Jelle ten Rouwelaar (; born 24 December 1980) is a Dutch football

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and former professional player. He is currently the Assistant Manager and Goalkeeper coach of

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club

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. Ten Rouwelaar started his professional career in the 1998–99 season playing for Emmen. He was the first-choice

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for nine years in which he hardly missed a match. In March 2011, he received a call-up for the Netherlands national team, but he did not play. After retirement, Ten Rouwelaar became the goalkeeping coach of

in 2016. In 2018, he was the goalkeeping coach at Netherlands U-20 along his club duties. In 2020, he left the Dutch club and served as goalkeeping coach in

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under manager

Vincent Kompany Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany (born 10 April 1986) is a Belgian professional Association football, football Manager (association football), manager and former Association football, player who played as a centre-back. He is currently the head coach of ...

. He followed Kompany to join

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in 2022. In 2024, he joined

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briefly but left within eight days to join

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under manager

Erik ten Hag Erik ten Hag ( ; born 2 February 1970) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. He will become the head coach of Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen on 1 July 2025. Ten Hag played as a centre-back and began his career with Ere ...

. Following Ten Hag's departure and Amorim's appointment, Ten Rouwellar left Manchester United and moved to fellow Premier League club

in 2024 as a first-team coach under the new Dutch manager

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Career

Coaching career

On 29 April 2016, during the match against

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the fans started to applaud his recently deceased mother at the 61st minute in reference to his mother's age. On 19 May 2016, he played his last match during the playoffs of the Dutch professional competitions. After his active career, he was immediately hired as goalkeeper coach for

, where he stayed until the summer of 2020. From there, he was hired in an identical position at

. During the 2018–19 season, Ten Rouwelaar was also functioning as a goalkeeper coach for the Dutch U-20 national team. In July 2022, Jelle ten Rouwelaar moved to English

club

under newly hired manager,

, who he also worked under at Anderlecht. In July 2024, he joined

as goalkeeping coach, but left within eight days, as his compensation fee was paid by

, who signed him to replace

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, who left the club after five years, as a part of the overhaul under the new ownership structure. On 11 November 2024, following

Ruben Amorim Ruben Filipe Marques Amorim (; born 27 January 1985) is a Portuguese Professional association football, professional football Manager (association football), manager, a former player and the current manager of Premier League club Manchester Unit ...

's appointment as head coach, ten Rouwelaar left Manchester United's coaching staff.

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* * 1980 births Living people Footballers from Friesland People from Skarsterlân Dutch men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers FC Emmen players PSV Eindhoven players FC Groningen players FC Twente players PEC Zwolle players FC Eindhoven players FK Austria Wien players NAC Breda players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Dutch expatriate men's footballers Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Dutch expatriate sportspeople in England Association football goalkeeping coaches R.S.C. Anderlecht non-playing staff Burnley F.C. non-playing staff AFC Ajax non-playing staff Manchester United F.C. non-playing staff {{Netherlands-footy-goalkeeper-stub