| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1972-01-04)4 January 1972 (age 53) | ||
| Place of birth | 's-Gravenzande, Netherlands | ||
| Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | De Graafschap (head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1977–1993 | 's-Gravenzandse SV | ||
| 1993–1994 | Excelsior Maassluis | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1996 | Excelsior | 66 | (28) |
| 1996–1999 | Cambuur | 90 | (26) |
| 1999–2002 | Utrecht | 28 | (4) |
| 2000–2001 | →Dunfermline Athletic (loan) | 9 | (1) |
| 2001–2002 | →Emmen (loan) | 3 | (1) |
| 2002–2005 | TOP Oss | 83 | (30) |
| 2005–2006 | Excelsior | 44 | (8) |
| 2007–2008 | Cambuur | 42 | (7) |
| Total | 365 | (105) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2009–2012 | VV Montfoort | ||
| 2012–2014 | VV De Meern | ||
| 2014–2015 | Excelsior | ||
| 2015 | Brentford | ||
| 2015–2016 | NAC | ||
| 2017 | Cambuur | ||
| 2020–2024 | Excelsior | ||
| 2025– | De Graafschap | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Marinus Dijkhuizen (born 4 January 1972) is a Dutch professionalfootballmanager and former player who is head coach ofEerste Divisie clubDe Graafschap.
As a player, Dijkhuizen had notable spells as aforward in his native Netherlands withExcelsior,Cambuur andTOP Oss. He retired as a player in 2009 and entered management with Dutch lower league clubsVV Montfoort and thenVV De Meern. Since 2014, Dijkhuizen has managed Excelsior (twice),Brentford,NAC Breda, Cambuur and De Graafschap.
Dijkhuizen was born in's-Gravenzande.[1] Aforward, he spent the majority of his 14-year professional career in the top two divisions ofDutch football, most notably with two spells at bothExcelsior andCambuur.[2] He was a part of the SC Cambuur team which secured promotion to theEredivisie in the1997–98 season and later played top-flight football withUtrecht.[3] He had a loan spell withScottish Premier League clubDunfermline Athletic during the2000–01 season.[4] He retired at the end of the 2008–09 season after aplayer-coach spell at hometown club 's-Gravenzande SC.[5]
In 2008, Dijkhuizen took up a coaching role atEerste Klasse club 's-Gravenzandse SV, the club where he began his career.[6][7] He left the club in 2009.[citation needed]
During the2012–13 Eredivisie season, Dijkhuizen worked as a forward coach at former club Utrecht.[8] In January 2018, he returned to the club as assistant to managerJean-Paul de Jong and remained in the role until January 2020.[9][10]
Dijkhuizen began his managerial career with Eerste Klasse Saturday clubVV Montfoort in 2009.[11] He led the club to two successive promotions in the 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons, taking the club to theTopklasse.[11] He departed at the end of the 2011–12 season.[12]
Dijkhuizen signed a two-year contract withDerde Klasse Sunday clubVV De Meern in January 2012.[12] After officially starting work on 1 July 2012,[13] he managed the club until December 2013.
On 1 January 2014, Dijkhuizen was announced as manager ofEerste Divisie club Excelsior on a contract running until the end of the2013–14 season.[14] He took over fromJon Dahl Tomasson, who had departed for Eredivisie clubRoda JC.[15] Starting out in seventh position in the table, Dijkhuizen encouraged the club to be more attacking and pushed strikerLars Veldwijk further forward.[16] Veldwijk's 17 goals since the Dijkhuizen's arrival helped fire the Kralingers to third-place in the table and promotion to the Eredivisie,[17] after a 4–2 aggregate victory overRKC Waalwijk in theplayoffs.[18] The club endured a difficult2014–15 season in the top-flight, finishing one place above the relegation zone, though a new defensive style contributed to 14 draws,[16] the most in the division.[19] Dijkhuizen departed the club in May 2015,[20] despite having signed a new two-year contract in December 2014.[21]
On 1 June 2015, Dijkhuizen was announced as head coach ofEnglishChampionship clubBrentford, replacingMark Warburton.[20] He installed former SC Cambuur teammateRoy Hendriksen as his assistant.[20] Dijkhuizen had a difficult first week of the2015–16 season and began the campaign with a crippling lack of players through injury and outgoing transfers,[22][23][24][25] which caused disharmony amongst the club's supporters.[22][26] Problems with a poor pitch atGriffin Park compounded the injury problems.[22][27][28] After two wins, two draws and five defeats from the first nine matches of the season, Dijkhuizen and Hendriksen parted company with Brentford on 28 September 2015.[29] Brentford co-director of footballRasmus Ankersen later revealed that the club "made a mistake" in hiring Dijkhuizen and that the decision to part company "was based on three months of training and there were some fundamental processes, in terms of getting a full football operation to work to its maximum, that weren't at the level we wanted them to be".[30]
On 26 October 2015, Dijkhuizen was announced as head coach of Eerste Divisie clubNAC Breda.[31] He guided the club to the third round of thepromotion/relegation playoffs, but lost over two legs to the promoted clubWillem II.[32] With the club struggling to compete after 18 matches of the2016–17 season, Dijkhuizen was sacked on 23 December 2016.[32]
On 9 May 2017, Dijkhuizen returned to Eerste Divisie club Cambuur and took up the position of head coach on a one-year contract.[33] He was sacked on 28 November 2017, after taking just 14 points from the opening 15 matches of the2017–18 season.[34]
On 29 January 2020, Dijkhuizen returned to Eerste Divisie club Excelsior on a2+1⁄2-year contract.[10] Following theCOVID-19-affected2019–20 season and a finish outside the playoffs in2020–21,[35][36][37] Dijkhuizen secured promotion to the Eredivise with victory overADO Den Haag in the2021–22 Eredivisie promotion/relegation playoff Final.[38] He signed a new one-year contract in April 2022 and a further 18-month extension in December 2022.[39][40] A narrow finish above the relegation places in the2022–23 season was followed by arelegation playoff final defeat in2023–24.[41][42] Dijkhuizen departed the club by mutual consent in June 2024.[43]
On 6 January 2025, Dijkhuizen signed a2+1⁄2-year contract with Eerste Divisie clubDe Graafschap.[44]
From 2008 to 2012, Dijkhuizen worked as an analyst for Excelsior, researching and providing data on the club's upcoming opponents.[45]
Dijkhuizen's brother Marc is also involved in football and the pair worked together on the coaching staff at 's-Gravenzandse SV during the 2008–09 season.[6]
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| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Total | ||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Cambuur | 1998–99[1] | Eredivisie | 30 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 34 | 11 |
| Utrecht | 1999–00[1] | Eredivisie | 27 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 32 | 6 |
| 2000–01[1] | Eredivisie | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 28 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 33 | 6 | ||
| Dunfermline Athletic (loan) | 2000–01[4] | Scottish Premier League | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 2 |
| Emmen (loan) | 2001–02[1] | Eerste Divisie | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | |
| TOP Oss | 2002–03[1] | Eerste Divisie | 32 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 10 |
| 2003–04[1] | Eerste Divisie | 17 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 11 | |
| 2004–05[1] | Eerste Divisie | 34 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 9 | |
| Total | 83 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 30 | ||
| Excelsior | 2005–06[1] | Eerste Divisie | 33 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 7 |
| 2006–07[1] | Eredivisie | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | |
| Total | 44 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 8 | ||
| Cambuur | 2006–07[1] | Eerste Divisie | 13 | 2 | — | 13 | 2 | |
| 2007–08[1] | Eerste Divisie | 29 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 5 | |
| Total | 72 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 77 | 14 | ||
| Career total | 239 | 58 | 14 | 7 | 253 | 65 | ||
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