Dennis van Wijk

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Dennis van Wijk
Personnel
Surname Dennis Johannes van Wijk
birthday December 16, 1962
place of birth Oostzaan ,  Netherlands
size 179 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
1968-1973 De Volewijckers
1973-1981 FC Amsterdam
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1981-1982 Ajax Amsterdam 0 (0)
1982-1986 Norwich City 118 (3)
1986-1989 Club Bruges 87 (5)
1989-1990 Ajax Amsterdam 0 (0)
1990-1991 PAS Giannina 30 (1)
1991-1992 Club Bruges
1993-1994 FC Knokke
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1994-1996 FC Knokke
1996-1998 KV Ostend
1998 Daring Blankenberge
1998-2002 Cercle Bruges
2003-2006 KSV Roeselare
2006-2007 Willem II Tilburg
2007 KV Ostend
2007-2008 VV St. Truiden
2008-2010 KSV Roeselare
2011–2012 RAEC Mons
2012 Sporting Charleroi
2012-2013 Royal Antwerp
2013-2015 KVC Westerlo
2015 Cercle Bruges
2015 SK Deinze
2016 KFCO Beerschot Wilrijk
2017 Oud-Heverlee lions
2017-2018 KSV Roeselare
2018 KV Mechelen
2020 KV Ostend
1 Only league games are given.

Dennis Johannes van Wijk (born December 16, 1962 in Oostzaan ) is a former Dutch football player and current coach . The Dutchman spent practically his entire coaching career in Belgium , where he coached no less than 15 different clubs.

Player career

Van Wijk played for De Volewijckers throughout his youth , who then joined FC Amsterdam from the 1973/74 season. At the age of 19 he was signed by Ajax , Amsterdam's largest football club. There he could not prevail in the first team and therefore moved to Norwich City in England after just one season . This team had only just got promoted to what was then the English first division, the Football League First Division . Van Wijk won the League Cup with Norwich in 1985 , but was relegated to the second division in the same season. Already in the following year, the club managed to immediately rise again. In the named League Cup final van Wijk caused a penalty, but Clive Walker missed the final opponent Sunderland FC (Norwich won 1-0). In 1986 the trained defender moved to Belgium for Club Brugge , with whom he became Belgian champion and Belgian Supercup winner in 1988 . After the successful time in Bruges, there were four one-year engagements with the clubs Ajax Amsterdam , PAS Giannina , again with FC Bruges and FC Knokke .

Coaching career

Van Wijk began his coaching career at FC Knokke, where he also ended his playing career. This happened fluently, as he initially worked as a player-coach at the Belgian club and was then appointed the right coach after one season. From 1996 to 1998 he coached the KV Ostend and in 1998 made it to the first Belgian league. This was followed by a two-month engagement with Daring Blankenberge before van Wijk returned to Bruges, this time as a coach for city rivals Cercle Bruges . He then moved to KSV Roeselare , which rose to the Jupiler League for the first time in 2005 under his leadership . In the following season he even managed to qualify for the UEFA Cup with the team , as Roeselare was one of the three teams drawn from the UEFA Fair Play classification . Willem II Tilburg had become aware of van Wijks good performance and signed him for the 2006/07 season as a coach. After a disappointing 15th place in the table and persistent failure in the 2007/08 season, van Wijk resigned on November 5, 2007 as coach of Tilburg. Only a few days later he was again coach of KV Ostend, which he had led in 1998 in the first Belgian league. But this job lasted just 20 days before van Wijk was hired by VV St. Truiden on December 10, 2007 . At the end of the 2007/08 season, the club rose to the EXQI League , the second Belgian league, and the Dutchman was released again. This was followed by a brief engagement as a scout for the English first division promoted West Bromwich Albion .

On October 29, 2008 he was the second time coach of KSV Roeselare . At the end of the season they reached sixteenth place in the league with three points ahead of the relegated AFC Tubize , which meant that the club had to play in relegation games to stay up. Roeselare prevailed and remained in the top Belgian league. In the following season the situation did not improve and van Wijk only led his team into the relegation games again. It was lucky that the league competitor Excelsior Mouscron was given a suspension by the Belgian Football Association, which meant that their games were canceled and they were considered the only direct relegated team. Roeselare could not use this chance again and finally got relegated. In the summer of 2010 van Wijk was replaced by Nico Vanderdonck as head coach.

He then took over the RAEC Mons in 2011 and led Mons to the Belgian 1st Division . He coached Mons for one season until he was replaced by Enzo Scifo four games before the end of the season, immediately after he said he would not renew his contract for the coming season . Just a few days later, van Wijk was introduced as the new coach of Sporting Charleroi and led the club to the Belgian first division at the end of the season. Nevertheless, he remained as a coach in the second division and took over Royal Antwerp , the oldest Belgian football club , for the new season . He coached the traditional club until April 2013 before moving to league competitor and relegated KVC Westerlo . The club was aiming for direct promotion and had qualified for the promotion relegation. There they failed because of van Wijks former club Cercle Bruges . A year later, the Dutchman became champion with Westerlo and thus secured direct promotion to the first Belgian league.

At the end of January 2018, he was hired as a coach by KV Mechelen , after they finished last in the 1st division . After relegation to the 2nd division could not be stopped, van Wijk initially remained a coach in Mechelen. Only when the club had only two points after three match days in the second division on August 20, 2018, a separation was decided by mutual agreement.

From the beginning of 2020 he was the new coach of KV Ostend . After the third to last game day, when Ostend was still two points ahead of the relegation zone, he was released again in early March 2020.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Van Wijk resigns from November 5, 2007 on transfermarkt.de
  2. ↑ Jupiler League 2008/2009 on weltfussball.de
  3. ↑ Jupiler League 2009/2010 on weltfussball.de
  4. ↑ Nico van Vanderdonck hoofdtrainer SV Roeselare of 26 July 2010 on niewsblad.be
  5. ↑ Dennis van Wijk blijft trainer Royal Antwerp. volkskrant.nl, June 18, 2012, accessed July 10, 2014 (Dutch).
  6. ^ Dennis van Wijk nieuwe trainer Westerlo. gva.be, April 29, 2013, accessed July 10, 2014 (Dutch).
  7. ^ Nieuwe coach Van Wijk started aan Operatie Redding at KV Mechelen: "Dit wordt een aartsmoeilijke opdracht". In: De Standaard. January 25, 2018, Retrieved November 19, 2019 (Dutch).
  8. ↑ Dennis van Wijk is not a long coach from KVM. KV Mechelen, August 20, 2018, accessed on November 19, 2019 (Dutch).
  9. ^ Dennis Van Wijk nieuwe trainer. KV Ostend, December 31, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019 (Dutch).
  10. ↑ KVO certifies samenwerking with Dennis Van Wijk. KV Ostend, March 2, 2020, accessed on March 2, 2020 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Wijk, Dennis van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wijk, Dennis Johannes van (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Oostzaan , Netherlands