André Van Maldeghem

André Van Maldeghem

Personal information
Date of birth	(1937-10-19)19 October 1937
Place of birth	Deinze, Belgium
Date of death	17 March 2024(2024-03-17) (aged 86)
Place of death	Deinze, Belgium
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
–1954	Deinze
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1954–	Deinze		(23)
1966–1971	Waregem
1971–1972	Kortrijk
Managerial career
1969–1970	Waregem
1971–1975	Kortrijk
1975–1979	Waregem
1980–1983	Harelbeke
1984–1985	Kortrijk
1985–1988	Harelbeke
1989	Eendracht Aalst
1990–1995	Mouscron
1995–1996	Waregem
1996–1997	Waregem
1998–2000	Hamme
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

André Van Maldeghem (19 October 1937 – 17 March 2024) was a Belgian football player and coach.

Career

Van Maldeghem was born in Deinze. Van Maldeghem started his football career in the youth ranks at SK Deinze. He joined the K.M.S.K. Deinze first team in 1954 and scored 23 goals that season. Van Maldeghem later transferred to SV Waregem. He played there for five years. At SV Waregem, he played as a defender and later became the leader of the team. Van Maldeghem played for SV Waregem until 1971. He played at KV Kortrijk for a year and retired in 1972.

Van Maldeghem later worked as a sports monitor for the Belgian army at the airbase in Gavere. In 1980, he was appointed a coach at KRC Harelbeke and coached the team until 1988. Van Maldeghem coached SV Waregem for more than four seasons, the last of which was in the 1996–97 season. He coached Mouscron between 1990 and 1995. Van Maldeghem was the coach of KV Kortrijk for six years and he returned to the club during the 1983–84 season, after eight years. He stayed there until c. 1985. Van Maldeghem later coached at the RFBA and at the national team.

Personal life and death

Van Maldeghem died at a nursing home in Petegem-aan-de-leie, on the night of 16 to 17 March 2024, at the age of 86. He had been ill for several months, and was survived by two children.