Leo Beenhakker

**Leo Beenhakker** (; 2 August 1942 – 10 April 2025) was a Dutch footballer and manager. He was nicknamed "**Don Leo**" while managing in Spain.

As a footballer, he played amateur football as a right winger for teams in the Netherlands, but he had to retire at 19 years old because of injuries. As a manager, he coached teams in the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, and Turkey, as well as the national teams of the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Poland.

He is the only person to win the Eredivisie with as the manager of both Ajax and Feyenoord. While at Real Madrid, he won three La Liga titles in a row. and won the Copa del Rey in the 1988–89 season. He also managed the Netherlands at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, Trinidad and Tobago at the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup and 2006 FIFA World Cup, and Poland at UEFA Euro 2008.

Beenhakker died in Rotterdam on 10 April 2025, at the age of 82.

## Honours

- Ajax
- Eredivisie: 1979–80, 1989–90

- Real Madrid
- La Liga: 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89
- Copa del Rey: 1988–89
- Supercopa de España: 1988, 1989 <small>(won both Copa del Rey and La Liga)</small>

- Feyenoord
- Eredivisie: 1998–99
- Johan Cruyff Shield: 1999

- Individual
- Chaconia Medal, Gold Class: 2006
- Order of Polonia Restituta, Officer's Cross: 2008
- _Piłka Nożna_ Foreigner of the Year: 2006
- _Piłka Nożna_ Man of the Year: 2007

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Leo Beenhakker
- **image**: Leo Beenhakker 1986.jpg
- **caption**: Beenhakker in 1986
- **birth place**: Rotterdam, Reichskommissariat Niederlande, German-occupied Netherlands
- **death place**: Rotterdam, Netherlands
- **position**: Right winger
- **clubs2**: XerxesDZB, Xerxes
- **clubs3**: Zwart-Wit '28
- **manageryears1**: 1965–1967
- **manageryears2**: 1967–1968
- **managerclubs2**: Go Ahead Eagles (assistant)
- **manageryears3**: 1968–1972
- **managerclubs3**: SC Veendam, Veendam
- **manageryears4**: 1972–1975
- **managerclubs4**: SC Cambuur, Cambuur
- **manageryears5**: 1975–1976
- **managerclubs5**: Go Ahead Eagles
- **manageryears6**: 1976–1978
- **managerclubs6**: Feyenoord (youth)
- **manageryears7**: 1978–1979
- **managerclubs7**: AFC Ajax, Ajax (youth and assistant)
- **manageryears8**: 1979–1981
- **managerclubs8**: AFC Ajax, Ajax
- **manageryears9**: 1981–1984
- **managerclubs9**: Real Zaragoza
- **manageryears10**: 1984–1985
- **managerclubs10**: FC Volendam, Volendam
- **manageryears11**: 1985–1986
- **managerclubs11**: Netherlands national football team, Netherlands (interim)
- **manageryears12**: 1986–1989
- **managerclubs12**: Real Madrid CF, Real Madrid
- **manageryears13**: 1989–1991
- **managerclubs13**: AFC Ajax, Ajax
- **manageryears14**: 1990
- **managerclubs14**: Netherlands national football team, Netherlands
- **manageryears15**: 1992
- **managerclubs15**: Real Madrid CF, Real Madrid
- **manageryears16**: 1992–1993
- **managerclubs16**: Grasshopper Club Zürich, Grasshoppers
- **manageryears17**: 1993–1994
- **managerclubs17**: Saudi Arabia national football team, Saudi Arabia
- **manageryears18**: 1994–1995
- **managerclubs18**: Club América
- **manageryears19**: 1995
- **managerclubs19**: İstanbulspor A.Ş., İstanbulspor
- **manageryears20**: 1996
- **managerclubs20**: C.D. Guadalajara, Guadalajara
- **manageryears21**: 1996–1997
- **managerclubs21**: SBV Vitesse, Vitesse
- **manageryears22**: 1997–2000
- **managerclubs22**: Feyenoord
- **manageryears23**: 2003–2004
- **managerclubs23**: Club América
- **manageryears24**: 2005–2006
- **managerclubs24**: Trinidad and Tobago national football team, Trinidad and Tobago
- **manageryears25**: 2006–2009
- **managerclubs25**: Poland national football team, Poland
- **manageryears26**: 2007
- **managerclubs26**: Feyenoord (interim)