Filip Daems

Filip Daems
	Daems with Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth	31 October 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth	Turnhout, Belgium
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1986–1989	FCV Alberta Geel
1989–1998	Geel
Senior career*
Years	Team
1998–2001	Lierse
2001–2005	Gençlerbirliği
2005–2015	Borussia Mönchengladbach
2015–2017	Westerlo
Total
International career
2000	Belgium U18
1998–1999	Belgium U21
2004–2009	Belgium
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Filip Daems (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfilɪb 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
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Lierse	1998–99	Belgian Pro League	27	1	0	0	0	0	27	1
	1999–00	Belgian Pro League	26	1	0	0	2	0	28	1
	2000–01	Belgian Pro League	28	1	0	0	2	0	30	1
	Total		81	3	0	0	4	0	85	3
Gençlerbirliği	2001–02	Süper Lig	25	2	0	0	2	0	27	2
	2002–03	Süper Lig	27	7	0	0	0	0	27	7
	2003–04	Süper Lig	29	2	0	0	4	2	33	4
	2004–05	Süper Lig	15	2	0	0	2	0	17	2
	Total		96	13	0	0	8	2	104	15
Borussia Mönchengladbach	2004–05	Bundesliga	11	0	0	0	0	0	11	0
	2005–06	Bundesliga	22	0	2	0	0	0	24	0
	2006–07	Bundesliga	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2007–08	2. Bundesliga	27	1	1	0	0	0	28	1
	2008–09	Bundesliga	33	2	2	0	0	0	35	2
	2009–10	Bundesliga	18	1	0	0	0	0	18	1
	2010–11	Bundesliga	34	4	2	0	0	0	36	4
	2011–12	Bundesliga	31	3	5	1	0	0	36	4
	2012–13	Bundesliga	19	1	2	0	4	1	25	2
	2013–14	Bundesliga	15	2	1	0	0	0	16	2
	2014–15	Bundesliga	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total		210	14	15	1	4	1	229	19
Westerlo	2015–16	Belgian Pro League	22	1	1	0	0	0	23	1
	2016–17	Belgian Pro League	29	2	1	0	0	0	30	2
	Total		51	3	2	0	0	0	53	3
Career total			438	33	17	1	16	3	471	37

Honours

Lierse

Borussia Mönchengladbach

2. Bundesliga: 2007–08

References

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