Victor Lucien Wégria (4 November 1936 – 5 June 2008) was a Belgian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a striker. He played mostly for

RFC Liège Royal Football Club de Liège (more commonly known as RFC Liège) is a professional football club based in Liège, Belgium. It currently plays in the Belgian First Amateur Division. Its matricule is 4, meaning that it was the fourth club to regi ...

, and later joined

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. Wégria finished four times top scorer of the Jupiler League (in 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963). Only

Erwin Vandenbergh Erwin Vandenbergh (; born 26 January 1959) is a Belgian retired football who played as a forward. Between 1979 and 1991, he finished six times topscorer of the Belgian First Division (a record as of 2020), with three clubs (the first three with ...

managed to beat this record (he was six times top scorer of this competition). Victor Wégria was capped five times by the Belgium national team. He died on 6 June 2008, aged 71.

Honours

Player

Standard Liège *

Belgian Cup The Belgian Cup (french: link=no, Coupe de Belgique; nl, Beker van België []; german: link=no, Belgischer Fußballpokal) is the main Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in Belgium, run by the Belgia ...

winners: 1965-66

Individual

* Belgian First Division top scorer: 1958–59 (26 goals), 1959-60 (21), 1960-61 (23), 1962-63 (29)

Manager

RFC Liège

Belgian League Cup The Belgian League Cup was a Belgian association football cup created in 1973. The competition was held from 1973 by eleven clubs wanting to increase professionalism in Belgian football but lasted only three seasons before being disbanded. The tourn ...

runners-up: 1973

References

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