Joop Brand


Joop Brand is a retired association football player and manager from the Netherlands.

Playing career

He played for Xerxes, DFC, HVC and Heracles Almelo.

Managerial career

He coached DWS, HFC Haarlem, AZ, Go Ahead Eagles, Sparta Rotterdam and Telstar.
He was appointed head of the Sparta academy after working as caretaker manager at FC VVV.
Brand was dismissed as head of Vitesse's football academy in 2003 after criticizing the club's directors. He was named academy manager at ADO Den Haag, but resigned before he ever worked for the club and left them for PSV in summer 2003. He quit PSV in 2006. He later worked for amateur side IJsselmeervogels.