Patrick Kluivert, Netherlands footballer: Profile, Career, News & Videos

Patrick Kluivert is a Dutch football coach and former player. As a player, he played as a striker for Ajax, Barcelona and the Netherlands national team. He is considered one of the best Dutch strikers of all time.

He was part of Ajax's Golden Generation of the 1990s, scoring the winner in the 1995 UEFA Champions League Final at the age of 18. He spent six years with Spanish club Barcelona, where he scored 124 goals from 249 appearances. He formed a successful partnership with Rivaldo, and won the Spanish La Liga championship of 1999.

Kluivert played for the Netherlands national team from 1994 to 2004. With 40 goals in 79 appearances, he is the fourth highest goalscorer for the Oranje. He played in three European Championships and the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and was joint top scorer at Euro 2000, where he scored five goals. In 2004, he was named in the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers chosen by Pelé as part of FIFA's centenary observances.

Kluivert began his coaching career as an assistant at AZ and NEC, as well as the Brisbane Roar, before managing Jong Twente to a national title in the Dutch reserves league. He was an assistant to Louis van Gaal with the Dutch team that finished third at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. In 2015, he took over as head coach of the Curaçao national team. He then served as a sporting director for Paris Saint-Germain, as well as coaching the Ajax A1 (under-19) team in 2016 and assisting Clarence Seedorf for the Cameroon national team in 2018. After leaving Cameroon in July 2019, he served as the academy director of Barcelona until his brief return to Curaçao as interim coach on May 2021. Kluivert was head coach of Turkish side Adana Demirspor in 2023 and the Indonesia national team in 2025.