Pelle Clement (born 19 May 1996) is a Dutch professional

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who plays as an

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for club

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 ...

Club career

Clement is a youth exponent from

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, whom he joined in 2006 from his youth club

Koninklijke HFC Koninklijke Haarlemsche Football Club (Royal Haarlem Football Club) is a football club based in Haarlem, Netherlands. It is the oldest existing club in Dutch football, founded by Pim Mulier in 1879. During the club's early years, the team only ...

. He made his professional debut at

Jong Ajax Jong Ajax (; ), also referred to as Ajax II or Ajax 2, is a Dutch association football team. It is based in Amsterdam and competes in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. Jong Ajax is the only reserve team to have won a title in Dutch professional foot ...

on 8 May 2015 in an

Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie (; ) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as the Keuken Kampioen Divisie due to sponsorship reasons, while ...

game against

VVV Venlo VVV-Venlo (, ''VVV'' stands for ''Venlose Voetbal Vereniging'' meaning "Venlo Football Club") is a Dutch football club from Venlo, a city on the border with Germany. They play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football, following ...

. He played the full game. His first

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 ...

match was a November 2016 match against

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. On 28 June 2017, Clement moved to

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from Ajax for an undisclosed fee, signing a three-year contract with the

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club. On 3 January 2019,

Jaap Stam Jakob "Jaap" Stam (; born 17 July 1972) is a Dutch professional football coach and former player. As a player, he played as a centre-back and is regarded as one of the best defenders of all-time. Stam was part of the Manchester United team that w ...

signed Clement for the second time for

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 ...

after only featuring for Reading once in the 2018–19 season. In his first game he started and registered an assist as Zwolle beat

Feyenoord Feyenoord Rotterdam () is a Netherlands, Dutch professional association football, football club based in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football league system, Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the ...

3–1. Clement joined

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 ...

on 5 August 2022, signing a one-year contract. On 6 May 2023, it was announced that he would be joining

on a two-year deal on 1 July 2023 following the conclusion of his contract with Waalwijk.

Career statistics

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clement, Pelle 1996 births Living people Footballers from Amsterdam Men's association football wingers Dutch men's footballers Netherlands men's youth international footballers Netherlands men's under-21 international footballers Koninklijke HFC players Jong Ajax players AFC Ajax players Reading F.C. players PEC Zwolle players RKC Waalwijk players Sparta Rotterdam players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players English Football League players Dutch expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in England Dutch expatriate sportspeople in England 21st-century Dutch sportsmen