Luc Nijholt
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Luc Nijholt[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 29 July 1961 | ||
| Place of birth | Zaandam, Netherlands | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Position(s) |
Midfielder Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| ZVV | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1981–1987 | Haarlem | 184 | (9) |
| 1987–1988 | AZ | 9 | (0) |
| 1988–1989 | Utrecht | 15 | (0) |
| 1989–1990 | Old Boys | 27 | (4) |
| 1990–1993 | Motherwell | 96 | (5) |
| 1993–1995 | Swindon Town | 67 | (1) |
| 1995–1998 | Volendam | 60 | (1) |
| Total | 458 | (20) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| Hellas Sport | |||
| Zaanlandia | |||
| ?–2005 | AZ (U19) | ||
| 2005–2008 | Stormvogels Telstar | ||
| 2008–2009 | Red Bull Salzburg (assistant) | ||
| 2010 | Qatar (assistant) | ||
| 2012 | Shandong Luneng (assistant) | ||
| 2014-2015 | Dinamo Tbilisi (Academy Dir.) | ||
| 2016 | Meizhou Hakka | ||
| 2018 | Utrecht (assistant) | ||
| 2019 | Al Wahda (assistant) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Luc Nijholt (born 29 July 1961) is a Dutch football manager and a former player, who played for a number of clubs, both home and abroad.
Playing career
[edit]Nijholt began his career in the early 1980s with Haarlem,[2] spending six years with the club. Nijholt was a member of the famous Haarlem team that competed in the UEFA Cup in the 1982–83 season, for the first time in the club's history. However this campaign was to be overshadowed by the Luzhniki disaster. He then moved on to single seasons with AZ, Utrecht and Swiss side Old Boys. In 1990, Nijholt moved to Scottish side Motherwell for a fee of £100,000 and helped them win the Scottish Cup in his first season.[3]
In summer 1993, he moved to English side Swindon Town[4] for a fee of £175,000, spending two years with The Robins. He joined them after they won promotion to the FA Premier League, but couldn't prevent them from being relegated after just one season with a mere five wins and a defence that leaked 100 goals in the league. However, he did score his only goal for Swindon on 19 March 1994 in a surprise 2–2 home draw against that season's double winners Manchester United. A year later he was part of the side which reached the Football League Cup semi finals but suffered a second successive relegation.
After leaving Swindon in 1995, Nijholt joined Volendam and spent three years with them before retiring in 1998.
Managerial career
[edit]Nijholt became manager of Stormvogels Telstar in 2005[5] and has since declared his interest in managing former clubs Swindon[6] and Motherwell,[7] although neither application was successful.
He was the assistant coach of FC Red Bull Salzburg (Austria) during 2008–09 season. In 2010, he reunited with Co Adriaanse to be part of his coaching staff with the Qatar national team.[8] He later worked as an assistant to Jean-Paul de Jong at FC Utrecht and to Maurice Steijn in Qatar.[9] He also was academy manager at Dinamo Tbilisi.[10]
Personal life
[edit]In 1984 his then 21-year-old girlfriend Sandra van Raalten was murdered in the fashion store where she worked. The case is known as De Paskamermoord,[11] which translates to English as 'the fitting room murder'.
His son Gianluca Nijholt was also a professional footballer.
Honours
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Luc Nijholt". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ van Wonderen, Mark (23 November 2015). "Column 'vergeten' voetbalhelden: Luc Nijholt". NH Nieuws (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ "Luc Nijholt". MotherwellNet.com. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ "Luc Nijholt Player profile". TownEnders.com. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ "Luc Nijholt trainer Stormvogels/Telstar" (in Dutch). RTV Utrecht. 4 February 2005. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ "Nijholt keen on Swindon boss post". BBC Sport. 1 November 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ "Nijholt wants return to Fir Park". BBC Sport. 7 June 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2008.
- ^ "Rangers wint bij Celtic; rood voor Vennegoor".
- ^ "Luc Nijholt naar Al Wahda" (in Dutch). RTV Utrecht. 23 June 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ "Dutch Luc Nijholt will lead Dinamo Academy". Dinamo Tbilisi. 5 June 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ Schoonhoven, Silvan (27 February 2016). "Paskamermoord: uiteindelijk eerherstel voor de rechercheur die het goed had". Noordhollands Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 August 2024.
External links
[edit]- Luc Nijholt at Soccerbase
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Zaanstad
- Men's association football defenders
- Men's association football midfielders
- Dutch men's footballers
- HFC Haarlem players
- AZ Alkmaar players
- FC Utrecht players
- FC Volendam players
- BSC Old Boys players
- Motherwell F.C. players
- Swindon Town F.C. players
- Premier League players
- English Football League players
- Scottish Football League players
- Eredivisie players
- Dutch expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland
- Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
- Expatriate men's footballers in England
- Dutch expatriate sportspeople in England
- Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
- Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Dutch football managers
- SC Telstar managers
- Eerste Divisie managers
- Meizhou Hakka F.C. managers
- Dutch expatriate football managers
- Expatriate football managers in China
- Dutch expatriate sportspeople in China
- Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Austria
- Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Qatar
- Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Georgia (country)
- Dutch expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates