Anderlecht U18

Belgian Pro League U18
19 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process
7 Edition

The Anderlecht Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Anthony Martial scores twice — 9.00

Two goals and a mark of 9.00 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Amourricho van Axel Dongen beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

8 unbeaten for Anderlecht

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Anderlecht did not have in the autumn.

Squad

A falling-out at Anderlecht

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

The dugout

Munir Mohand 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.

Match

Anderlecht find a way past Sint-Truiden

Sint-Truiden made Anderlecht work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match

Anderlecht are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Squad

Adriano Bertaccini falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

13 new faces, and Anderlecht 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
6 Edition

The Anderlecht Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Anderlecht run riot against Westerlo

3‑0, 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

A brace, and Anthony Martial takes the afternoon — 8.77

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Anthony Martial provided it, and the 8.77 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Amourricho van Axel Dongen, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.19

A mark of 8.19 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 18 in, 1 out at Anderlecht

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

Anderlecht turn down Charleroi for Mihajlo Cvetković

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Anthony Martial wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Anderlecht hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Match

7 unbeaten for Anderlecht

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Anderlecht

Danylo Sikan 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

Federico Bicoro arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Federico Bicoro has, at Anderlecht, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

In brief

5 Edition

The Anderlecht Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Amourricho van Axel Dongen beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 50. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Anderlecht through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Waasland-Beveren, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Anderlecht through in the cup

A 2‑0 win over Waasland-Beveren, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Tristan Degreef at 21 — 7.83

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Tristan Degreef did not need any: 7.83, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Lucas Hey goes up and wins it — 7.85

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.85 for the rest of it.

Transfer targets

KV Oostende tell Anderlecht: Axel Fellaini 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Anderlecht

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

Match

Whatever happens, Anderlecht do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Adriano Bertaccini

“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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Anderlecht Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

The derby belongs to Anderlecht

1‑0 against Club Brugge, and the songs went on long after the whistle. League positions come and go; days like this get retold at family dinners for years.

Transfer targets

KV Oostende tell Anderlecht: Eden Batshuayi 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Tristan Degreef

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Anderlecht say no — this time

The offer from Westerlo for Ali Maamar was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings

A derby belongs to Danylo Sikan

Beat anybody else and it is three points. Beat them and it is a story a city tells for a decade. Anderlecht have their man.

Transfer targets

Anderlecht baulk at the price for Mohamed Koné

Charleroi wanted more than $800.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Words exchanged at Anderlecht

Andrew Omobamidele 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

Words at Anderlecht training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adriano Bertaccini 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.

Market

Anderlecht may not be able to give Anthony Martial what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Anthony Martial wants continental football; whether Anderlecht can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

In brief

3 Edition

The Anderlecht Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Ilay Camara was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 47. 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

Anderlecht rebuffed over Michy Alderweireld

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. KV Oostende have kept their man, and Anderlecht go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Eyes on Ilay Camara again

The phone has started ringing about Ilay Camara again, and this time the name on the line is Olympique de Marseille. Anderlecht are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets

Anderlecht make their move for Mohamed Koné

$800.0K on the table at Charleroi. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

A falling-out at Anderlecht

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

Squad

Rami Lougmani stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Rami Lougmani and Anderlecht agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Anderlecht

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Rami Lougmani

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

Squad

Appearance number 100 for Marco Kana

100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

In brief

2 Edition

The Anderlecht Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Derby delight as Anderlecht down Standard Liege

Bragging rights belong to Anderlecht for another year after a 2‑1 win over Standard Liege in front of a full house.

Market

Anderlecht turn down Twente for Danylo Sikan

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Mouscron tell Anderlecht: Youri Castagne 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.

Player ratings

Ilay Camara settles the derby

Beat anybody else and it is three points. Beat them, with his name on it, and it is a year of bragging rights for Anderlecht and a story that will outlast his contract.

Squad

Ilay Camara stays put

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

Squad

Tempers go at Anderlecht

Andrew Omobamidele 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Ilay Camara

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

Thomas Batshuayi steps up from the Anderlecht academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thomas Batshuayi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Kevin Carrasco joins the Anderlecht first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kevin Carrasco is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

1 Edition

The Anderlecht Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Ilay Camara runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Olympique de Marseille come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Anderlecht did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Mario Stroeykens, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.12

A mark of 8.12 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Colin Coosemans signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Colin Coosemans and Anderlecht agree another 2 years.

Squad

Andrew Omobamidele 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 Anderlecht this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Adriano Bertaccini falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The terraces

Anderlecht supporters have found a favourite in Mario Stroeykens

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Mario Stroeykens 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.

Match

Mihajlo Cvetković answers Racing Genk immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Mihajlo Cvetković had Anderlecht level again within 1 minutes, and Racing Genk never got to play with a lead at all.

Looking ahead

All roads lead to Standard Liege

The fixture the calendar is arranged around. Form goes out of the window, the table is not consulted, and for ninety minutes Anderlecht will be judged on one thing only.

In brief