Active for both PSV and FC Twente

Next Sunday afternoon, the match FC Twente - PSV is on the agenda in the seventh Eredivisie match round of the 2026/2027 season. Since the turn of the century, there have been a number of footballers who wore the shirt of both clubs.

PSV Inside lists a number of names that came up for PSV and FC Twente this century.

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink made his debut for FC Twente in 1996, and the long striker from Oldenzaal played until 2001 in the first team of the Tukkers. In the summer of 2001, Lange Jan moved to PSV and, for about three years, often formed a striking duo with Mateja Kezman.

In five years, PSV won a total of three national titles with Vennegoor of Hesselink, and also the KNVB Cup in 2005. In that same year, the striker was part of the team that, under Guus Hiddink, managed to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League.

After the 2006 World Cup, at the start of the 2006/2007 season, Lange Jan moved to Celtic and after three seasons in Glasgow, the striker played another season with Hull City in England. In the summer of 2010, Vennegoor left for the Austrian club Rapid Wien, and then returned to PSV in November 2011 after his contract in Austria was terminated in the summer of 2011.

At the end of the 2011/2012 season, Vennegoor announced that he would stop playing football. Since 2016, the native Tukker has been a youth scout at PSV.

Luuk de Jong made his debut in professional football in 2008 for De Graafschap and in 2009 the long striker was taken over by FC Twente. In Enschede, De Jong won the national title in 2010 and the KNVB Cup in 2011, before then moving to the German side Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2012.

In Germany, the current attacker of FC Porto could not make much of an impact, and Die Fohlen decided to loan De Jong to Newcastle United in England. Also in the Premier League, the striker could not leave his mark, and in the summer of 2014 PSV took him over from Borussia Mönchengladbach for €5.5 million.

At PSV, De Jong became a great asset. Between 2014 and 2019, the striker won the national championship three times with PSV and twice had the Johan Cruyff Shield taken home.

Moreover, De Jong was appointed captain in the summer of 2015 after the departure of Georginio Wijnaldum, and in the summer of 2019 he made a transfer to Sevilla CF. With the Spaniards, De Jong won the Europa League in the corona year 2020, and he was the driving force by scoring the winning goal in the semi-final against Manchester United, and in the final he scored twice against Inter, allowing Sevilla to win 3-2 and thus secure the Europa League.

In the 2021/2022 season, De Jong was loaned out for a year from FC Barcelona, only to return to PSV in the summer of 2022. In his second stint at PSV, De Jong became national champion twice and, in the 2022/2023 season, the KNVB Cup was won.

Last summer the striker left after long speculation for FC Porto. In November 2025 disaster struck the striker when he suffered a serious ACL injury that has kept him sidelined ever since.

In 2017 Noa Lang made his debut in professional football for Jong Ajax, before going on to make his debut with the senior squad of the Amsterdammers in September 2018. Halfway through the 2019/2020 season, the Ajax board decided to loan out the winger to FC Twente, but due to the outbreak of the coronavirus and the suspension of the Eredivisie, Lang returned to Amsterdam again in April 2020.

Over three seasons with Club Brugge, of which the first season was as a loanee, the left winger arrived at PSV in the summer of 2023. At PSV, Lang immediately made his mark by scoring the only goal on 4 August 2023 in the Johan Cruijff Shield against Feyenoord (0-1).

In his first season at PSV, Lang dealt with the necessary injuries, which meant his influence was not all that great. In the second season, Lang was a lot fitter and was of great value in the final phase of the competition.

Thus the wing forward was good for two goals on 11 May 2025 at De Kuip against Feyenoord (2-3). In the 99th minute, Lang ensured that PSV carried the three points for the second season in a row from Rotterdam-Zuid to Eindhoven, and this goal later proved to be of great importance in the fight for the league title.

Last summer, Lang left for Napoli, but due to a strained relationship with coach Antonio Conte, the forward moved last winter to Galatasaray on loan. In Turkey, Lang is of great value, and last weekend the Turkish club managed to win the national title with the former PSV player.

Other players who appeared for both PSV and FC Twente this century include:

Remko Pasveer
Otman Bakkal
Ismaïl Aissati
Orlando Engelaar
Adam Maher
Lars Unnerstall
Joël Drommel
Myron Boadu
Bryan Ruiz
Joshua Brenet
Michal Sadilek
Sam Lammers
Luciano Narsingh
Przemyslaw Tyton
Jason Culina
Giorgi Gachokidze
Kenneth Perez
Rob Wielaert