# Filip Daems

Filip Daems (Dutch pronunciation:; born 31 October 1978) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a defender.

## Club career

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

## Career statistics
### Club

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

## Honours

Lierse
* Belgian Cup: 1998–99
* Belgian Super Cup: 1999
Borussia Mönchengladbach
* 2. Bundesliga: 2007–08