Personal information | |||
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Full name | Darren Keet [1] | ||
Date of birth | 5 August 1989 | ||
Place of birth | Cape Town, South Africa | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) [2] | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Durban City | ||
Number | 16 | ||
Youth career | |||
Ajax Cape Town [3] | |||
Edgemead [4] | |||
–2007 | Bothasig AFC | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2007–2008 | Vasco Da Gama | ? | (0) |
2008–2011 | Bidvest Wits | 54 | (0) |
2011–2016 | KV Kortrijk | 141 | (0) |
2016–2019 | Bidvest Wits | 58 | (0) |
2019–2020 | OH Leuven | 8 | (0) |
2021 | Cape Umoya United | 6 | (0) |
2021–2025 | Cape Town City | 87 | (0) |
2025– | Durban City | 6 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2013–2020 | South Africa | 13 | (0) |
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 16 September 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 2 October 2020 |
Darren Keet (born 5 August 1989) is a South African professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Durban City in the Premier Soccer League.
Born in Cape Town, Keet was a member of the Vasco Da Gama squad that won promotion to the National First Division in 2008 before joining Premier Soccer League side Bidvest Wits. He made his PSL debut with the Students in 2008 and quickly established himself as the club's number one goalkeeper making 54 league appearances until he signed for the Belgian club KV Kortrijk in June 2011 on a four-year contract. [5]
On 10 September 2013, Keet made his international debut for South Africa in a friendly against Zimbabwe at Orlando Stadium, starting and playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–1 loss. Before the match he told that he wanted "to prove my worth to South Africa". [6]