Annemieke Kiesel


Annemieke Kiesel is a Dutch former football player and coach. She played for clubs in the Netherlands, United States, England and Germany, winning titles with Dutch and German clubs. She also played for the [Netherlands women's national association football|football team|Netherlands national team] between 1995 and 2011, retiring with 156 caps, making her the player with the second most appearances for the Dutch national team of all time. Following her playing career, she took on coaching and has worked either as assistant coach or as head coach.

Club career

Born in Kockengen, she started playing football at the age of 7 for amateur club OSV Nita in Nieuwer Ter Aa, as the club did not have a girls team, she played in the boys youth teams. At the age of 11 she changed club and played in the girls team of CS Wilnis and after a couple of years she was in the club's first women's team. In 1994 she arrived at Hoofdklasse club SV Saestum, where she played for 10 years, winning the Dutch League six times and the KNVB Cup on three occasions, it was also during her time at the club that she first played in the UEFA Women's Cup, making her debut on 25 September 2002 in the 2002–03 UEFA Women's Cup match against SK Trondheims-Ørn.
In the summer of 2004, she left the Netherlands and went to the United States, where she played 8 matches for Charlotte Lady Eagles in the 2004 USL W-League season.
Later that year she returned to Europe, joined English FA Women's Premier League club Bristol Academy and played a total of 20 matches scoring 5 goals during her single season at the club.
In 2005, she joined German Bundesliga club FCR 2001 Duisburg. She did not manage to win the league at the club, was runner-up on four occasions, but won the German Cup twice and won the UEFA Women's Cup in 2008–09. After the 2010–11 season she announced her retirement from football, having played over 120 official matches in all competitions for FCR 2001 Duisburg.

International career

Her debut for the Netherlands women's national football team came when she was 16 years old, on 9 December 1995 against France in a 1997 UEFA Women's Euro qualification match. Over the years she was regularly picked in the starting line-up team and featured in many matches, but the team only played minor tournaments as it did not manage to qualify for major tournaments.
At UEFA Women's Euro 2009, the first major tournament the women's team played, Kiesel-Griffioen played a very good tournament and had an important role in the Dutch midfield. The team beat Ukraine and Denmark in the group stage, to then eliminate France in the quarter-final and were 3 minutes away from another penalty shoot-out in the semi-final but fell to England's winning goal. The semifinal match was Kiesel-Griffioen 141st match for the Dutch team.
On 24 October 2009, she broke the record against Norway earning her 142nd cap.
Her last match for the national team, on 18 May 2011 against North Korea, was her 156th cap making her the player with the most appearances for the Dutch national team of all time.

Coaching career

Since retiring as a player, she took on coaching women's teams and was first appointed as an assistant coach at Dutch club VVV-Venlo in 2011. She returned to Duisburg to work between 2012 and 2014 as assistant coach and head coach at the youth teams of FCR 2001 Duisburg and subsequently MSV Duisburg. She gave up on coaching and has worked as a scout for the Royal Dutch Football Association, she watched opponents and informed the KNVB staff about them in the 2013 UEFA Women's Euro and 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Career statistics

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
16 March 1996Sportpark Budel, Budel, Netherlands3–04–0Friendly
28 September 1996Stadion SK Union Vršovice, Prague, Czech Republic1–12–11997 UEFA Women's Euro qualification
314 August 1997Sportpark De Kloet, Grootebroek, Netherlands1–01–1Friendly
416 September 1997KNVB Academy, Zeist, Netherlands1–03–0Friendly
51 April 2000Polman Stadion, Almelo, Netherlands1–11–22001 UEFA Women's Euro qualification
618 September 2000Sportpark Panhuis, Veenendaal, Netherlands2–13–1Friendly
714 October 2000Sportcentrum Bük, Bük, Hungary3–03–02001 UEFA Women's Euro qualification
86 March 2001Sportpark De Hoge Neerstraat, Etten-Leur, Netherlands3–15–1Friendly
98 May 2001West Lothian Courier Stadium, Livingston, Scotland1–04–0Friendly
1023 March 2002Zuiderpark Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands1–21–42003 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
1127 November 2002Sportpark Rijsoord, Ridderkerk, Netherlands2–04–0Friendly
1227 November 2002Sportpark Rijsoord, Ridderkerk, Netherlands3–04–0Friendly
1311 July 2009Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands3–05–0Friendly
1429 October 2009Oosterenkstadion, Zwolle, Netherlands1–013–12011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
1529 October 2009Oosterenkstadion, Zwolle, Netherlands4–013–12011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
1629 October 2009Oosterenkstadion, Zwolle, Netherlands9–013–12011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
1729 October 2009Oosterenkstadion, Zwolle, Netherlands10–113–12011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
181 April 2010NTC Stadion, Senec, Slovakia1–01–02011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
193 April 2011Kras Stadion, Volendam, Netherlands5–16–2Friendly

Honours

SV Saestum
  • Hoofdklasse : 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2001–02
  • KNVB Cup: 1997–98, 1998–99, 2003–04
FCR 2001 Duisburg
Individual
  • Best player Hoofdklasse: 2002–03