Standard Liège
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| Full name | Royal Standard de Liège | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Les Rouches (The Reds) | ||
| Founded | 1900 | ||
| Ground | Stade Maurice Dufrasne Liège (Capacity: 30,030) |
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| Chairman |  Reto Stiffler |
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| Manager |  László Bölöni |
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| League | Belgian First Division | ||
| 2008-09 | Belgian First Division, 1st | ||
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Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège, is a Belgian football club from the city of Liège. They are one of the most successful clubs in Belgium, having won the Belgian league on 10 occasions, most recently in 2007-08 and 2008-09. They have also won 5 Belgian Cups, and in 1981-82 they reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup, although they lost 2-1 to Barcelona.
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[edit] Club culture
Standard is one of the most popular clubs in Belgium and historically the third most successful club in the Belgian First Division. The team is known as "Les Rouches" (i.e. "Les Rouges", "The Reds" pronounced with the Liège accent) for the colour of their home shirts. Their home matches are played in the Stade Maurice Dufrasne, known as the "Chaudron de Sclessin" ("Sclessin Cauldron"), which has a capacity of 30,000. There are several notable supporter's groups, the four largest being "Hell-Side 81", "Ultras Inferno 96", "Kop Rouche", and "PHK" - each associated with different areas of the stadium.
[edit] History
The club was founded in 1900 by students at the Saint-Servais High School in Liege, though an administrative error records the date as 1898. Their inspiration for the name was Standard de Paris, a popular Parisian club at the time.
A high point of the club's history was the 1982 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, in which they were beaten by FC Barcelona in the final. In 1982, a scandal was revealed implicating several players and trainers in an alleged plan to influence other Belgian clubs to "ease off" toward the end of the season, so that Standard might face Barcelona without injuries. As a result, the club received a heavy fine and - in order to pay it - had to sell its best players.
The Belgian titles stopped coming, yet the club remained very popular across Belgium - even in the Flemish north. In 1996, the club absorbed R.F.C. Seraing. Standard appeared to see something of a resurgence in the 2005-2006 season, finishing the Belgian League in second place and earning themselves a place in the Champions League qualifiers.
On April 20, 2008 they won their first Belgian League title in 25 years with 3 games left, claiming an unbeaten record of 31 games. Standard defeated their archrivals Anderlecht in the decisive match, with 2 goals from Dieumerci Mbokani who had played for Anderlecht the previous season. The team was one of the youngest in the Belgian First Division. A total of 32 Scouts from foreign teams were in the stadium with Marouane Fellaini as the main focus of their interests.[citation needed]. Fellaini later signed for Everton F.C. in a deal worth €20M in the dying minutes of the transfer deadline 2008. Standard made their second appearance in the Champions League qualifiers in 2008-09.
The Standard Liege's domination over the Belgian Football was highlighted in January 09 as one of their players got the title of Football Player of the Year (Golden Shoe) for the 3rd time in 4 years with Axel Witsel's victory over his teammate Milan Jovanovic. It was confirmed later that season when the team won its second Belgian title in a row after two play-off matches against Anderlecht (1-1 and 1-0). The game was of poor quality but also among the most intense of Belgian football history as the winner got a ticket to the final stage of the Champions League and its 15M Euro Jackpot, enough to shift the balance of power in the league for the foreseable future.
[edit] Honours
[edit] National
- Champions (10): 1957/58, 1960/61, 1962/63, 1968/69, 1969/70, 1970/71, 1981/82, 1982/83, 2007/08, 2008/09
- Runners-up (10): 1925/26, 1927/28, 1935/36, 1961/62, 1964/65, 1972/73, 1979/80, 1992/93, 1994/95, 2005/06
- Champions (5): 1954, 1966, 1967, 1981, 1993
- Runners-up (9): 1965, 1972, 1973, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1999, 2000, 2007
- Champions (1): 1975
- Champions (3) 1981, 1983, 2008
- Runners-up (2) 1993, 1982
[edit] International
- Runners-up (1) 1982
[edit] European record
- As of December, 2008.
| Competition | A | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA |
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| UEFA Champions League | 10 | 44 | 23 | 5 | 16 | 75 | 52 |
| Cup Winners' Cup | 6 | 36 | 19 | 5 | 12 | 68 | 49 |
| UEFA Cup | 14 | 70 | 30 | 18 | 22 | 99 | 88 |
| Intertoto Cup | 3 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 25 | 16 |
[edit] Current squad
As of January, 2009.
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For recent transfers, see List of Belgian football transfers summer 2009.
[edit] Notable Players
[edit] Former players
[edit] Player stats
[edit] Appearances
| # | Player | Standard career | Appearances |
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| 1 |  Guy Hellers |
1983-2000 | 474 |
| 2 |  Gilbert Bodart |
1981-1996, 1997-1998 | 469 |
| 3 | Guy Vandersmissen |
1978-1991 | 465 |
| 4 | Léon Semmeling |
1959-1974 | 449 |
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[edit] Goals
| # | Player | Standard career | Goals (App.) |
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| 1 | Jean Capelle |
1929-1944 | 245 (285) |
| 2 | Roger Claessen |
1956-1968 | 161 (229) |
| 3 | Maurice Gillis |
1919-1935 | 124 (275) |
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[edit] Coaches
- 07/1912 - 06/1916 Charles Bunyan
- 07/1916 - 06/1922 Camille van Hoorden
- 07/1922 - 06/1924
Lamport and Pierre Kögel - 07/1924 - 06/1930 Percy Wilding Hartley
- 07/1930 - 06/1932 Maurice Grisard
- 07/1932 - 06/1935 Percy Wilding Hartley
- 07/1935 - 06/1936 Jean Dupont
- 07/1936 - 03/1937 Percy Wilding Hartley
- 04/1937 - 11/1938 Emile Riff
- 12/1938 - 06/1939 Jean Dupont
- 07/1939 - 06/1940 Maurice Grisard
- 07/1940 - 06/1942 René Dohet
- 07/1942 - 06/1945 Fernarnd Wertz
- 07/1945 - 06/1950 Marcelin Waroux
- 07/1950 - 06/1951 Antoine Basleer
- 07/1951 - 06/1953 Maurice Grisard
- 07/1953 - 06/1958
André Riou Champion in 1958 - 07/1958 - 06/1961
Géza Kalocsay Champion in 1961 - 07/1961 - 06/1963 Jean Prouff
- 07/1963 - 11/1964
Auguste Jordan Champion in 1963 - 12/1964 - 06/1968
Milorad Pavić - 07/1968 - 06/1973 René Hauss Champion in 1969, 1970, 1971
- 07/1973 - 10/1973 Vlatko Marković
- 11/1973 - 06/1974 Ned Bulatović
- 07/1974 - 12/1975
Cor van der Hart - 01/1976 - 06/1976 Maurice Lempereur and Lucien Leduc
- 07/1976 - 06/1979 Robert Waseige
- 07/1979 - 06/1981 Ernst Happel
- 07/1981 - 02/1984 Raymond Goethals Champion in 1982, 1983
- 03/1984 - 06/1984 Léon Semmeling
- 07/1984 - 04/1985 Louis Pilot
- 05/1985 - 02/1987 Milorad Pavić
- 02/1986 - 06/1987
Helmut Graf - 07/1987 - 09/1987 René Desaeyere
- 10/1987 - 03/1988 Milorad Pavić
- 04/1988 - 06/1988 Jozef Vliers
- 07/1988 - 06/1989 Urbain Braems
- 07/1989 - 06/1991 Georg Kessler
- 07/1991 - 12/1993 Arie Haan
- 01/1994 - 06/1994 René Vandereycken
- 07/1994 - 06/1996 Robert Waseige
- 07/1996 - 06/1997 Jos Daerden
- 07/1997 - 10/1997 Aad de Mos
- 11/1997 - 03/1998 Daniel Boccar
- 04/1998 - 06/1998
Luka Peruzović - 07/1998 - 09/1999 Tomislav Ivić
- 10/1999 - 12/1999 Željko Mijač
- 01/2000 - 05/2000 Jean Thissen and Henri Depireux
- 05/2000 - 12/2000 Tomislav Ivić
- 12/2000 - 01/2001 Dominique D'Onofrio and Christian Labarbe
- 01/2001 - 06/2002 Michel Preud'homme
- 06/2002 - 10/2002 Robert Waseige
- 10/2002 - 06/2006 Dominique D'Onofrio
- 07/2006 - 09/2006 Johan Boskamp
- 09/2006 - 06/2008 Michel Preud'homme Champion in 2008
- 06/2008 - ??/???? László Bölöni Champion in 2009
[edit] Captains
Player's name in bold when Standard won the title
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[edit] Supporters Awards
[edit] Man of the season (since 1997/98)
Most regular Standardman of the season (votes after every match on the official website)
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| 1997/98 | Björn van der Doelen |
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| 1998/99 | Vedran Runje |
 António Folha |
Emile Mpenza |
| 1999/00 | Bernd Thijs |
Michaël Goossens |
Vedran Runje |
| 2000/01 | Vedran Runje |
Ivica Mornar |
Robert Prosinečki |
| 2001/02 | Almami Moreira |
Michaël Goossens |
Harold Meyssen |
| 2002/03 |  Fredrik Söderström |
Almami Moreira |
 Ole Martin Årst |
| 2003/04 | Emile Mpenza |
Almami Moreira |
Jonathan Walasiak |
| 2004/05 | Sérgio Conceição |
Vedran Runje |
 Oguchi Onyewu |
| 2005/06 |  Mémé Tchité |
Sérgio Conceição |
Almami Moreira |
| 2006/07 | Steven Defour |
 Milan Jovanović |
Sérgio Conceição |
| 2007/08 | Dieumerci Mbokani |
Milan Jovanović |
Steven Defour |
[edit] Trophy Scharlaken UGH (since 2000/01)
Standardman of the season presented by fan club Les Rouches des Flandres in cooperation with the official website
| Season | 1 |
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| 2000/01 | Vedran Runje |
| 2001/02 | Almami Moreira |
| 2002/03 | Almami Moreira |
| 2003/04 | Emile Mpenza |
| 2004/05 | Sérgio Conceição |
| 2005/06 | Oguchi Onyewu |
| 2006/07 | Steven Defour |
| 2007/08 | Steven Defour |
[edit] External links
- Official Website (French) / (Dutch) / (English) / (German)
- Ultras Inferno 1996 (French)
- Standard de Liege XtraTime Fanpage (English)
- Standard Liège at UEFA.COM (English)
- Standard Liège at EUFO.DE
- Standard Liège at Weltfussball.de
- Standard Liège at Playerhistory.com
- Standard Liège at Transfermarkt.de
- Standard Liège at Football Squads.co.uk
- Standard Liège at National Football Teams.com
- Standard Liège at Football-Lineups.com
- Standard Lüttich: Junge Spieler als Erfolgskonzept
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