Giovanni van Bronckhorst

**Giovanni Christiaan “Gio” van Bronckhorst** (born 5 February 1975) is a Dutch football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Turkish Süper Lig club Beşiktaş. Formerly a midfielder, he moved to left-back later in his career.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|League cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="5"|Feyenoord|1994–95|Eredivisie|10|1|||—|—|—|10|1||||
|1995–96|Eredivisie|27|9|||—|7|0|1|0|35|9||||
|1996–97|Eredivisie|34|4|1|1|—|6|0|—|41|5|||||
|1997–98|Eredivisie|32|8|||—|8|2|—|40|10|||||
|RKC Waalwijk (loan)|1993–94|Eredivisie|12|2|||—|—|—|12|2|||||
|rowspan="4"|Rangers|1998–99|Scottish Premier League|35|7|5|1|4|0|9|2|—|53|10||
|1999–2000|Scottish Premier League|27|4|5|2|1|0|12|0|—|45|6||||
|2000–01|Scottish Premier League|11|2|0|0|1|1|7|3|—|19|6||||
|rowspan="4"|Arsenal|2001–02|Premier League|21|1|2|0|3|0|7|0|—|33|1||
|2002–03|Premier League|20|1|5|0|1|0|4|0|—|30|1||||
|2003–04|Premier League|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|1|0|||
|Barcelona (loan)|2003–04|La Liga|34|1|5|0|—|4|0|—|43|1||||
|rowspan="4"|Barcelona|2004–05|La Liga|29|4|1|0|—|8|0|—|38|4|||
|2005–06|La Liga|19|0|4|1|—|13|0|—|36|1|||||
|2006–07|La Liga|23|0|6|1|—|6|0|3|0|38|1||||
|rowspan="4"|Feyenoord|2007–08|Eredivisie|32|7|6|0|—|—|—|38|7||||
|2008–09|Eredivisie|27|1|5|0|—|5|1|3|0|40|2||||
|2009–10|Eredivisie|29|0|4|2|—|—|—|33|2||||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="15"|Netherlands|1996|3|0|
|1997|4|1|||
|1998|1|0|||
|1999|6|0|||
|2000|7|1|||
|2001|4|0|||
|2002|1|0|||
|2003|6|1|||
|2004|13|0|||
|2005|9|0|||
|2006|9|0|||
|2007|10|1|||
|2008|14|1|||
|2009|9|0|||
|2010|10|1|||

- _Scores and results list the Netherlands' goal tally first, score column indicates score after each van Bronckhorst goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|4 June 1997|Johannesburg, South Africa||1–0|2–0|Friendly||||||||
|2|2 September 2000|Amsterdam, Netherlands||2–2|2–2|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|3|12 February 2003|Amsterdam, Netherlands||1–0|1–0|Friendly||||||||
|4|28 March 2007|Celje, Slovenia||1–0|1–0|UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying||||||||
|5|9 June 2008|Bern, Switzerland||3–0|3–0|UEFA Euro 2008||||||||
|6|6 July 2010|Cape Town, South Africa||1–0|3–2|2010 FIFA World Cup||||||||

## Managerial statistics

|rowspan="2"|Team|rowspan="2"|Nat|rowspan="2"|From|rowspan="2"|To|colspan="8"|Record|rowspan=2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Feyenoord||align=left|18 May 2015|align=left|19 May 2019|||||||
|Guangzhou R&F||align=left|4 January 2020|align=left|3 December 2020|||||||
|Rangers||align=left|18 November 2021|align=left|21 November 2022|||||||
|Beşiktaş||align=left|5 June 2024|align=left|present|||||||
|colspan=4|**Career total**|||||||||||

### Player

**Feyenoord**
- Eredivisie runner-up: 1996–97
- KNVB Cup: 1994−95, 2007−08
- Johan Cruyff Shield runner-up: 1994, 1995, 2008

**Rangers**
- Scottish Premier League: 1998−99, 1999−2000, runner-up: 2000–01
- Scottish Cup: 1998–99, 1999–2000
- Scottish League Cup: 1998–99

**Arsenal**
- Premier League: 2001−02, runner-up: 2002–03
- FA Cup: 2002–03
- FA Community Shield runner-up: 2003

**Barcelona**
- La Liga: 2004–05, 2005−06, runner-up: 2006–07
- Supercopa de España: 2005, 2006
- UEFA Champions League: 2005−06
- UEFA Super Cup runner-up: 2006
- FIFA Club World Cup runner-up: 2006

**Netherlands**
- FIFA World Cup runner-up: 2010

### Manager

**Feyenoord**
- Eredivisie: 2016–17
- KNVB Cup: 2015–16, 2017–18
- Johan Cruyff Shield: 2017, 2018, runner-up: 2016

**Rangers**
- Scottish Premiership runner-up: 2021–22
- Scottish Cup: 2021–22
- UEFA Europa League runner-up: 2021–22

**Beşiktaş**
- Turkish Super Cup: 2024

### Individual

- FIFA Puskás Award 3rd place: 2010

### Orders

- Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau: 2010

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Giovanni van Bronckhorst
- **image**: Giovanni van Brocnkhorst 20240803.jpg
- **caption**: Van Bronckhorst celebrating the 2024 Turkish Super Cup, Turkish Super Cup as manager of Beşiktaş J.K., Beşiktaş in 2024
- **full name**: Giovanni Christiaan van Bronckhorst
- **birth place**: Rotterdam, Netherlands
- **height**: 1.78m
- **position**: Midfielder, left-back
- **currentclub**: Beşiktaş J.K., Beşiktaş (manager)
- **youthyears1**: 1981–1982
- **youthclubs1**: RVV LMO
- **youthyears2**: 1982–1993
- **youthclubs2**: Feyenoord
- **years1**: 1993–1998
- **clubs1**: Feyenoord
- **caps1**: 103
- **goals1**: 22
- **years2**: 1993–1994
- **clubs2**: → RKC Waalwijk (loan)
- **caps2**: 12
- **goals2**: 2
- **years3**: 1998–2001
- **clubs3**: Rangers F.C., Rangers
- **caps3**: 73
- **goals3**: 13
- **years4**: 2001–2004
- **clubs4**: Arsenal F.C., Arsenal
- **caps4**: 41
- **goals4**: 2
- **years5**: 2003–2004
- **clubs5**: → FC Barcelona, Barcelona (loan)
- **caps5**: 34
- **goals5**: 1
- **years6**: 2004–2007
- **clubs6**: FC Barcelona, Barcelona
- **caps6**: 71
- **goals6**: 4
- **years7**: 2007–2010
- **clubs7**: Feyenoord
- **caps7**: 88
- **goals7**: 8
- **totalcaps**: 422
- **totalgoals**: 52
- **nationalyears1**: 1996–2010
- **nationalteam1**: Netherlands national football team, Netherlands
- **nationalcaps1**: 106
- **nationalgoals1**: 6
- **manageryears1**: 2012–2013
- **managerclubs1**: Feyenoord_Academy_(Varkenoord)#Feyenoord_U21, Feyenoord U21
- **manageryears2**: 2015–2019
- **managerclubs2**: Feyenoord
- **manageryears3**: 2020
- **managerclubs3**: Guangzhou R&F
- **manageryears4**: 2021–2022
- **managerclubs4**: Rangers F.C., Rangers
- **manageryears5**: 2024
- **managerclubs5**: Beşiktaş J.K., Beşiktaş