Club's last official match of the season is against KRC Genk. Read all Club Facts below!
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The Match
The very last match of the season is the duel between the brand new champion and vice-champion of Belgium: Club Brugge and KRC Genk. It is the 76th confrontation between the two teams. The 37 previous home matches ended in 23 wins (last time 3-2 on 24/01/2021), 7 draws (last time 1-1 on 01/09/2019) and 7 defeats (0-2 on 27/10/2013).
The 7 previous duels between the two teams at Jan Breydel ended in 7 wins for Club. KRC Genk thus did not yet take a single point in Bruges in the final round for the title. In addition, Club is already 11 matches unbeaten at home against the Limburgers (8 wins, 3 draws).
In the last 6 duels with KRC Genk, Club lost only once: on the 2nd match day of the Champions' Play Offs, Blauw-Zwart suffered a heavy 3-0 defeat.
In this duel, the best scoring clubs face each other. Both teams have already scored 80 goals this season.
The opponent
KRC Genk started only 4th in the Play-Offs, but put up a fine run of 4 wins and 1 draw in 5 games in the Champions' Play Offs. As a result, the Limburgers may go to the Champions League next season together with Club. Racing does need to survive 2 more preliminary rounds to get into the group stage.
Nigerian striker Paul Onuachu has already scored 33 goals. That is the worst record of the past 41 seasons. Assist king Junya Ito also has good figures: he has already set a teammate up for a goal 14 times. Against Club, the Japanese has a last chance to catch up with Raphael Holzhauser and Xavier Mercier as national assist kings (16).
Milestones
Brandon Mechele can play his 280th match for Club Brugge. Furthermore, he can also play his 225th league match in First Division (206 for Club and 18 for STVV). Odilon Kossounou can play his 40th league match for Blauw-Zwart. Noa Lang can play his 30th game in the Jupiler Pro League. Ignace Van der Brempt and Tahith Chong are awaiting their 10th league match for Club.
The referee
Kevin Van Damme was appointed ref for the topper. It is only Club's 3rd match to be led by the 30-year-old ref. From KRC Genk he has already refereed 4 previous matches. Club's only home match led by Van Damme was won. The 2 away matches of KRC Genk under his leadership as well.
This season he whistled Club's away match at KV Oostende (1-3) and the home match against Zulte Waregem (3-0). Of KRC Genk, he directed the away match at Cercle Brugge (1-5) and the home match against Waasland-Beveren (1-1) earlier this season.