René van de Kerkhof
Dutch association football player (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Born
- 16 September 1951
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1970–1992
Clubs FC Twente · PSV Eindhoven · Apollon Smyrnis F.C. · Seiko SA · Helmond Sport · FC Eindhoven · SS Lazio
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
521
Club league goals
136
International caps
47
International goals
5
League goals / match
0.26
International goals / cap
0.11
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FC TwenteClub | 1970–1973 | League | 99 | 34 |
| Netherlands national association football teamNational team | 1973–1982 | Full caps | 47 | 5 |
| PSV EindhovenClub | 1973–1992 | League | 308 | 88 |
| Apollon Smyrnis F.C.Club | 1983–1984 | League | 23 | 3 |
| Helmond SportClub | 1985–1988 | League | 61 | 8 |
| FC EindhovenClub | 1988–1989 | League | 30 | 3 |
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
- 1974–75 · PSV Eindhoven
- 1975–76 · PSV Eindhoven
- 1977–78 · PSV Eindhoven
- 1990–91 · PSV Eindhoven
- 1991–92 · PSV Eindhoven
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
1970
- Joins FC Twente — Until 1973
1973
- Senior international debut: Netherlands national association football team — Until 1982
- Joins PSV Eindhoven — Until 1983
1975
- Eredivisie winner — 1974–75 · PSV Eindhoven(provisional)
1976
- Eredivisie winner — 1975–76 · PSV Eindhoven(provisional)
1978
- Eredivisie winner — 1977–78 · PSV Eindhoven(provisional)
1983
- Joins Apollon Smyrnis F.C. — Until 1984
1984
- Joins Seiko SA — Until 1985
1985
- Joins Helmond Sport — Until 1988
1988
- Joins FC Eindhoven — Until 1989
1989
- Joins PSV Eindhoven — Until 1992
1991
- Eredivisie winner — 1990–91 · PSV Eindhoven(provisional)
1992
- Eredivisie winner — 1991–92 · PSV Eindhoven(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 →
Overall score
18.2
Rank #153
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 0% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence7.0+2.10 points
- Best window
- 1974–1978
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.565
- Team honor points in window
- 6
- Peak index
- 3
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 performanceFull evidence23.3+5.83 points
- League goals per match
- 0.261 → 10.99
- International goals per cap
- 0.106 → 0
- International caps per year
- 4.7 → 54.33
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.681
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence23.3+3.50 points
- Team honor points
- 10
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0.957
- Eredivisie (1974–75)
- 2
- Eredivisie (1975–76)
- 2
- Eredivisie (1977–78)
- 2
- Eredivisie (1990–91)
- 2
- Eredivisie (1991–92)
- 2
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence68.0+6.80 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 23 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 5 → 45
- International career length (years)
- 10 → 64
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: René van de Kerkhof (Q297608)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: René van de Kerkhof 1980.jpgCC0 · retrieved 27 October 2026