Royal Leopold Club

About Royal Leopold Club

Royal Leopold – Belgian champions in 2018/19 – qualified for the FINAL4 by virtue of having the best points total in the first half of the 2019/20 season and they hold most of the core of the side together. It means they have gone further in the EHL than ever before. Previous campaigns have always been limited to the KO16 but they have since developed a squad of real purpose and talent.

their big news is top scorer Tom Boon passed a fitness test in midweek and so is available to play. He has already scored 28 times for the Brussels club this season and gets to line out against his former club with whom he played in the EHL in 2015, winning a bronze medal.

His attacking partnership with Max Plennevaux is one of the most exciting in European club hockey while Nicolas Poncelet is their other Belgian Red Lion, operating usually down the right flank from the back. French duo Gaspard Baumgarten and Jean-Baptiste Forgues bring Gallic flair.

Beyond those star names, much of the club’s strength comes from its long-term soldiers, guys like Dimitri Cuvelier, Tanguy Zimmer, Arthur Verdussen and Romain Henet and youth products like Dylan Engelbert, Max Muschs, Corentin de Trez and Lewis Eaton.

Leo is one of Belgian hockey’s original clubs and was there at the formation of their national association and has won the most domestic titles – 28. They are in the mix for another, leading their section of the Belgian league with two matches left before the playoffs but it is a tenuous state of affairs with La Gantoise and KHC Dragons both within two points.

Factfile
Audi League position: 1st Group A, top three covered by two points (La Gantoise and KHC Dragons the other clubs)
Current internationals: Nicolas Poncelet, Max Plennevaux, Tom Boon – all Belgium; Jean-Baptiste Forgues, Gaspard Baumgarten – both France
Top scorers: Tom Boon 28 goals, Max Plennevaux 12 goals, Arthur Verdussen 7 goals

EHL History
2012/13 – KO16
2015/16 – KO16
2016/17 – ROUND1
2018/19 – KO16 – won 9th place ranking match
2019/20 (incomplete season due to Covid-19) – FINAL8

The team

COLLIGNON Louis

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HENET Romain

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EATON Lewis

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EATON Lewis

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MUSCHS Max

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MUSCHS Max

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ENGLEBERT Dylan

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ENGLEBERT Dylan

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VERDUSSEN Arthur

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VERDUSSEN Arthur

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BAUMGARTEN Gaspard

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BAUMGARTEN Gaspard

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VERDUSSEN John

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CUVELIER Dimitri

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de KEPPER Archibald

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De TREZ Corentin

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DEGROOTE Tom

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DEGROOTE Tom

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ZIMMER Tanguy

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ZIMMER Tanguy

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DELEUZE Felix

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GROETECLAES Maxim

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PONCELET Nicolas

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FORGUES Jean-Baptiste

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FORGUES Jean-Baptiste

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VANDERBORGHT Brieuc

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BOON Tom

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PIRLOT Victor

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CHERPION Quentin

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CHERPION Quentin

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DENEUMOSTIER Vincent

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JANSEN Emeric

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PLENNEVAUX Maxime

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VERDOODT Arno

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