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Nick van der Velden (born 16 December 1981) is a Dutch former professional
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. A
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, he played for
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, ...
,
RKC Waalwijk RKC Waalwijk () is a Dutch professional association football, football club based in Waalwijk. They currently play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football league system, Dutch football, following relegation from the Eredivisie i ...
,
AZ Alkmaar Alkmaar Zaanstreek (), better known internationally as AZ Alkmaar, or simply and most commonly as AZ () in the Netherlands, is a Dutch professional Association football, football club from Alkmaar and the Zaan#The Zaan district, Zaan district. ...
,
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,
FC Groningen Football Club Groningen () is a Dutch professional association football club based in Groningen, Groningen (province), Groningen province. Founded in 1971 as the successor of GVAV-Rapiditas, GVAV, Groningen compete in the Eredivisie, the first t ...
, Willem II,
Dundee United Dundee United Football Club is a Scotland, Scottish professional association football, football club based in the city of Dundee. Formed in 1909, originally as Dundee Hibernian, the club changed to the present name in 1923. United are nickname ...
,
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, and
Amsterdamsche FC Amsterdamsche Football Club, commonly known as AFC is a association football, football club based in Amsterdam. The team compete in the Tweede Divisie, the third level of the Dutch football league system. History 19th century: Foundation AFC ...
.


Playing career

Van der Velden started his senior career at
RKC Waalwijk RKC Waalwijk () is a Dutch professional association football, football club based in Waalwijk. They currently play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football league system, Dutch football, following relegation from the Eredivisie i ...
before moving to
Dordrecht Dordrecht (), historically known in English as Dordt (still colloquially used in Dutch, ) or Dort, is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Western Netherlands, lo ...
. He would return to Waalwijk and return again to Dordrecht. In 2008 he joined AZ, which was coached by Champions League-winning manager
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. Alongside Dutch national side members like
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and
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as well as foreign internationals,
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,
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, and
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for instance, they won the
2008–09 Eredivisie The 2008–09 Eredivisie was the 53rd season of Eredivisie since its establishment in 1955. PSV were the reigning champions. The season began on 29 August 2008 with a game between Vitesse Arnhem and FC Groningen and ended on 10 May 2009. A t ...
and qualified for the
2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage The 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage matches took place between 15 September and 9 December 2009. The draw for the eight groups took place on 27 August 2009, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. The group stage featured the 22 automatic ...
and the
2009 Johan Cruyff Shield The fourteenth edition of the Johan Cruyff Shield () was held on 25 July 2009 at the Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam Arena. The match featured the 2008–09 Eredivisie champions AZ Alkmaar, AZ and 2008–09 KNVB Cup winners SC Heerenveen. The match ...
. They won the Shield but finished bottom of Group H in the Champions League, prompting the new manager
Ronald Koeman Ronald Koeman (; born 21 March 1963) is a Dutch professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who is the manager of the Netherlands national football team, Netherlands national team. Koeman scor ...
to be sacked and replaced by
Dick Advocaat Dirk Nicolaas "Dick" Advocaat (; born 27 September 1947) is a Dutch former association football, football player and coach. He is currently the manager of the Curaçao national football team. Advocaat was successful as a football player and as a ...
. AZ finished fifth and qualified for the
2010–11 UEFA Europa League The 2010–11 UEFA Europa League was the second season of the UEFA Europa League, Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 40th edition overall including its predecessor, the UEFA Cup. It began on 1 July 2010, with ...
. Van der Velden moved to
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in 2011 before moving to
FC Groningen Football Club Groningen () is a Dutch professional association football club based in Groningen, Groningen (province), Groningen province. Founded in 1971 as the successor of GVAV-Rapiditas, GVAV, Groningen compete in the Eredivisie, the first t ...
two years later. He won the
2014–15 KNVB Cup The 2014–15 KNVB Cup tournament was the 97th edition of the Dutch national football annual knockout tournament for the KNVB Cup. They contested beginning on 27 August 2014 with the matches of Round 1 and ending with the final on 3 May 2015. FC ...
in his final season there. He then moved to Willem II before went abroad to Scottish club
Dundee United Dundee United Football Club is a Scotland, Scottish professional association football, football club based in the city of Dundee. Formed in 1909, originally as Dundee Hibernian, the club changed to the present name in 1923. United are nickname ...
. He helped Dundee United win the
Scottish Challenge Cup The Scottish Professional Football League Challenge Cup,Bali United Bali United Football Club (; , ''æklub’ sépak bola Bali United'') is a professional football club based in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. The club competes in the Liga 1, the top tier of Indonesian football. Bali United emerged in 2015 as the ...
, helping the club finish second in the
2017 Liga 1 The 2017 Liga 1, also known as Go-Jek Traveloka Liga 1 for sponsorship reasons, was the inaugural season of Liga 1 under its current name and the 8th season of the top-flight Indonesian professional league for association football clubs since its ...
, controversially losing only on head-to-head to police-owned
Bhayangkara F.C. Bhayangkara Presisi Lampung Football Club, simply known as Bhayangkara Presisi, is an Indonesian professional football club based in Bandar Lampung, Lampung. The club is linked to the Indonesian National Police. The name of the club is based on ...
As the champions failed to obtain the AFC license, Bali qualified for the
2018 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs The 2018 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs were played from 16 to 30 January 2018. A total of 22 teams competed in the qualifying play-offs to decide eight of the 32 places in the group stage of the 2018 AFC Champions League. Teams The foll ...
.


Honours

;AZ Alkmaar *
Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is a professional association football league in the Netherlands and the highest level of the Dutch football league system. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start o ...
: 2008–09 *
Johan Cruyff Shield The Johan Cruyff Shield (, ) is a football trophy in the Netherlands named after Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff, also often referred to as the Dutch Super Cup. The winner is decided in one match only, played by the winner of the national footbal ...
:
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
;Groningen *
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 ...
: 2014–15 ;Dundee United *
Scottish Challenge Cup The Scottish Professional Football League Challenge Cup,2016–17


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Voetbal International profile

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1981 births Living people Dutch men's footballers AFC DWS players RKC Waalwijk players FC Dordrecht players AZ Alkmaar players NEC Nijmegen players FC Groningen players Willem II Tilburg players Dundee United F.C. players Bali United F.C. players Amsterdamsche FC players Eerste Divisie players Eredivisie players Scottish Professional Football League players Liga 1 (Indonesia) players Footballers from Amsterdam Men's association football midfielders Dutch expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland Expatriate men's footballers in Indonesia Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Scotland Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia {{Netherlands-footy-midfielder-stub