- Gertjan Verbeek
Gertjan Verbeek (born August 1, 1962 in Deventer, Overijssel) is a former football defender from the Netherlands, who played his entire professional career for SC Heerenveen (1984-1994). Verbeek retired in 1994, and soon afterwards became a football manager, who worked as an assistant-coach for SC Heerenveen (1994-2001) and as the head coach of Heracles Almelo (2001-2004). In 2004 he was appointed as the successor of retiring head coach Foppe de Haan at SC Heerenveen.
- Foppe de Haan
Foppe de Haan (born June 26, 1943 in Lippenhuizen, Friesland) is a Dutch football coach. De Haan is currently coaching the Netherlands national under-21 football team, with whom he won the 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship and 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. A semi final spot in the latter tournament also qualified the Dutch for the 2008 Summer Olympics. He is a former coach of the club SC Heerenveen from 1985 till 2004, …
- Afonso Alves
Afonso Alves Martins Jr, "Afonso" [a'fõsu 'auvis] (born January 30, 1981) is a Brazilian footballer currently playing for Dutch side Heerenveen.
- Abe Lenstra
Abe Lenstra (November 27, 1920 in Heerenveen - September 2, 1985) was a Dutch football player and national football icon in the 1950s. He was also a Frisian legend, most notably with the club where he made his name as a football player, SC Heerenveen. He has played for a host of clubs such as SC Enschede, Enschedese Boys, PH: DOS '19, WSV, DOS Kampen and FC Assen.
- Miralem Sulejmani
Miralem Sulejmani (born 15 December 1988) is a Serbian footballer who currently plays for SC Heerenveen. Sulejmani was born in Beograd and made his debut in professional football in the 2005-06 season when playing for FK Partizan. He started playing football for local club BSK-Batajnica.
- Calvin Jong-A-Pin
Calvin Jong-a-Pin (born 18 July 1986) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for SC Heerenveen. Jong-a-Pin was born in Amsterdam and made his debut in professional football in the 2005-06 season when playing for FC Volendam. In 2007 Jong-a-Pin was called up by Jong Oranje coach Foppe de Haan to be part of his squad for the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship held in the Netherlands.
- Michael Bradley
Michael Bradley (born July 31, 1987) is an American soccer player, who currently plays as a midfielder for SC Heerenveen of the Dutch Eredivisie. Bradley was born in Princeton, New Jersey. With his father, Bob Bradley, in charge of the Chicago Fire, Bradley lived in Palatine, Illinois as a teenager. He then moved to the Bradenton Academy, the United States's dedicated facility in Florida for the training of its Under-17 national team for four semesters, …
- Jeroen Drost
Jeroen Drost (born 21 January 1987 in Kampen) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for SC Heerenveen, where he started his career. His twin brother Henrico Drost is also a professional footballer. <br> <br>
- Gianni Zuiverloon
Gianni Zuiverloon (born December 30, 1986 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch football defender, who signed a 3-year contract in June 2006 to his current club SC Heerenveen.
- Gerald Sibon
Gerald Sibon (born April 19, 1974 in Emmen, the Netherlands), is a Dutch football player who plays for SC Heerenveen. He is a centre-forward. He featured for FC Twente in the 1993/1994 season as a substitute but could only string together three games before deciding to sign for VVV Venlo of the Eerste Divisie in the following season. After two successful seasons playing for VVV where he scored 34 goals, …
- Jakob Poulsen
Jakob Poulsen (born 7 July 1983) is a Danish football defender playing in SC Heerenveen. He has played 16 games for the Denmark under-21 national football team, and was selected to represent Denmark at the 2006 European Under-21 Championship. He started his senior career with Esbjerg fB, before moving to SC Heerenveen in 2006.
- Roy Beerens
Roy Beerens (born 22 December, 1987 in Bladel, Netherlands) is a professional footballer who currently plays on loan for Dutch Eredivisie team NEC Nijmegen, but who is officially contracted by PSV Eindhoven. On January 20, 2007 he play his first Eredivisie NEC match against Heracles Almelo In 2007 Beerens was called up by Jong Oranje coach Foppe de Haan to be part of his squad for the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship held in the Netherlands.
- Brian Vandenbussche
Brian Vandenbussche (born 1981-09-24 in Blankenberge) is a Belgian footballer who currently plays for SC Heerenveen. His former team is Sparta Rotterdam. <br> <br>
- Thomas Prager
Thomas Prager (born 1985-09-13 in Vienna) is an Austrian footballer who currently plays for SC Heerenveen. <br> <br>
- Anthony Lurling
Anthonius ("Anthony") Petrus Lurling is a football (soccer) striker from the Netherlands, who started his professional career in the 1994-95 season. He played for FC Den Bosch (1994-1999), SC Heerenveen (1999-2002), Feyenoord Rotterdam (2002-2004), NAC Breda (2004-2005), 1. FC Köln and RKC Waalwijk (2005-2006). He returned to FC Den Bosch in the summer of 2006.
- Cecilio Lopes
Cecilio Lopes (born 18 March 1979 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch football player currently playing for SC Heerenveen. He is Antillean in origin.
- Boy Waterman
Boy Waterman (born 1984-01-24 in Lelystad) is a Dutch football goalkeeper who currently plays for AZ Alkmaar. He started his career at SC Heerenveen. After being loaned to AZ Alkmaar for half a year he transferred to AZ Alkmaar in April 2007. On February 10, 2007 Waterman played his first Eredivisie match for AZ against Willem II He made his European debut in AZ Alkmaar's 3-3 draw against Fenerbahce (UEFA Cup) on February 14, 2007.
- Rob van Dijk
Rob van Dijk (born 15 January 1969) is a Dutch football goalkeeper who currently plays for SC Heerenveen. Van Dijk was born in Voorhout and made his debut in professional football in the 1992-93 season when playing for Feyenoord Rotterdam. He also played competitive matches for RKC Waalwijk, PSV Eindhoven and De Graafschap.
- Henrico Drost
Henrico Drost (born 1987-01-21 in Kampen) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for SC Heerenveen. In the 06-07 season he was on loan to Excelsior. His twin brother Jeroen also plays for SC Heerenveen. <br>
- Petter Hansson
Petter Hansson ['pɛtɛr 'hɑːnsɔn] (born December 14, 1976 in Söderhamn) is a Swedish footballer who is currently playing in the Frensh Ligue 1 at Stade Rennes. He started his career at Söderhamns FF and was transderred to Halmstads BK in 1998. He made his Allsvenskan debut on 4 October 1998 versus AIK. Petter Hansson became a popular player at Halmstads BK, mainly because his fighting spirit and a strong will to win a match.
- Lasse Nilsson
Lars "Lasse" Nilsson is a Swedish footballer who currently plays for SC Heerenveen. His former teams are IK Brage and IF Elfsborg. He has played for the Sweden national football team. <br> <br>
- Michael Dingsdag
Michael Dingsdag (born 1982-10-18 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for SC Heerenveen. His former team is Vitesse Arnhem. <br> <br>
- Michel Breuer
Michel Breuer (born 1980-05-25 in Gouda) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for SC Heerenveen. His former team is Excelsior Rotterdam. <br> <br>
- Gonzalo Garcia Garcia
Gonzalo Garcia-Garcia, better known as Gonzalo, nicknamed "Recoba", (born 1983-10-13 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Spanish footballer who currently plays for SC Heerenveen. His former teams are CF Palencia and AGOVV Apeldoorn. On February 10, 2007 he played his first Eredivisie match for Heerenveen against Vitesse
- Kristian Bak Nielsen
Kristian Bak Nielsen (born October 20, 1982) is a Danish professional football player, who currently plays for SC Heerenveen in the Dutch Eredivisie championship. Bak Nielsen usually plays central defender, but he has a past as a striker. He has played one game for the Danish under-21 national team.
- Mario Been
Mario Been (born December 11, 1963 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland) is a football manager from the Netherlands, who is the head coach of NEC Nijmegen since the summer of 2006. He brought Excelsior Rotterdam back to the Eredivisie in the spring of the same year. He is nicknamed "Mariodona", after Diego Maradona and his first name. As a football midfielder himself, Been played for Feyenoord Rotterdam, Pisa Calcio, Roda JC, SC Heerenveen, FC Tirol Innsbruck, …
- Mark-Jan Fledderus
Mark-Jan Fledderus (born 1982-12-14 in Coevorden) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for FC Groningen. His former teams are SC Heerenveen and Stormvogels Telstar.
- Niklas Tarvajärvi
Niklas Tarvajärvi is a Finnish footballer. Tarvajärvi is a striker who currently plays for De Graafschap in the Dutch Eredivisie, on loan from SC Heerenveen. He joined the club in the summer of 2005 after previously playing for FC Jokerit and MyPa in Finland's Veikkausliiga.
- Georgios Samaras
Georgios Samaras (Greek: Γιώργος Σαμαράς ; born February 21, 1985 in Heraklion) is a Greek footballer who currently plays as a striker for Manchester City. Samaras moved to the Netherlands at the age of 16, signing for Heerenveen. He made his first team debut in the 2003-04 season, starting a total of ten matches. In the 2005-06 season he scored 6 goals in 13 starts for Heerenveen before joining Manchester City for a fee of £5,250,000 (rising to £6,000,000).
- Paul Bosvelt
Paul Bosvelt (born March 26, 1970 in Doetinchem) is a former Dutch footballer. Bosvelt worked his way through the Dutch leagues with Go Ahead Eagles and FC Twente before making his big move to Feyenoord in 1997. He went on to develop a reputation as a fearsome midfield general at de Kuip, making 167 top-flight appearances and leading the side to the Eredivisie title in 1999 and in the 2002, guided his team to UEFA Cup victory as a captain.
- Romano Denneboom
Romano Joel Denneboom (born January 29, 1981 in Schiedam) is a Dutch soccer player who plays for FC Twente as a forward. His former clubs are SC Heerenveen, Willem II, and NEC Nijmegen. He made one international appearance for Netherlands national football team against Liechtenstein on September 3, 2004.
- Rob Friend
Rob Friend is a professional soccer player from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. And plays now for Borussia Mönchengladbach from Germany. Friend played university soccer at University of California at Santa Barbara, after he graduated he was drafted in the 4th round of the MLS Super Draft by Chicago Fire. As a senior on the UCSB Soccer team, Friend scored in 12 consecutive matches which ranks 4th in NCAA history.
- Will Johnson
Will Johnson (born on January 21, 1987, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a striker for the Canadian national soccer team and with De Graafschap of the Dutch Eredivisie, on loan from SC Heerenveen. Johnson was born in Canada, moved shortly afterwards to England, where he started playing soccer. When he was 10 his family once again moved, this time to Woodridge, Illinois.
- Victor Sikora
Victor Tadeusz Sikora (born 11 April, 1978 in Deventer, Overijssel) is a Dutch professional footballer, who currently plays for NAC Breda he is on loan from Ajax Amsterdam. Sikora has also played for Go Ahead Eagles, Vitesse Arnhem and SC Heerenveen. He has also played 6 games for the Dutch national team.
- Riemer van der Velde
Riemer van der Velde (born 1940 in the Netherlands) is the former chairman of Dutch football club SC Heerenveen. He was in charge of the club for 23 years before resigning on 1 October 2006. At the time Van der Velde became chairman of SC Heerenveen in 1983 the club had lots of debts and was an anonymous club in the Eerste Divisie. He realized to get rid of the debts before appointing Foppe de Haan as the club's manager, …
- Mika Väyrynen
Mika Väyrynen is a Finnish footballer who currently plays for PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie. A two-way midfielder, Väyrynen played for FC Lahti and FC Jokerit in Finland's Veikkausliiga before joining the Netherlands' SC Heerenveen in 2001. During his four seasons at Heerenveen he became one of the club's key players, making a total of 101 appearances and scoring 17 goals in the league.
- Marcus Allbäck
Marcus Christian Allbäck, born July 5, 1973 in Göteborg, is a Swedish football striker, who currently plays for F.C. Copenhagen in Denmark.
- Timmi Johansen
Timmi Johansen is a Danish footballer who currently plays for SC Heerenveen. He has played two games for the Denmark national under-21 football team. He played youth football with Hvidovre IF, before moving to SC Heerenveen in 2006.
- Sebastiaan Steur
Sebastiaan Steur (born 1984-03-08 in Volendam) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for Excelsior Rotterdam. His former clubs are FC Volendam and SC Heerenveen.
- Sander van Gessel
Sander van Gessel (born November 4, 1976 in Leidschendam, Zuid-Holland) is a football (soccer) defender from the Netherlands, who started his professional career in the 1995-1996 season playing for FC Groningen. He later served SC Heerenveen, and is currently playing for NAC Breda.