Leo Beenhakker

Dutch association football trainer (1942–2025)

  • Fame59.0
  • Momentum8.8
  • Wikipedia16.7K
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Lived 1942–2025, aged 83Netherlands
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    40 languages
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  • Era
    1942–2025
    Aged 83
  • Known for
    Becoming Zlatan
    2015
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

A coaching career forged from injury at 19 turned Leo Beenhakker into the only manager to win the Eredivisie with both Ajax and Feyenoord — then into "Don Leo," the architect of Real Madrid's late-'80s threepeat.

Biography

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When injury ended Beenhakker's amateur playing days at 19, he pivoted to the touchline and never looked back. He claimed the Eredivisie twice with Ajax and once with Feyenoord, a feat no one else has matched across that bitter rivalry. Spain gave him his nickname: as Real Madrid manager in the late 1980s, he delivered three consecutive La Liga titles, one paired with the Copa del Rey. His international portfolio stretched wider still — he took the Netherlands to the 1990 World Cup, then led Trinidad and Tobago and Poland to their first-ever major tournaments in 2006 and 2008. Beenhakker died i…

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  • Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta
  • Chaconia Medal
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Completeness75.0
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
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