Karel Geraerts

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Karel Geraerts
Personal information
Date of birth	(1982-01-05) 5 January 1982
Place of birth	Genk, Belgium
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Oud-Heverlee Leuven
Number	20
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–	Oud-Heverlee Leuven	78	(12)
National team^‡
2005–	Belgium	20	(4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18 January 2014. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 1 December 2009

Karel Geraerts (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkaː.rəl ˈʝeː.raːrts]) (born 5 January 1982 in Genk) is a Belgian football player who plays for Oud-Heverlee Leuven.

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]

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.

International goals

Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	12 October 2005	Žalgiris Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania	Lithuania	0–1	1-1	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
2.	20 May 2006	Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava, Slovakia	Slovakia	1–1	1-1	Friendly
3.	12 September 2007	Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	0–1	2-1	UEFA Euro 2008 qualification
4.	17 October 2007	Stade Roi Baudouin, Brussels, Belgium	Armenia	3–0	3-0	UEFA Euro 2008 qualification

References

Guardian Football
Karel Geraerts at National-Football-Teams.com

↑ "Geraerts:"I want to attain the level of my best years at Club Brugge."" (in dutch). sporza.be. 2011-08-01.

v t e Oud-Heverlee Leuven – current squad

1 Lenaerts 2 Pettersson 3 Robson 4 Raymaekers 5 Thompson 6 Van Goethem 7 Karuru 8 Geraerts 10 Maia 11 Cerigioni 12 Ibou 13 Ruytinx 14 Croux 15 Bastiaens 16 Reynaud 17 Messoudi 18 Wijns 19 Van Eenoo 20 Ngolok 21 Gillekens 22 Vits 23 Bandalovski 24 Buysens 25 Subašić 26 Bailly 29 Dehond 30 Bracke 31 Yagan 32 Vanaudenaerde 33 Kostovski Manager: Vermeulen

Persondata
Name	Geraerts, Karel
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	5 January 1982
Place of birth	Genk, Belgium
Date of death
Place of death

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