Belgium

Team Snapshot

Country

Belgium

FIFA Code

BEL

Confederation

UEFA

Group

G

Area

Belgium

Coach

Rudi Garcia

Captain

Youri Tielemans

Founded

1895

Home Venue

—

First international

3–3; (Uccle, Belgium; 1 May 1904)

Biggest win

9–0; (Brussels, Belgium; 4 June 1994); 10–1; (Brussels, Belgium; 28 February 2001); 9–0; (Liège, Belgium; 31 August 2017); 9–0; (Brussels, Belgium; 10 October 2019)

Biggest defeat

11–2; (London, England; 17 April 1909)

Regional competition

European Championship

Regional appearances

7

Best regional result

Runners-up (1980)

Team Storyline

The Belgium national football team has represented Belgium in men's international football since their maiden match in 1904. The squad is under the global jurisdiction of FIFA and is governed in Europe by UEFA—both of which were co-founded by the Belgian team's supervising body, the Royal Belgian Football Association. Periods of regular Belgian representation at the highest international level, from 1920 to 1938, from 1980 to 2002 and again from 2014 onwards, have alternated with mostly unsuccessful qualification rounds. Most of Belgium's home matches are played at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels. Belgium's national team have participated in three quadrennial major football competitions. It appeared in fourteen FIFA World Cups and six UEFA European Championships, and featured at three Olympic football tournaments, including the 1920 Summer Olympics which they won. Other notable performances are victories over four reigning world champions—West Germany, Brazil, Argentina and France—between 1954 and 2002. Belgium has long-standing football rivalries with its Dutch and French counterparts, having played both teams nearly every year from 1905 to 1967. The squad has been known as the Red Devils since 1906; its fan club is named "1895". Belgium finished in third place as hosts at UEFA Euro 1972. After that, they experienced two golden generations. In the first period, which lasted from the 1980s to the early 1990s, the team finished as runners-up at UEFA Euro 1980 and fourth in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. In the second, under the guidance of Marc Wilmots and later Roberto Martínez in the 2010s, Belgium topped the FIFA World Ranking for the first time in November 2015 and finished third at the 2018 FIFA World Cup. To date, Belgium is the only national team to top the FIFA ranking without having won a World Cup or continental trophy.

Website

https://www.rbfa.be

Address

145, avenue Houba de Strooper Brussels 1020

Group Opponents

Egypt, Iran, New Zealand

Fixtures

• vs Egypt
  Mon June 15 · 12:00 UTC-7 · Seattle
• vs Iran
  Sun June 21 · 12:00 UTC-7 · Los Angeles (Inglewood)
• at New Zealand
  Fri June 26 · 20:00 UTC-7 · Vancouver