2009–10 Standard Liège season

Standard Liège
2009–10 season
Chairman Switzerland Reto Stiffler
Manager Romania László Bölöni (until February 10)
Belgium Dominique D'Onofrio (from 10 February)
Stadium Stade Maurice Dufrasne
Belgian Pro League 6th
Belgian Cup Seventh round
UEFA Champions League Third in group stage
UEFA Europa League Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer Milan Jovanović (10)

During the 2009–10 Belgian football season, Standard Liège competed in the Belgian Pro League.

Season summary

Having won the title the past two seasons running, Liège were looking to make it a hat-trick of title, but very quickly fell off the title pace. Manager László Bölöni resigned in February with the club 19 points adrift of leaders Anderlecht. He was replaced by Dominique D'Onofrio, brother of club vice-president Lucien and Liège's former technical director between 2002 and 2006. However, form failed to improve and the club finished in eighth, two points adrift of the title play-offs - as a result, failing to qualify for European competition.

Kit

Liège's kits were sponsored by Belgian telecommunications company BASE.

First-team squad

Squad at end of season[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Belgium GK Kristof Van Hout
2 Belgium DF Réginal Goreux[2]
3 Brazil DF Victor Ramos
4 Senegal MF Pape Abdou Camara
5 Brazil DF Felipe
6 France MF Cédric Collet
7 France MF Wilfried Dalmat
8 Belgium MF Steven Defour (captain)
9 Democratic Republic of the Congo FW Dieumerci Mbokani
10 Brazil FW Igor de Camargo[3]
11 Belgium MF Grégory Dufer
14 Belgium DF Landry Mulemo[4]
15 Belgium FW Andréa Mbuyi-Mutombo[5]
16 Belgium GK Anthony Moris[6]
17 Brazil DF Camozzato
18 Belgium GK Jesse Soubry
19 Senegal DF Mohamed Sarr
No. Position Player
20 Ivory Coast FW Moussa Traoré (on loan from Commune FC)
21 Belgium MF Franco Zennaro
22 France DF Eliaquim Mangala
23 Serbia FW Milan Jovanović
24 Belgium MF Koen Daerden
25 Israel DF Rami Gershon (on loan from Hapoel Rishon LeZion)
26 France MF Benjamin Nicaise
27 Belgium MF Arnor Angeli
28 Belgium MF Axel Witsel
29 Ivory Coast FW Gohi Bi Zoro Cyriac
31 Brazil DF Alex Moraes (on loan from Roma Apucarana)
32 Belgium DF Jonathan Buatu Mananga[7]
33 Belgium MF Mehdi Carcela-González[8]
35 Belgium DF Sébastien Pocognoli
38 Turkey GK Sinan Bolat
77 Romania MF Gheorghe Grozav

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
3 Belgium DF Fazlı Kocabaş (to Eupen)
4 Portugal DF Ricardo Rocha (released)
15 Croatia DF Tomislav Mikulić (to Beerschot)
No. Position Player
15 France MF Olivier Dacourt (released)
25 Belgium FW Christian Benteke[9] (on loan to Kortrijk)
30 Armenia MF Hiraç Yagan[10] (on loan to Tubize)

Results

Belgian Cup

Sixth round

Seventh round

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

UEFA Europa League

Round of 32

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Hamburg won 52 on aggregate.

References

  1. http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/belgium/2009-2010/prolge/standard.htm
  2. Goreux was born in Saint-Michel-de-l'Atalaye, Haiti, but also qualified to represent Belgium internationally and represented them at U-21 level; he would later make his international debut for Haiti in 2011.
  3. De Camargo was born in Porto Feliz, Brazil, but also qualified to represent Belgium internationally after obtaining Belgian nationality and made his international debut for Belgium in February 2009.
  4. Mulemo was born in Liège, Belgium, and represented them at every youth level between U-17 and U-23, but also qualified to represent the Democratic Republic of the Congo internationally and would make his international debut for the Congo in 2011.
  5. Mbuyi-Mutombo was born in Brussels, Belgium, and represented them at U-19 level, but also qualified to represent the Democratic Republic of the Congo internationally and would make his international debut for the Congo in 2011.
  6. Moris was born in Arlon, Belgium, and represented them at youth level, but also qualified to represent Luxembourg internationally through his father and would make his international debut for Luxembourg in 2014.
  7. Mananga was born in Liège, Belgium, and represented them at every youth level between U-17 and U-19, but also qualified to represent Angola internationally and would make his international debut for the Angola in August 2014.
  8. Carcela-González was born in Liège, Belgium, and made his international debut for Belgium in 2009, but also qualified to represent Morocco internationally through his mother and would make his international debut for Morocco in February 2011.
  9. Benteke was born in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), but was raised in Belgium and represented them at every youth level between U-17 and U-21 before making his international debut for Belgium in May 2010.
  10. Yagan was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, but also qualified to represent Armenia internationally and made his international debut for Armenia in August 2009.
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