Roger Reijners

{{short description|Dutch football coach and former player|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Roger Reijners

| image =

| caption =

| fullname = Roger Johannes Joseph Hubertus Reijners{{Cite web|title=Netherlands - R. Reijners - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway|url=https://int.soccerway.com/coaches/roger-reijners/215278/|access-date=2020-11-01|website=int.soccerway.com}}

| height = {{height|m=1.72}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|2|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Roermond, Netherlands

| position = Midfielder

| currentclub =

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Vv Victoria

| youthyears2 =

| youthclubs2 = RKSVN

| years1 = 1983–1991

| years2 = 1991–1995

| clubs1 = Fortuna Sittard

| clubs2 = MVV

| caps1 = 225

| goals1 = 16

| caps2 = 101

| goals2 = 3

| totalcaps = 326 | totalgoals = 19

| nationalyears1 = 1984

| nationalteam1 = Netherlands U21

| nationalcaps1 = 4

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| manageryears1 = 2000–2003

| managerclubs1 = MVV Maastricht

| manageryears2 = 2003–2007

| managerclubs2 = Fortuna Sittard (assistant)

| manageryears3 = 2007–2010

| managerclubs3 = Fortuna Sittard

| manageryears4 = 2010–2015

| managerclubs4 = Netherlands Women

| manageryears5 = 2016

| managerclubs5 = Myanmar Women

| manageryears6 = 2018–2019

| managerclubs6 = China U-17 (women)

| manageryears7 = 2019–2020

| managerclubs7 = MVV Maastricht (assistant)

| manageryears8 = 2021-2022

| managerclubs8 = VVV Venlo U-21

| manageryears9 = 2022-2024

| managerclubs9 = Fortuna Sittard

| pcupdate =

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Roger Reijners (born 10 February 1964) is a Dutch football coach and former player.

Playing career

Reijners turned professional with Fortuna Sittard and played in the 1–0 KNVB Cup Final defeat to Feyenoord in his first season, 1983–84. He also won four caps for the Netherlands national under-21 football team in May 1984. After becoming an Eredivisie regular, he joined MVV in early in the 1991–92 season in an exchange for Huub Driessen.

Coaching career

In 1995 Reijners retired from playing and moved on to the coaching staff at MVV.{{cite news|url=http://www.uefa.com/news/newsid=1967979.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130713030637/http://www.uefa.com/news/newsid=1967979.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 July 2013|title=Roger Reijners|work=UEFA|date=1 June 2013|access-date=12 July 2013}} From 1995 to 2000, Reijners worked as an academy manager at MVV.

On 1 November 2010 he left his role as Fortuna Sittard manager to succeed Vera Pauw as coach of the Netherlands women's national football team.{{cite news|url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/01ea-0e11fb17b70a-9af1ad127e86-1000--reijners-handed-netherlands-role/|title=Reijners handed Netherlands role|work=UEFA|date=22 October 2010|access-date=12 July 2013|first=Berend|last=Scholten}}

On 20 June 2019, Reijners returned to MVV Maastricht as assistant manager of first team manager Fuat Usta.[https://www.mvv.nl/nieuws/oud-mvv-speler-en-trainer-roger-reijners Oud MVV-speler én trainer Roger Reijners toegevoegd aan trainersstaf MVV Maastricht], mvv.nl, 20 June 2019