Filip Daems (; born 31 October 1978) is a Belgian former professional

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who played as a defender.

Club career

Daems kicked off his career with

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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

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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. In January 2005, Daems signed for German club

Borussia Mönchengladbach Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e. V. Mönchengladbach, commonly known as Borussia Mönchengladbach (), Mönchengladbach () or Gladbach (; abbreviated as Borussia MG, BMG), is a professional Association football, football club based in ...

, penning a contract till June 2008. In his first season with the club, he played 11 times without scoring a goal. He would play the first match of the 2005–06 season against Schalke 04 in single goal draw. He would end the season featuring 22 times for the German club. However, he spent the 2006–07 season with the reserves, Borussia Mönchengladbach II, in the Regionalliga Nord, the then third tier of German football. For the 2007–08 season, the club played in

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and Daems even scored a goal against

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. Mönchengladbach won the second tier and gained promotion to the

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. During that season, he scored two goals, one against

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and one against

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. In the 2009–10 season, he played 18 times scoring one goal. The goal was scored against

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim e.V., or simply TSG 1899 Hoffenheim or just Hoffenheim () is a German professional football club based in Hoffenheim, a village of Sinsheim municipality, Baden-Württemberg. Originally founded in 1899 ...

, where he scored a 31st-minute penalty. 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.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Lierse * Belgian Cup: 1998–99 * Belgian Super Cup:

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Borussia Mönchengladbach *

: 2007–08

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* * * Living people 1978 births Sportspeople from Turnhout Belgian men's footballers Footballers from Antwerp Province Men's association football defenders Belgium men's international footballers Belgian Pro League players Süper Lig players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Lierse S.K. players Gençlerbirliği S.K. footballers Borussia Mönchengladbach players K.V.C. Westerlo players Belgian expatriate men's footballers Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany {{Belgium-footy-defender-stub