European Football Championship 2000 / Belgium

The Belgian national football team at the 2000 European Football Championship in the Netherlands and Belgium . As one of the two host countries, Belgium did not need to qualify and entered the finals directly.

Belgian contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Filip De Wilde	RSC Anderlecht	07/05/1964	3	0	0	0	1
12	Geert De Vlieger	Willem II Tilburg	10/16/1971	0	0	0	0	0
13	Frédéric Herpoel	KAA Gent	08/16/1974	0	0	1	0	0
Defender
2	Eric Deflandre	Club Bruges	08/02/1973	3	0	0	0	0
3	Joos Valgaeren	Roda JC Kerkrade	03/03/1976	3	0	0	0	0
4th	Lorenzo Staelens	RSC Anderlecht	04/30/1964	3	0	0	0	0
5	Philippe Clement	Club Bruges	March 22, 1974	0	0	0	0	0
15th	Jacky Peeters	Arminia Bielefeld	December 13, 1969	1	0	0	0	0
17th	Philippe Léonard	AS Monaco	02/14/1974	1	0	0	0	0
19th	Eric Van Meir	Lierse SK	02/28/1968	0	0	0	0	0
22nd	Marc Hendrikx	KRC Genk	07/02/1974	2	0	1	0	0
midfield player
6th	Yves Vanderhaeghe	Excelsior Mouscron	01/30/1970	3	0	1	0	0
7th	Marc Wilmots	FC Schalke 04	02/22/1969	3	0	1	0	0
8th	Bart Goor	RSC Anderlecht	04/09/1973	3	1	0	0	0
11	Gert Verheyen	Club Bruges	09/20/1970	3	0	1	0	0
14th	Johan Walem	AC Parma	02/01/1972	0	0	0	0	0
18th	Nico Van Kerckhoven	FC Schalke 04	December 14, 1970	3	0	1	0	0
striker
9	Emile Mpenza	FC Schalke 04	07/04/1978	3	1	1	0	0
10	Branko Strupar	Derby County	02/09/1970	3	0	0	0	0
16	Luc Nilis	PSV Eindhoven	05/25/1967	3	0	1	0	0
20th	Gilles De Bilde	Sheffield Wednesday	06/09/1971	1	0	0	0	0
21st	Mbo Mpenza	Sporting Lisbon	December 04, 1976	1	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Robert Waseige		08/26/1939

Games of Belgium

Preliminary round

• Belgium - Sweden 2: 1 (1: 0)
• Italy - Belgium 2: 0 (1: 0)
• Turkey - Belgium 2: 0 (1: 0)

For details see European Football Championship 2000 / Group B

Web links

• Belgian squad of the EM 2000 on weltfussball.de