 Van 't Schip in 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Johannes Nicolaas van 't Schip[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1963-12-30)30 December 1963 (age 61) | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Fort St. John, Canada | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position | Winger | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1972–1976 | NFC Amstelveen | |||||||||||||
| 1976–1981 | Ajax | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1981–1992 | Ajax | 273 | (29) | |||||||||||
| 1992–1996 | Genoa | 107 | (11) | |||||||||||
| Total | 380 | (40) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1986–1995 | Netherlands | 41 | (2) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–2000 | Ajax Youth | |||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Twente | |||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Jong Ajax | |||||||||||||
| 2009 | Ajax (caretaker) | |||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Melbourne Heart | |||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Guadalajara | |||||||||||||
| 2013–2017 | Melbourne City[2] | |||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | PEC Zwolle | |||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | Greece | |||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | Ajax | |||||||||||||
| 2025 | Armenia | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Johannes Nicolaas"John" van 't Schip (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈdʑɔɱvɑnətˈsxɪp]; born 30 December 1963) is a Dutch-Canadianfootballmanager and formerplayer who played as awinger.
Born in Canada, he played for theNetherlands national team for nine years. He spent his club career withAjax, where they won fourEredivisie titles, aUEFA Cup and aEuropean Cup Winners Cup, as well asGenoa. He was also a member of the Dutch side which won the1988 European Championships.
Van 't Schip started his managerial career at theAjax Youth Academy, and his first senior managerial gig was withTwente. He previously was the manager ofPEC Zwolle in his native Netherlands andMelbourne City inAustralia among others. He managedGreece from 2019 to 2021. He was then appointed as the interim manager of Ajax in 2023 until 2024. A year later he was appointed as the new manager ofArmenia.
Van 't Schip was born inFort St. John, British Columbia, and was raised inPowell River, British Columbia, where he grew up playing youthfootball in the small community before his family moved back to the Netherlands in 1972.
Van 't Schip began his football journey atNFC where he played for four years. He then began his professional career atAjax in its youth academy. Debuting for the first team on the sixth of December 1981 in a 4–1 win againstHaarlem, he spent the next eleven seasons with the club. During this period, he won theEredivisie in 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1990, as well as theKNVB Beker in 1983, 1986 and 1987. He also helped Ajax win the1987 European Cup Winners' Cup and the1992 UEFA Cup. After Ajax's UEFA Cup victory, he was transferred to Italian teamGenoa, where he played four seasons before ending his career. He helped the club to lift the1996 Anglo-Italian Cup.
On the international level, Van 't Schip, a member of the Dutch squad at the1983 FIFA World Youth Championship, was capped 41 times and scored two goals for theDutch national team. His debut came againstScotland in April 1986, and his final match was a Euro qualifying match againstBelarus in June 1995. Van 't Schip featured in the victoriousEuro 1988 squad, as well as1990 FIFA World Cup andEuro 1992 tournaments.
After retiring, Van 't Schip became a youth coach for Ajax and manager forTwente. From August 2004 he assistedMarco van Basten in coaching the Dutch national team, until Van Basten left the position of head coach followingEuro 2008. Van 't Schip followed Van Basten to Ajax, becoming assistant coach withRob Witschge, for the 2008–09 season.[3] On 6 May 2009, afterMarco van Basten's resignation, he was named as the interim head coach of Ajax, and coached the club till the end of the season.
He was signed by Australian A-League clubMelbourne Heart on 12 October 2009, to be their inaugural coach for the 2010–11 season.[4] On 1 February 2012, Van 't Schip announced that he would be leaving the Melbourne Heart at the end of the 2011–12 season, citing personal reasons for his decision.[5] Van't Schip took Heart to their first finals appearance in their second season.[6] Van 't Schip had a major role in the development of Melbourne Heart.[7]
In April 2012,Guadalajara announced, through its Twitter account, that Van 't Schip would be the new coach of the club. Van 't Schip was recommended by his fellow countrymanJohan Cruyff, who was working at that moment on a project with the club. Van 't Schip's first competitive game was againstToluca, in which the Chivas lost 2–1.[8]
Van 't Schip was relieved of his duties as coach of Chivas a few days before the start of the Clausura 2013 Season. He was replaced by former Chivas coachBenjamin Galindo.
On 30 December 2013, following 17 winless games by Melbourne Heart and the early termination ofJohn Aloisi's contract, Melbourne Heart re-appointed Van 't Schip as head coach until the end of the season.[9]
On 19 March 2014, after eleven matches coaching the club, including a seven-match unbeaten run, Van 't Schip signed a three-year contract with the club (who would be renamed Melbourne City in June 2014), through to the end of the 2016–17 season.[10]
On 3 January 2017, Van 't Schip resigned as Melbourne City manager to return to the Netherlands to help care for his terminally ill father.[11]
In July 2019, he was hired as coach ofGreece.[12] On 26 November 2021, Van 't Schip resigned.[13]
On 30 October 2023, Van 't Schip was appointed as head coach of Ajax until the end of the2023–24 season.[14]
On 17 February 2025, he was appointed head coach of theArmenia.[15] On 6 August 2025, after 4 games without a win, his contract with the national team was terminated by mutual consent.[16]
In addition to his native Dutch, Van 't Schip can also speak English, Spanish and Italian.[17][18][19] His mother-in-law is Dutch singer and actressWilleke Alberti.[20]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1986 | 5 | 1 |
| 1987 | 8 | 1 | |
| 1988 | 4 | 0 | |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 | |
| 1990 | 6 | 0 | |
| 1991 | 4 | 0 | |
| 1992 | 9 | 0 | |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 41 | 2 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 May 1986 | Dortmund, West-Germany |  West Germany | 1–2 | 1–3 | Friendly |
| 2 | 28 October 1987 | Rotterdam, Netherlands |  Cyprus | 5–0 | 8–0 | UEFA Euro 1988 qualification |
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| Twente | 1 July 2001 | 10 July 2002 | 40 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 032.50 |
| Ajax (interim) | 6 May 2009 | 30 June 2009 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
| Melbourne Heart | 1 May 2009 | 5 April 2012 | 58 | 17 | 21 | 20 | 029.31 |
| Guadalajara | 1 July 2012 | 3 January 2013 | 23 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 034.78 |
| Melbourne Heart / Melbourne City | 14 August 2013 | 3 January 2017 | 96 | 43 | 22 | 31 | 044.79 |
| PEC Zwolle | 1 July 2017 | 19 December 2018 | 57 | 21 | 11 | 25 | 036.84 |
| Greece | 31 July 2019 | 31 December 2021 | 26 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 042.31 |
| Ajax | 30 October 2023 | 19 May 2024 | 34 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 047.06 |
| Armenia | 17 February 2025 | 6 August 2025 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 000.00 |
| Total | 339 | 130 | 93 | 116 | 038.35 | ||
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