Belgium national football team: results and stats
6 investigationsLatest Belgium national team football matches: every report comes with full stats, xG analysis and the Crime Index of the result.
Current squad — Belgium national team
Goalkeepers
- 1T. Courtois
- 12S. Lammens
- 13M. Penders
Defenders
- 2Z. Debast
- 3A. Theate
- 4B. Mechele
- 5M. De Cuyper
- 15T. Meunier
- 16K. De Winter
- 18J. Seys
- 21T. Castagne
- 25N. Ngoy
Midfielders
- 6A. Witsel
- 7K. De Bruyne
- 8Y. Tielemans
- 10L. Trossard
- 11J. Doku
- 14D. Lukebakio
- 20H. Vanaken
- 23N. Raskin
- 24A. Onana
Attackers
- 9R. Lukaku
- 17C. De Ketelaere
- 19D. Moreira
- 22A. Saelemaekers
- 26M. Fernandez-Pardo
Injuries & Suspensions
- A. Onana— Missing Fixture (Cruciate Ligament Rupture)
- J. Doku— Missing Fixture (Illness)
- N. Ngoy— Missing Fixture (Red Card)
- Z. Debast— Missing Fixture (Wound)
Belgium Squad: Latest Match
Belgium — Iran · 4-2-3-1- 1T. CourtoisG
- 15T. MeunierD
- 25N. NgoyD
- 4B. MecheleD
- 5M. De CuyperD
- 23N. RaskinM
- 8Y. TielemansM
- 22A. SaelemaekersM
- 7K. De BruyneM
- 10L. TrossardM
- 9R. LukakuF
Belgium vs Iran 0:0 — Iran's Keeper Weathered 23 Shots
Belgium and Iran played out a 0-0 draw despite the match looking one-sided by every attacking measure: 23 shots to 7, 1.79 xG to 0.62.
Spain vs Belgium 2:1 — The Margin Finally Arrived
Was the interesting question whether Belgium could hang around long enough to make this awkward? Yes, and they did for a while, which is not the same as saying they matched Spain.
USA — Belgium 1:4: De Ketelaere's Early Double
Belgium takes the night on tournament terms and football terms alike.
Belgium — Senegal 3:2: Five Goals, One Stolen Board
Five goals, extra time and a penalty on 120+5 — matches with this dramaturgy get remembered for years. Belgium beat Senegal 3:2 after trailing 0:2, a script the model prices at roughly 16% probability.
New Zealand — Belgium 1:5: Thirty-Five Shots Tell It All
Belgium shot thirty-five times; New Zealand managed six attempts in reply. The 1:5 defeat surprises the model in one respect only — that the score was not heavier: xG 3.60 against 0.24 is a chasm.
Belgium vs Egypt 1-1 — An Own Goal Salvages a Point
Belgium and Egypt played out a 1-1 draw at the group stage with a close xG reading (1.35 to 1.08).
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the head coach of the Belgium national team?
Per the most recently analyzed match (Belgium — Iran) — Rudi Garcia.
How many players are in the Belgium national team's current squad?
26 players: goalkeepers — 3, defenders — 9, midfielders — 9, attackers — 5.
How often do Belgium's match results diverge from the xG-expected outcome?
Bravsen has analyzed 6 matches — average Crime Index 47, with 1 scoring 60+ (the threshold for an anomalous gap between the result and the xG model).
National team. This page covers 12 articles about Belgium — all from the 2026 World Cup.
Clinical finishing across the whole tournament
Across the 6 matches with calculated xG, Belgium generated 11.06 expected goals and scored 14 — nearly 3 goals above what the model predicts. It's one of the clearest cases of sustained xG overperformance among any national team on this site: the gap holds up across a six-match sample, not just one lucky night.
The Senegal win follows naturally from that trend
The team's single most anomalous covered match is a 3-2 home win over Senegal, Crime Index 71%, against a 47% average across all 6 matches. Set against Belgium's consistently clinical finishing, that result reads less like a random spike and more like a natural extension of the tournament-wide pattern — a team that regularly scores more than the quality of its chances would predict will occasionally produce exactly this kind of high-scoring, statistically lopsided win.