Johannes Nicolaas "John" van 't Schip (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɟɔɱ vɑn ət ˈsxɪp]; born 30 December 1963) is a Dutch football manager and former player who played as a winger, and is the current manager of Eredivisie club Ajax. Born in Canada, he played for the Netherlands national team for nine years. He spent his club career with Ajax, where they won four Eredivisie titles, a UEFA Cup and a European Cup Winners Cup, as well as Genoa. He was also a member of the Dutch side which won the 1988 European Championships.

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John van 't Schip

Van 't Schip in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Johannes Nicolaas van 't Schip[1]
Date of birth	(1963-12-30) 30 December 1963 (age 60)
Place of birth	Fort St. John, Canada
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Team information
Current team	Ajax (Coach)
Youth career
1972–1976	NFC Amstelveen
1976–1981	Ajax
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1981–1992	Ajax	273	(29)
1992–1996	Genoa	107	(11)
Total		380	(40)
International career
1986–1995	Netherlands	41	(2)
Managerial career
1997–2000	Ajax Youth
2001–2002	Twente
2002–2004	Jong Ajax
2009	Ajax (caretaker)
2010–2012	Melbourne Heart
2012–2013	Guadalajara
2013–2017	Melbourne City[2]
2017–2018	PEC Zwolle
2019–2021	Greece
2023–	Ajax
Medal record Representing  Netherlands UEFA European Championship Winner 1988
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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Van 't Schip started his managerial career at the Ajax Youth Academy, and his first senior managerial gig was with Twente. He previously was the manager of PEC Zwolle in his native Netherlands and Melbourne City in Australia among others. He managed the Greece national football team from 2019 to 2021. He was then appointed as the manager of Ajax in 2023.

Van 't Schip was born in Fort St. John, British Columbia, and was raised in Powell River, British Columbia, where he grew up playing youth football in the small community before his family moved back to the Netherlands in 1972.

Van 't Schip began his football journey at NFC where he played for four years. He then began his professional career at Ajax in its youth academy. Debuting for the first team on the sixth of December 1981 in a 4–1 win against Haarlem, he spent the next eleven seasons with the club. During this period, he won the Eredivisie in 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1990, as well as the KNVB Beker in 1983, 1986 and 1987. He also helped Ajax win the 1987 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 1992 UEFA Cup. After Ajax's UEFA Cup victory, he was transferred to Italian team Genoa, where he played four seasons before ending his career. He helped the club to lift the 1996 Anglo-Italian Cup.

On the international level, Van 't Schip, a member of the Dutch squad at the 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship, was capped 41 times and scored two goals for the Dutch national team. His debut came against Scotland in April 1986, and his final match was a Euro qualifying match against Belarus in June 1995. Van 't Schip featured in the victorious Euro 1988 squad, as well as 1990 FIFA World Cup and Euro 1992 tournaments.

After retiring, Van 't Schip became a youth coach for Ajax and manager for Twente. From August 2004 he assisted Marco van Basten in coaching the Dutch national team, until Van Basten left the position of head coach following Euro 2008. Van 't Schip followed Van Basten to Ajax, becoming assistant coach with Rob Witschge, for the 2008–09 season.^[3] On 6 May 2009, after Marco van Basten's resignation, he was named as the interim head coach of Ajax, and coached the club till the end of the season.

In addition to his native Dutch, Van 't Schip can also speak English, Spanish and Italian.^[15][16][17] His mother in law is Dutch singer and actress Willeke Alberti.^[18]

As of match played 14 April 2024

• 1.^ Includes League, Liguilla, Copa MX and CONCACAF Champions League.