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Roger Reijners

Personal information
Full name	Roger Johannes Joseph Hubertus Reijners
Date of birth	(1964-02-10) 10 February 1964
Place of birth	Roermond, Netherlands
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position	Midfielder
Youth career
	Vv Victoria
	RKSVN
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1983–1991	Fortuna Sittard	225	(16)
1991–1995	MVV	101	(3)
Total		326	(19)
International career
1984	Netherlands U21	4	(0)
Managerial career
2000–2003	MVV Maastricht
2003–2007	Fortuna Sittard (assistant)
2007–2010	Fortuna Sittard
2010–2015	Netherlands Women
2016	Myanmar Women
2018–2019	China Women U-17
2019–2020	MVV Maastricht (assistant)
2021–2022	VVV Venlo U-21
2022–2024	Fortuna Sittard Women
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

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. 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.

On 20 June 2019, Reijners returned to MVV Maastricht as assistant manager of first team manager Fuat Usta.