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: [ˈɣlɛn də ˈbuk]; born 22 August 1971) is a Belgian football manager and former player. He was most recently in charge of Kortrijk in the Belgian Pro League after previously managing Cercle Brugge and Waasland-Beveren in the top flight, and Lokeren in the Belgian First Division B. During his career, he played as a 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 Boom. In the summer of 1995, he moved from KV Mechelen to Anderlecht. In the late 1990s, he was criticized by pundits, who claimed he was not good enough for Anderlecht. He eventually increased his technical performances to become one of the best defenders 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 at the end of the 2006–07 season. He succeeded Harm Van Veldhoven, who had already chosen to leave for Germinal Beerschot. On 1 February 2008, the board of directors at Cercle declared De Boeck had signed a new contract until 2011, as he also became the football section's technical director, being made responsible for the further development of the football team. In March 2009, De Boeck denied K.R.C. Genk in signing him as their new coach. Instead he choose to stay with his current club 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 VVV-Venlo, but halfway through the season on 6 December 2011, following a 7–0 defeat to Heracles Almelo, he resigned as manager of VVV-Venlo. In November 2012 he signed for 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.