Joey Sleegers
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 20 July 1994 | ||
Place of birth | Helmond, Netherlands | ||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Left winger[1] | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Eindhoven | ||
Number | 10 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2002 | HVV Helmond | ||
2002–2006 | RKC Waalwijk | ||
2006–2013 | Feyenoord | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2013–2015 | Feyenoord | 0 | (0) |
2014–2015 | → Eindhoven (loan) | 35 | (13) |
2015–2017 | NEC | 26 | (1) |
2016–2017 | → VVV-Venlo (loan) | 35 | (8) |
2018–2019 | Trenčín | 38 | (10) |
2019– | Eindhoven | 46 | (16) |
National team | |||
2011 | Netherlands U17 | 1 | (0) |
2012 | Netherlands U18 | 2 | (0) |
2014 | Netherlands U20 | 1 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10 January 2022 |
Joey Sleegers (born 20 July 1994) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Eerste Divisie club FC Eindhoven.
Club career[]
Sleegers is a youth exponent from Feyenoord, a club he joined as a 12-year-old from the RKC Waalwijk youth academy. During the 2014–15 season, he played on loan for FC Eindhoven, where he made his professional team debut on 13 September 2014 against Achilles '29.[2]
On 25 August 2015, Sleegers signed a three-year contract with NEC, who had been promoted to the Eredivisie in the previous season.[3] He made his Eredivisie debut three days later, when NEC beat Willem II 1–0 after a goal from Navarone Foor. Sleegers started the game, but was substituted off for Gregor Breinburg at half-time.[4] On 26 February 2016, Sleegers scored his first goal for NEC in an away game against SC Heerenveen.[5]
During the 2016–17 season, Sleegers was sent on loan to VVV-Venlo.[6] There, he won the Eerste Divisie title and scored eight goals in 35 appearances.[7] After his loan ended, he returned to NEC.[8]
Also in his second period at NEC, Sleegers was unable to secure a place in the starting lineup. Therefore, he moved to Slovakian club AS Trenčín on 5 January 2018, where he signed a multi-year contract.[9] With Trenčín he qualified for the UEFA Europa League with his former club Feyenoord being opponent in the third qualifying round. Sleegers contributed to the elimination of his old club with an assist to the 3–0 in the first leg.[10]
After a stay of one and a half years in Slovakia, Sleegers returned to the Netherlands to sign a three-year contract with FC Eindhoven.[11]
Career statistics[]
- As of 3 October 2021[7]
Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Eindhoven (loan) | 2014–15 | Eerste Divisie | 33 | 13 | 1 | 0 | — | 2[a] | 0 | 36 | 13 | |
NEC | 2015–16 | Eredivisie | 18 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 21 | 1 | ||
2016–17 | Eredivisie | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||
2017–18 | Eerste Divisie | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 9 | 0 | |||
Total | 26 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 31 | 1 | ||||
VVV-Venlo (loan) | 2016–17 | Eerste Divisie | 35 | 8 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 37 | 9 | ||
Trenčín | 2017–18 | Super Liga | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2[b] | 0 | 14 | 2 |
2018–19 | Super Liga | 28 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 8[c] | 1 | 2[d] | 1 | 42 | 13 | |
Total | 38 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 56 | 15 | ||
Eindhoven | 2019–20 | Eerste Divisie | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 21 | 0 | ||
2020–21 | Eerste Divisie | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 16 | 0 | |||
2021–22 | Eerste Divisie | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||
Total | 34 | 11 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 35 | 11 | ||||
Career total | 166 | 43 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 195 | 49 |
- ^ Appearance(s) in Eerste Divisie promotion play-offs
- ^ Appearance(s) in Slovak Super Liga European play-offs
- ^ Appearance(s) in the UEFA Europa League
- ^ Appearance(s) in Slovak Super Liga relegation play-offs
Honours[]
VVV-Venlo
Individual
- Bronzen Stier – Best Player Eerste Divisie: 2014–15[12]
- Gouden Stier – Best Talent Eerste Divisie: 2014–15[13]
References[]
- ^ Joey Sleegers at WorldFootball.net
- ^ "FC Eindhoven vs. Achilles '29 - 13 September 2014 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ "Joey Sleegers vertrekt naar N.E.C." FR12.nl (in Dutch). 25 August 2015.
- ^ "Willem II - NEC Nijmegen 0:1 (Eredivisie 2015/2016, 4. Round)". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
- ^ "N.E.C. sleept punt uit het vuur in Heerenveen". N.E.C. (in Dutch). 20 February 2016.
- ^ "Joey Sleegers gehuurd van NEC". VVV-Venlo (in Dutch). 17 August 2016. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016.
- ^ a b "Netherlands - J. Sleegers - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
- ^ a b "NEC-huurling Joey Sleegers kampioen met VVV". Omroep Gelderland (in Dutch). 21 April 2017.
- ^ Gruijthuijsen, Jasper van (5 January 2018). "AS Trencín verlost Joey Sleegers van NEC-bank". De Gelderlander (in Dutch).
- ^ "Europa League ver weg voor Feyenoord na wanvertoning tegen Trencín". NU (in Dutch). 9 August 2018.
- ^ Dal, Thomas (16 July 2019). "Joey Sleegers verrast met terugkeer bij FC Eindhoven: Ik wilde graag weer in Nederland voetballen". Eindhovens Dagblad (in Dutch).
- ^ "Bronzen Stier voor Joey Sleegers". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). 6 March 2015.
- ^ "Gouden Stieren voor Jahanbakhsh, De Jong, Ars en Sleegers". KNVB (in Dutch). 13 May 2015.
External links[]
- Joey Sleegers at Soccerbase
- Joey Sleegers at Soccerway
- 1994 births
- Living people
- People from Helmond
- Footballers from North Brabant
- Association football wingers
- Dutch footballers
- RKC Waalwijk players
- Feyenoord players
- FC Eindhoven players
- NEC Nijmegen players
- VVV-Venlo players
- AS Trenčín players
- Eredivisie players
- Eerste Divisie players
- Slovak Super Liga players
- Dutch expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Slovakia
- Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
- Netherlands youth international footballers