Nationality: Belgian
DOB/Age: 17 June 1992 (33)
Previous Clubs: Mouscron (2008-2009), Brugge (2010-2014), Genoa (2014-2015 – loan), PSV (2015-2016 – loan), Rubin Kazan (2016-2018), Málaga (2018 – loan), Standard Liège (2018-2022)
In just a few seasons in the Singapore Premier League (SPL), Maxime has already staked a claim for being the best-ever SPL import player.
In 2022, he was the league’s top-assist maker with 23 to go with 12 league goals. Then in 2023, he picked up the SPL Player of the Year gong after 25 goals and 21 assists saw him top both the SPL’s goal-scoring and assist charts, while playing a starring role in the club’s first Singapore Cup triumph.
Magic Max finally achieved his target of winning the SPL title with the club in the 2024/25 season and swept home a memorable last-minute equalising goal in the Sailors’ heartbreaking 2-1 defeat to Emirati side Sharjah FC in the AFC Champions League (ACL) Two Final 2025.
Capped at all Belgian youth levels, as part of the country’s Golden Generation alongside the likes of Kevin De Bruyne, Dries Mertens and Romelu Lukaku, Maxime has proven pedigree at the highest level of the game.
Being a part of PSV Eindhoven’s 2015/16 UCL squad that qualified for the Round of 16 at the expense of Manchester United and made several appearances in European top-tier competitions for various clubs, the attacker is now happily settled in Singapore and is hungry to achieve even more with the Sailors.
