Ilias Chair

Early career

Chair began his career in the youth system at Lierse. He also spent time at the academy of Club Brugge, as well as the JMG Academy Belgium. Chair made his professional debut for Lierse at the age of 17, playing in the Belgian Second Division, when he came as a 76th-minute substitute in Lierse's 1–1 away draw at Coxyde on 9 August 2015. He subsequently started his first match a month later, on 9 September 2015, playing the full 90 minutes in a 3–2 home defeat to Cercle Brugge.

Queens Park Rangers

Chair went on trial at Championship club QPR in January 2017. During the trial period, he scored in a 3–1 friendly win for the U23s against Bournemouth. He subsequently signed for QPR on a permanent basis on 31 January 2017. Chair was added to the club's Elite Development Squad and spent the remainder of the 2016–17 season playing for the club's U23 team. Having impressed QPR manager Ian Holloway in training, Chair was named as a substitute in club's first round EFL Cup tie against Northampton Town at Loftus Road on 8 August 2017. He replaced Luke Freeman in the 63rd minute of the match to make his first-team debut. Chair made his first starting appearance for QPR in a 1–0 defeat against Preston North End at Deepdale on 2 December 2017. He signed a two-year contract extension with the club on 9 February 2018, keeping him at the club until the summer of 2020. He scored his first goal for the club during QPR's final home game of the 2017–18 campaign on…

Chair was born in Belgium and is Moroccan by descent. He was called up to the Morocco U20 squad for a week-long training camp in Rabat in June 2017. Chair represented the Morocco U23s in a 1–0 friendly defeat to the Senegal U23s on 23 March 2018. He debuted with the senior Morocco national team in a friendly 1–0 win over Ghana on 9 June 2021. On 6 October 2021, in his fourth appearance for his country, Chair scored his first Morocco goal with the third in a 5–0 win over Guinea-Bissau. On 10 November 2022, Chair was named in Morocco's 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. On 17 December, he made his World Cup debut in the 3rd place playoff against Croatia in an eventual 2–1 loss.

Ilias Chair was born in Antwerp in Belgium to a Moroccan father and Polish mother.

On 23 February 2024, Chair, along with his brother Jaber, were convicted of assaulting a truck driver by a court in Antwerp. He was found to have assaulted the truck driver with a rock, breaking his skull and leaving him unconscious. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison with a further 12 months suspended. Chair appealed the sentence, and Queens Park Rangers have stated that he would remain available for selection during the appeals process. On appeal, the charge was reduced to a misdemeanour and Chair was instead sentenced to 150 hours of community service with a £1,400 fine.