Jacobus Johannes "Jack" Tuijp (born 23 August 1983) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent most of his career with FC Volendam. The media often misconstrued his surname as Tuyp.
Tuijp, born in Volendam, started his football career at RKAV Volendam like many other footballers from the fishing village. In the 2002–03 season, he made his debut in professional football for FC Volendam. After two seasons he left for Groningen. There he made eleven league appearances in his first season, after which the club sent him on loan to his old club for the next two seasons. After this, FC Volendam signed the striker on a permanent basis. He became a key player in the team and became the top goalscorer of the second-tier Eerste Divisie three times.
In the summer of 2013, Tuijp left for Hungary to play for top tier club Ferencváros. After Dutch manager Ricardo Moniz was fired by the club in December, Tuijp did not make any more appearances. During the 2014–15 season, the club sent him on a one-season loan to Helmond Sport. In the summer of 2015, Tuijp returned to FC Volendam together with Kees Kwakman. After two seasons, his contract was not extended by the club, after which he signed with amateur club ASV De Dijk at the end of May 2017, which had been promoted to the third-tier Tweede Divisie the previous season. In January 2018, he announced his retirement from football due to unrest in the club. With 176 goals in 400 games, Tuijp number is two on the all-time topscorer list of Volendam, behind his great-uncle, Dick Tol.
Club career
Volendam
Tuijp started playing football at RKAV Volendam and made the switch to the youth academy of FC Volendam as a teenager. In the 2002–03 season of the second-tier Eerste Divisie he was promoted to the first-team squad. On 8 November 2002, Tuijp made his debut in a 1–2 loss to Fortuna Sittard. He came on as a substitute after 72 minutes to replace Houssain Ouhsaine Ouichou. On 14 February 2003, Tuijp was in the starting line-up for the first time in an away match against HFC Haarlem and scored the only goal of the match, securing three points for Volendam. A week later, he scored again in a 6–1 victory over Go Ahead Eagles. On 19 June 2003, Tuijp scored the opening goal in the last group match of the promotion play-offs against Heracles. Volendam eventually won the game 3–1 and thus secured promotion to the Eredivisie as group winners. Tuijp scored ten goals in 24 appearances in his first season.
Tuijp made his debut at the highest level in the Eredivisie season opener against SC Heerenveen on 17 August 2003. Tuijp became the starting striker of the Volendam team under head coach Henk Wisman and later under his successor Johan Steur and scored his first Eredivisie goal one month after his debut in the league, in a match against ADO Den Haag. However, he was unable to surpass his number of goals from the previous season, as Volendam finished seventeenth and relegated to the Eerste Divisie.
In the Eredivisie, Volendam was the only club with semi-professional contracts in the team at the time. Tuijp was one of those players. He played under a youth contract and was simultaneously a student of business economics at the Hogeschool voor Economische Studies (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences).
Groningen
Tuijp left Volendam before their return to the Eerste Divisie, and signed a five-year contract with Eredivisie club Groningen in the summer of 2004, who paid approximately €800,000 euros for him. In his first season, however, he mainly had to make do with appearances as a substitute and out of the eleven games he played, he only started once. He returned to Volendam on a loan the following season. There, Tuijp came to play more and with the club he finished in third place behind title winners Excelsior and vice-champion VVV-Venlo that season. Tuijp and Volendam were unable to promote through the play-offs. In March 2006, towards the end of the season, Groningen released the news that Tuijp and teammate Kiran Bechan were allowed to look for a new club because there was no prospect of playing time in Groningen.
Groningen then decided to send Tuijp on loan again. Despite interest from Veendam and Dordrecht, he decided to stay in Volendam. He made 30 appearances that season, scoring ten goals.