Victor Lucien Wégria (4 November 1936 – 5 June 2008) was a Belgian footballer who played as a striker.[1]

Victor Wégria
Wégria for RFC Liège
Personal information
Full name Victor Lucien Wégria
Date of birth (1936-11-04)4 November 1936
Place of birth Villers-le-Bouillet, Belgium
Date of death 5 June 2008(2008-06-05) (aged 71)
Place of death Liège, Belgium
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955–1965 RFC Liège 245 (145)
1965–1966 Standard Liège 14 (7)
1966–1970 Racing Club Jette 40 (11)
1970–1973 Racing Jet Brussels
Total 299 (162)
International career
1957–1961 Belgium 5 (2)
Managerial career
1971–1975 RFC Liège
1983 RFC Liège
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He played mostly for RFC Liège, and later joined Standard Liège.[2] Wégria finished four times top scorer of the Jupiler League (in 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963). Only Erwin Vandenbergh managed to beat this record (he was six times top scorer of this competition).

Victor Wégria was capped five times by the Belgium national team. He died on 6 June 2008, aged 71.[3]

Honours

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Player

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Standard Liège

Individual

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Manager

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RFC Liège

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References

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  1. ^ a b Victor Wégria at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ http://standard.be/fr/a_joueurs_det.php?id=523 [dead link]
  3. ^ "Viervoudig topschutter Wegria is overleden" [Four times topscorer Wégria is dead]. Sporza (in Dutch). 6 June 2008. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012.
  4. ^ "Standard de Liège | Palmares". Eurosport. Archived from the original on 6 February 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  5. ^ Mast, Toon (23 October 2012). "Voormalig topschutter en Rode Duivel Jozef Mannaerts overleden" (in Dutch). Het Laatste Nieuws. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  6. ^ "RFC LIÈGE Histoire". fcliege.be (in French). 5 January 2024.