Philippe Brunel

Philippe Brunel
Personal information
Full name Philippe Brunel
Date of birth (1973-02-28) 28 February 1973
Place of birth Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position midfielder
Youth career
US Boulogne
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–2001 RC Lens 158 (9)
1995–1996 → FC Gueugnon (loan) 34 (4)
2001–2002 Olympique Marseille 11 (0)
2002–2005 Lille 118 (16)
2005–2007 Sochaux 28 (0)
2007–2011 SCO Angers 99 (10)
2011–2012 ASOA Valence 12 (0)
Total 460 (39)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Philippe Brunel (born 28 February 1973) is a French former professional football midfielder. He was a midfielder or playmaker with a wide range of passing.

Career

Lens

Brunel began his career at RC Lens in 1991; from then until 1995, he made 27 appearances for the club, scoring one goal before moving to F.C. Gueugnon on a year-long loan in 1995. He made 34 appearances and scored 4 goals for Gueugnon; upon the completion of his loan, he returned to Lens.

Upon his return, Brunel featured much more prominently in the Lens squad; over five years from 1996 to 2001, he played 131 times and scored 8 goals in Ligue 1. He contributed 33 appearances as his side won 1997–98 French Division 1.[1] He also featured in the club's UEFA Cup campaign in the 1999-2000 season, making two appearances - a 1-2 defeat to FC Kaiserslautern on 25 November 1999 in the home leg of the 3rd-round tie, and the 1-4 victory in the away leg.

Marseille

Brunel's performances for Lens earned him a free transfer in 2001 to Olympique Marseille, however as with his time at Gueugnon his Marseille career did not go to plan; having made only 11 appearances for his new club, he was transferred in January 2002 to Lille for £880,000.

Lille

During the second half of the season, Brunel made a further 11 appearances for Lille, scoring once, in addition to two appearances in the UEFA Cup - both legs of the last-16 tie with Borussia Dortmund on 21 February and 28 February 2002.

From then until 2005, he would make a total of 118 appearances for Lille and score 16 goals in the process; in 2005 he was transferred to Sochaux, however he made only 28 appearances in two years with the club before leaving for SCO Angers in 2007.

Angers

Over four years with Angers, Brunel scored 10 goals in a total of 99 league appearances in Ligue 2; having featured regularly until 2010 but not made a single appearance in the 2010-11 season, he retired from professional football and moved into amateur football with AS Valence in the summer of 2011.

Career statistics

Club performance League Cup League Cup Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
France League Coupe de France Coupe de la Ligue Total
1997–98RC LensLigue 13310000331
1998–99RC LensLigue 11720000172
1999-2000RC LensLigue 13220000322
2000–01RC LensLigue 12110000211
2001–02Olympique MarseilleLigue 11100000110
2001–02Lille OSCLigue 11110000111
2002–03Lille OSCLigue 13630000363
2003–04Lille OSCLigue 13430000343
2004–05Lille OSCLigue 13790000379
2005–06FC Sochaux-MontbéliardLigue 11900000190
2006–07FC Sochaux-MontbéliardLigue 190000090
2007–08SCO AngersLigue 23140000314
2008–09SCO AngersLigue 23630010373
2009–10SCO AngersLigue 23232010353
2010–11SCO AngersLigue 200000000
CFA 2AS ValenceCFA 200200020
Total France 35932402036532
Career total 35932402036532

References

  1. ↑ "L'équipe du R.C. Lens - saison 1997 / 1998". sitercl.com. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
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