Frank Rijkaard
Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard
Dutch association football player and manager (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Born
- 30 September 1962
- Position
- Unavailable
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1980–1995
Clubs AFC Ajax · Real Zaragoza · Sporting CP · AC Milan
Career statistics
Club figures here are senior domestic-league matches unless marked otherwise; international figures are full senior caps. Youth, reserve, Olympic, friendly and unofficial matches are excluded from totals. Totals are summed from the individual sourced records below. Where a record is missing, the figure is shown as unavailable — never as zero.
Club league apps
540
Club league goals
98
International caps
73
International goals
10
League goals / match
0.18
International goals / cap
0.14
All official apps
Unavailable
All-competition totals not yet sourced
Goals per 90
Unavailable
Requires minutes for every match
Assists: Unavailable — assists were not recorded consistently before the modern data era.
Club-by-club and international breakdown
| Team | Years | Counts | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFC AjaxClub | 1980–1995 | League | 328 | 72 |
| Netherlands national association football teamNational team | 1981–1994 | Full caps | 73 | 10 |
| Real ZaragozaClub | 1987–1988 | League | 11 | 0 |
| Sporting CPClub | 1987–1988 | League | 0 | 0 |
| AC MilanClub | 1988–1993 | League | 201 | 26 |
Season by season
Season-level records are unavailable for this player in the current sources. They will appear here when a licensed season-by-season source is imported.
Team accolades
- ×5
Eredivisie
Domestic
- 1981–82 · AFC Ajax
- 1982–83 · AFC Ajax
- 1984–85 · AFC Ajax
- 1993–94 · AFC Ajax
- 1994–95 · AFC Ajax
- ×3
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 1988–89 · AC Milan
- 1989–90 · AC Milan
- 1994–95 · AFC Ajax
- ×3
Intercontinental Cup
Continental club
- 1989 · AC Milan
- 1990 · AC Milan
- 1995 · AFC Ajax
- ×2
Serie A
Domestic
- 1991–92 · AC Milan
- 1992–93 · AC Milan
- ×1
UEFA European Championship
International
- 1988 · Netherlands national association football team
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
No dated individual awards from the catalog are recorded for this player in the current sources. This may reflect incomplete source data rather than an absence of awards; editors can add sourced entries.
Career timeline
1980
- Joins AFC Ajax — Until 1987
1981
- Senior international debut: Netherlands national association football team — Until 1994
1982
- Eredivisie winner — 1981–82 · AFC Ajax(provisional)
1983
- Eredivisie winner — 1982–83 · AFC Ajax(provisional)
1985
- Eredivisie winner — 1984–85 · AFC Ajax(provisional)
1987
- Joins Real Zaragoza (loan) — Until 1988
- Joins Sporting CP — Until 1988
1988
- UEFA European Championship winner — 1988 · Netherlands national association football team
- Joins AC Milan — Until 1993
1989
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 1988–89 · AC Milan(provisional)
- Intercontinental Cup winner — 1989 · AC Milan(provisional)
1990
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 1989–90 · AC Milan(provisional)
- Intercontinental Cup winner — 1990 · AC Milan(provisional)
1992
- Serie A winner — 1991–92 · AC Milan(provisional)
1993
- Serie A winner — 1992–93 · AC Milan(provisional)
- Joins AFC Ajax — Until 1995
1994
- Eredivisie winner — 1993–94 · AFC Ajax(provisional)
1995
- Eredivisie winner — 1994–95 · AFC Ajax(provisional)
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 1994–95 · AFC Ajax(provisional)
- Intercontinental Cup winner — 1995 · AFC Ajax(provisional)
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v2, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Provisional estimate
39.9
Rank pending: 4 of 5 categories have evidence
Provisional4/5 categories with full evidence · 6% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence35.6+10.68 points
- Best window
- 1988–1992
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.794
- Team honor points in window
- 31
- Peak index
- 15.5
v1 measures peak through documented recognition (awards and titles) in the best rolling window, because season-level performance data is not available consistently across eras.
Career performanceUnavailableUnavailableno contribution
Primary position unknown; position-specific rules cannot be applied.
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.77
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence74.1+11.11 points
- Team honor points
- 54.5
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- Intercontinental Cup (1989)
- 2.5
- Intercontinental Cup (1990)
- 2.5
- Intercontinental Cup (1995)
- 2.5
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1988–89)
- 8
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1989–90)
- 8
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1994–95)
- 8
- Serie A (1991–92)
- 3
- Serie A (1992–93)
- 3
- Eredivisie (1981–82)
- 2
- Eredivisie (1982–83)
- 2
- Eredivisie (1984–85)
- 2
- Eredivisie (1993–94)
- 2
- Eredivisie (1994–95)
- 2
- UEFA European Championship (1988)
- 7
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence81.0+8.11 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 16 → 78
- Documented elite seasons
- 10 → 80
- International career length (years)
- 14 → 88.75
Appearance totals are deliberately not used, so accumulating matches alone does not raise this score.
Editorial biography
No editorial biography has been written yet. Biographies are written by hand with sources; none are generated automatically.
Sources
- Wikidata: Frank Rijkaard (Q169098)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Ajax selectie seizoen 1981 1982 nr. 140a E. Ophof speler, nr. 15a F. Rijka, Bestanddeelnr 253-8568.jpgCC0 · retrieved 27 October 2026