Leander Lukaku

Central Defender - Lokeren
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Marked for Leander Lukaku

9 Edition

The Lokeren Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match28 Sep 2026

Lokeren up to position 1

20 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Match26 Sep 2026

Lokeren make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Lokeren have 5 straight wins of it.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Dedryck Courtois 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 Lokeren this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Axel Chadli was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.12. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Dedryck Courtois

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match26 Sep 2026

Lokeren keep winning on the road

3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Match26 Sep 2026

Axel Chadli sends Lokeren past KV Mechelen

It finished 1‑0, and it was Axel Chadli’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lokeren.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at Lokeren training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lois Doku 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

13 new faces, and Lokeren are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Lokeren Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad21 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nacer Tielemans

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokeren lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match19 Sep 2026

Lokeren make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Lokeren have 4 straight wins of it.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Lokeren

Dedryck Courtois 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

6 goals as Lokeren and Standard Liege go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Lokeren and Standard Liege, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match19 Sep 2026

Dedryck Courtois the difference as Lokeren beat Standard Liege

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dedryck Courtois. 4‑2 against Standard Liege, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Lokeren training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adnan Vanaken 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.

The terraces21 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Lois Castagne

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad21 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Leander Lukaku

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Axel Chadli at his very best

Marked 8.53. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Lokeren.

In brief