Frans Bouwmeester

Frans Bouwmeester
Personal information
Full nameFrans Bouwmeester
Date of birthMay 19, 1940
Place of birthBreda, Netherlands
Playing positionforward
Youth career
NAC
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1956-1960NAC100(25)
1960-1966Feijenoord139(44)
1966-1969NAC65(4)
1969-1970Racing White1(0)
1970-1971DFC?(?)
National team
1959-1968Netherlands5(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Frans Bouwmeester (born 19 May 1940 in Breda) is a retired Dutch footballer who was active as a left winger and who is currently head scout at Feyenoord Rotterdam.

Bouwmeester started his career in his town of birth, Breda where he played for NAC. After three seasons at this team he made a switch towards Feijenoord. This turned out to be the most successful period in his career. In both 1961 and 1962 Feijenoord took the Eredivisie Championship. In 1965 Bouwmeester and Feijenoord won both the league and the KNVB Cup.

From 1959 to 1968 Bouwmeester was also called up to represent the Dutch national football team. He made his debut in a 7-0 loss versus Germany on 21 October 1959. In total he would play in five international matches.

After his career Bouwmeester became a scout at Willem II Tilburg from 1992 to 1994. After that he became head scout at Feijenoord. At the moment he is scout for de Dutch team NAC.

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