Shanice van de Sanden

In this Dutch name, the surname is van de Sanden, not Sanden.

Shanice van de Sanden

Van de Sanden with Lyon in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Shanice Janice van de Sanden
Date of birth	(1992-10-02) 2 October 1992 (age 31)
Place of birth	Utrecht, Netherlands
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Liverpool
Number	19
Youth career
2006–2008	VVIJ
2008	SV Saestum
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2008–2010	Utrecht	30	(5)
2010–2011	Heerenveen	21	(8)
2011–2016	Twente	103	(32)
2016–2017	Liverpool	23	(3)
2017–2020	Lyon	47	(11)
2020–2022	VfL Wolfsburg	25	(4)
2021–2022	VfL Wolfsburg II	6	(1)
2022–	Liverpool	20	(2)
International career‡
2008	Netherlands U17	4	(1)
2008–2011	Netherlands U19	27	(9)
2008–	Netherlands	96	(21)
Medal record Women's football Representing the   Netherlands FIFA Women's World Cup Runner-up 2019 France UEFA Women's Championship Winner 2017 Netherlands
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:00, 19 December 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19:00, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Shanice Janice van de Sanden (born 2 October 1992) ^[1] is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women's Super League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team. ^[2]

Club career

Her career started at amateur club VVIJ in IJsselstein, before moving to FC Utrecht in 2008 where she also played for its farm team SV Saestum. ^[3]

In May 2010, she moved to SC Heerenveen, ^[4] where she played for one season before joining FC Twente in May 2011. ^[5]

After four and a half seasons at FC Twente, she signed with Liverpool of the English WSL1 on 4 February 2016. ^{[6] [7]}

On 29 August 2017, after two seasons at Liverpool where she played a total of 28 matches (in all competitions), she moved to France and joined Division 1 Féminine club Olympique Lyonnais. ^[8]

In September 2020 it was announced that Van de Sanden would be moving to Germany to play for Wolfsburg with immediate effect. ^[9]

On 16 July 2022, Van de Sanden rejoined Liverpool. ^[10]

International career

Aged 16, she made her debut for the senior Netherlands women's national football team on 14 December 2008 in a friendly match 2–0 win over France. ^[11] She was part of the Dutch squad in the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 ^[12] and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. ^[13]

In June 2017, she was in the 23 players squad which won the UEFA Women's Euro 2017. ^[14] After the tournament, the whole team was honoured by the Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Minister of Sport Edith Schippers and made Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau. ^[15]

Later that year, she was shortlisted for the UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award. ^[16]

Van de Sanden was selected in the final squad for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France. ^[17]

On 31 May 2023, she was named as part of the Netherlands provisional squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. ^[18]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 17 December 2023 ^{[19] [20] [21]}

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National Cup [lower-alpha 1]		League Cup [lower-alpha 2]		Continental [lower-alpha 3]		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Utrecht	2008–09	Eredivisie	15	4	?	?	—		—		15	4
	2009–10	Eredivisie	15	1	?	?	—		—		15	1
	Total		30	5	?	?	—		—		30	5
Heerenveen	2010–11	Eredivisie	21	8	?	?	—		—		21	8
Twente	2011–12	Eredivisie	17	3	?	?	—		1	0	18	3
	2012–13	BeNe League	25	4	?	?	—		—		25	4
	2013–14	BeNe League	25	11	?	?	—		4	1	29	12
	2014–15	BeNe League	24	6	?	?	—		2	0	26	6
	2015–16	Eredivisie	12	8	?	?	—		7	2	19	10
	Total		103	32	?	?	—		14	3	117	35
Liverpool	2016	Women's Super League	16	3	0	0	2	0	—		18	3
	2017	Women's Super League	7	0	3	1	—		—		10	1
	Total		23	3	3	1	2	0	—		28	4
Lyon	2017–18	D1 Féminine	16	2	2	0	—		5	0	23	2
	2018–19	D1 Féminine	19	7	5	1	—		7	0	31	8
	2019–20	D1 Féminine	11	2	2	0	—		3	0	16	2
	2020–21	D1 Féminine	1	0	0	0	—		0	0	1	0
	Total		47	11	9	1	—		15	0	71	12
Wolfsburg	2020–21	Frauen-Bundesliga	15	2	2	1	—		2	1	19	4
	2021–22	Frauen-Bundesliga	10	2	1	0	—		4	0	15	2
	Total		25	4	3	1	—		6	1	34	6
Liverpool	2022–23	Women's Super League	14	1	0	0	1	0	—		15	1
	2023–24	Women's Super League	6	1	0	0	2	0	—		8	1
	Total		20	2	0	0	3	0	—		23	2
Career Total			269	65	15	3	5	0	35	4	324	72

1. Includes KNVB Women's Cup, Coupe de France, Women's FA Cup, DFB-Pokal
2. Includes FA Women's League Cup
3. Includes UEFA Women's Champions League

International

As of match played 5 December 2023 ^[11]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Netherlands	2008	1	0
	2009	9	2
	2010	4	0
	2015	5	1
	2016	13	6
	2017	17	1
	2018	11	4
	2019	15	4
	2020	7	0
	2021	13	3
	2023	1	0
Total		96	21

Scores and results list Netherlands's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each van de Sanden goal.

List of international goals scored by Shanice van de Sanden

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	12 March 2009	GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus	South Africa	4–0	5–0	2009 Cyprus Women's Cup
2	13 July 2009	Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands		3–2	3–2	Four Nations Cup
3	20 May 2015	Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Estonia	5–0	7–0	Friendly
4	22 January 2016	Limak Arcadia Atlantis Football Center, Belek, Turkey	Denmark	2–0	2–0
5	2 March 2016	Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands	Switzerland	4–1	4–3	2016 Women's Olympic Qualifier
6	7 April 2016	Telstar Stadium, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands	New Zealand	1–0	2–0	Friendly
7				2–0
8	17 September 2016	Georgia Dome, Atlanta, United States	United States	1–0	1–3
9	20 October 2016	Tony Macaroni Arena, Livingston, Scotland	Scotland	6–0	7–0
10	16 July 2017	Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht, Netherlands	Norway	1–0	1–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2017
11	28 February 2018	Bela Vista Municipal Stadium, Parchal, Portugal	Japan	4–0	6–2	2018 Algarve Cup
12	6 April 2018	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands	Northern Ireland	5–0	7–0	2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
13	8 June 2018	Shamrock Park, Portadown, Northern Ireland		3–0	5–0
14	5 September 2018	Rat Verlegh Stadion, Breda, Netherlands	Denmark	2–0	2–0	2019 FIFA World Cup qualifier – Play-off SF
15	9 April 2019	AFAS Stadion, Alkmaar, Netherlands	Chile	6–0	7–0	Friendly
16	1 June 2019	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands	Australia	1–0	3–0
17				3–0
18	8 November 2019	Bornova Stadium, Izmir, Turkey	Turkey	1–0	8–0	2021 UEFA Women's Euro qualification
19	15 June 2021	De Grolsch Veste, Enschede, Netherlands	Norway	6–0	7–0	Friendly
20	21 July 2021	Miyagi Stadium, Rifu, Japan	Zambia	6–1	10–3	2020 Olympic Games
21	27 July 2021	Nissan Stadium, Yokohama, Japan	China	1–0	8–2

Honours

FC Utrecht

• KNVB Women's Cup: 2009–10

FC Twente

• BeNe League: 2012–13, 2013–14
• Eredivisie: 2012–13*, 2013–14*, 2014–15*, 2015–16
• KNVB Women's Cup: 2014–15

*During the BeNe League period (2012 to 2015), the highest placed Dutch team is considered as national champion by the Royal Dutch Football Association. ^[22]

Lyon

• Division 1 Féminine: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20
• Coupe de France Féminine: 2018–19, 2019–20
• UEFA Women's Champions League: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20

Netherlands

• UEFA Women's Euro: 2017
• Algarve Cup: 2018 ^[23]

Individual

• Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau: 2017

We Play Strong

Van de Sanden is one of UEFA's official ambassadors for #WePlayStrong, a social media and vlogging campaign which was launched in 2018. The campaign's "...aim is to promote women’s football as much as we can and to make people aware of women’s football, really,” Evans, another participant explains. “The ultimate goal is to make football the most played sport by females by 2020. So it’s a UEFA initiative to get more women and girls playing football, whether they want to be professional or not.” ^[24] The series, which also originally included professional footballers Sarah Zadrazil, Eunice Beckmann, Laura Feiersinger and Lisa Evans and now also includes Petronella Ekroth and Shanice van de Sanden, follows the daily lives of female professional footballers. ^[25]

Personal life

Van de Sanden was born in the Netherlands and is of Surinamese descent. ^[26] As of August 2020, Van de Sanden has a girlfriend. ^[27] She welcomed a daughter in November 2023.

References

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12. Profile in UEFA's Euro 2009 archive
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23. "Finale Algarve Cup tussen Oranjevrouwen en Zweden afgelast" (in Dutch). nu.nl. 7 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
24. "ARSEBLOG EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ARSENAL'S LISA EVANS". Arseblog. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
25. "Arsenal's Lisa Evans launches scheme to get more women playing football". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
26. "Shanice van de Sanden mist interlands door familie-omstandigheden". www.rtvutrecht.nl. February 9, 2021.
27. "Van de Sanden: Marozsan is on another level". FIFA.com. 8 August 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2021. And I had my girlfriend at home, so we both did some Tabata and that was fun as well.

External links

• Shanice van de Sanden at Liverpool F.C. Women
• Shanice van de Sanden – FIFA competition record (archived)
• Shanice van de Sanden – UEFA competition record ( archive )
• Shanice van de Sanden at Soccerway
• Profile at vrouwenvoetbalnederland.nl at the Wayback Machine (archived 2 December 2016)(in Dutch)
• Senior national team profile at Onsoranje.nl (in Dutch)
• Under-19 national team profile at Onsoranje.nl (in Dutch)
• Under-17 national team profile at Onsoranje.nl (in Dutch)
• Shanice van de Sanden at Olympedia
• Shanice van de Sanden at Olympics.com
• Shanice van de Sanden at TeamNL (in Dutch)