently plays for NK Osijek. Recruitment director Dries Belaen is said to have initiated talks. Read more »
