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For his son, a current footballer, see Ronald Koeman Jr.

Ronald Koeman

Koeman in 2014

Personal information

Full name

\nRonald Koeman^[1]

Date of birth

\n21 March 1963 (age 61)^[2]

Place of birth

\nZaandam, Netherlands^[2]

Height

\n1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)^[2]

Position(s)

\nDefender, midfielder

Team information

Current team

\nNetherlands (manager)

Youth career

\nVV Helpman

\nGRC Groningen

Senior career\"

Years

\nTeam

\nApps

\n(Gls)

1980\u20131983

\nGroningen

\n90

\n(32)

1983\u20131986

\nAjax

\n94

\n(23)

1986\u20131989

\nPSV

\n98

\n(51)

1989\u20131995

\nBarcelona

\n192

\n(67)

1995\u20131997

\nFeyenoord

\n61

\n(19)

Total

\n535

\n(192)

International career

1983\u20131994

\nNetherlands

\n78

\n(14)

Managerial career

2000\u20132001

\nVitesse

2001\u20132005

\nAjax

2005\u20132006

\nBenfica

2006\u20132007

\nPSV

2007\u20132008

\nValencia

2009

\nAZ

2011\u20132014

\nFeyenoord

2014\u20132016

\nSouthampton

2016\u20132017

\nEverton

2018\u20132020

\nNetherlands

2020\u20132021

\nBarcelona

2023\u2013

\nNetherlands

Medal record

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Representing $\"\"$ Netherlands\n
\n
UEFA European Championship\n
Winner	1988 West Germany	\n
$\"Third$	1992 Sweden	\n
Representing $\"\"$ Netherlands (as manager)\n
UEFA Nations League\n
Runner-up	2019 Portugal	\n

\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ronald Koeman^[3] (Dutch pronunciation: [\u02c8ro\u02d0n\u0251lt \u02c8kum\u0251n] ^\u24d8; born 21 March 1963) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who is the manager of the Netherlands national team. Koeman scored over 250 goals whilst playing in defence for the majority of his career. Koeman was capable of playing both as a defender and as a midfielder; he frequently played as a sweeper, although he was equally known for his goalscoring, long-range shooting, and accuracy from free kicks and penalties. Because of his goalscoring, he is considered one of the best attacking center backs of all time.^[4]^[5]\n

Born in Zaandam, Koeman began his career at Groningen before transferring to the Netherlands' most successful club Ajax in 1983, where they won the national Eredivisie title in 1984\u201385. He then joined Ajax's rivals PSV in 1986, winning three consecutive Eredivisie titles (1986\u201387, 1987\u201388 and 1988\u201389) and the European Cup in 1988. Ronald Koeman is one of five European players to ever win a treble with their club and a cup with their national team in the same year. The other four players are his teammates Hans van Breukelen, Berry van Aerle, Gerald Vanenburg and Wim Kieft. In 1989, Koeman moved to Barcelona and became part of Johan Cruyff's \"Dream Team\", helping the club win La Liga four consecutive seasons (1991 to 1994), and the 1991\u201392 European Cup, where he scored the winning goal of the final against Sampdoria.\n

At international level, Koeman was one of the stars of the Netherlands national team, alongside Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard and Dennis Bergkamp. During his career with the Netherlands, Koeman won UEFA Euro 1988 and played at UEFA Euro 1992, as well as the 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cups, captaining the team at the latter.\n

In his managerial career, Koeman has won three Eredivisie titles: twice with Ajax (2001\u201302 and 2003\u201304) and once with PSV (2006\u201307). He is the only individual to have both played for and managed the \"Big Three\" of Dutch football: Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord.^[6] Abroad, he had spells in Portugal with Benfica and Spain with Valencia, coaching Los Ch\u00e9 to victory in the 2007\u201308 Copa del Rey, and managed Premier League clubs Southampton and Everton in the 2010s. He was the manager of the Netherlands national team between 2018 and 2020, finishing runners-up in the 2019 UEFA Nations League. In August 2020, he was appointed manager of Barcelona, with whom he won the 2020\u201321 Copa del Rey, but was sacked in October 2021, following a poor start to the new season. In 2023, he was reappointed as the manager of the Netherlands national team.\n

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Club\n	Season\n	League\n	National cup^[b]\n	Continental\n	Other\n	Total\n
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals\n
Groningen\n	1980\u201381\n	Eredivisie\n	24	4	3	2	\u2014	\u2014	27	6\n
1981\u201382\n	Eredivisie\n	33	14	1	0	\u2014	\u2014	34	14\n
1982\u201383\n	Eredivisie\n	33	14	4	0	\u2014	\u2014	37	14\n
Total\n	90	32	8	2	\u2014	\u2014	98	34\n
Ajax\n	1983\u201384\n	Eredivisie\n	32	7	4	2	2^[c]	0	\u2014	38	9\n
1984\u201385\n	Eredivisie\n	30	9	2	1	4^[d]	3	\u2014	36	13\n
1985\u201386\n	Eredivisie\n	32	7	6	1	2^[c]	0	\u2014	40	8\n
Total\n	94	23	12	4	8	3	\u2014	114	30\n
PSV\n	1986\u201387\n	Eredivisie\n	34	16	3	3	2^[c]	0	\u2014	39	19\n
1987\u201388\n	Eredivisie\n	32	21	6	4	8^[c]	1	\u2014	46	26\n
1988\u201389\n	Eredivisie\n	32	14	6	1	4^[c]	2	3^[e]	1	45	18\n
Total\n	98	51	15	8	14	3	3	1	130	63\n
Barcelona\n	1989\u201390\n	La Liga\n	36	14	7	4	4^[f]	1	1^[g]	0	48	19\n
1990\u201391\n	La Liga\n	21	6	4	2	7^[f]	4	0	0	32	12\n
1991\u201392\n	La Liga\n	35	16	2	0	11^[c]	1	1^[h]	0	49	17\n
1992\u201393\n	La Liga\n	33	11	3	0	3^[i]	0	4^[j]	0	43	11\n
1993\u201394\n	La Liga\n	35	11	2	0	12^[i]	8	1^[h]	0	50	19\n
1994\u201395\n	La Liga\n	32	9	1	0	8^[i]	1	1^[h]	0	42	10\n
Total\n	192	67	19	6	45	15	8	0	264	88\n
Feyenoord\n	1995\u201396\n	Eredivisie\n	31	10	3	1	7^[f]	3	1^[k]	0	42	14\n
1996\u201397\n	Eredivisie\n	30	9	2	0	5^[d]	0	\u2014	37	9\n
Total\n	61	19	5	1	12	3	1	0	79	23\n
Career total\n	535	192	59	21	79	24	12	1	685	238\n

National team	Year	Apps	Goals\n
Netherlands\n	1983	6	1\n
1984	1	0\n
1985	1	0\n
1986	6	0\n
1987	7	2\n
1988	10	1\n
1989	8	3\n
1990	9	3\n
1991	4	0\n
1992	12	0\n
1993	5	2\n
1994	9	2\n
Total	78	14\n

No.\n	Date\n	Venue\n	Opponent\n	Score\n	Result\n	Competition\n
1	7 September 1983	Oosterpark Stadion, Groningen, Netherlands	$\"\"$ Iceland	1\u20130	3\u20130	UEFA Euro 1984 qualifier\n
2	9 December 1987	Stadion De Meer, Amsterdam, Netherlands	$\"\"$ Cyprus	3\u20130	4\u20130	UEFA Euro 1988 qualifier\n
3	16 December 1987	Diagoras Stadium, Rhodes, Greece	$\"\"$ Greece	1\u20130	3\u20130	UEFA Euro 1988 qualifier\n
4	21 June 1988	Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, West Germany	$\"\"$ West Germany	1\u20131	2\u20131	UEFA Euro 1988\n
5	22 March 1989	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands	$\"\"$ Soviet Union	2\u20130	2\u20130	Friendly\n
6	6 September 1989	Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam, Netherlands	$\"\"$ Denmark	1\u20130	2\u20132	Friendly\n
7	15 November 1989	De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands	$\"\"$ Finland	3\u20130	3\u20130	1990 FIFA World Cup qualifier\n
8	28 March 1990	Republican Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine	$\"\"$ Soviet Union	1\u20131	1\u20132	Friendly\n
9	30 May 1990	Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria	$\"\"$ Austria	1\u20133	2\u20133	Friendly\n
10	24 June 1990	San Siro, Milan, Italy	$\"\"$ West Germany	1\u20132	1\u20132	1990 FIFA World Cup\n
11	22 September 1993	Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, Bologna, Italy	$\"\"$ San Marino	7\u20130	7\u20130	1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier\n
12	13 October 1993	De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands	$\"\"$ England	1\u20130	2\u20130	1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier\n
13	19 January 1994	Stade El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia	$\"\"$ Tunisia	2\u20132	2\u20132	Friendly\n
14	1 June 1994	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands	$\"\"$ Hungary	3\u20131	7\u20131	Friendly\n

Team\n	From\n	To\n	Record\n
G\n	W\n	D\n	L\n	GF\n	GA\n	GD\n	Win %\n
Vitesse\n	1 January 2000\n	2 December 2001\n	79\n	40\n	23\n	16\n	132\n	77\n	+55\n	050.63\n
Ajax\n	3 December 2001\n	25 February 2005\n	151\n	94\n	30\n	27\n	322\n	147\n	+175\n	062.25\n
Benfica\n	8 June 2005\n	8 May 2006\n	49\n	27\n	11\n	11\n	64\n	38\n	+26\n	055.10\n
PSV\n	1 July 2006\n	31 October 2007\n	63\n	38\n	11\n	14\n	118\n	54\n	+64\n	060.32\n
Valencia\n	5 November 2007\n	21 April 2008\n	34\n	11\n	9\n	14\n	38\n	47\n	\u22129\n	032.35\n
AZ\n	18 May 2009\n	5 December 2009\n	24\n	11\n	4\n	9\n	44\n	30\n	+14\n	045.83\n
Feyenoord\n	21 July 2011\n	31 May 2014\n	118\n	67\n	23\n	28\n	237\n	137\n	+100\n	056.78\n
Southampton\n	16 June 2014\n	14 June 2016\n	91\n	44\n	17\n	30\n	140\n	93\n	+47\n	048.35\n
Everton\n	14 June 2016\n	23 October 2017\n	58\n	24\n	14\n	20\n	85\n	74\n	+11\n	041.38\n
Netherlands\n	6 February 2018\n	18 August 2020\n	20\n	11\n	5\n	4\n	43\n	18\n	+25\n	055.00\n
Barcelona\n	19 August 2020\n	27 October 2021\n	67\n	39\n	12\n	16\n	138\n	75\n	+63\n	058.21\n
Netherlands\n	1 January 2023\n	Present\n	27\n	15\n	4\n	8\n	60\n	30\n	+30\n	055.56\n
Total\n	781\n	421\n	163\n	197\n	1,422\n	820\n	+602\n	053.91\n

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Club career

Netherlands

Barcelona

Return to the Netherlands and retirement

International career

Managerial career

Early years

Ajax

Benfica

PSV

Valencia

AZ Alkmaar

Feyenoord

Southampton

Everton

Netherlands

Barcelona

Return to the Netherlands

Style of play

Style of management

Records

Personal life

Career statistics

Club

International

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Manager

References

External links

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