Darren Maatsen

Maatsen started playing football in his youth career at VV HVO, FC Dordrecht and Excelsior Maassluis.

SBV Excelsior

Maatsen joined Excelsior in 2011, starting his professional football career. Maatsen made his début, in the opening game of the season, when he came on as a substitute in the 72nd minute in a 2–0 loss against Feyenoord. In numbers of games, he mostly came on the bench as a substitute. In a match against Twente, on 2 October 2011, Maatsen came on as a substitute in the 82nd minute and with eight minutes remaining until full-time, he scored twice to make a comeback in a 2–2 draw. Later in the 2011–12 season, Maatsen scored three more goals against Ajax, NAC Breda and VVV-Venlo, to add a tally to his Excelsior career, but the club was relegated to Eerste Divisie, having finished eighteenth place with nineteenth points. Despite the relegation, his performance attracted interests from Polish side Lech Poznań. In the 2012–13 season, Maatsen started to play on the right-wing mostly, though sometimes on the left, or even as a striker, making twenty-eight appearances in all competitions.

Ross County

Maatsen signed for Scottish Premiership club Ross County on 21 June 2013. After just three minutes of the opening match of the season, away to Celtic, he scored with a powerful shot from the edge of the penalty area that went in off the crossbar with goalkeeper Fraser Forster well beaten; Ross County lost 2–1. It was awarded "goal of the week" by The…