Théo Mununga

Defensive Midfielder - Lommel U20
26 Mar 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Théo Mununga

22 Edition

The Lommel Chronicle

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

7 unbeaten for Lommel

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Lommel did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Lommel

Sverre Nypan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

The step up is real for Niels Nieki

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Player ratings

Filip Krastev runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A row about effort at Lommel

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Krastev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Danilo Asprilla is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 38 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Match

Halfway: Lommel sit in position 3

27 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Christian Meunier was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Lommel dressing room was either.

Match

Lommel draw a blank against Jong Gent

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Jong Gent defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Lommel Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Daan Verjans breaks a bone — 34 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Sverre Nypan in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lommel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Lommel

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Krastev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Leon Lalić out for 26 days

The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Leon Lalić, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Looking ahead

Nicolas Rommens goes back to face RWDM

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Nicolas Rommens’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Lommel needing him to play as if none of it matters.

The dugout

Théo Mununga has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Lommel will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

12 Edition

The Lommel Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Álvaro Santos at 21 — 7.78

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Álvaro Santos did not need any: 7.78, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

A falling-out at Lommel

Fedde Leysen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Sam de Grand is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Words at Lommel training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Krastev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Filip Krastev sends Lommel past Lierse

It finished 1‑0, and it was Filip Krastev’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lommel.

Squad

Théo Mununga stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Théo Mununga and Lommel agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Djenahro Nunumete

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Filip Krastev takes the honours

Marked 7.83 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Lommel had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Christian Meunier, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief

6 Edition

The Lommel Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 4 signed and 7 gone

That is the business done at Lommel until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad

A move Djenahro Nunumete would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Djenahro Nunumete is living that version at Lommel, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Tempers go at Lommel

Fedde Leysen was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Lommel training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Krastev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ewen Jaouen

Lommel asked and Bayer Leverkusen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Cercle Brugge watching Ralf Seuntjens

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Lommel have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Sverre Nypan makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

No hiding place for Matthias Pieklak

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matthias Pieklak, and the manager let it.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Rik Vercauteren

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against RSCA Futures in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief

5 Edition

The Lommel Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Lommel out of the cup

OH Leuven ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Ralf Seuntjens puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Lommel, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Business is business: Juho Talvitie goes

Westerlo paid $3.0M and Lommel took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Lommel sell Jason van Duiven for $2.7M

Jason van Duiven has left for Heerenveen in a $2.7M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Player ratings

Filip Krastev was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Transfer targets

No deal for Christophe Janssens at that price

Lommel offered $400.0K; Waasland-Beveren said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets

Gamba Osaka tell Lommel: Kanji Okunuki is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Jason van Duiven sends Lommel past Jong Genk

It finished 1‑0, and it was Jason van Duiven’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lommel.

Squad

Words at Lommel training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lautaro López is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief