UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT RSC Anderlecht SK Sturm Graz Group L - Matchday 4 Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Thursday 3 November 2011 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Team facts.........................................................................................................................4 Squad list...........................................................................................................................6 Fixtures and results...........................................................................................................8 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................12 Match officials..................................................................................................................14 Legend............................................................................................................................15 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Europa League match. For more detailed factual information, and in-depth competition statistics, please refer to the matchweek press kit, which can be downloaded at: http://www.uefa.com/uefa/mediaservices/presskits/index.html RSC Anderlecht - SK Sturm Graz Thursday 3 November 2011 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 20/10/11 GS SK Sturm Graz - RSC Anderlecht 0-2 Graz Gillet 66, Suárez 75 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA RSC Anderlecht 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 SK Sturm Graz 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 RSC Anderlecht - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/10/07 R1 SK Rapid Wien - RSC Anderlecht 0-1 Vienna Hassan 22 agg: 1-2 20/09/07 R1 RSC Anderlecht - SK Rapid Wien 1-1 Brussels Serhat 11; Hofmann 82 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 30/09/97 R1 RSC Anderlecht - FC Salzburg 4-2 Brussels Peiremans 46, 63, Iachtchouk 55, agg: 7-6 Dheedene 62; Glieder 5, Ivanauskas 32 16/09/97 R1 FC Salzburg - RSC Anderlecht 4-3 Salzburg Klausz 32, 51, Glieder 50, 62; Iachtchouk 33, Goor 58, Stoica 79 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 21/03/90 QF SK Admira Wacker Wien - RSC Anderlecht 1-1 Ma Enzersdorf Rodax 80; Nilis 59 agg: 1-3 06/03/90 QF RSC Anderlecht - SK Admira Wacker Wien 2-0 Brussels Degryse 30, 36 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 03/05/78 F RSC Anderlecht - FK Austria Wien 4-0 Paris Rensenbrink 13, 44, van Binst 45, 82 SK Sturm Graz - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 02/10/74 R1 R. Antwerp FC - SK Sturm Graz 1-0 Deurne Kodat 12 agg: 2-2 ag 18/09/74 R1 SK Sturm Graz - R. Antwerp FC 2-1 Graz Stendal 30, Kulmer 65; Heylingen 78 Record versus clubs from opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA RSC Anderlecht 3 2 1 0 4 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 8 5 2 1 18 8 SK Sturm Graz 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 2 4 Last updated 01/11/11 12:43:55CET 2 Previous meetings RSC Anderlecht - SK Sturm Graz Thursday 3 November 2011 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Match background RSC Anderlecht will complete their passage to the UEFA Europa League round of 32 with a fourth successive Group L win, having beaten Austrian champions SK Sturm Graz 2-0 last time out. Previous meetings • Guillaume Gillet (66) put Anderlecht ahead when the sides met for the first time in UEFA competition on matchday three, with the dismissal of Thomas Burgstaller soon afterwards magnifying Sturm's problems. Matías Suárez (75) duly made it 2-0 before the end. • The margin of defeat matched Sturm's worst ever home result in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League, a 3-1 loss against S.S. Lazio on 28 November 2002. • Prior to their matchday three meeting, Sturm had not played Belgian opponents since the first round of the 1974/75 UEFA Cup. In that tie they were eliminated by R. Antwerp FC on away goals, winning 2-1 at home but losing 1-0 in Deurne. • Anderlecht's eight meetings with Austrian sides have ended W5 D2 L1 (W2 D1 L0 in Brussels). They famously beat FK Austria Wien 4-0 in the final of the 1978 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in Paris. Match background • Anderlecht's record in nine UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group stage home games in W5 D2 L2. • Sturm's 2-1 win at AEK Athens FC on matchday two was their first victory on the road in four attempts in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group stage. They had gone eight games without an away win in UEFA competition since a 1-0 victory at FC Metalist Kharkiv in the UEFA Europa League play-offs on 27 August 2009. Team facts • Anderlecht's Suárez is the group stage's top scorer with five goals. FC Vaslui's Wesley, SC Braga's Hélder Barbosa, FC Lokomotiv Moskva's Dmitri Sychev and Fulham FC's Andrew Johnson are his closest rivals with three each. • Anderlecht are one of three clubs with 100% records after matchday three, alongside PSV Eindhoven and Sporting Clube de Portugal. • Anderlecht's first goal against Sturm was their 200th in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League. This is their 118th game in the two competitions. • Sturm's Imre Szabics and Anderlecht's Roland Juhász know each other from their time together in the Hungarian national team. • German defender Franco Foda finished his playing career at Sturm following spells with the likes of Bayer 04 Leverkusen (1990-94) and VfB Stuttgart (1994-96). He joined Sturm's coaching staff after hanging up his boots in 2001 aged 35, and following a brief first stint in charge in 2003, has been first-team boss since 2006. • Ariël Jacobs has been Anderlecht coach since November 2007. Once a striker, he spent most of his playing career with K. Diegem Sport, serving the Belgian side in four separate spells (1965-70, 1973-79, 1980-1983 and 1984-87). He later coached youth teams for the Royal Belgian Football Association (URBSFA-KBVB) and acted as assistant to national team boss Guy Thys before returning to club football with RWD Molenbeek, RAA Louviéroise, KSC Lokeren OV and R. Excelsior Mouscron. Last updated 01/11/11 12:43:55CET 3 Match background RSC Anderlecht - SK Sturm Graz Thursday 3 November 2011 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Team facts RSC Anderlecht Formed: 1908 Nicknames: Paars-wit (Purple and Whites, Dutch), Les Mauves et Blancs (Purple and Whites, French) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (2): 1976, (1977), 1978, (1990) • UEFA Cup (1): 1983, (1984) • UEFA Super Cup (2): 1976, 1978 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 30 (2010) Belgian Cup: 9 (2008) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2010/11: round of 32 2009/10: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-off round) 2008/09: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2007/08: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2006/07: UEFA Champions League group stage 2005/06: UEFA Champions League group stage 2004/05: UEFA Champions League group stage 2003/04: UEFA Champions League group stage 2002/03: fourth round 2001/02: UEFA Champions League first group stage Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 9-0: Anderlecht v Derry City FC 23/11/65, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Biggest away win 1-10: FC Haka v Anderlecht 14/09/66, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Anderlecht v FC Bayern München 06/03/08, UEFA Cup round of 16 first leg • Heaviest away defeat 10-0: Manchester United FC v Anderlecht 26/09/56, European Champion Clubs' Cup preliminary round second leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 6-1: Anderlecht v Leiftur 12/08/09, qualifying round first leg 6-1: Anderlecht v FK Sarajevo 24/11/82, third round first leg 5-0: Anderlecht v FC Tiligul Tiraspol 29/07/98, first qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-3 on five occasions, most recently v FC Midtjylland 14/11/02, second round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Anderlecht v FC Bayern München (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Real Madrid CF v Anderlecht 12/12/84, third round second leg Last updated 01/11/11 12:43:55CET 4 Team facts RSC Anderlecht - SK Sturm Graz Thursday 3 November 2011 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels SK Sturm Graz Formed: 1909 Nickname: Die Schwoazn (The Blacks) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 3 (2011) Austrian Cup: 4 (2010) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2010/11: play-off round 2009/10: group stage 2008/09: second qualifying round 2007/08: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2006/07: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2005/06: UEFA Intertoto Cup second round 2004/05: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2003/04: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2002/03: