Kees Kist

Kees Kist

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Personal information
Date of birth	(1952-08-07) August 7, 1952
Place of birth	Steenwijk, Netherlands
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1970-1972	SC Heerenveen	0	(0)
1972-1982	AZ	323	(196)
1982-1983	Paris Saint-Germain	34	(12)
1983-1984	FC Mulhouse	27	(10)
1984-1985	AZ	49	(15)
1985-1987	SC Heerenveen	39	(17)
International career
1975-1980	Netherlands	21	(4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kees Kist (born August 7, 1952 in Steenwijk, Overijssel) is a retired football striker from the Netherlands.

Career

Kist obtained 21 caps for his national team, in which he scored four goals, in the years 1975–1980. He played for SC Heerenveen (1970–1972), AZ '67 (now AZ) (1972–1982), winning the Dutch title in 1981, Paris Saint-Germain (1982–1983), FC Mulhouse (1983–1984), AZ (1984–1986), and returned for his last season to SC Heerenveen. Kist scored 259 goals in 441 games for AZ. He made 212 of these goals while AZ Alkmaar was in the highest division (eredivisie), which puts him in fourth place on the all-time leaders list, behind Willy van der Kuijlen, Ruud Geels and Johan Cruijff. He was the first Dutch player to win the European Golden Boot in 1979, after having scored 34 goals in the 1978-79 season for AZ.

References

• (Dutch) VoetbalStats
• (German) Weltfussball.de