Gerard Nijkamp (born 1970) is a Dutch football player and manager. He worked in various coaching and managerial roles for Dutch club

PEC Zwolle Prins Hendrik Ende Desespereert Nimmer Combinatie Zwolle, commonly known as PEC Zwolle, is a Dutch professional football club based in Zwolle, Netherlands. They play in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football. They have played in the Ered ...

from 1998 until 2019, when he started in his role as general manager of

FC Cincinnati Football Club Cincinnati is an American professional soccer club based in Cincinnati. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The team was first announced on August 12, 2015 as a United Soccer Leag ...

. He continued in that role until 6 August 2021.

Managerial career

PEC Zwolle

Nijkamp was an assistant coach and academy director at

from 1998 to 2007. He was appointed as the club's interim coach in September 2003 after Peter Boeve was fired. He coached for two matches before

Hennie Spijkerman Hennie Spijkerman (born 28 October 1950 in Zwolle) is a Dutch football coach and former player who was most recently assistant manager to Marcel Keizer for Eredivisie side AFC Ajax. During his playing career, he played as a goalkeeper for both ...

was hired as a permanent replacement. Nijkamp became the technical director of PEC Zwolle in 2012. He was responsible for hiring

Ron Jans Ron Jans (; born 29 September 1958) is a Dutch professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player, who is the head coach of FC Utrecht, Utrecht. Coaching career Groningen Born in Zwolle, Overijssel ...

as Zwolle's coach in 2013. Zwolle won the

KNVB Cup The KNVB Beker (; ), branded as the TOTO KNVB Beker for sponsorship reasons, is a competition in the Netherlands organised by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) since 1898. It was based on the format of the English FA Cup. Outside the N ...

in 2014 during Nijkamp's tenure.

FC Cincinnati

On 30 May 2019,

of the American league

Major League Soccer Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional Association football, soccer league in North America and the highest level of the United States soccer league system. It comprises 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada, and is sanc ...

announced that they had hired Nijkamp as their general manager. The previous holder of the position,

Jeff Berding G. Jeffrey Berding (born February 8, 1967) is an American sports executive and politician. He serves as co-chief executive officer of FC Cincinnati, a professional soccer team he co-founded in 2015. He is also a Democratic politician, having ser ...

, retained his position on the business side of the organization as the club's president, but would no longer be directly involved with soccer operations. Nijkamp continued working with PEC Zwolle to help with the transition to a new director, but became full-time at Cincinnati by 1 August. On 4 August 2019,

was signed as FC Cincinnati's permanent head coach under Nijkamp's tenure, replacing interim coach

Yoann Damet Yoann Damet is a French association football coach who is currently a first-team coach with Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer. He served twice as interim head coach of FC Cincinnati at ages 29 and 30, making him the youngest head or assistant ...

. Nijkamp had previously hired Jans to be PEC Zwolle's coach in 2013. On 6 August 2021, FC Cincinnati announced that the club and Nijkamp had "parted ways effective immediately".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nijkamp, Gerard Dutch football managers PEC Zwolle non-playing staff FC Cincinnati non-playing staff 1970 births Living people Dutch expatriate sportspeople in the United States Be Quick '28 players Dutch men's footballers Sportspeople from Hardenberg Men's association football players not categorized by position Dutch expatriate football managers Expatriate soccer coaches in the United States