Westerlo and Charleroi mourn Toni Brogno, joint top scorer with 30 goals in 2000
The former striker, capped seven times by the Red Devils, has died aged 53 after a fight against liver cancer.
Toni Brogno died on Tuesday aged 53 from complications of liver cancer. His daughter Olivia announced the news, Leuven Actueel reports: he died surrounded by his family in a palliative care unit. In October 2025 his brother Dante, also a former top-flight player, had revealed that Toni was seriously ill, Sporza writes.
Brogno started at Sporting Charleroi but made his name at Westerlo, where he played from 1997 to 2000 and from 2002 to 2004. In the 1999-2000 season he scored 30 times in 29 matches, sharing the top scorer title with Norway's Ole Martin Årst, Sporza and RTV report. Westerlo finished sixth that year, still the club's best ever finish. That form earned him a place with the Red Devils under Robert Waseige, for whom he won seven caps without scoring.
He then spent two seasons at Sedan in France, where he never really established himself. After returning to Westerlo and Charleroi he scored another 26 goals in 62 matches for OH Leuven between 2006 and 2008, according to Leuven Actueel, and ended his career in 2009 at Olympic Charleroi, Sporza writes.
Westerlo calls him a true club legend on its website. Ives Serneels, his teammate in the top scorer season, told Sporza he remembers a constantly cheerful joker who was hard to knock off the ball and had a knack for winning penalties.