| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Luc Nijholt[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1961-07-29)29 July 1961 (age 64) | ||
| 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 Dutchfootball manager and a former player, who played for a number of clubs, both home and abroad.
Nijholt began his career in the early 1980s withHaarlem,[2] spending six years with the club. Nijholt was a member of the famous Haarlem team that competed in theUEFA Cup in the 1982–83 season, for the first time in the club's history. However this campaign was to be overshadowed by theLuzhniki disaster. He then moved on to single seasons withAZ,Utrecht and Swiss sideOld Boys. In 1990, Nijholt moved to Scottish sideMotherwell for a fee of £100,000 and helped them win theScottish Cup in his first season.[3]
In summer 1993, he moved to English sideSwindon Town[4] for a fee of £175,000, spending two years withThe Robins. He joined them after they won promotion to theFA 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'sdouble winners Manchester United. A year later he was part of the side which reached theFootball 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.
Nijholt became manager ofStormvogels 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 ofFC Red Bull Salzburg (Austria) during 2008–09 season. In 2010, he reunited withCo Adriaanse to be part of his coaching staff with the Qatar national team.[8] He later worked as an assistant toJean-Paul de Jong at FC Utrecht and toMaurice Steijn in Qatar.[9] He also was academy manager atDinamo Tbilisi.[10]
In 1984 his then 21-year-old girlfriend Sandra van Raalten was murdered in the fashion store where she worked. The case is known asDe Paskamermoord,[11] which translates to English as 'the fitting room murder'.
His sonGianluca Nijholt was also a professional footballer.
