Franky Van der Elst
Belgian footballer (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Born
- 30 April 1961
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1978–1998
Clubs Racing White Daring Molenbeek · Football Club Molenbeek Brussels Strombeek · Club Brugge K.V.
Career statistics
Club figures here are senior domestic-league matches unless marked otherwise; international figures are full senior caps. Youth, reserve, Olympic, friendly and unofficial matches are excluded from totals. Totals are summed from the individual sourced records below. Where a record is missing, the figure is shown as unavailable — never as zero.
Club league apps
207
Club league goals
10
International caps
86
International goals
1
League goals / match
0.05
International goals / cap
0.01
All official apps
Unavailable
All-competition totals not yet sourced
Goals per 90
Unavailable
Requires minutes for every match
Assists: Unavailable — assists were not recorded consistently before the modern data era.
Club-by-club and international breakdown
| Team | Years | Counts | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Football Club Molenbeek Brussels StrombeekClub | 1978–1984 | League | 104 | 5 |
| Racing White Daring MolenbeekClub | 1978–1984 | League | 103 | 5 |
| Belgium men's national football teamNational team | 1984–1998 | Full caps | 86 | 1 |
Season by season
Season-level records are unavailable for this player in the current sources. They will appear here when a licensed season-by-season source is imported.
Team accolades
No catalog team titles are recorded for this player in the current sources.
Individual accolades
No dated individual awards from the catalog are recorded for this player in the current sources. This may reflect incomplete source data rather than an absence of awards; editors can add sourced entries.
Career timeline
1978
- Joins Football Club Molenbeek Brussels Strombeek — Until 1984
- Joins Racing White Daring Molenbeek — Until 1984
1984
- Senior international debut: Belgium men's national football team — Until 1998
- Joins Club Brugge K.V. — Until 1998
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v2, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Overall score
16.4
Rank #156
Partially verified4/5 categories with full evidence · 0% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Best window
- 1978–1982
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.641
- Team honor points in window
- 0
- Peak index
- 0
v1 measures peak through documented recognition (awards and titles) in the best rolling window, because season-level performance data is not available consistently across eras.
Career performanceFull evidence44.3+11.07 points
- League goals per match
- 0.048 → 0
- International goals per cap
- 0.012 → 0
- International caps per year
- 5.73 → 68.11
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.763
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsLimited evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Team honor points
- 0
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0
Only 0% of senior club years were in leagues the honor catalog covers.
LongevityFull evidence53.5+5.35 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 21 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 0 → 0
- International career length (years)
- 15 → 92.5
Appearance totals are deliberately not used, so accumulating matches alone does not raise this score.
Editorial biography
No editorial biography has been written yet. Biographies are written by hand with sources; none are generated automatically.
Sources
- Wikidata: Franky Van der Elst (Q312619)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Franky Van der Elst Lommel United.JPGCC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026