Darren Keet

{{short description|South African soccer player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Use South African English|date=August 2012}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Darren Keet | image = | caption = | full_name = Darren Keet<ref name="FIFA">{{cite web |title=FIFA U-20 World Cup Egypt 2009™: List of Players: South Africa |url=http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/01/10/28/62/fwyc_2009_squadlists.pdf |publisher=FIFA |page=16 |date=6 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091013164551/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/01/10/28/62/fwyc_2009_squadlists.pdf |archive-date=13 October 2009 }}</ref> | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1989|8|5|df=y}} | birth_place = Cape Town, South Africa | height = 1.83 m<ref>{{Soccerway|88796}}</ref> | position = Goalkeeper | currentclub = Durban City | clubnumber = 1 | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Ajax Cape Town<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kickoff.com/news/18736/bidvest-wits-darren-keet-proves-ajax-cape-town-wrong.php |title=Bidvest Wits' Darren Keet proves Ajax Cape Town wrong {{!}} News – KickOff Magazine |access-date=20 July 2011 |archive-date=20 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820144855/http://www.kickoff.com/news/18736/bidvest-wits-darren-keet-proves-ajax-cape-town-wrong.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> | youthyears2 = | youthclubs2 = Edgemead<ref>[http://www.edgemeadfc.co.za/ Edgemead Soccer]</ref> | youthyears3 = {{0|0000}}–2007 | youthclubs3 = Bothasig AFC | years1 = 2007–2008 | clubs1 = Vasco Da Gama | caps1 = ? | goals1 = 0 | years2 = 2008–2011 | clubs2 = Bidvest Wits | caps2 = 54 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = 2011–2016 | clubs3 = KV Kortrijk | caps3 = 141 | goals3 = 0 | years4 = 2016–2019 | clubs4 = Bidvest Wits | caps4 = 58 | goals4 = 0 | years5 = 2019–2020 | clubs5 = OH Leuven | caps5 = 8  | goals5 = 0 | years6 = 2021 | clubs6 = Cape Umoya United | caps6 = 6 | goals6 = 0 | years7 = 2021–2025 | clubs7 = Cape Town City | caps7 = 87 | goals7 = 0 | years8 = 2025– | clubs8 = Durban City | caps8 = 15 | goals8 = 0 | nationalyears1 = 2013–2020 | nationalteam1 = South Africa | nationalcaps1 = 13 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | club-update = 4 January 2026 | nationalteam-update = 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 Premiership.

==Club career== 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 Premiership side Bidvest Wits. He made his Premiership 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/13751763|title=South Africa goalkeeper Darren Keet joins Kortrijk|access-date=13 June 2011|date=13 June 2011|publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref>

At the age of 36, Keet was in goal for Durban City's win in the 2025–26 Nedbank Cup. Following the match, Keet announced that he would be retiring at the end of that season.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 3, 2026 |title=Veteran goalkeeper calls it quits with winners medal round his neck - 'Nedbank Cup was my first and Nedbank Cup is my last trophy' {{!}} Goal.com South Africa |url=https://www.goal.com/en-za/lists/veteran-goalkeeper-calls-it-quits-with-winners-medal-round-his-neck-nedbank-cup-was-my-first-and-nedbank-cup-is-my-last-trophy/blt695796c4a8f4f26b |access-date=2026-05-03 |website=www.goal.com |language=en-ZA}}</ref>

==International career== 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kickoff.com/news/36834/darren-keet-on-bafana-call-up|title=Keet determined|access-date=29 August 2013|date=29 August 2013|publisher=Kickoff}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{Sports links}}

{{PSL Goalkeeper of the Season}} {{South Africa squad 2015 Africa Cup of Nations}} {{South Africa squad 2019 Africa Cup of Nations}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Keet, Darren}} Category:Living people Category:1989 births Category:White South African people Category:21st-century South African sportsmen Category:South African men's soccer players Category:Soccer players from Cape Town Category:Men's association football goalkeepers Category:South Africa men's international soccer players Category:2015 Africa Cup of Nations players Category:2019 Africa Cup of Nations players Category:South African Premier Division players Category:Belgian Pro League players Category:Challenger Pro League players Category:National First Division players Category:Vasco da Gama F.C. players Category:Bidvest Wits F.C. players Category:KV Kortrijk players Category:Oud-Heverlee Leuven players Category:Cape Umoya United F.C. players Category:Cape Town City F.C. (2016) players Category:Durban City F.C. (2024) players Category:South African expatriate men's soccer players Category:South African expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium