Erwin Mulder

Youth career

Mulder started playing football at local Pannerden club R.K.P.S.C. At the age of ten, he made the switch from field player to goalkeeper. After being a goalkeeper for one year, Mulder received his first invitation for the KNVB district team: "From that moment on I realized I had talent. I really enjoyed it as well, diving in the mud, loved it." When Mulder went to secondary school around the age of 12, the goalkeeper joined the Vitesse Arnhem youth academy, a professional Eredivisie club from Arnhem. After playing for Vitesse for three seasons, he was asked to join the Feyenoord youth academy. At Feyenoord, Mulder was seen as one of the biggest goalkeeping talents. Feyenoord's former goalkeeping coach Pim Doesburg predicted him to be the first goalkeeper to reach Feyenoord's first team coming directly from the Feyenoord youth academy since Joop Hiele in the late seventies.

Feyenoord (2006–2015)

Small steps (2006–2008)

In November 2006, at the age of 17, Mulder was invited to Feyenoord's first team squad by Feyenoord coach Erwin Koeman. As the reserve goalkeepers Patrick Lodewijks and Sherif Ekramy were both facing injuries, the teenager was Henk Timmer's first stand-in. He was on the bench for over ten matches during the season 2006–07, but did not make his official first team debut. In January 2007, Mulder was one of the few talents to join the first team on training camp in Belek, Turkey, but returned to the Feyenoord U19 squad…

Having previously been called up by Netherlands U17 and Netherlands U19, Mulder was called up to be in the Netherlands B squad. Following this, he was further called up for the Netherlands U20 squad. He made his debut against Argentina on 3 June 2009 and was then called up to the Netherlands U21 squad. On 7 May 2012, Mulder was named in the provisional list of 36 players for the Euro 2012 tournament, one of nine uncapped players to be chosen by Netherlands manager Bert van Marwijk as part of the preliminary squad. After training with the national team, it was announced that Mulder was cut from the squad ahead of Euro 2012.

In October 2024, Mulder began coaching goalkeepers in the Vitesse academy. In June 2025, he was appointed first-team team manager while continuing his academy goalkeeping duties.

Mulder was born and raised in Pannerden, Gelderland, the Netherlands, a small village close to the German border halfway between Arnhem and Emmerich where footballer Robin Gosens was born. Mulder's father was a talented goalkeeper, making his first team debut at the age of 16 in the second highest amateur level. Mulder has two older brothers.