Marcel Keizer (born 15 January 1969) is a Dutch

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coach and former player who is the manager of Emirati club Al Jazira. His playing career as a

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began at

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and was mainly spent at

Cambuur SC Cambuur, also known as Cambuur Leeuwarden, or simply Cambuur, () is a Dutch Association football, football club from the city of Leeuwarden formed on 19 June 1964. They currently play in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football league sy ...

, and he had brief spells managing both clubs. He won a

Taça da Liga The Taça da Liga (), known outside Portugal as Portuguese League Cup, is an annual football club competition organised by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (LPFP) for teams competing in the Primeira Liga and LigaPro, the top two tier ...

and

Taça de Portugal The Taça de Portugal (; "Cup of Portugal") is an annual association football competition and the premier knockout tournament in Portuguese football. For sponsorship reasons, it has been known as Taça de Portugal Placard since the 2015–16 seaso ...

in 2019 at

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, and had two spells at Al Jazira, winning the

UAE Pro League The UAE Pro League ( ar, دوري المحترفين الإماراتي), known for sponsorship reasons as the ADNOC Pro League, is the top professional football league in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The first team to win the title was Al O ...

in 2021.

Coaching career

He was technical coach of

Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie (, en, First Division) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie and with the third-level Tweede Divisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as the ...

side FC Emmen. He was also the coach of

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for two seasons and took the reins at

SC Cambuur SC Cambuur, also known as Cambuur Leeuwarden, or simply Cambuur, () is a Dutch football club from the city of Leeuwarden formed on 19 June 1964. They currently play in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, after winning the 2020–21 Ee ...

in February 2016. In June 2016, he left Cambuur and became coach of

Jong Ajax Jong Ajax () (''English: Young Ajax''), also referred to as Ajax II or Ajax 2 is a Dutch association football team, the reserve team of Ajax. It is based in Amsterdam and competes in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. History Jong Ajax (''formerly more ...

. On 17 June 2017, Keizer became the new coach of

on a two-year contract, after managing the youth side in the previous season, thus replacing the

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-bound

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. After 17 games Ajax was second in the Eredivisie ranking with five points behind the leader PSV, and Keizer was fired on 21 December 2017, after losing a cup match by penalties against FC Twente. He received his first foreign job on 2 June 2018, replacing retired compatriot

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Al Jazira Club Al Jazira Club is an Emirati professional football club based in Abu Dhabi, that currently competes in the UAE Pro League. History Al-Jazira was established in 1974 as a merger between ''Khalidiyah'' and ''Al Bateen''. The club struggled to st ...

of the

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. On 8 November the same year, he was allowed to resign to take the job at

, with his club unbeaten and in second place at the time. Keizer signed for the

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-based club on a contract until 2021. On his debut on 24 November they won 4–1 at Lusitano FCV in the fourth round of the

, and in his first

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match on 3 December, the club won 3–1 at

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. Sporting completed a cup double in Keizer's first season, seizing both the

and Taça de Portugal in

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wins against

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. He was the first foreign manager to win the latter tournament since fellow Dutchman

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of Porto in

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. He left Sporting on 3 September 2019. On 13 October 2019, Keizer returned to Al Jazira on a two-year contract, after compatriot Jurgen Streppel left the

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-based club. On 11 May 2021, he led the club to their third league title after beating

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3–1; it was his first league title in his career. Keizer would enter 2022 with a successful 5–3 victory on penalty shootout against

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and clinching Al Jazira their first super cup title.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Sporting CP *

: 2018–19 *

: 2018–19 Al Jazira *

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References

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