Ron Timmers (born 11 August 1973) is a Dutch former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

and current manager who is the head coach of IFC. He is a resident of Heer Oudelands Ambacht, Zwijndrecht.

Football career

Timmers played professionally in

FC Dordrecht Football Club Dordrecht, or simply FC Dordrecht () is a professional Dutch association football club based in Dordrecht, a city in the Western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. They currently compete in the Eerste Divisie, ...

and

Sparta Rotterdam Sparta Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club based in Rotterdam. Established on 1 April 1888, Sparta Rotterdam is the oldest professional football team in the Netherlands. Sparta currently competes in the Eredivisie, the top flig ...

. On 24 November 1985, in the 1985–86 KNVB Cup, he scored the first equalizer for FC Dordrecht, in a game that Dordrecht lost 3–2 to

RBC Roosendaal RBC, previously known as RBC Roosendaal, is a football club based in Roosendaal, Netherlands. RBC currently plays in the fifth-tier Vierde Divisie after bankruptcy in 2011, restarting the club in the tenth tier Vijfde Klasse. History 1912– ...

. Since 2000 Timmers coached Sliedrecht, SVW, Rijsoord, Groote Lindt,

Leonidas Leonidas I (; , ''Leōnídas''; born ; died 11 August 480 BC) was king of the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta. He was the son of king Anaxandridas II and the 17th king of the Agiad dynasty, a Spartan royal house which claimed descent fro ...

, VV Nieuwerkerk, and Zwaluwen (2010–2011). In 2011 he became chief coach of

ASWH ASWH, short for Altijd Sterker Worden Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, is an association football club from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands. The club was founded in 1929. It won section championships in 1949, 1959, 1961, 1970, 1883, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, a ...

, and in 2013 Timmers moved on to VV Dongen, also in the

Hoofdklasse The Vierde Divisie (; "Fourth Division"), formerly known as Hoofdklasse () is the second-highest league of amateur football in the Netherlands, and the fifth tier in general. Background The league was divided into two sections: Saturday and Sunda ...

. In 2016 he led Dongen to a Hoofdklasse championship after which the club promoted to

Derde Divisie The Derde Divisie (; ), formerly known as Topklasse (; ), is the fourth tier of football in the Netherlands, which had its inaugural season as a third tier in 2010–11 and as a fourth tier in 2016–17. The league is placed between the Tweede D ...

. In 2017 Dongen under Timmers ended third in Derde Divisie and participated in the qualification rounds for the

Tweede Divisie Tweede Divisie (; ) is the highest amateur (and historically the lowest professional) football league in the Netherlands. It was established in 1956, together with the Eredivisie and the Eerste Divisie. Between 1956 and 1960 and between 1962 and 19 ...

. In February 2018, Timmers was hired as manager of both Sunday League club Dongen and Saturday League side

VV Capelle Voetbalvereniging Capelle is a football club based in Capelle aan den IJssel, Netherlands. It was founded in 1930. VV Capelle plays its home matches at Sportpark 't Slot. History Since 2018, VV Capelle competes in the Vierde Divisie. In the ...

. He managed Dongen until the summer and Capelle after the summer of 2018. He later coached VV Heerjansdam, until 2020. In December 2020, Timmers was appointed head coach of IFC who switched to playing Saturday football.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Timmers, Ron 1973 births Living people FC Dordrecht players Sparta Rotterdam players ASWH managers Footballers from Zwijndrecht, Netherlands Men's association football players not categorized by position Dutch men's footballers Dutch football managers VV Capelle managers VV Zwaluwen managers