Filip Daems
Daems with Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth (1978-10-31) 31 October 1978
Place of birth Turnhout, Belgium
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1986–1989 FCV Alberta Geel[1]
1989–1998 Geel[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2001 Lierse 83 (3)
2001–2005 Gençlerbirliği 98 (13)
2005–2015 Borussia Mönchengladbach 210 (14)
2015–2017 Westerlo 51 (3)
Total 442 (33)
International career
2000 Belgium U18 1 (0)
1998–1999 Belgium U21 9 (0)
2004–2009 Belgium 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Filip Daems (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfɪlɪp ˈdaːms]; born 31 October 1978) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a defender.[1][2]

Club career

Daems kicked off his career with Verbroedering Geel in 1995, staying with the club till 1998 in the Belgian second division. During his stint with the club, he played 40 times and also scored two goals. Between 1998 and 2001, he played for Belgian Pro League club, featuring 83 times and finding the net thrice. Then he went to play for Turkish club Gençlerbirliği from 2001 to 2005, spending four seasons, playing 98 times and finding the net 13 times.[3]

In January 2005, Daems signed for German club Borussia Mönchengladbach, penning a contract till June 2008.[4] In his first season with the club, he played 11 times without scoring a goal.[3] He would play the first match of the 2005–06 season against Schalke 04 in single goal draw.[5] He would end the season featuring 22 times for the German club.[5] However, he spent the 2006–07 season with the reserves, Borussia Mönchengladbach II, in the Regionalliga Nord, the then third tier of German football.[3] For the 2007–08 season, the club played in 2. Bundesliga[3] and Daems even scored a goal against 1. FC Köln.[6] Mönchengladbach won the second tier and gained promotion to the 2008–09 Bundesliga.[5] During that season, he scored two goals, one against Eintracht Frankfurt[7] and one against Bayern Munich.[8] In the 2009–10 season, he played 18 times scoring one goal.[5] The goal was scored against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, where he scored a 31st-minute penalty.[9] In the 2010–11 season, he played the whole ninety minutes of each of the 34 league matches. Daems also scored four times against Schalke 04, VfL Wolfsburg, Hoffenheim and Köln.[5]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[10][11]
Club Season League Cup Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Lierse 1998–99 Belgian Pro League 2710000271
1999–00 Belgian Pro League 2610020281
2000–01 Belgian Pro League 2810020301
Total 8130040853
Gençlerbirliği 2001–02 Süper Lig 2520020272
2002–03 Süper Lig 2770000277
2003–04 Süper Lig 2920042334
2004–05 Süper Lig 1520020172
Total 9613008210415
Borussia Mönchengladbach 2004–05 Bundesliga 1100000110
2005–06 Bundesliga 2202000240
2006–07 Bundesliga 00000000
2007–08 2. Bundesliga 2711000281
2008–09 Bundesliga 3322000352
2009–10 Bundesliga 1810000181
2010–11 Bundesliga 3442000364
2011–12 Bundesliga 3135100364
2012–13 Bundesliga 1912041252
2013–14 Bundesliga 1521000162
2014–15 Bundesliga 00000000
Total 210141514122919
Westerlo 2015–16 Belgian Pro League 2211000231
2016–17 Belgian Pro League 2921000302
Total 5132000533
Career total 4383317116347137

Honours

Lierse

Borussia Mönchengladbach

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Filip Daems" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  2. "Daems beendet seine Karriere". RP Online (in German). 11 May 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "National-Football-Teams profile". National-Football-Teams. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  4. "Nummer 6: Borussia holt Filip Daems" (in German). kicker.de. 20 January 2005. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Soccerway profile". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  6. "Borussia M'gladbach vs. Köln 2 - 2". Soccerway. 22 October 2007. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  7. "Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Borussia M'gladbach 4 - 1". Soccerway. 18 April 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  8. "Bayern München vs. Borussia M'gladbach 2 - 1". Soccerway. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  9. "Hoffenheim vs. Borussia M'gladbach 2 - 2". Soccerway. 19 February 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  10. "Filip Daems". Kicker (sports magazine). Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  11. Filip Daems at Soccerway


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