# 2024–25 Cercle Brugge K.S.V. season

The 2024–25 season is the 126th season in the history of Cercle Brugge K.S.V., and the club's 36th consecutive season in Belgian Pro League. In addition to the domestic league, the team is participating in the Belgian Cup, the UEFA Europa League, and the UEFA Conference League.

## Season events

On 21 November 2024, Major League Soccer club FC Cincinnati announced they had signed Kévin Denkey for an MLS record transfer fee of $16.2 million, with the player officially joining the club in January 2025. It was also a club record fee received by Cercle Brugge.
Following a 2–3 defeat to Beerschot on 1 December, Miron Muslic was sacked as the club's manager. He was replaced on 10 December by Austrian coach Ferdinand Feldhofer, who had been in the same role at Dinamo Tbilisi.

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| MF | Malamine Efekele | AS Monaco | Loan | 3 July 2024 |
| DF | Ibrahim Diakité | Stade de Reims | Undisclosed | 3 July 2024 |
| MF | Lawrence Agyekum | Red Bull Salzburg | Loan | 4 July 2024 |
| FW | Bruninho | Red Bull Bragantino | Loan | 10 July 2024 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| FW | Emilio Kehrer | Willem II | Undisclosed | 5 July 2024 | |
| FW | Kévin Denkey | FC Cincinnati | $16.2 million | 1 January 2025 | |

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Belgian Pro League | 28 July 2024 | | Matchday 1 | | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 31 | −12 | 022.22 |
| Belgian Cup | 31 October 2024 | 4 December 2024 | Seventh round | Eighth round | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 050.00 |
| UEFA Europa League | 25 July 2024 | 15 August 2024 | Second qualifying round | Third qualifying round | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 050.00 |
| UEFA Conference League | 22 August 2024 | | Play-off round | | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 11 | +9 | 057.14 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 31 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 45 | 47 | −2 | 035.48 |
Last updated: 15 December 2024 Source: Soccerway

### Belgian Pro League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 7 | Standard Liège | 24 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 23 | −6 | 35 | Qualification for the Europe play-offs |
| 8 | Charleroi | 24 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 29 | 27 | +2 | 32 | Qualification for the Europe play-offs |
| 9 | Cercle Brugge | 24 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 25 | 34 | −9 | 29 | Qualification for the Europe play-offs |
| 10 | OH Leuven | 24 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 20 | 24 | −4 | 29 | Qualification for the Europe play-offs |
| 11 | Dender EH | 24 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 27 | 40 | −13 | 28 | Qualification for the Europe play-offs |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 18 January 2025. Source: soccerway

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| Ground | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | L | L | W | D | W | L | L | L | D | L | D | W | W | L | L | L | D | D | W | D | W | W | | |
| Position | 16 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 12 | | |

#### Matches

The match schedule was released on 11 June 2024.

### UEFA Europa League
#### Second qualifying round

The draw was held on 19 June 2024.

#### Third qualifying round
### UEFA Conference League

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

#### League phase

The league phase draw was held on 30 August 2024.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 6 | Lugano | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 13 | Advance to round of 16 (seeded) |
| 7 | Legia Warsaw | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 12 | Advance to round of 16 (seeded) |
| 8 | Cercle Brugge | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 7 | +7 | 11 | Advance to round of 16 (seeded) |
| 9 | Jagiellonia Białystok | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 11 | Advance to knockout phase play-offs (seeded) |
| 10 | Shamrock Rovers | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 11 | Advance to knockout phase play-offs (seeded) |
* ↑ Away goals scored: Djurgårdens IF 5, Lugano 4.
| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | W | L | D | W | W | D |
| Position | 1 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 8 |
| Points | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 11 |
Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures