Glen De Boeck

Glen De Boeck
Personal information
Date of birth	22 August 1971 (age 52)
Place of birth	Boom, Belgium
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1979–1990	FC Boom
Senior career*
Years	Team
1990–1992	FC Boom
1992–1995	Mechelen
1995–2005	Anderlecht
Total
International career
1993–2002	Belgium
Managerial career
2005–2007	Anderlecht (assistant manager)
2007–2010	Cercle Brugge
2010	Germinal Beerschot
2011	VVV-Venlo
2012–2013	Waasland-Beveren
2016	Mouscron-Péruwelz
2017–2018	Kortrijk
2019	Lokeren
2023	Kortrijk
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Glen De Boeck (Dutch pronunciation:

central defender, mostly on the books of Anderlecht

, with whom he won several league titles, and later was an assistant coach.

Club career

De Boeck was born in

The Jupiler Pro League

in the early 2000s.

In February 2005, De Boeck decided to end his career due to a heavy knee injury.

International career

De Boeck made his international debut with Belgium on 6 October 1993, against Gabon (a friendly), going on to represent his country at two World Cups, with three appearances combined.

Coaching career

De Boeck was directly snapped up by his last club Anderlecht to become an assistant manager, together with Daniel Renders.

On 23 April 2007, it was revealed that De Boeck would become manager of first division side

Cercle Brugge.^[1]

He left Cercle in June 2010 and was named the manager of Germinal Beerschot who were looking for a successor to Jos Daerden who left to become an assistant coach at Dutch club Twente.

On 30 November 2010, after continuous bad results and disagreements on the management board, he was fired as coach from Germinal Beerschot.

At the start of the 2011–12 season De Boeck was appointed as the new manager of

Waasland-Beveren

, but was released one year later.

After spells at

Mouscron-Péruwelz, Kortrijk and Lokeren, De Boeck became a prominent expert on Belgian television before being re-appointed Kortrijk coach on 26 September 2023 in place of Edward Still

, with the club lying bottom of the Belgian Pro League, without a win in their first eight games in the season.