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2016 Belgian Cup final

Event	2015–16 Belgian Cup
Club Brugge Standard Liège 1 2
Date	20 March 2016
Venue	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels
Referee	Johan Verbist
Attendance	50,093

The 2016 Belgian Cup final, named Croky Cup after the sponsor, was the 61st Belgian Cup final and took place on 20 March 2016 between Club Brugge and Standard Liège. It was the first time the two teams met in the final since the 2006–07 Belgian Cup Final. Standard Liège won the match by 2 goals to 1, with the final goal coming two minutes from time.

Route to the final

See also: 2015–16 Belgian Cup

Standard Liège				Club Brugge
Opponent	Result	Legs	Round	Opponent	Result	Legs
Coxyde (II)	3–2	3–2 away	Sixth round	Patro Eisden Maasmechelen (II)	4–0	4–0 away
Sint-Truiden	2–0	2–0 home	Seventh round	Lokeren	1–0	1–0 home
Kortrijk	2–0	2–0 home	Quarter-finals	Westerlo	2–0	2–0 away
Genk	3–1	2–0 home; 1–1 away	Semi-finals	Gent	2–2	1–2 away; 1–0 home

Match

Details

20 March 2016

16:00

Club Brugge	1–2	Standard Liège
Refaelov 27'	Report	Dompé 17' Santini 88'

King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 50,093

Referee: Johan Verbist

Club Brugge

Standard Liège

GK 1 Ludovic Butelle RB 19 Thomas Meunier CB 40 Björn Engels CB 5 Benoît Poulain LB 28 Laurens De Bock MF 25 Ruud Vormer  90' MF 20 Hans Vanaken  20'  90' MF 3 Timmy Simons (c)  9' MF 8 Lior Refaelov FW 10 Abdoulay Diaby  51' FW 22 José Izquierdo  61' Substitutes: DF 2 Davy De fauw MF 6 Claudemir FW 9 Jelle Vossen  90' GK 16 Sébastien Bruzzese MF 18 Felipe Gedoz  90'  90' CB 44 Brandon Mechele FW 55 Tuur Dierckx  61' Manager: Michel Preud'homme

GK 1 Víctor Valdés  90+4' RW 33 Collins Fai CB 13 Alexander Scholz CB 33 Miloš Kosanović LB 27 Darwin Andrade  39' CM 7 Giannis Maniatis CM 17 Mathieu Dossevi CM 23 Adrien Trebel (c)  7'  74' LW 10 Jean-Luc Dompé CF 18 Ivan Santini  90+2' CF 22 Edmilson Junior  57'  90' Substitutes: DF 2 Réginal Goreux FW 9 Renaud Emond  74' FW 11 Benjamin Tetteh FW 15 Farouk Miya GK 28 Guillaume Hubert MF 30 Jonathan Legear  90+2' DF 36 Dino Arslanagić  90' Manager: Yannick Ferrera

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions.

External links

• Official website (in French and Dutch)