Richard van der Venne (born 16 May 1992) is a Dutch professional
footballer
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who plays for Swiss club
St. Gallen.
Club career
He made his professional debut in the
Eerste Divisie for
FC Oss
TOP Oss (), is a professional association football club based in the town of Oss, North Brabant, Netherlands, that competes in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of the Dutch football league system. Founded in 1928 as T.O.P., a Dutch abbreviatio ...
on 18 September 2015 in a game against
FC Eindhoven
FC Eindhoven is a Dutch football club based in Eindhoven, North Brabant. They currently play in the Eerste Divisie (second tier of Dutch football), and are one of two professional clubs which are based in the city of Eindhoven, the other one bei ...
.
On 22 June 2022,
Melbourne City FC announced they had signed van der Venne on a two-year contract. He made his
A-league
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debut on 14 October 2022 in a 2-0 win against
Brisbane Roar, coming on as a substitute in the 55th minute.
On 12 November 2022, van der Venne scored his first goal for
Melbourne City FC in a 2-1 win against
Newcastle Jets.
Van der Venne scored a hat-trick for
Melbourne City FC in a 6-1 victory against
Macarthur FC on 4 February 2023.
On 6 July 2023, van der Venne signed a two-year contract with
St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Honours
Melbourne City
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A-League Men
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Premiership:
2022–23
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References
External links
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1992 births
Footballers from Oss
Living people
Dutch men's footballers
TOP Oss players
Go Ahead Eagles players
RKC Waalwijk players
Melbourne City FC players
A-League Men players
FC St. Gallen players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Swiss Super League players
Men's association football midfielders
Dutch expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Australia
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
21st-century Dutch people
OSS '20 players
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