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2021–22 season
Chairman	Ivan De Witte
Managing director	Michel Louwagie
Manager	Hein Vanhaezebrouck
Stadium	Ghelamco Arena
First Division A	5th
Belgian Cup	Winners
UEFA Europa Conference League	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Tarik Tissoudali (20) All: Tarik Tissoudali (26)
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The 2021–22 season was the 119th season in the existence of K.A.A. Gent and the club's 33rd consecutive season in the top flight of Belgian football. In addition to the domestic league, Gent participated in this season's editions of the Belgian Cup and the UEFA Europa Conference League.

Players

First-team squad

As of 22 February 2022

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  TUR Sinan Bolat 2 DF  KEN Joseph Okumu 3 DF  CIV Christopher Opéri 5 DF  CMR Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui 6 MF  GHA Elisha Owusu 8 MF  BEL Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe (captain) 9 MF  UKR Roman Bezus 11 FW  SRB Darko Lemajić 13 MF  BEL Julien De Sart 14 DF  BEL Alessio Castro-Montes 15 MF  NGA Adewale Oladoye 16 FW  NGA Chinonso Emeka 17 MF  DEN Andrew Hjulsager 18 MF  BEL Matisse Samoise 19 FW  BEL Gianni Bruno

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 DF  GER Jordan Torunarigha (on loan from Hertha BSC) 21 DF  NOR Andreas Hanche-Olsen 22 MF  GAM Sulayman Marreh 23 FW  ISR Yonas Malede 24 MF  BEL Sven Kums (vice-captain) 25 DF  ANG Núrio Fortuna 26 GK  BEL Louis Fortin 28 MF  BEL Wouter George 29 FW  BEL Laurent Depoitre 31 DF  BEL Bruno Godeau 33 GK  BEL Davy Roef 34 FW  MAR Tarik Tissoudali 35 DF  BEL Cederic Van Daele 43 DF  MLI Ibrahima Cissé 44 GK  BEL René Vanden Borre

Other players under contract

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 10 MF  GEO Giorgi Chakvetadze (on loan at Hamburg until 30 June 2022) 11 FW  CIV Anderson Niangbo (on loan at Sturm Graz until 30 June 2022) 20 FW  GHA Osman Bukari (on loan at Nantes until 30 June 2022)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  CIV Vakoun Issouf Bayo (on loan at Charleroi until 30 June 2022) — FW  COD Jordan Botaka (on loan at Fortuna Sittard until 30 June 2022)

Transfers

Date	Name	Moving from	Moving to	Fee	Note
1 July 2021	Louis Fortin	Standard Liège	KAA Gent	Free
1 July 2021	Julien De Sart	KV Kortrijk	KAA Gent	Free
1 July 2021	Andrew Hjulsager	KV Oostende	KAA Gent	Undisclosed
1 July 2021	Christopher Operi	LB Châteauroux	KAA Gent	Undisclosed
1 July 2021	Colin Coosemans	KAA Gent	RSC Anderlecht	Free
1 July 2021	Joseph Okumu	IF Elfsborg	KAA Gent	Undisclosed
5 July 2021	Dino Arslanagić	KAA Gent	Göztepe S.K.	Undisclosed
6 July 2021	Franko Andrijašević	KAA Gent	Zhejiang Professional F.C.	Undisclosed
8 July 2021	Niklas Dorsch	KAA Gent	FC Augsburg	Undisclosed
9 July 2021	Vakoun Issouf Bayo	Celtic FC	KAA Gent	Undisclosed
15 July 2021	Yari Stevens	Club Brugge	KAA Gent	Undisclosed
31 July 2021	Roman Yaremchuk	KAA Gent	S.L. Benfica	Undisclosed
3 August 2021	Dylan Mbayo	K.A.A. Gent	K.V. Kortrijk	Undisclosed
9 August 2021	Anderson Niangbo	KAA Gent	SK Sturm Graz	Loan
12 August 2021	Osman Bukari	KAA Gent	FC Nantes	Loan
24 August 2021	Darko Lemajić	FK RFS	KAA Gent	Undisclosed
31 August 2021	Ilombe Mboyo	Sint-Truidense V.V.	KAA Gent	Undisclosed

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

18 June 2021 Friendly	Dikkelvenne	2–3	Gent	Belgium
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Attendance: 600

9 July 2021 Friendly	FC Utrecht	3–0	Gent	Scharendijke, Netherlands
14:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Douvikas 38' Van de Streek 61' Ramselaar 73'

10 July 2021 Friendly	Sparta Rotterdam	3–3	Gent	Netherlands
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)

14 July 2021 Friendly	Lille	0–1	Gent	Camphin-en-Pévèle, France
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Agouzoul  59'		Bruno 2'	Stadium: Domaine de Luchin

14 July 2021 Friendly	Sporting CP	Cancelled	Gent	Portugal
20:30 WEST (UTC+1)

16 July 2021 Friendly	Benfica	Cancelled	Gent	Lisbon, Portugal
--:-- WEST (UTC+1)				Stadium: Estádio da Luz

7 January 2022 Friendly	Gent	0–1	AZ Alkmaar	Oliva, Spain
15:00 CET (UTC+1)

Competitions

Overall record

Last updated: 21 May 2022
Source: Soccerway

First Division A

League table

Results summary

Source: Jupiler Pro League

Results by round

Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 8 June 2021.

Play-Off II

1. Gent qualified for the Europa League play-off round as the 2021–22 Belgian Cup winners.

Results summary

Last updated: 21 May 2022.
Source: Jupiler Pro League

Results by round

Matches

Belgian Cup

UEFA Europa Conference League

Second qualifying round

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 16 June 2021.

22 July 2021 First leg	Gent	4–0	Vålerenga	Ghent, Belgium
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Bruno 11', 72' Tissoudali 39' Odjidja-Ofoe 56' Malede 88' De Sart  90+4'	Report	Bjørdal  58' Sahraoui  70' Borchgrevink  78'	Stadium: Ghelamco Arena Attendance: 3,823 Referee: Mario Zebec (Croatia)

29 July 2021 Second leg	Vålerenga	2–0 (2–4 agg.)	Gent	Oslo, Norway
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Okumu 11' (o.g.) Näsberg 81'	Report		Stadium: Intility Arena Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Kirill Levnikov (Russia)

Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 19 July 2021.

5 August 2021 First leg	Gent	2–2	RFS	Ghent, Belgium
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Oladoye 52' Tissoudali 77'	Report	Lemajić 11' Šimkovič 28'	Stadium: Ghelamco Arena Attendance: 3,887 Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (Sweden)

12 August 2021 Second leg	RFS	0–1 (2–3 agg.)	Gent	Jūrmala, Latvia
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Okumu 73'	Stadium: Slokas Stadium Attendance: 1,507 Referee: Rade Obrenovič (Slovenia)
Note: RFS played their home matches at Slokas Stadium, Jūrmala, instead of their regular stadium Stadions Arkādija, Riga, which did not meet UEFA requirements

Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 2 August 2021.

19 August 2021 First leg	Raków Częstochowa	1–0	Gent	Bielsko-Biała, Poland
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Niewulis 64'	Report		Stadium: BBOSiR Stadium Attendance: 7,411 Referee: Alejandro Hernández (Spain)
Note: Raków Częstochowa played their home matches at BBOSiR stadium in Bielsko Biała, instead of their regular stadium Miejski Stadion Piłkarski "Raków", Częstochowa, which did not meet UEFA requirements

26 August 2021 Second leg	Gent	3–0 (3–1 agg.)	Raków Częstochowa	Ghent, Belgium
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Tissoudali 45+1' Odjidja-Ofoe 70' De Sart 72'	Report		Stadium: Ghelamco Arena Attendance: 10,096 Referee: Aliyar Aghayev (Azerbaijan)

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 27 August 2021.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GNT	PAR	ANO	FLO
1	Gent	6	4	1	1	6	2	+4	13	Advance to round of 16		—	1–1	2–0	1–0
2	Partizan	6	2	2	2	6	4	+2	8	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–1	—	1–1	2–0
3	Anorthosis Famagusta	6	1	3	2	6	9	−3	6			1–0	0–2	—	2–2
4	Flora	6	1	2	3	5	8	−3	5			0–1	1–0	2–2	—

16 September 2021 1	Flora	0–1	Gent	Tallinn, Estonia
18:45 (19:45 EEST)		Report	Lemajić 54'	Stadium: Lilleküla Stadium Attendance: 2,666 Referee: Trustin Farrugia Cann (Malta)

30 September 2021 2	Gent	2–0	Anorthosis Famagusta	Ghent, Belgium
18:45	Correa 28' (o.g.) Kums 81'	Report		Stadium: Ghelamco Arena Attendance: 10,209 Referee: Filip Glova (Slovakia)

21 October 2021 3	Partizan	0–1	Gent	Belgrade, Serbia
21:00		Report	Kums 59'	Stadium: Partizan Stadium Attendance: 8,943 Referee: Bobby Madden (Scotland)

4 November 2021 4	Gent	1–1	Partizan	Ghent, Belgium
18:45	Tissoudali 80'	Report	Urošević 66'	Stadium: Ghelamco Arena Attendance: 10,595 Referee: Chris Kavanagh (England)

25 November 2021 5	Anorthosis Famagusta	1–0	Gent	Nicosia, Cyprus
21:00 (22:00 EET)	Christodoulopoulos 27'	Report		Stadium: GSP Stadium Attendance: 2,573 Referee: Urs Schnyder (Switzerland)

9 December 2021 6	Gent	1–0	Flora	Ghent, Belgium
18:45	Bruno 51'	Report		Stadium: Ghelamco Arena Attendance: 7,421 Referee: Kaspar Sjöberg (Sweden)

Knockout phase

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 25 February 2022.

10 March 2022 First Leg	PAOK	1–0	Gent	Thessaloniki, Greece
18:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Kurtić 58'	Report		Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 9,098 Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland)

17 March 2022 Second Leg	Gent	1–2 (1–3 agg.)	PAOK	Ghent, Belgium
21:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Depoitre 40'	Report	Crespo 20' Douglas Augusto 77'	Stadium: Ghelamco Arena Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)

Statistics

Squad appearances and goals

Last updated on 10 April 2022

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Belgian Division		Belgian Cup		UEFA Europa Conference League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	TUR	Sinan Bolat	39	0	25	0	4	0	10	0
26	GK	BEL	Louis Fortin	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
30	GK	BEL	Célestin De Schrevel	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
33	GK	BEL	Davy Roef	20	0	14	0	2	0	4	0
Defenders
2	DF	KEN	Joseph Okumu	47	3	26+5	1	6	1	10	1
3	DF	CIV	Christopher Operi	17	0	6+4	0	1	0	6	0
4	DF	BEL	Bram Lagae	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
5	DF	CMR	Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui	49	4	33	4	3	0	13	0
14	DF	BEL	Alessio Castro-Montes	53	4	29+6	3	5	1	13	0
16	DF	FRA	Ibrahima Cissé	3	0	0+2	0	0	0	0+1	0
20	DF	GER	Jordan Torunarigha	15	1	10+1	1	2	0	1+1	0
21	DF	NOR	Andreas Hanche-Olsen	55	1	35+2	1	3+3	0	11+1	0
25	DF	ANG	Núrio Fortuna	46	2	24+8	2	2+2	0	6+4	0
31	DF	BEL	Bruno Godeau	31	0	14+6	0	3	0	7+1	0
32	DF	BEL	Cederic Van Daele	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
6	MF	GHA	Elisha Owusu	35	0	14+9	0	1+3	0	7+1	0
8	MF	BEL	Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe	48	6	21+8	2	5+1	2	9+4	2
9	MF	UKR	Roman Bezus	36	3	9+17	3	1	0	4+5	0
12	MF	BEL	Alexandre De Bruyn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	MF	BEL	Julien De Sart	52	8	33+2	5	5	2	6+6	1
15	MF	NGA	Adewale Oladoye	9	1	0+3	0	0+1	0	1+4	1
17	MF	DEN	Andrew Hjulsager	37	3	13+11	3	1+4	0	6+2	0
18	MF	BEL	Matisse Samoise	45	2	28+4	2	4+1	0	4+4	0
22	MF	GAM	Sulayman Marreh	6	0	0+3	0	1+1	0	0+1	0
24	MF	BEL	Sven Kums	54	3	29+9	0	5	1	9+2	2
28	MF	BEL	Wouter George	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
7	FW	BEL	Dylan Mbayo	13	2	2+6	1	1	1	1+3	0
11	FW	SRB	Darko Lemajić	27	5	9+13	4	1+1	0	3	1
16	FW	NGA	Chinonso Emeka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	FW	BEL	Gianni Bruno	16	3	4+5	1	1+1	0	5	2
23	FW	ISR	Yonas Malede	30	1	6+18	0	0+3	0	0+3	1
27	FW	CIV	Vakoun Issouf Bayo	7	0	1+2	0	0+1	0	0+3	0
29	FW	BEL	Laurent Depoitre	42	12	22+3	10	3+1	1	8+5	1
34	FW	MAR	Tarik Tissoudali	52	27	28+6	21	5	2	8+5	4
Players who have made an appearance this season but have left the club
10	MF	GEO	Giorgi Chakvetadze	15	1	4+4	0	1	1	2+4	0

Goalscorers

As of 30 April 2022

Rank	Pos.	No.	Player	Pro League	Belgian Cup	Conference League	Total
1	FW	34	Tarik Tissoudali	19	2	4	25
2	FW	29	Laurent Depoitre	10	1	1	12
3	MF	13	Julien De Sart	5	2	1	8
4	MF	8	Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe	1	2	2	5
	FW	25	Darko Lemajić	4	0	1	5
5	DF	14	Alessio Castro-Montes	3	1	0	4
6	MF	17	Andrew Hjulsager	3	0	0	3
	MF	9	Roman Bezus	3	0	0	3
9	DF	25	Núrio Fortuna	2	0	0	2
	MF	18	Matisse Samoise	2	0	0	2
	MF	5	Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui	2	0	0	2
10	DF	21	Andreas Hanche-Olsen	1	0	0	1
Total				59	9	17	85

References

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• K.A.A. Gent seasons
• Belgian football clubs 2021–22 season
• 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League participants seasons