Ron Timmers (born 11 August 1973) is a Dutch former

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and current manager who is the head coach of IFC. He is a resident of Heer Oudelands Ambacht, Zwijndrecht.

Football career

Timmers played professionally in FC Dordrecht and Sparta Rotterdam. On 24 November 1985, in the

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, he scored the first equalizer for FC Dordrecht, in a game that Dordrecht lost 3–2 to

RBC Roosendaal RBC, commonly known under its previous official name RBC Roosendaal, is a football club based in Roosendaal, Netherlands. RBC currently plays in the seventh-tier Tweede Klasse after a bankruptcy in 2011, restarting the club in tenth tier Vijfde ...

. Since 2000 Timmers coached Sliedrecht, SVW, Rijsoord, Groote Lindt,

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, VV Nieuwerkerk, and Zwaluwen (2010–2011). In 2011 he became chief coach of

ASWH ASWH, short for Altijd Sterker Worden Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, is an association football club from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands. The club was founded in 1929. The club won section championships in 1949, 1959, 1961, 1970, 1883, 1999, 2001, 2002, ...

, and in 2013 Timmers moved on to

VV Dongen VV Dongen is a football club from Dongen, Netherlands. VV Dongen has approximately 900 members making 11 senior teams (1 women team), 12 junior teams (2 girl teams) and 25 pupil teams (23 girl teams). It plays at sports accommodation de Biezen in ...

, also in the Hoofdklasse. In 2016 he led Dongen to a Hoofdklasse championship after which the club promoted to Derde Divisie. In 2017 Dongen under Timmers ended third in Derde Divisie and participated in the qualification rounds for the

Tweede Divisie Tweede Divisie ( en, Second Division) is the highest amateur (and historically the lowest professional) football league in the Netherlands. It was established in 1956, together with the Eredivisie and the Eerste Divisie. Between 1956 and 1960 and b ...

. In February 2018, Timmers was hired as manager of both Sunday League club Dongen and Saturday League side

VV Capelle Voetbalvereniging Capelle is a Dutch football team, founded on 20 February 1930. Its home venue is Sportpark 't Slot in Capelle aan den IJssel. Since 2018, VV Capelle competes in the Hoofdklasse The Vierde Divisie, formerly known as Hoofdklass ...

. He managed Dongen until the summer and Capelle after the summer of 2018. He later coached

VV Heerjansdam VV Heerjansdam is a football club from Heerjansdam, Netherlands. Heerjansdam is playing in the Saturday Eerste Klasse League since 2017. Heerjansdam was the Dutch amateur champions of Saturday football in 1989. In 1986 Heerjansdam became champio ...

, until 2020. In December 2020, Timmers was appointed head coach of IFC who switched to playing Saturday football.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Timmers, Ron 1973 births Living people FC Dordrecht players Sparta Rotterdam players ASWH managers Footballers from Zwijndrecht, Netherlands Men's association football players not categorized by position Dutch men's footballers Dutch football managers VV Capelle managers VV Zwaluwen managers