Marko Ilić

Goalkeeper - KV Kortrijk
1 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Marko Ilić

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The KV Kortrijk Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Thierry Ambrose scores twice — 8.94

Two goals and a mark of 8.94 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

KV Kortrijk up to position 3

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

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Shandre Campbell at 21 — 7.68

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Shandre Campbell did not need any: 7.68, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

The dugout

Suf Podgoreanu says KV Kortrijk went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

The dugout

No hiding place for Marko Ilić

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

Looking ahead

Top-of-the-table clash for KV Kortrijk

RFC Liege next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.

Squad

Words at KV Kortrijk training over how hard people work

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

KV Kortrijk and RWDM take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Thomas Castagne chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief

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The KV Kortrijk Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at KV Kortrijk

Goduine Koyalipou 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.

Match

Lierse take the points off KV Kortrijk

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Thomas Castagne: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

No hiding place for Lennard Hens

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

The dugout

The form table has caught Manuel Osifo

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Looking ahead

Goduine Koyalipou faces his old club

Waasland-Beveren next, and one man in the KV Kortrijk dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Thierry Ambrose

11 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Nayel Mehssatou

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Squad

Gilles Ruyssen wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and KV Kortrijk have no good answer.

In brief

2 Edition

The KV Kortrijk Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

KV Kortrijk run riot against Jong Genk

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Both of them Thierry Ambrose's — 8.62

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.62, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Shandre Campbell

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Marko Ilić signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marko Ilić and KV Kortrijk agree another 4 years.

The dugout

No hiding place for Marko Ilić

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

Squad

Thierry Ambrose reaches 50 goals

50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.

Market

Beerschot watching Liam De Smet

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

Squad

Tempers go at KV Kortrijk

Manuel Osifo 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

7 new faces, and KV Kortrijk 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