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Club Brugge
Full name	Club Brugge; Koninklijke Voetbalvereniging
Nickname(s)	Blauw-Zwart (Blue-Black), Club
Founded	1891
Ground	Jan Breydel Stadium,; Bruges; (Capacity: 29,042)
Chairman	Pol Jonckheere
Head Coach	Adrie Koster
League	Belgian First Division
2008-09	Belgian First Division, 3rd
Home colours	Away colours

Jan Breydel Stadium

Tifo before the Champions League game Club Brugge-Rapid Wien in 2005

Club Brugge Koninklijke Voetbalvereniging is a football club from Bruges in Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and is one of the top clubs in Belgium. Its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,042.

Club Brugge's major rivals are R.S.C. Anderlecht and Standard Liège, and it shares the Jan Breydel Stadium with city rival Cercle Brugge K.S.V..

Club Brugge is the only Belgian club to have played the final of the European Cup (forerunner of the current UEFA Champions League) so far. They were beaten by Liverpool F.C. in 1978. They also lost in the 1976 UEFA Cup final to Liverpool.

[edit] Honours

Belgian First Division champions: 13

1919-20, 1972-73, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1979-80, 1987-88, 1989-90, 1991-92, 1995-96, 1997-98, 2002-03, 2004-05

Belgian Cup winners: 10

1967-68, 1969-70, 1976-77, 1985-86, 1990-91, 1994-95, 1995-96, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2006-07

Belgian Supercup winners: 13

1980, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

European Champion Clubs' Cup finalist: 1

1977-78

UEFA Cup finalist: 1

1975-76

Bruges Matins winners: 16

1979, 1981, 1984, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

Kirin Cup winners: 1

1981

[edit] European record

As of September 18, 2009.

Competition	A	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
UEFA Champions League	14	77	32	16	29	106	93
Cup Winners' Cup	6	28	15	3	10	41	33
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League	22	115	52	23	40	204	152

A = appearances, GP = games played, W = won, D = drawn, L = lost, GF = goals for, GA = goals against.

[edit] Current squad

As of November, 2009.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Stijn Stijnen (c)
3	MF	Jared Jeffrey
4	DF	Carl Hoefkens
5	DF	Michael Klukowski ¹
7	MF	Koen Daerden
8	MF	Nabil Dirar ²
10	FW	Wesley Sonck
11	MF	Jonathan Blondel
13	GK	Geert De Vlieger
14	DF	Jeroen Simaeys
15	FW	Joseph Akpala
17	DF	Cleber Sonda
18	DF	Ryan Donk

No.	Position	Player
19	FW	Daniel Chávez
20	MF	Ronald Vargas
21	DF	Jorn Vermeulen
22	MF	Karel Geraerts
26	GK	Yves Lenaerts
27	MF	Roy Meeus
29	DF	Gertjan De Mets
30	DF	Antolin Alcaraz
31	MF	Thibaut Van Acker
32	MF	Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe
40	FW	Dorge Kouemaha
44	MF	Ivan Perišić
77	FW	Mohamed Dahmane ³

Notes:

Has dual citizenship; second is Polish.
Has dual citizenship; second is Belgian.
Has dual citizenship; second is Algerian.

For recent transfers, see List of Belgian football transfers summer 2009.

[edit] Out on loan

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Glenn Verbauwhede (on loan to KV Kortrijk until June, 2010)
		FW	Brecht Capon (on loan to KV Kortrijk until June, 2010)
		DF	Štěpán Kučera (on loan to KSV Roeselare until June, 2010)
		DF	Laurent Ciman (on loan to KV Kortrijk until June, 2010)
		FW	Dušan Đokić (on loan to Astra Ploieşti until December, 2009)