Jack van den Berg

Jack B. van den Berg (7 February 1959, Kralingen, Rotterdam) is a Dutch soccer coach and a former soccer player. He currently coaches ASWH. During the season 2015–2016 he uniquely coached the top tier teams of two small town rivals from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, promoting ASWH for its very first time to the Saturday football Derde Divisie and IFC for its second time to the Sunday Hoofdklasse.

Throughout the 1980s, Jack van den Berg played for Zwart-Wit '28 from Rotterdam. Van den Berg received at least one offer to play for pay elsewhere but refused. During Van den Berg's year in Zwart-Wit's top team, it played mostly in the Eerste Klasse, with a few years in the Tweede Klasse. Eventually Van den Berg moved to Barendrecht, where he played for the local BVV.

At his first major coaching assignment, Van den Berg coached Zwart-Wit '28 in Hoofdklasse A. The team ended 13th and relegated in 2000 to Eerste Klasse B. During the subsequent season, Jack van den Berg coached VV SHO from Oud-Beijerland. Exactly like Zwart-Wit a year before, the team ended the competition in Hoofdklasse A in place 13 and relegated to Eerste Klasse B.

Van den Berg remained in the Hoofdklasse, where he took on coaching ASWH. In the 2001–2002 season, he led the Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht team to their second consecutive championship in the Hoofdklasse, and their first championship in Hoofdklasse A. In 2003 and 2004 his team ended third and eighth respectively and in 2005 Van den Berg won once more the championship of Hoofdklasse A with ASWH. In 2005 and 2006 Van den Berg led his players to the second and fourth place respectively.

From 2006 to 2015 Van den Berg trained BVV Barendrecht, where he had previous played (his other soccer club, Zwart-Wit '28, folded in 2004). Van den Berg started his nine years at BVV with a championship in Eerste Klasse 1B, leading the Barendrecht-side back to Hoofdklasse, from where it had relegated two years earlier.

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