Filip Daems

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Filip Daems
Daems with Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth (1978-10-31) 31 October 1978 (age 45)
Place of birth Turnhout, Belgium
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1986–1989 FCV Alberta Geel[1]
1989–1998 Geel[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2001 Lierse 83 (3)
2001–2005 Gençlerbirliği 98 (13)
2005–2015 Borussia Mönchengladbach 210 (14)
2015–2017 Westerlo 51 (3)
Total 442 (33)
International career
2000 Belgium U18 1 (0)
1998–1999 Belgium U21 9 (0)
2004–2009 Belgium 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Filip Daems (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfɪlɪp ˈdaːms]; born 31 October 1978) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a defender.[1][2]

Club career[edit]

Daems kicked off his career with Verbroedering Geel in 1995, staying with the club till 1998 in the Belgian second division. During his stint with the club, he played 40 times and also scored two goals. Between 1998 and 2001, he played for Belgian Pro League club, featuring 83 times and finding the net thrice. Then he went to play for Turkish club Gençlerbirliği from 2001 to 2005, spending four seasons, playing 98 times and finding the net 13 times.[3]

In January 2005, Daems signed for German club Borussia Mönchengladbach, penning a contract till June 2008.[4] In his first season with the club, he played 11 times without scoring a goal.[3] He would play the first match of the 2005–06 season against Schalke 04 in single goal draw.[5] He would end the season featuring 22 times for the German club.[5] However, he spent the 2006–07 season with the reserves, Borussia Mönchengladbach II, in the Regionalliga Nord, the then third tier of German football.[3] For the 2007–08 season, the club played in 2. Bundesliga[3] and Daems even scored a goal against 1. FC Köln.[6] Mönchengladbach won the second tier and gained promotion to the 2008–09 Bundesliga.[5] During that season, he scored two goals, one against Eintracht Frankfurt[7] and one against Bayern Munich.[8] In the 2009–10 season, he played 18 times scoring one goal.[5] The goal was scored against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, where he scored a 31st-minute penalty.[9] In the 2010–11 season, he played the whole ninety minutes of each of the 34 league matches. Daems also scored four times against Schalke 04, VfL Wolfsburg, Hoffenheim and Köln.[5]

Career statistics[edit]

Club[edit]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[10][11]
Club Season League Cup Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Lierse 1998–99 Belgian Pro League 27 1 0 0 0 0 27 1
1999–00 Belgian Pro League 26 1 0 0 2 0 28 1
2000–01 Belgian Pro League 28 1 0 0 2 0 30 1
Total 81 3 0 0 4 0 85 3
Gençlerbirliği 2001–02 Süper Lig 25 2 0 0 2 0 27 2
2002–03 Süper Lig 27 7 0 0 0 0 27 7
2003–04 Süper Lig 29 2 0 0 4 2 33 4
2004–05 Süper Lig 15 2 0 0 2 0 17 2
Total 96 13 0 0 8 2 104 15
Borussia Mönchengladbach 2004–05 Bundesliga 11 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
2005–06 Bundesliga 22 0 2 0 0 0 24 0
2006–07 Bundesliga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2007–08 2. Bundesliga 27 1 1 0 0 0 28 1
2008–09 Bundesliga 33 2 2 0 0 0 35 2
2009–10 Bundesliga 18 1 0 0 0 0 18 1
2010–11 Bundesliga 34 4 2 0 0 0 36 4
2011–12 Bundesliga 31 3 5 1 0 0 36 4
2012–13 Bundesliga 19 1 2 0 4 1 25 2
2013–14 Bundesliga 15 2 1 0 0 0 16 2
2014–15 Bundesliga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 210 14 15 1 4 1 229 19
Westerlo 2015–16 Belgian Pro League 22 1 1 0 0 0 23 1
2016–17 Belgian Pro League 29 2 1 0 0 0 30 2
Total 51 3 2 0 0 0 53 3
Career total 438 33 17 1 16 3 471 37

Honours[edit]

Lierse

Borussia Mönchengladbach

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Filip Daems" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Daems beendet seine Karriere". RP Online (in German). 11 May 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d "National-Football-Teams profile". National-Football-Teams. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Nummer 6: Borussia holt Filip Daems" (in German). kicker.de. 20 January 2005. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Soccerway profile". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  6. ^ "Borussia M'gladbach vs. Köln 2 - 2". Soccerway. 22 October 2007. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  7. ^ "Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Borussia M'gladbach 4 - 1". Soccerway. 18 April 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  8. ^ "Bayern München vs. Borussia M'gladbach 2 - 1". Soccerway. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  9. ^ "Hoffenheim vs. Borussia M'gladbach 2 - 2". Soccerway. 19 February 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  10. ^ "Filip Daems". Kicker (sports magazine). Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  11. ^ Filip Daems at Soccerway

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