 Debast withAnderlecht in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Zeno Koen Debast[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (2003-10-24)24 October 2003 (age 22)[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Halle, Belgium[2] | ||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[3] | ||
| Position(s) | Centre-back,defensive midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Sporting CP | ||
| Number | 6 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2008–2010 | KSK Halle | ||
| 2010–2021 | Anderlecht | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2021–2024 | Anderlecht | 78 | (0) |
| 2024– | Sporting CP | 39 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2018 | Belgium U15 | 8 | (0) |
| 2019 | Belgium U16 | 1 | (0) |
| 2019 | Belgium U17 | 2 | (0) |
| 2021 | Belgium U19 | 6 | (0) |
| 2023 | Belgium U21 | 4 | (0) |
| 2022– | Belgium | 24 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 22:21, 5 October 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:33, 13 October 2025 (UTC) | |||
Zeno Koen Debast (born 24 October 2003) is a Belgian professionalfootballer who plays forPrimeira Liga clubSporting CP and theBelgium national team. Primarily acentre-back, he can also be deployed as adefensive midfielder.
Debast is a youth product ofAnderlecht, signing his first contract in October 2019. He made his professional debut on 2 May 2021, in a 2–2Belgian First Division A draw againstClub Brugge.[4][better source needed]
On 11 June 2024, during an interview forHet Laatste Nieuws, Debast confirmed that he had agreed personal terms to join Portuguese sideSporting CP from the2024–25 season.[5][6]
On 4 July, Debast signed a five-year contract withPrimeira Liga side Sporting CP, for a fee of€15.5 million, plus €5.5 million in add-ons, and a 15% sell-on clause in favor of Anderlecht.[7][8]
On 7 August, he made his debut for the club, where he committed two errors, that led torivalsPorto first and second goals in their 4–3 loss in the2024 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira.[9] This resulted in him losing his starting spot, however, on 17 September with regular starterEduardo Quaresma being sidelined with a knee injury, Debast was entrusted back to the starting eleven, scoring his first goal for the club, and the first goal of his career, by netting a shot from outside the box in Sporting's 2–0 victory overLille during the inaugural matchday of the newly formattedChampions League league phase.[10]
In September 2022, Debast received his first call-up to theBelgian senior squad for the2022–23 UEFA Nations League matches againstWales andNetherlands.[11] He debuted against the former opponent on 22 September that ended in a 2–1 victory.[12] Debast was also called up to theBelgium squad for the2022 FIFA World Cup on 10 November 2022.[13]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Anderlecht | 2020–21 | Belgian Pro League | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | |||
| 2021–22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 2022–23 | 34 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 13[c] | 0 | — | 49 | 0 | ||||
| 2023–24 | 37 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | — | — | 40 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 78 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | 13 | 0 | — | 96 | 0 | ||||
| Sporting CP | 2024–25 | Primeira Liga | 31 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8[d] | 1 | 1[e] | 0 | 48 | 2 |
| 2025–26 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3[d] | 0 | 1[e] | 0 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Total | 39 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 61 | 2 | ||
| Career total | 117 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 157 | 2 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 2022 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 11 | 0 | |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | |
| Total | 24 | 0 | |
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