Sint-Truidense V.V.

The club was created in 1924 following the merger between FC Union and FC Goldstar, two clubs from Sint-Truiden. The colors of the club were chosen to be yellow and blue, to match the colors of the city, and it was named Sint-Truidense Voetbal Vereeniging. The first game of the team, against Cercle Tongeren, was played in front of only 9 attendees. In the late 1930s, Léopold Appeltans was the leading player of Sint-Truidense. On 21 November 1948 he became the first capped player for Belgium while playing at this club. In the late 1940s it qualified for the second division. It also changed its name to Sint-Truidense Voetbalvereniging in 1947. Five years later it finished second in the second division and thus promoted to the first division. Successful manager Raymond Goethals arrived at Sint-Truiden in 1959. Under his management, the team finished second of the top division in 1966.

The former Sint-Truidense goalkeeper Jacky Mathijssen became the manager of the club in 2001 and remained at the helm for three seasons after which he left for Charleroi. He was replaced by Marc Wilmots, who was fired shortly after. The team finished the season under the coaching of the trio Guy Mangelschots, Eddy Raymaekers and Peter Voets. At the end of the 2004–05 season the board of directors hired Oostende manager Herman Vermeulen but he was dismissed on 9 February 2006 as the club pointed at the seventeenth position in the ranking. In 2008 the women's team of FCL Rapide Wezemaal joined STVV.

• Belgian First Division:
  • Runners-up (1): 1965–66
• Belgian Second Division:
  • Winners (4): 1986–87, 1993–94, 2008–09, 2014–15
• Belgian Cup:
  • Runners-up (2): 1970–71, 2002–03
• Belgian League Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1997–98

As of 5 March 2006:

As of 24 March 2022[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BEL Kenny Steppe 2 DF  JPN Ko Matsubara 3 DF  BEL Ameen Al-Dakhil 4 DF  JPN Daiki Hashioka 6 MF  GUI Mory Konaté 8 MF  GER Rocco Reitz (on loan from Mönchengladbach) 9 FW  BRA João Klauss (on loan from Hoffenheim) 10 MF  JPN Shinji Kagawa 14 FW  BEL Aboubakary Koita 15 FW  JPN Daichi Hayashi 16 FW  BEL Steve De Ridder (captain) 18 FW  JPN Taichi Hara (on loan from Alavés) 19 MF  BEL Stan Van Dessel 20 MF  GER Robert Bauer

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 GK  JPN Daniel Schmidt 22 FW  BEL Wolke Janssens 26 DF  POR Jorge Teixeira 27 DF  BEL Dimitri Lavalée (on loan from Mainz) 30 FW  COD Nelson Balongo 33 GK  ITA Alessandro Russo (on loan from Sassuolo) 35 GK  BEL Wim Vanmarsenille 37 DF  GER Toni Leistner 40 DF  NGA Junior Pius (on loan from Antwerp) 44 MF  BEL Christian Brüls 61 MF  BEL Jarne Steuckers 66 MF  BEL Mathias Delorge Knieper 85 DF  BEL Arnaud Dony

On loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ANG Jonathan Buatu (on loan at Eyüpspor until 30 June 2022) — DF  NZL Liberato Cacace (on loan at Empoli until 30 June 2022) — MF  BRA Jhonny Lucas (on loan at Londrina until 30 June 2022)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  UKR Oleksandr Filippov (on loan at Riga until 31 December 2022) — FW  JPN Tatsuya Ito (on loan at 1. FC Magdeburg until 30 June 2022)

• Manager: Bernd Hollerbach
• Assistant manager: Davy Heymans
• Physical coach: Stefan Winters
• Team manager: Peter Delorge
• Goalkeeping coach: Jurgen De Braekeleer
• Team representative: Romain Proesmans
• Kit men: Benny Liebens & Valere Stevens
• Club Doctors: Pieter Bormans & Peter Bollars
• Physiotherapists: Wouter Robijns & Par Vandenborne
• Masseur: Roger Reniers

• (in English) Official website
• (in English) UEFA page