Kees Kist

Kees Kist

Personal information
Date of birth	(1952-08-07) August 7, 1952
Place of birth	Steenwijk, Netherlands
Playing position	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1970-1972	SC Heerenveen	0	(0)
1972-1982	AZ	323	(196)
1982-1983	Paris Saint-Germain	34	(12)
1983-1984	FC Mulhouse	27	(10)
1984-1985	AZ	49	(15)
1985-1987	SC Heerenveen	39	(17)
National team
1975-1980	Netherlands	21	(4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Kees Kist (born August 7, 1952 in Steenwijk, Overijssel) is a retired football striker from the Netherlands.

Career

Kist obtained 21 caps for his national team, in which he scored four goals, in the years 1975–1980. He played for SC Heerenveen (1970–1972), AZ '67 (now AZ) (1972–1982), winning the Dutch title in 1981, Paris Saint-Germain (1982–1983), FC Mulhouse (1983–1984), AZ (1984–1986), and returned for his last season to SC Heerenveen. Kist scored 259 goals in 441 games for AZ. He made 212 of these goals while AZ Alkmaar was in the highest division (eredivisie), which puts him in fourth place on the all-time leaders list, behind Willy van der Kuijlen, Ruud Geels and Johan Cruijff. He was the first Dutch player to win the European Golden Boot in 1979, after having scored 34 goals in the 1978-79 season for AZ.

References

• (Dutch) VoetbalStats
• (German) Weltfussball.de

Netherlands squads Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 1976 Third Place 1 Schrijvers 2 Suurbier 3 Rijsbergen 4 Van Kraay 5 Krol 6 Neeskens 7 Jansen 8 Rep 9 Cruijff (c) 10 W. Van de Kerkhof 11 Rensenbrink 12 Van Hanegem 13 Geels 14 Peters 15 R. Van de Kerkhof 16 Arntz 17 Ruiter 18 Jongbloed 19 Kist 20 Meutstege Coach: Knobel Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 1980 1 Schrijvers 2 Wijnstekers 3 Van de Korput 4 Hovenkamp 5 Krol (c) 6 Poortvliet 7 R. Van de Kerkhof 8 W. Van de Kerkhof 9 Kist 10 Haan 11 Otto 12 Rep 13 Nanninga 14 Koster 15 Stevens 16 Doesburg 17 Vreijsen 18 Thijssen 19 Zondervan 20 Van Breukelen 21 Brandts 22 Metgod Coach: Zwartkruis