Wout Faes

Anderlecht

Early years

Faes moved to the Anderlecht youth academy from Lierse in 2012. He could then count on interest from Premier League club Chelsea and Manchester United, but he still signed his first professional contract with Anderlecht. From the 2015–16 season, Faes began practising regularly with the club's first team. A month after he took bronze with Belgium U17 at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, he extended his contract with Anderlecht. Faes reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Youth League with the club in both the 2014–15 season and the 2015–16 season, with him captaining the team in the latter campaign.

Loans

Anderlecht sent Faes on loan to Dutch Eredivisie club Heerenveen for the second half of the 2016–17 season. Anderlecht did not include an option to buy. Faes made his debut in the Eredivisie on 1 April 2017. He came on as a substitute against Heracles Almelo in the 35th minute for Reza Ghoochannejhad. The defender then received a place in the starting line-up in all remaining games of the regular season. His last match for Heerenveen was the first leg of the semi-final of the play-offs for European football against Utrecht. Heerenveen ultimately lost twice to Utrecht, which meant that the club missed out on UEFA Europa League participation that season. On his return to Anderlecht, Faes was immediately demoted to the C-team by the new head coach René Weiler. On 12 July 2017, it was announced that Excelsior had signed Faes on a…

Faes represented the Belgium under-17s at the 2015 U-17 World Cup in Chile. In November 2021, he received his first call-up to the senior Belgium national team for 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Estonia and Wales, and was an unused substitute in the latter match. Faes made his debut for Belgium on 8 June 2022 in a 6–1 win over Poland in the UEFA Nations League. Together with Leicester City teammates Timothy Castagne and Youri Tielemans, he was subsequently called up to Belgium's squad for the World Cup in November 2022.

Club

As of match played 17 May 2026

International

As of match played 9 June 2025

Leicester City

EFL Championship: 2023–24 Belgium U17

FIFA U-17 World Cup third place: 2015 Individual

Stade de Reims Player of the Season: 2021–22 UEFA European Under-17 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2015