# 2024–25 R.S.C. Anderlecht season

The 2024–25 season is the 117th season in the history of the R.S.C. Anderlecht, and the club's 65th consecutive season in the Belgian Pro League. In addition to the domestic league, the team is scheduled to participate in the Belgian Cup and the UEFA Europa League.

## Current squad

    As of 10 February 2025
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | DEN | Lucas Hey |
| 4 | DF | SRB | Jan-Carlo Simić |
| 5 | DF | SEN | Moussa N'Diaye |
| 6 | DF | SWE | Ludwig Augustinsson |
| 10 | MF | BEL | Yari Verschaeren |
| 11 | FW | BEL | Thorgan Hazard |
| 12 | FW | DEN | Kasper Dolberg |
| 14 | DF | BEL | Jan Vertonghen (captain) |
| 16 | GK | DEN | Mads Kikkenborg |
| 17 | MF | BEL | Théo Leoni |
| 18 | MF | GHA | Majeed Ashimeru |
| 19 | FW | ECU | Nilson Angulo |
| 20 | FW | ARG | Luis Vázquez |
| 21 | MF | MEX | César Huerta |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | FW | MAR | Elyess Dao |
| 23 | MF | BEL | Mats Rits |
| 25 | DF | BEL | Thomas Foket |
| 26 | GK | BEL | Colin Coosemans |
| 27 | MF | ENG | Samuel Edozie (on loan from Southampton) |
| 29 | MF | BEL | Mario Stroeykens |
| 32 | MF | BEL | Leander Dendoncker (on loan from Aston Villa) |
| 34 | DF | BRA | Adryelson (on loan from Lyon) |
| 54 | DF | BEL | Killian Sardella |
| 55 | DF | BEL | Marco Kana |
| 62 | FW | JPN | Keisuke Goto |
| 63 | MF | BEL | Timon Vanhoutte |
| 72 | MF | BEL | Nathan De Cat |
| 83 | MF | BEL | Tristan Degreef |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| MF | Ishaq Abdulrazak | BK Häcken | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| MF | Alexis Flips | MKE Ankaragücü | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| MF | Marco Kana | Kortrijk | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| DF | Jan-Carlo Simić | AC Milan | €3,000,000 | 23 July 2024 |
| DF | Thomas Foket | Reims | Free | 3 August 2024 |
| DF | Ludwig Augustinsson | Sevilla | Undisclosed | 6 August 2024 |
| DF | Zanka | Brentford | Free | 15 August 2024 |
| MF | Leander Dendoncker | Aston Villa | Loan | 31 August 2024 |
| MF | Samuel Edozie | Southampton | Loan | 4 September 2024 |
| MF | Ishaq Abdulrazak | Odds BK | Loan return | 31 December 2024 |
| MF | César Huerta | Pumas UNAM | €2,000,000 | 10 January 2025 |
| DF | Adryelson | Olympique Lyonnais | Loan | 15 January 2025 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| DF | Ludwig Augustinsson | Sevilla | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| DF | Federico Gattoni | Sevilla | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| MF | Thomas Delaney | Sevilla | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| DF | Zeno Debast | Sporting CP | €15,500,000 | 4 July 2024 |
| MF | Antoine Colassin | Beerschot | Undisclosed | 30 August 2024 |
| MF | Kristian Arnstad | AGF | €2,100,000 | 31 August 2024 |
| MF | Ishaq Abdulrazak | Odds BK | Loan | 2 September 2024 |
| DF | Louis Patris | Sint-Truiden | Loan | 4 September 2024 |
| MF | Alexis Flips | Charleroi | Loan | 6 September 2024 |
| DF | Zanka | LA Galaxy | Undisclosed | 15 January 2025 |

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Belgian Pro League regular season | 27 July 2024 | 14–16 March 2025 | Matchday 1 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 38 | 21 | +17 | 045.45 |
| Belgian Cup | 31 October 2024 | | Seventh round | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 100.00 |
| UEFA Europa League | 22 August 2024 | | Play-off round | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | +7 | 075.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 34 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 61 | 28 | +33 | 058.82 |
Last updated: 19 January 2025 Source: Soccerway

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 2 | Club Brugge (Q) | 28 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 58 | 33 | +25 | 53 | Qualification for the Champions' play-offs |
| 3 | Union SG (Q) | 28 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 45 | 23 | +22 | 52 | Qualification for the Champions' play-offs |
| 4 | Anderlecht (Q) | 28 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 47 | 25 | +22 | 48 | Qualification for the Champions' play-offs |
| 5 | Antwerp (Q) | 28 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 47 | 31 | +16 | 45 | Qualification for the Champions' play-offs |
| 6 | Gent (Y) | 28 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 39 | 31 | +8 | 42 | Qualification for the Champions' play-offs |
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation | GNK | CLU | USG | AND | ANT | TBD6 |
| 1 | Genk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for the Champions League league phase | — | | | | | |
| 2 | Club Brugge | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round | | — | | | | |
| 3 | Union SG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round | | | — | | | |
| 4 | Anderlecht | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for the European competition play-off | | | | — | | |
| 5 | Antwerp | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | — | |
| 6 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | — |
* ↑ The regular season winner (Genk) will qualify for the Europa League second round if they do not earn a Champions League berth.
* ↑ The winner of the 2024–25 Belgian Cup (Club Brugge or Anderlecht) qualifies for the Europa League play-off round (if they have not already qualified for the Champions League). The Europa League second round and the European competition play-off berths would be passed to the next two highest-placed teams.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation | TBD1 | TBD2 | TBD3 | TBD4 | TBD5 | TBD6 |
| 1 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for the European competition play-off | — | | | | | |
| 2 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | — | | | | |
| 3 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | — | | | |
| 4 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | — | | |
| 5 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | — | |
| 6 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | — |
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation | TBD1 | TBD2 | KOR | BEE |
| 1 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | — | | | |
| 2 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for the promotion/relegation play-offs | | — | | |
| 3 | Kortrijk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegation to Challenger Pro League | | | — | |
| 4 | Beerschot | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegation to Challenger Pro League | | | | — |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 19 January 2025. Source: Worldfootball

#### 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 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H |
| Result | W | W | D | W | L | D | D | D | D | W | L | L | W | W | W | D | W | W | L | L | L | W | |
| Position | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | |

#### Matches

The match schedule was released on 11 June 2024.

### UEFA Europa League
#### Play-off round
#### League phase

The draw for the league phase was held on 29 August 2024.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 8 | Rangers | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | +6 | 14 | Advance to round of 16 (seeded) |
| 9 | Bodø/Glimt | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 11 | +3 | 14 | Advance to knockout phase play-offs (seeded) |
| 10 | Anderlecht | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 12 | +2 | 14 | Advance to knockout phase play-offs (seeded) |
| 11 | FCSB | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 14 | Advance to knockout phase play-offs (seeded) |
| 12 | Ajax | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 8 | +8 | 13 | Advance to knockout phase play-offs (seeded) |
| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | W | W | D | D | W |
| Position | 11 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 |

## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Pro League | Pro League | Belgian Cup | Belgian Cup | UEFA Europa League | UEFA Europa League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||
| 16 | GK | DEN | Mads Kikkenborg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | GK | BEL | Colin Coosemans | 10 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 35 | GK | GER | Timo Schlieck | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 63 | GK | BEL | Timon Vanhoutte | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||
| 4 | DF | SRB | Jan-Carlo Simić | 9 | 0 | 6+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | SEN | Moussa N'Diaye | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | SWE | Ludwig Augustinsson | 7 | 2 | 4+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 13 | DF | DEN | Mathias Jørgensen | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | BEL | Jan Vertonghen | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | BEL | Thomas Foket | 5 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 54 | DF | BEL | Killian Sardella | 10 | 0 | 7+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 55 | DF | BEL | Marco Kana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 71 | DF | BEL | Nunzio Engwanda | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 73 | DF | BEL | Amando Lapage | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||
| 7 | MF | BEL | Francis Amuzu | 7 | 2 | 3+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 1 |
| 10 | MF | BEL | Yari Verschaeren | 10 | 0 | 6+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | BEL | Thorgan Hazard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | BEL | Théo Leoni | 10 | 1 | 7+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | GHA | Majeed Ashimeru | 7 | 1 | 2+4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | GUI | Amadou Diawara | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | BEL | Mats Rits | 9 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | ENG | Samuel Edozie | 3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | MF | BEL | Mario Stroeykens | 10 | 2 | 5+3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | BEL | Leander Dendoncker | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | MF | DEN | Anders Dreyer | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 74 | MF | BEL | Nathan De Cat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 78 | MF | MAR | Anas Tajaouart | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 80 | MF | USA | Devon De Corte | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 83 | MF | BEL | Tristan Degreef | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||
| 12 | FW | DEN | Kasper Dolberg | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | ECU | Nilson Angulo | 9 | 0 | 2+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | ARG | Luis Vázquez | 9 | 1 | 1+6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 90 | FW | SCO | Robbie Ure | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||
| 8 | MF | FRA | Alexis Flips | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | BEL | Louis Patris | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 61 | MF | NOR | Kristian Arnstad | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 22 September 2024 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

    As of match played 19 January 2025
| Rank | Pos. | No. | Nat. | Player | Pro League | Play-offs | Belgian Cup | Europa League | Total |
| 1 | FW | 12 | | Kasper Dolberg | 12 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 18 |
| 2 | FW | 36 | | Anders Dreyer | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | FW | 7 | | Francis Amuzu | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | MF | 29 | | Mario Stroeykens | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | MF | 10 | | Yari Verschaeren | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | MF | 27 | | Samuel Edozie | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | MF | 17 | | Théo Leoni | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | DF | 4 | | Jan-Carlo Simić | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | FW | 20 | | Luis Vázquez | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | DF | 6 | | Ludwig Augustinsson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | MF | 83 | | Tristan Degreef | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | FW | 19 | | Nilson Angulo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | MF | 18 | | Majeed Ashimeru | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | MF | 11 | | Thorgan Hazard | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | MF | 21 | | César Huerta | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | DF | 5 | | Moussa N'Diaye | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | MF | 23 | | Mats Rits | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | DF | 13 | | Zanka | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 38 | 0 | 10 | 13 | 61 |