Last week, three international matches have been played. Yari Verschaeren en Sambi Lokonga were selected for the national team, along with many other former Anderlecht-players such as Leander Dendoncker, Youri Tielemans, Dennis Praet, Alexis Saelemaekers, Dries Mertens (youth teams) and of course Romelu Lukaku. Read more »
The youth teams are already busy with reinforcements for next season. Daniel Singh, now still playing at KV Mechelen, will strengthen the Purple & White U16 next season as part of those reinforcements. Read more »
Jacky Mathijssen announced his selection for the national U21. Marco Kana, Lucas Lissens, Killian Sardella and Anouar Ait El Hadj are part of that selection, which consists of many newcomers. Read more »
Naim Van Attenhoven, goalkeeper for the U18 of Anderlecht, can report to the national team of Niger next week. 17-year-old Van Attenhoven is in the selection for the qualifying matches for the Africa Cup against Ivory Coast and Madagascar. Read more »
A mixture of players from the U18 and U21 won with 7-0 against the U21 of RWDM. The Purple & White published a match report with all the goals on Facebook. Read more »
Anderlecht has signed a cooperation agreement with an eighth club. From now on, it will also work with Verbroedering Beersel-Drogenbos on youth training. Beersel-Drogenbos is the club where Alexis Saelemaekers started playing football as a child. Read more »
Anderlecht has put another friendly game on the calendar for the U21. On Monday at 8 pm they will take on Brussels neighbors RWDM. The two teams must undergo a corona test beforehand. Only if the results are negative the game will take place. Read more »
Five games to go in the regular season of the Jupiler Pro League. Vincent Kompany therefore has five more chances to grab as many points as possible and thus secure play-off 1. Still, that does not bring extra pressure for his team, according to the coach. Read more »
FIFA has given the green light for Warner Hahn to play for the Suriname national team. He may make his debut this month. National coach Dean Gorré already included Hahn in his pre-selection for some World Cup qualifying matches. Read more »
The reserves of Anderlecht lost a friendly game against their peers of Cercle Brugge with 1-2 yesterday. Mohamed Yaya Guindo scored for Purple & White. Read more »
It was reported last week that Rayana Bounida will not sign a professional contract yet today, on his fifteenth birthday. In any case, they are not worried at RSC Anderlecht. "There are no doubts". Read more »
After the U21 won their previous friendly game against KV Mechelen with 0-3, they now move to Cercle Bruges next Monday. René Peeters will sign up with his team for a friendly match. Read more »
Anderlecht is one of the clubs that is interested in Sunday Jang Junior. Cameroonian media write that. Jang is an 18-year-old Cameroonian striker who is currently active in the Africa Cup for U20, scoring twice in the first two matches. The Purple & White would even have made an offer. Read more »
Het Laatste Nieuws made a list of clubs that offer the most opportunities to young players. In the category -21 years, Cercle Brugge is in the lead with 14 players. Anderlecht follows immediately after them with 13. Standard and Genk are also doing well with 10 players. Leader Bruges takes fifth position with 8 players. Antwerp scores the lowest with three young players who were given playing opportunities. Read more »
A mixture of players from the U21 and U18 played a friendly game in and against KV Mechelen yesterday afternoon. The Purple & White won with 0-3. Simeon Michez (photo) and Lucas Stassin scored the goals. Read more »
Percy Tau does not appear to be the savior leading Brighton & Hove Albion to safety in the Premier League. The South African has been on the bench for more than a month without getting any playing minutes. Read more »
At the end of January, the Pro League decided to permanently stop the competitions up to and including the U16 due to the corona pandemic. The decision was then postponed for the U18 and U21. Today, however, the curtain has fallen: these competitions are also stopped for this season. Friendly games are still possible under strict conditions and with negative PCR tests Read more »
Amir Murillo received his fifth yellow card against Cercle Brugge and is therefore suspended for today's game. Majeed Ashimeru played on Monday with the reserves and left a fit impression and, according to Vincent Kompany, is ready for the match against KV Kortrijk. Read more »
Vincent Kompany appears to be emerging as a trendsetter. After Romelu Lukaku, Adnan Januzaj now also tells that he wants to return to the club of his youth one day. "I often watch Anderlecht games. It remains the biggest club in Belgium." Read more »
22 players who were born in 1999 and who once played in a youth team of Anderlecht, are now playing professional football. An incredible achievement. Six of the boys broke through at the first team of Anderlecht. Others sought and found their way elsewhere. Read more »
