Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 4 August 1992 | ||
Place of birth | Kliptown, South Africa | ||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Sassuolo | ||
Number | 6 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Colchester United | |||
Mamelodi Sundowns | |||
TUT Ladies | |||
2018–2019 | Canberra United | 10 | (2) |
2019–2022 | AC Milan | 45 | (3) |
2022– | Sassuolo | 1 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2012– | South Africa | 134 | (16) |
Medal record | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 August 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20 July 2023 (prior the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup) |
Refiloe Jane (born 4 August 1992) is a South African professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Italian Serie A club US Sassuolo and the South African women's national team which she captains.
She married Christa Kgamphe on 18 June 2021. [1]
On 20 August 2018 to 2019, Canberra United announced they had signed Jane for the 2018–19 W-League Season. She joined the club alongside fellow South African Rhoda Mulaudzi, they are the first players from South Africa to play in the W-League. [2]
After parting ways with the Australian team Canberra United in April 2019, Refiloe signed for Italian Serie A Women's League outfit AC Milan on a one-year deal for an undisclosed fee. [3]
In August 2022, she joined Italian Serie A side Sassuolo. [4]
Jane represented South Africa at the 2012 London Olympics. [5] In September 2014, Jane was named to the roster for the 2014 African Women's Championship in Namibia. [6]
Jane was named in the South African squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics and played every minute of the team's three group games. [7] In February 2019, Jane made her 100th appearance for South Africa. [8]
She captained the South African women's national team at the Women's Africa Cup of Nations where they won their first continental title and the 2023 FIFA Women's World cup where they reached the last 16. [9] [10]
International goals
Scores and results list South Africa's goal tally first
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Reference |
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1 | 2012 | Botswana | Friendly | [11] | |||
2 | 13 September 2014 | Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Phokeng, South Africa | Botswana | 4–0 | 10–0 | Friendly | [12] |
3 | 22 October 2014 | Sam Nujoma Stadium, Windhoek, Namibia | Nigeria | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2014 African Women's Championship | [13] |
4 | 25 November 2016 | Limbe Stadium, Limbe, Cameroon | Egypt | 3–0 | 5–0 | 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations | [14] |
5 | 21 September 2017 | Barbourfields Stadium, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe | Zambia | 3–3 | 3–3 | 2017 COSAFA Women's Championship | [15] |
6 | 22 September 2018 | Wolfson Stadium, KwaZakele, South Africa | Cameroon | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2018 COSAFA Women's Championship | [16] |
7 | 2–1 | ||||||
8 | 7 October 2018 | Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar, Chile | Chile | 1–1 | 1–2 | Friendly | [17] |
9 | 21 November 2018 | Cape Coast Sports Stadium, Cape Coast, Ghana | Equatorial Guinea | 3–1 | 7–1 | 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations | [18] |
South Africa
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