Karel Geraerts
Personal information
Date of birth (1982-01-05) 5 January 1982
Place of birth Genk, Belgium
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Central midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Schalke 04 (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2004 Club Brugge 9 (0)
2004 → Lokeren (loan) 16 (0)
2004–2007 Standard Liège 93 (16)
2007–2011 Club Brugge 119 (15)
2011–2014 Oud-Heverlee Leuven 79 (13)
2014–2016 Charleroi 32 (2)
International career
2005–2009 Belgium 20 (4)
Managerial career
2022–2023 Union SG
2023– Schalke 04
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Karel Geraerts (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkaːrəl ˈɣeːraːrts]; born 5 January 1982) is a Belgian former footballer and head coach of Schalke 04.

Career

Geraerts played for Club Brugge from 1998 to December 2003. In 2004 Club Brugge lent him to Lokeren where he scored his first goal in the Jupiler League. In the summer of 2004 he moved to Standard Liège. In June 2007 he went back to Bruges. As a youngster the midfielder played with C.S. Mechelen-aan-de-Maas and Racing Genk (from 1996 to 1998) before he moved to the youth team of Club Brugge. After the 2010–11 season, Geraerts was no longer part of the plans at Club Brugge and was told he could look for a new club, which resulted in him signing with newly promoted side Oud-Heverlee Leuven on the last day of the transfer period.[1] Geraerts' contract ended in 2014 and with Oud-Heverlee Leuven just being relegated, it was not renewed. This allowed him to move as a free agent player to Charleroi. He last played for Charleroi in 2016 and after being without a club for half a year has announced his retirement in January 2017.[2]

In 2005, Geraerts debuted for the Belgium national football team. In his first match in the starting line-up, on 12 October in and against Lithuania in a World Cup qualifier, he scored the opening goal.

After managing Union SG for a year, he moved to Schalke 04 in 2023.[3]

Career statistics

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[4]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Belgium 200531
200681
200762
200810
200920
Total204
Belgium score listed first, score column indicates score after each Geraerts goal
List of international goals scored by Karel Geraerts
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
112 October 2005Žalgiris Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania Lithuania0–11–12006 FIFA World Cup qualification
220 May 2006Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava, Slovakia Slovakia1–11–1Friendly
312 September 2007Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan Kazakhstan0–12–2UEFA Euro 2008 qualification
417 October 2007Stade Roi Baudouin, Brussels, Belgium Armenia3–03–0UEFA Euro 2008 qualification

Managerial

As of 15 December 2023
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record Ref.
G W D L Win %
Union SG 9 June 2022 21 June 2023 57 35 11 11 061.40 [5]
Schalke 04 9 October 2023 present 9 4 1 4 044.44 [6]
Total 66 39 12 15 059.09

Honours

Player

Club Brugge[7]

Manager

Individual

  • Raymond Goethals award: 2022[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Geraerts:"I want to attain the level of my best years at Club Brugge."" (in Dutch). sporza.be. 1 August 2011.
  2. ↑ "Karel Geraerts hangt voetbalschoenen definitief aan de haak" (in Dutch). sporza.be. 4 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "Karel Geraerts appointed new head coach of FC Schalke 04". schalke04.com. 9 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  4. ↑ Karel Geraerts at National-Football-Teams.com
  5. ↑ "Union Saint-Gilloise » Fixtures & Results 2022/2023". worldfootball.net.
  6. ↑ "FC Schalke 04 – Trainer". Kicker (in German).
  7. ↑ "Geschiedenis". Club Brugge. 8 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "RACING GENK - CLUB BRUGGE 0-2". clubbrugge.be. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  9. ↑ "Met Karel Geraerts krijgt weer de coach van Union de Trofee Raymond Goethals". Sporza (in Dutch). Retrieved 27 March 2023.
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