Glen De Boeck

Glen De Boeck
Personal information
Date of birth (1971-08-22)22 August 1971
Place of birth Boom, Belgium
Date of death 8 December 2025(2025-12-08) (aged 54)
Place of death Antwerp, Belgium
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1979–1990 FC Boom
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1992 FC Boom 35 (1)
1992–1995 Mechelen 93 (5)
1995–2005 Anderlecht 206 (14)
Total 334 (20)
International career
1993–2002 Belgium 36 (1)
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 (nl) (22 August 1971 – 8 December 2025) was a Belgian footballer and manager. As a footballer, he was capped 36 times for Belgium, and played for them at the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups.[1]

De Boeck died in Antwerp on 8 December 2025, at the age of 54. He had suffered a brain hemorrhage at home on 6 December, and went into a deep coma, which he did not recover from.[2]

Honours

Player

Anderlecht[3]
  • Belgian First Division: 1999–00, 2000–01, 2003–04
  • Belgian Cup: runners-up 1996–97[4]
  • Belgian Super Cup: 2000, 2001
  • Belgian League Cup: 2000[5]
  • Belgian Sports Team of the Year: 2000[6]
  • Jules Pappaert Cup: 2000, 2001[7]

Manager

Cercle Brugge
  • Belgian Cup: runners-up 2009–10[8]

References

  1. ↑ Ex-voetballer en -trainer Glen De Boeck (54) onverwacht overleden na hersenbloeding (in Dutch)
  2. ↑ "Voormalig Rode Duivel en trainer Glen De Boeck (54) overleden na hersenbloeding". De Standaard (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-12-08.
  3. ↑ "RSC Anderlecht | Palmares".
  4. ↑ "Anderlecht en de beker: geen successtory".
  5. ↑ "Anderlecht wint de Ligabeker".
  6. ↑ "Rode Duivels Ploeg van het Jaar".
  7. ↑ "Jules Pappaert Cup". October 2018.
  8. ↑ "De Vereniging | Geschiedenis". Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2020.

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