Ilan Hurtevent

Attacking Midfielder (R) - KV Kortrijk
7 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ilan Hurtevent

7 Edition

The KV Kortrijk Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Brecht Dejaegere was immovable

22 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad

Words at KV Kortrijk training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gilles Dewaele 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.

Player ratings

Cassius Mailula runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Leonardo 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 KV Kortrijk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Ravenna are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. KV Kortrijk will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Match

No goals between KV Kortrijk and Waasland-Beveren

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Waasland-Beveren will be the happier side with the point.

Squad

When it matters, Suf Podgoreanu plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Player ratings

Victor Olatunji could have had three

6 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

Squad

Gilles Ruyssen left out for tactical reasons at KV Kortrijk

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The KV Kortrijk Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Marko Ilić

There were 11 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

KV Kortrijk through in the cup

A 1‑0 win over KV Oostende, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

A debut Sem Versavel will not forget — 7.69

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.69 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Market

Ilan Hurtevent asks to leave KV Kortrijk

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at KV Kortrijk

Marko Ilić 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Liam De Smet at his very best

Marked 8.88. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at KV Kortrijk.

The terraces

KV Kortrijk supporters have found a favourite in Liam De Smet

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Liam De Smet has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jellert Van Landschoot

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

Squad

Matthew Anderson gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief