Johan Neeskens

Johan Neeskens was a Dutch football manager and player (15 September 1951 – 6 October 2024). Neeskens played as a midfielder for Barcelona and Ajax. Neeskens scored 110 goals in 530 league and international games and won 14 trophies, including 3 Champions League titles and 4 league titles.

Neeskens's career stats

GamesGoals
Clubs, league games48193
Netherlands4917
Total530110

Goals per game: 0.21.

Neeskens's trophies and awards

  • Trophies with club and country: 14
  • League titles: 4
  • Domestic cups: 3
  • Champions League: 3
  • Other international club trophies: 4
  • Individual awards: 11

Ajax

  • Eredivisie: 2 (1971–72, 1972–73)
  • KNVB Cup: 2 (1970–71, 1971–72)
  • European Cup: 3 (1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73)
  • Intercontinental Cup: 1 (1972)
  • European Super Cup: 2 (1972, 1973)

Barcelona

  • Copa del Rey: 1 (1977–78)
  • European Cup Winners' Cup: 1 (1978–79)

New York Cosmos

  • North American Soccer League: 2 (1980, 1982)

Individual

  • FUWO European Team of the Season: 1 (1972)
  • Sport Ideal European XI: 2 (1974, 1975)
  • FIFA World Cup Silver Boot: 1 (1974)
  • FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1 (1974)
  • Don Balón Award (La Liga Foreign Player of the Year): 1 (1975–76)
  • La Liga Team of The Year: 3 (1976, 1977, 1979)
  • FIFA 100: 1
  • Ballon d'Or Dream Team (Bronze): 1 (2020)

Clubs

League games and goals at each club.

  1. 1968–1970: RCH, 68 games, 1 goal
  2. 1970–1974: Ajax, 124 games, 33 goals
  3. 1974–1979: Barcelona, 140 games, 35 goals
  4. 1979–1984: New York Cosmos, 94 games, 17 goals
  5. 1985: Groningen, 7 games, 0 goals
  6. 1985: South Florida Sun, 1 game, 1 goal
  7. 1985–1986: Kansas City Comets, 23 games, 1 goal
  8. 1986–1987: Löwenbrau
  9. 1988–1990: Baar, 23 games, 5 goals
  10. 1991: FC Zug, 1 game, 0 goals

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