List of Belgium national football team managers

The male Belgian national (association) football team has been under the supervision of 23 different permanent managers and two caretakers since 1910.[1][2] Before 1910 and in 1919, a committee of the RBFA presided by Édouard de Laveleye selected the players. Initially supervised by foreigners, it would take until 1930 for team Belgium to be officially led by a Belgian (Hector Goetinck).

As of 19 November 2019, coach Roberto Martínez is the most successful (permanent) manager that Belgium has ever had in statistical terms, with an average of 2.51 points per match. The coach that brought Belgium most successes at international tournament end stages was Guy Thys, who led his team to the 1980 European Championship final and six years later to the semi-finals of the World Cup in Mexico. In 1986, magazine World Soccer proclaimed Thys Manager of the Year.[3]

Managers
Manager Nat Tenure Pld W D* L Win % Pts/G[upper-alpha 1] Major tournaments**
Selection committee (1) — 1904–1909 19 8 1 10 42.11 1.32 SO 1908
William Maxwell (1) 1910–1913 23 11 3 9 47.83 1.57 SO 1912
Charles Bunyan 1914 4 0 0 4 0.00 0.00 —
Selection committee (2) — 1914–1919 1 0 1 0 0.00 1.00 —
William Maxwell (2) 1920–1928 56 18 10 28 32.14 1.14 SO 1920 – Winners[upper-alpha 2]
SO 1924 – Round 2
Viktor Löwenfeld 1928–1930 11 5 2 4 45.45 1.55 SO 1928 – Quarter-finals
Hector Goetinck (1) 1930–1934 31 7 5 19 22.58 0.84 WC 1930 – Round 1
WC 1934 – Round 1
Jules Turnauer 1935 3 0 1 2 0.00 0.33 —
Jack Butler 1935–1939 32 8 7 17 25.00 0.97 WC 1938 – Round 1
SO 1936
Hector Goetinck (2) 1939–1940 0 0 0 0 — — —
Selection committee (3) — 1940–1943 0 0 0 0 — — —
François Demol 1944–1946 8 2 2 4 25.00 1.00 —
Bill Gormlie 1947–1953 44 18 9 17 40.91 1.43 WC 1950[upper-alpha 3]
Doug Livingstone 1953–1954 13 5 6 2 38.46 1.62 WC 1954 – Group stage
André Vandeweyer 1955–1957 17 4 2 11 23.53 0.82 —
Louis Nicolayct 1957 1 1 0 0 100.00 3.00 —
Géza Toldi 1957–1958 6 1 2 3 16.67 0.83 WC 1958
Constant Vanden Stock[upper-alpha 4] 1958–1968 68 28 11 29 41.18 1.40 EC 1960,[upper-alpha 5] WC 1962, EC 1964,
WC 1966, EC 1968
Raymond Goethals 1968–1976 44 25 8 11 56.82 1.89 WC 1970 – Group stage
EC 1972 – Third place
WC 1974, EC 1976
Guy Thys (1) 1976–1989 101 45 24* 32 44.55 1.57 EC 1980 – Runners-up
WC 1982 – Round 2
EC 1984 – Group stage
WC 1986 – Fourth place
WC 1978, EC 1988
Walter Meeuws 1989–1990 6 2 3 1 33.33 1.50 —
Guy Thys (2) 1990–1991 13 4 4 5 30.77 1.23 WC 1990 – Round of 16
EC 1992
Paul Van Himst 1991–1996 36 19 5 12 52.78 1.72 WC 1994 – Round of 16
EC 1996
Wilfried Van Moer 1996 5 2 2 1 40.00 1.60 —
Georges Leekens (1) 1997–1999 29 10 10* 9 34.48 1.38 WC 1998 – Group stage
Robert Waseige 1999–2002 34 16 11[upper-alpha 6] 7 47.06 1.74 EC 2000 – Group stage
WC 2002 – Round of 16
Aimé Anthuenis 2002–2005 29 12 7 10 41.38 1.48 EC 2004, WC 2006
René Vandereycken 2005–2009 30 10 7 13 33.33 1.23 EC 2008, WC 2010
Franky Vercauterenct 2009 5 0 1 4 0.00 0.20 —
Dick Advocaat 2009–2010 5 3 0 2 60.00 1.80 —
Georges Leekens (2) 2010–2012 19 8 7 4 42.10 1.63 EC 2012
Marc Wilmots[upper-alpha 7] 2012–2016 49[upper-alpha 8] 33 8 8 67.35 2.18 WC 2014 – Quarter-finals
EC 2016 – Quarter-finals
Roberto Martínez 2016– 50 39 7 4 78.00 2.48 WC 2018 – Third place
EC 2020 – TBD
Totals78533916528143.181.5122 out of 43 tournaments
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
**Abbreviations: SO = Summer Olympics, WC = World Cup, EC = European Championship
(1), (2)first term, second term
ctcaretaker manager
Last updated: Belgium vs. Cyprus, 19 November 2019. Statistics include official FIFA-recognised matches only.

Footnotes
  1. According to the "three points for a win" standard
  2. Even though William Maxwell was the official manager then, in the tournament Raoul Daufresne coached the squad.
  3. Belgium withdrew from the qualifiers.
  4. Manager Vanden Stock only selected the players; under him, the Red Devils were consecutively trained by Viktor Havlicek (1958–60), Henri Dekens (1960–61), Arthur Ceuleers (1961–65) and Raymond Goethals (1966–68).
  5. Belgium did not enter the qualifiers.
  6. During a 2001 friendly draw against Czech Republic, assistants Vince Briganti and Jacky Munaron managed the team as Waseige recovered from cardiac bypass surgery.[2]
  7. Wilmots was only a caretaker in his first two matches against Montenegro and England.[4] In June, first the player group and later also the Belgian Football Association chose him as permanent coach.[5][6]
  8. Note that the friendlies against Romania on 14 November 2012 and against Luxembourg on 26 May 2014 are not FIFA-recognised due to an excessive number of substitutions.[7]

References
  1. "Belgium national football team match results". eu-football.info. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  2. Hassanin Mubarak (7 Aug 2003). "Belgium National Team Coaches". RSSSF archive of coaches 1904–. RSSSF. Retrieved 14 Sep 2013.
  3. Jamie Rainbow (14 December 2012). "World Soccer Awards – previous winners". World Soccer. Archived from the original on 29 June 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  4. Maarten Delvaux; Bart Lagae (15 May 2012). "Marc Wilmots voorlopig interim-bondscoach". De Standaard (in Dutch).
  5. janm (6 Jun 2012). "Marc Wilmots is nieuwe bondscoach tot 2014". De Standaard (in Dutch).
  6. Gunther De Vos (4 Jun 2012). "Rode Duivels willen verder met Wilmots". De Standaard (in Dutch).
  7. "Rules & Governance - Law 3: The number of players". The FA. Retrieved 25 Oct 2014.
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