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Club - Mechelen: The Club Facts

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The very first league game is a home match against KV Mechelen! Find out all about this match and the opponent below.

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The Match

Over the past five seasons, Club started the league four times at home. In those, Club was able to win against KRC Genk (2022, 3-2) and KAS Eupen (2018, 5-2), played equal against KAS Eupen (2021, 2-2) and lost to Sporting Charleroi (2020, 0-1).

Of the past 75 seasons, Blauw-Zwart, with 45 wins, is the team that could win most often in its first league game. Club faces Mechelen for the third time on the first matchday, from which it managed to win the previous two times each time.

FCB and the Maneblussers face each other for the 117th time on Sunday. Of the previous 58 home matches, Club won 41 times (last time 2-0 on 01/10/2022), shared the points nine times (last time 2-2 on 31/10/2020) and suffered 8 defeats (last time 0-1 on 21/01/2012).

The opponent

Mechelen starts its 75th season at the highest level on Sunday. Steven Defour has been at the helm since October 2022 and led the team to a 13th place finish last season.

Several Malinwa players left during the summer. These included saying goodbye to Alessio Da Cruz, Lucas Bijker and Birger Verstraete. The team reinforced itself with six players, including Daam Foulon, Mory Konaté and William Togui.

KV Mechelen played four games during the preparation and was able to win each time. It took on Overijse (5-0 win), Boom (3-0 win), SK Beveren (3-0 win) and Maccabi Netanya (3-2 win). Like Club Brugge, Defour's team also already came into official action once. Before the start of the league, it competed with Royal Antwerp FC for the Super Cup.

With KV Mechelen, some old acquaintances also return to Jan Breydel: Nikola Storm, Julien Ngoy, Jordi Vanlerberghe and Boli Bolingoli.

Milestones

- Double celebration for Brandon Mechele: he can play his 375th match for Club Brugge. He can also finish his 300th match in First Division (282 for Club and 18 at STVV).

- Mats Rits can play his 150th league match for Blauw-Zwart.

- For Antonio Nusa, it could be the 30th match in the Jupiler Pro League.

- Hans Vanaken can play his 375th match in First Division (299 for Club and 76 for Sporting Lokeren).

The referee

Bert Put is the referee for this game. He is assisted by linesmen Kevin Monteny and Lennert Becquet. Fourth ref is Brent Staessens. In Tubize, Nathan Verboomen will take on the role of VAR together with Matthias Massa and Christophe Snoeck.

Put will whistle an official Club Brugge game for the sixth time and Malinwa for the 13th time.