Rogier Meijer

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Rogier Meijer
Personal information
Full name Rogier Kriston Meijer
Date of birth (1981-09-05) 5 September 1981 (age 44)
Place of birth Doetinchem, Netherlands
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
Bayer Leverkusen (assistant)
Youth career
VV Zelhem
VIOD Doetinchem
SV Babberich
2003–2004 De Graafschap
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2005 VV Bennekom
2005–2014 De Graafschap 253 (6)
2014–2015 VIOD Doetinchem
Managerial career
2014–2015 De Graafschap (U14)
2015–2017 De Graafschap (U19)
2017–2019 NEC (U19)
2019–2020 NEC (assistant)
2020–2025 NEC
2025– Bayer Leverkusen (assistant)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rogier Meijer (born 5 September 1981) is a Dutch professional football coach and former player. He is the assistant head coach of Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen.

As a player, Meijer appeared his entire professional career for De Graafschap as a midfielder. In May 2014, Meijer announced his retirement from professional football. After a year at his former amateur team VIOD, Meijer completely stopped playing football.

Coaching career

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In his last year as an active footballer, Meijer was hired by De Graafschap as the manager of the U14's. In the summer 2015, he became U19 manager for the club which he was until the end of the 2016/17 season.[1][2]

In April 2017, it was announced that Meijer would take charge of the U19 team at NEC in the upcoming season.[1] On 3 April 2019, he was appointed as assistant manager for the first team until the end of the season.[3]

In June 2020, Meijer was appointed new head coach of NEC, signing a one-year contract.[4]

Following the end of the 2024–25 Eredivisie season, he left to take up an assistant manager role at Bayer Leverkusen.[5]

Career statistics

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Season Club Country League Apps Goals
2005–06 De Graafschap File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Eerste Divisie 35 2
2006–07 De Graafschap File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Eerste Divisie 32 0
2007–08 De Graafschap File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Eredivisie 26 0
2008–09 De Graafschap File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Eredivisie 32 0
2009–10 De Graafschap File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Eerste Divisie 34 1
2010–11 De Graafschap File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Eredivisie 30 1
2011–12 De Graafschap File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Eredivisie 31 0
2012–13 De Graafschap File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Eerste Divisie 25 0
2013–14 De Graafschap File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Eerste Divisie 8 2
2014–15 VIOD File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Tweede Klasse 0 0
Total 253 6

Last update: 20 August 2014

References

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  1. ^ a b ROGIER MEIJER VERTREKT NAAR NEC, degraafschap.nl, 25 April 2017
  2. ^ Rogier Meijer - Trainer/Coach - NEC Nijmegen | LinkedIn, linkedin.com
  3. ^ Ron de Groot, Adrie Bogers en Rogier Meijer maken seizoen af met N.E.C., nec-nijmegen.nl, 3 April 2019
  4. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  5. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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