Kevin van Veen

Early career

Born in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, van Veen started out playing football at PSV. He spent six years at the academy before being released by PSV, due to his height – this broke a teenage van Veen, who opted to just play amateur football and began plastering. He was tempted back into the professional game by Helmond Sport in 2005. He was promoted to the first team in 2010. He went on to make six appearances for Helmond Sport. Van Veen would go on to play for Dijkse Boys, UDI '19 and JVC Cuijk. In each season, van Veen would score over 15 goals, earning him a move back into the Eerste Divisie.

FC Oss

In July 2014, it was announced that FC Oss had signed van Veen on a one–year contract. After making his FC Oss debut, van Veen scored a hat–trick in the next game on 15 August 2014, in a 3–0 win over RKC Waalwijk. van Veen then scored consecutively on two occasions; the first one came when he scored two goals in two games between 25 August and 30 August against VVV-Venlo and De Graafschap and the second one came when he scored three goals in three games between 3 October and 26 October against MVV Maastricht, Eindhoven and N.E.C. He then scored his second FC Oss hat–trick but was sent–off for the second bookable offence, in a 5–4 win over Fortuna Sittard on 12 December. After returning from suspension, van Veen scored his third FC Oss hat–trick on 23 January 2015, in a 4–1 win over Almere City. Amid to scoring sixteen goals in twenty–one appearances,…

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Van Veen grew up supporting PSV and idolising Ruud van Nistelrooy. After being released by PSV as a youngster, he briefly worked as a plasterer while continuing to pursue football.

Legal issues

In November 2024, while on loan at St Mirren from FC Groningen, Van Veen appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court charged with domestic abuse offences; he denied the allegation through his lawyer. On 6 November 2025, Scottish media reported that he had pled guilty to engaging in a course of abusive behaviour between September 2021 and December 2023, but failed to attend sentencing at Hamilton Sheriff Court; a warrant was issued for his arrest. Later the same day, FC Eindhoven managing director Peter Bijvelds told regional media that Van Veen was with the squad in Eindhoven and called the absence a "calendar mix-up".