2009–10 R.S.C. Anderlecht season

Key events

• 5 June: Following the Fortis takeover, BNP Paribas will now feature as sponsor on the Anderlecht shirts.
• 17 June: Hervé Kage moves to Charleroi on a free transfer. At Anderlecht, the 20-year-old had never made it into the first squad.
• 24 June: Czech defender Ondřej Mazuch joins the squad as he is loaned for one season from Italian giants Fiorentina. In the contract there is also an option to buy him at the end of the season.
• 25 June: In the new Superleague Formula season, the Anderlecht racing team will be represented by Dutch driver Yelmer Buurman. Last season's driver Craig Dolby moves to Tottenham Hotspur.
• 30 June: The sponsor deal with BNP Paribas is now fully sealed, the contract will initially just be for one year, until the end of the current season.
• 30 June: During a collision while training, Cheikhou Kouyaté fractures his Zygomatic bone, causing him to be out for two months.
• 20 July: After half a year of recovering from various injuries in Argentina, Anderlecht's goal getter Nicolás Frutos returns to Belgium and immediately claims to be fit enough to play.
• 24 July: Anderlecht presents itself to the press for the new season. Although few transfers were made, the staff claims the team has "definitely improved" compared to last season.
• 27 July: Just one day before the vital UEFA Champions League match against Sivasspor, the news spreads that Jelle Van Damme shows interest in leaving the club immediately as he "needs a challenge" and would like to "play at a club sure of Champions League participation". He is still under contract for two more seasons however and coach Ariël Jacobs therefore neglects his requests and uses Van Damme in his starting lineup against Sivasspor. This made it impossible for him to play at any other team in the Champions League this season. As Van Damme claimed to be offered a contract by an unnamed club with negotiations pending, Anderlecht suspected Standard Liège to have offered him a contract to destabilize Anderlecht. Standard however have denied this.
• 3 August: Argentinian midfielder Hernán Losada is loaned out for one season to Dutch team Heerenveen.
• 30 August: In the Jupiler Pro League, the two best teams of last season play each other as Anderlecht receives Standard at home, which results in an extremely rough and chaotic match. After a wild and gruesome tackle, Standard's Axel Witsel causes multiple open fractures in both the calf and tibia of Marcin Wasilewski, leaving him sidelined for a very long period of time, with estimates going from 8 to 13 months after several successful operations. In the same match Jan Polák tore the ligaments in his knee after contact with Igor De Camargo, leaving him out for probably about half a year. As a result of this match, Axel Witsel got suspended for eight matches in the Belgian League and received numerous anonymous death threats, together with Standard captain Steven Defour. Witsel was removed from the cover of the upcoming Panini sticker album of the Jupiler Pro League. Anderlecht coach Ariël Jacobs expressed his disgust in football and claimed he had "enough of it all", insinuating to quit at the end of the season when his contract ends. Standard sponsor BASE reacted by naming "the brutal tackle by Witsel untolerable" and claimed to support any penalty the club would give Witsel. After the earlier trouble concerning Jelle Van Damme near the end of July, both the staff of Anderlecht and Standard agree to meet and reconcile their differences for the good of Belgian football. Also, the match ended in a 1–1 draw.
• 31 August: Just before the end of the transfer deadline, 22-year-old Ukrainian winger Oleksandr Yakovenko is loaned out for one season to Westerlo.
• 21 September: Just recently recovered from his previous injury, Cheikhou Kouyaté now fractures his nose after colliding with Marko Šuler in the match versus Gent, causing him to be out for another six weeks.
• 30 October: In contrary to earlier statements that he would be leaving, Ariël Jacobs signs a new contract for two more seasons at Anderlecht.

Players

Jupiler Pro League

Classification

Results summary

Results by round

Results by opponent

Source: Belgian First Division 2009-10 article

Competitive matches

Boussoufa Chatelle Frutos Van Damme Bayrak Tuncer

Wasilewski Boussoufa Biglia

Kamanan Aydın Kavuk

Boi Boussoufa Wasilewski Buffel Evens Boi

Suárez Boussoufa van Kerckhoven

Proto Van Damme Suárez Polák Lisandro Bastos Gomis

Lukaku Polák Boussoufa Chatelle

Boussoufa Toulalan

Polák Boussoufa Chatelle De Camargo Witsel Collet Mbokani Bolat Defour

Mazuch Chatelle Van Damme Sidibe Mennes Sidibe Delorge

Legear Saré

Boussoufa Biglia Van Damme Elghanassy

Lukaku Van Damme De Sutter Aspas

Boussoufa Cruz Wanyama

Bernárdez Deschacht Van Damme de Zeeuw Vertonghen

Biglia De Sutter Gillet Van Damme Sonck Vargas Geraerts Odjidja-Ofoe

Lukaku Van Damme

Mera Parks

Boussoufa Gillet Deschacht Saré Boussoufa Proto

Frutos

Suárez Suárez Mazuch Malki

Boussoufa Legear Maxim

Lukaku Boussoufa Lukaku Anele Joneleit

Sierens Lukaku Boussoufa Juhász Kučera Nikolić Van Loo

Biglia Mazuch Belhocine

Mazuch Van Damme Sammir Ibáñez Badelj Mandžukić

Boussoufa Frutos Biglia Frutos Gjuzelov Viane

Frutos

Legear Deschacht Suárez

Biglia Bernárdez

De Sutter Van Damme Mazuch Deschacht Coulibaly Hanstveit

Kouyaté Van Damme Boussoufa Ernemann Buysse Nfor

Lukaku Traore Mangala Legear Gillet Deschacht Mazuch Camozzato Dacourt

Kouyaté Mazuch Sergeant Kelhar Evens

Kanu Legear Boussoufa Van Damme Mikulić

Frutos Boussoufa Boussoufa Kouemaha Odjidja-Ofoe Blondel Kouemaha Boussoufa Perišić

Gillet Van Damme Chimedza Wilmet Buysens Delorge

Legear Juhász Kouyaté

Lukaku Juhász Chen Destorme Biset

San José Juhász Legear Deschacht Proto Boussoufa Lukaku Yeste Amorebieta Martínez

Suárez Mazuch Biglia Gillet Eyjólfsson Tomou

De Sutter Deschacht Proto Van Damme Kéré

van Nistelrooy Jarolím

De Sutter Boussoufa Suárez Biglia Pudil

Suárez Biglia Boussoufa Van Damme Suárez Jansen Petrić Boateng

Kouyaté Gueye Boussoufa Juhász Biglia Overmeire

Suárez Van Damme De Sutter Gillet

Juhász Gillet Myrie Thompson

Suárez Van Damme Suárez Donk Sonck Perišić Stijnen Lestienne Donk

Suárez Juhász Wagemakers Delorge

Benko

Suárez Saré Blondel Kouemaha Alcaraz Dirar Stijnen

Suárez Chatelle Gillet Grondin

Van Nieuwenhuyze

Boussoufa Badibanga Polák Bernárdez Badibanga

Suárez Chatelle Van Damme Deferm Cantaluppi

References

References

1. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/1.541498 Sporza.be. BNP Paribas op de nieuwe Anderlecht-shirts.]
2. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/1.547540 Sporza.be. Demol verwelkomt jonge Anderlecht-speler.]
3. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/1.551276 Sporza.be. Mazuch heeft krabbel gezet in Anderlecht.]
4. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/1.552121 Sporza.be. Anderlecht neemt Buurman (22) over van PSV.]
5. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/1.551011 Sporza.be. Anderlecht en sponsor gaan voor 30 jaar.]
6. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/1.554411 Sporza.be. Kouyaté breekt zijn jukbeen bij Anderlecht.]
7. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/1.567083 Sporza.be. Frutos: "Ik ben klaar om te voetballen".]
8. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/1.569343 Sporza.be. Vanden Stock: "We zijn zeker versterkt".]
9. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/1.570484 Sporza.be. Jelle Van Damme wil meteen weg bij Anderlecht.]
10. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/1.574349 Sporza.be. Hernan Losada voetbalt een seizoen in Friesland.]
11. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/1.587210 Sporza.be. Standard en Anderlecht gelijk in harde topper.]
12. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/1.588184 Sporza.be. Jakovenko tekent voor één jaar in Westerlo.]
13. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/1.601946 Sporza.be. Kouyaté staat zes weken aan de kant.]
14. [http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/voetbal/Jupiler_Pro_League/091030_jacobs_verlengt Sporza.be. Jacobs verlengt zijn contract tot 2012.]