Jurgen Vandeurzen

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Jurgen Vandeurzen
Personal information
Full name Jurgen Vandeurzen [1]
Date of birth (1974-01-26) 26 January 1974 (age 49) [1]
Place of birth Genk, Belgium [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1991–1996 Genk 100 (3)
1996–1997 Overpelt-Fabriek 33 (9)
1997–1998 RFC Liège 29 (6)
1998–2001 Turnhout 113 (8)
2001–2003 Stoke City 52 (5)
2003 Dessel Sport 10 (0)
2003–2004 Patro Maasmechelen 51 (6)
2004–2006 Beringen-Heusden-Zolder 28 (2)
2006–2008 Patro Eisden Maasmechelen 68 (9)
2008–2009 KS Kermt-Hasselt 21 (0)
2009–2011 Bregel Sport
Total505(48)
Managerial career
2017–2020 Eendracht Louwel
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jurgen Vandeurzen (born 26 January 1974) is a former Belgian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his career in Belgium apart from a two-year spell playing in England for Stoke City. [1]

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Career

Vandeurzen made his debut for his local club Genk on 24 November 1991. A product of the club's youth teams, he is most often a replacement but nevertheless plays around thirty games during his first two seasons in professional football. From the 1993–94 season, Vandeurzen became a regular player in the Genk midfield. [2] Unfortunately for him and for his team, Genk finished in last position and was relegated to the Belgian Second Division. [3]

Vandeurzen remained loyal to his club after relegation but after one season, he lost his place in the Genk first team and, once promotion back to the Belgian First Division was achieved in 1995–96, he had to leave the club. He signed up with Second Division side Overpelt-Fabriek. After a catastrophic 1996–97 season, the club was relegated to the Belgian Third Division and Vandeurzen left for RFC Liège, where he has the tough task of succeeding Benoît Thans, who left for KVC Westerlo. [2] He spent the 1997–98 season with RFC Liège, playing 29 times, scoring six goals as the team finished in seventh position and at the end of the campaign he joined Turnhout. [2] Vandeurzen had three full seasons at Turnhout, playing over a hundred league games. Turnhout qualified each time for the promotion play-offs but were unable to secure a place in the First Division and were then relegated to the Third Division in 2000–01 after failing to secure a licence. [3]

Vandeurzen moved to English Second Division club Stoke City in the summer of 2001 becoming the club's first Belgian footballer. [4] [1] He played a key role in 2001–02 playing in 48 matches scoring four goals as Stoke gained promotion to the second tier after beating Brentford 2–0 in the 2002 play-off Final. [1] He played in 12 matches in 2002–03, scoring once in a 1–1 draw against Reading before being released in January 2003 where he returned to Belgium with Dessel Sport. [5] [1]

He stayed six months in Dessel playing ten matches. At the end of the season, he signed a contract with Patro Maasmechelen, another second-tier side. Vandeurzen became a regular member of the team and missed only one match during the 2003–04 season. [2] He continued at the club but, because of his financial difficulties, he decided to leave in January 2005 and joined Beringen-Heusden-Zolder. [3] Unfortunately, the club was also experiencing financial problems the following season and a year after moving from Maasmechelen to Heusden, Vandeurzen goes the other way and returned to his old club, now renamed Patro Eisden Maasmechelen and relegated to the Belgian Fourth Division. [3] He remained two and a half years in the border town, without managing to go up to the Third Division. In September 2008, he joined KS Kermt-Hasselt and retired from playing semi-professional football at the end of the 2008–09 season. [2] He played at amateur level with Bregel Sport whilst also doing coaching at the club from 2009 to 2011.

Managerial career

Vandeurzen was head coach at Limburg Provincial League side Eendracht Louwel from November 2017 until February 2020. [6] [7]

Career statistics

Source: [8] [2]

ClubSeasonLeagueNational CupLeague CupOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Genk 1991–92 Belgian First Division 13200——132
1992–93 Belgian First Division15010——160
1993–94 Belgian First Division25010——260
1994–95 Belgian Second Division 20100——201
1995–96Belgian Second Division27010——280
Total100330——1033
Overpelt-Fabriek 1996–97Belgian Second Division33911——3410
RFC Liège 1997–98Belgian Second Division2961010—316
Turnhout 1998–99Belgian Second Division3521000—362
1999–2000Belgian Second Division3932000—413
2000–01Belgian Second Division3933000—423
Total11386000—1198
Stoke City 2001–02 Second Division 40440103 [lower-alpha 1] 0484
2002–03 First Division 1210000—121
Total525401030605
Dessel Sport 2002–03Belgian Second Division10000——100
Patro Maasmechelen 2003–04Belgian Second Division32410——331
2004–05Belgian Second Division19231——223
Total51641——557
Beringen-Heusden-Zolder 2004–05Belgian Second Division12200——122
2005–06Belgian Second Division16010——170
Total28210——292
Patro Eisden Maasmechelen 2005–06 Belgian Promotion Division 13200——132
2006–07Belgian Promotion Division27331——304
2007–08Belgian Promotion Division28440——324
Total68971——7510
KS Kermt-Hasselt 2008–09Belgian Promotion Division21043——253
Career total50548316203054154

Honours

Stoke City

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