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Davy De fauw
	De fauw with Zulte Waregem in 2011
Personal information
Date of birth	8 July 1981 (age 43)
Place of birth	Maria-Aalter, Belgium
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Right-back
Senior career*
Years	Team
2000–2002	Club Brugge
2001–2002	→ Sparta Rotterdam (loan)
2002–2006	Sparta Rotterdam
2006–2011	Roda JC
2011–2014	Zulte Waregem
2014–2016	Club Brugge
2016–2020	Zulte Waregem
Total
Managerial career
2020–2022	Zulte Waregem (assistant)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Davy De fauw (born 8 July 1981) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

Career

De fauw played for Club Brugge from age five until he was brought to Dutch club Sparta Rotterdam by then manager Frank Rijkaard.^[2] In the 2001–02 season, he made his professional debut for Sparta. On 16 March 2002 in the 0–4 away loss to Willem II in the Eredivisie, De fauw came on as a substitute for the injured David Mendes da Silva after 16 minutes.^[3]

In January 2006, De fauw signed for Roda JC, joining the club from 30 June 2006.^[4] There he quickly became a permanent starter in defense and made more than 180 appearances in the Eredivisie.^[5]

De fauw returned to his native Belgium in the 2011–12 season, signing for Zulte Waregem.^[6] There, he was immediately appointed team captain after the departure of Ludwin Van Nieuwenhuyze.^[7] At the start of the 2013–14 season, De fauw had to give up his captaincy to Thorgan Hazard.^[8] This was met with much anger from a section of the club's supporters^[9] and led to Hazard handing the captain's armband back less than 24 hours after receiving it.^[10]

On 20 June 2014, it was announced that De fauw had signed for Club Brugge for €200,000; thus returning to where he had started his career.^[11]

For the 2016–17 season, De fauw returned to Zulte Waregem.^[12]

Coaching career

In April 2020, De fauw announced his retirement from football. He became assistant coach of Zulte Waregem alongside Timmy Simons, a former teammate of his at Brugge.^[13]^[14]

Personal life

Unusually, De fauw's family name is written with a lowercase "f". When asked about this, De fauw said: "I hail from Maria-Aalter. My dad always said that the person in the town hall may have been a little drunk and therefore wrote the family name with a small f. That's how it happened".^[1]