Marcel Keizer

Marcel Keizer

Personal information
Full name	Marcel Keizer
Date of birth	(1969-01-15) 15 January 1969
Place of birth	Badhoevedorp, Netherlands
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Al Jazira (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987–1989	Ajax	4	(0)
1989–1998	SC Cambuur	282	(34)
1998–2000	De Graafschap	9	(0)
2000–2002	FC Emmen	34	(1)
Teams managed
2007–2011	Argon
2011–2012	VVSB
2012–2014	Telstar
2015–2016	FC Emmen
2016	SC Cambuur
2016–2017	Jong Ajax
2017	Ajax
2018–	Al Jazira
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Marcel Keizer (born 15 January 1969) is a Dutch football manager and former player and former manager of Dutch Eredivisie club AFC Ajax.^[1]

Managerial career

He was technical manager of Eerste Divisie side FC Emmen.^[2] He was also the manager of Telstar for two seasons and took the reins at SC Cambuur in February 2016.^[3] In June 2016, he left Cambuur and became manager of Jong Ajax.^[4]

On 17 June 2017, Keizer became the new manager of Ajax on a two-year contract, after managing the youth side in the previous season, thus replacing the Borussia Dortmund-bound Peter Bosz.^[5] After 17 games Ajax was second in the Eredivisie ranking with five points behind the leader PSV. Keizer obtained 38 points from 17 games in the Eredivie. 51 goals were scored with 16 goals against. He was fired on 21 December 2017, after losing a cup match by penalties against FC Twente. ^[6]

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