Niki started her career at age five at Klim Op Begijnendijk. She moved to Wezemaal when she was 14, made her debut in the first team only a year later and became a two-time champion. After her time at Anderlecht, she started at Dutch team Willem II, in the new first division for women, and finished her career at Lierse. She was captain of the national team for five years.

She played for Anderlecht for fifteen years and was the oldest player on the team for a long time. She won her most important trophies early in her career with Brussel D’71, Rapide Wezemaal and Eendracht Aalst. She was the first female Belgian player to move abroad in 2001, when she played at German FCR 01 Duisburg for one season. She made her debut in the national team on 17 March 1990, when she came into the game in the second half against England (0-3 loss). She would go on to wear the national shirt 56 times, the captain’s armband 18 times, and score five goals.

Maes won at least one trophy each season from the start of her career in 1994, at her clubs Anderlecht, Eendracht Aalst and Rapide Wezemaal. The midfielder then moved abroad (Willem II, Djurgarden, Duisburg). At the national women’s team, which was not yet known as the Belgian Red Flames, she made her debut on 6 March 1996 as a substitute in Budel against The Netherlands (4-0 loss). She later became captain of the national team.

She caught the football bug at a very young age and showed up in class with her football boots on. She moved from the boys’ team of Kwatrecht to the youth women’s team of DVK Gent. By way of Kuurne and Eendracht Aalst, she ended up at Anderlecht, where she became a winger and secured her place in the Belgian team.

She was the number one goalkeeper for the women for fifteen years and national team manager for eleven years. No one is more connected with the history of Belgian women’s football than Anne Noë. From the black mud pit in the shadow of Sclessin to the perfectly manicured fields at the Belgian Football Centre in Tubize, she had a front row seat for the entire evolution. She learned to play on the cobblestones of the Old Market in Leuven and played her first national team matches in an old shirt that belonged to Jean-Marie Pfaff, as there was not budget for a kit of their own.

She started playing as a kid in the youth team of SK Wellen, where she was coached by the father of former Red Devil Bernd Thijs. She played with the boys and did not look out of place between her male peers. She first enjoyed the best times at Herk Sport and then left to Wezemaal to experience their golden age. She scored her only goal for the national team on her debut on 28 May 1993 in a 7-0 victory over Moldova.

Lorca Van De Putte became famous through her beautiful kicking technique, perfect crosses, never-ending rushes on the left win, and most of all because of her character. She started at SK Doorslaer before moving to nearby Sinaai, where she made the move from the youth to the first team. She played at Dutch leading Club Twente for five years and won the 2011 Dutch league championship. After a stop at Anderlecht, she went abroad again to play at Swedish club Kristianstads and the English club Bristol City.

Kristel Vautmans went through Herk Sport and Halen to (then) leading club Rapide Wezemaal. She made her debut for the national team on 26 September 1992, with an 8-0 loss against a superior Norway.

She was an attacker for the Belgian women’s team in the 70s and 80s. Verdonck played for Red White Ladies Herentals her entire career and scored a total of nine goals for the Red Lady Devils, as the team was called back then. Verdonck made a name for herself when women’s football was just starting to become official, but it had no framework to support it.

Aline Zeler was the personification of Anderlecht and Standard, and also Red Flames record holder with 111 caps. She was very versatile and went from solid defender from the Ardennes to lethal attacker. Her goal tally for the Red Flames came close to 30 goals. She made her debut in 2005 with a 2-0 win against Ireland and retired 14 years later, to a crowd chanting her name,  with a solid 6-1 win over Thailand.