Ted van de Pavert

De Graafschap

Van de Pavert progressed through De Graafschap's youth academy. He made his professional debut for the club on 18 December 2010, replacing Leon Broekhof in the 89th minute of a 4–0 Eredivisie loss to SC Heerenveen. He scored his first goal in professional football on 7 August 2011, opening the score by heading in a corner-kick in an eventual 4–1 home loss to Ajax. He suffered relegation to the Eerste Divisie with De Graafschap in the 2011–12 season, losing out in the second round of play-offs to FC Den Bosch. In three subsequent Eerste Divisie season, De Graafschap would then reach the play-offs for promotion with Van de Pavert; eventually winning promotion back to the Eredivisie in 2015 after a win over FC Volendam. With De Graafschap he finished the 2015–16 season seventeenth place, which also meant participation in the 2016 editions of the play-offs, the fifth season in a row for the club. Van de Pavert made 157 total appearances for De Graafschap, in which he scored eight goals.

PEC Zwolle

On 27 May 2016, Van de Pavert signed a three-year contract with PEC Zwolle, who had finished eighth in the Eredivisie the previous season. He made his competitive debut for the club on the first matchday of the 2016–17 Eredivisie season, starting at centre-back alongside Dirk Marcellis in a 1–1 away draw against NEC. Van de Pavert played one season for PEC in which he made 26 total appearances, scoring two goals.

NEC

After the one season in…

Van de Pavert gained his first and only international cap for the Netherlands U20s on 6 February 2013, coming on as a half-time substitute for Stefano Denswil in a 3–0 loss to Republic of Ireland U21 at Tallaght Stadium.

After retiring from professional football, Van de Pavert returned to De Graafschap, where he began coaching the club's youth sides, taking charge of the under-14s in 2023 before moving up to serve as assistant coach of the under-21 team. In 2024, he resumed playing, joining lowly Eerste Klasse club SDOUC of Ulft as a forward. In February 2026, Van de Pavert extended his contract at De Graafschap, by which point he had been appointed coach of the under-19s.