Valesca Ampoorter

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Valesca Ampoorter
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Ampoorter with TSG Hoffenheim in 2025
Personal information
Date of birth (2004-03-05) 5 March 2004 (age 21) [1]
Place of birth Asse, Belgium [2]
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 TSG Hoffenheim
Number 18
Youth career
Asse-Zelik
SK Londerzeel
AA Gent
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2020–2021 OH Leuven B
2021–2025 OH Leuven 93 (7)
2025– TSG Hoffenheim 10 (2)
International career‡
2018 Belgium U15 1 (0)
2020 Belgium U16 1 (0)
2021–2023 Belgium U19 20 (4)
2023–2025 Belgium U23 11 (1)
2023– Belgium 6 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 22:52, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals as of 22:52, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Valesca Ampoorter (born 5 March 2004) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Frauen-Bundesliga club TSG Hoffenheim and the Belgium national team. She has previously played for Belgian Women's Super League club OH Leuven, as well as multiple Belgium youth national teams.

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Club career

OH Leuven

Born in Asse, [2] Ampoorter began playing football at age 8 for local club Asse-Zelik. She moved to boys' club SK Londerzeel at age 13 before playing one season for AA Gent. [3] In 2020, Ampoorter joined the youth team of Oud-Heverlee Leuven. [4] The COVID-19 pandemic led OH Leuven's first team to expand its squad, allowing Ampoorter multiple chances to play senior football early on in her career. [3] She debuted for OH Leuven's first team at the age of 17 and signed her first professional contract soon after. [5] Over the next few years, she managed to become a mainstay on Leuven's squad [6] despite also juggling academic responsibilities as a marketing student at the University of Leuven. [3] In April 2022, Ampoorter had the chance to win her first Belgian Women's Super League title with Leuven, but a slim 1–0 defeat to Anderlecht dashed such hopes. [7]

In December 2023, Ampoorter signed a three-year contract extension with OH Leuven through 2026. [8] However, she would ultimately end up leaving the club a year early, in 2025. [5] Prior to her official departure, Ampoorter capped off her Leuven career with the 2024–25 Belgian Super League title. [9] Over the course of her five years at Leuven, Ampoorter had made 93 appearances and scored 7 goals. [10]

TSG Hoffenheim

On 20 August 2025, Ampoorter signed a three-year contract with Frauen-Bundesliga side TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, [11] [12] joining fellow Belgians Jill Janssens and Féli Delacauw at the German club. [13] She scored her first Bundesliga goal on 6 October 2025, contributing to a 4–1 win over Hamburger SV. [14] [15] On 6 November, she contributed to one of the fastest goals in league history, [16] firing a 30-yard strike that forced an own goal from Laura Benkarth only 8 seconds into a match against SC Freiburg. [17] 10 days later, Ampoorter scored a late penalty kick goal against Eintracht Frankfurt in the DfB-Pokal round of 16. However, Freiburg were outscored by Frankfurt, 6–4, and failed to advance to the quarterfinals. [18]

International career

Ampoorter has represented Belgium at multiple youth levels, including U15, U16, U19, and U23. [1] She was part of the squad that participated as the host nation at the 2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, during which Belgium finished last in Group A; in the team's final group stage match, a 3–3 draw with Austria, Ampoorter scored a goal from distance that briefly knotted the teams up at 2–2. [19] Ampoorter has also made 11 appearances for the under-23 squad, multiple of which as team captain. [9]

Ampoorter received her first call-up to the senior team in February 2023, joining Belgium's squad for the Arnold Clark Cup. [20] She made her senior debut at the age of 19, [13] earning a start in Belgium's opening match against South Korea on 19 February. [21] She showed promise and recorded a shot off of the crossbar as Belgium won the game, 2–1. [22] [23]

References

  1. 1 2 "Valesca Ampoorter". Royal Belgian Football Association . Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Valesca Ampoorter". TSG Hoffenheim. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 Van Hecke, Danny (27 October 2022). "Club Brugge, Genk en daarna Anderlecht, weken van de waarheid breken aan voor Valesca Ampoorter en OHL: "Op training hebben we het niveau al opgedreven"". Nieuwsblad (in Flemish). Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  4. ↑ "Valesca Ampoorter tekent bij tot 2026". OHL - Oud-Heverlee Leuven. 16 November 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  5. 1 2 Van de Weyer, Stefan (21 August 2025). "Red Flame Valesca Ampoorter verlaat landskampioen OH Leuven voor Hoffenheim". Leuven Actueel (in Dutch). Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  6. ↑ "Valesca Ampoorter neemt emotioneel afscheid van OH Leuven". Vrouwenvoetbalkrant (in Dutch). 22 August 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  7. ↑ Helguers, Jérôme. "Football : Anderlecht décroche le titre en Super League féminine - RTBF Actus". RTBF (in French). Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  8. ↑ "Valesca Ampoorter tekent bij tot 2026". OHL - Oud-Heverlee Leuven. 16 November 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  9. 1 2 "Belgian Valesca Ampoorter moves to TSG". TSG Hoffenheim. 20 August 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  10. ↑ "Valesca Ampoorter is volgende Red Flame richting Duitsland en verlaat OH Leuven voor Hoffenheim | sporza". Sporza (in Flemish). Archived from the original on 26 August 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  11. ↑ Van Lindt, Aernout (20 August 2025). "Jonge Flame heel blij met overstap naar Duitsland". Vrouwenvoetbalkrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  12. ↑ Van Hecke, Danny (20 August 2025). "Valesca Ampoorter verlaat OHL voor Hoffenheim". GVA (in Flemish). Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  13. 1 2 ""Beidfüßige Sechserin": TSG angelt sich mit Ampoorter die nächste Belgierin". Kicker (in German). Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  14. ↑ Knaack, Tobias. "Zu viele Fehler: HSV-Frauen verlieren gegen Hoffenheim". NDR (in German). Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  15. ↑ "TSG Hoffenheim hält mit 4:1 beim HSV Anschluss" (in German). German Football Association. 6 October 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  16. ↑ "TSG gewinnt badisches Derby". TSG hoffenheim (in German). 6 November 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  17. ↑ "Frauen-Bundesliga: Hoffenheim besiegt den SC Freiburg". Sportschau (in German). 6 November 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  18. ↑ "Hessen: Eintracht Frankfurt Frauen gewinnen wildes Pokalspiel bei der TSG Hoffenheim". Tageschau (in German). 16 November 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  19. ↑ "YOUNG FLAMES ELIMINATED FROM WOMEN'S EURO U19". Royal Belgian Football Association. 24 July 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  20. ↑ Van hecke, Danny (8 February 2023). "OHL-verdediger Valesca Ampoorter voor het eerst opgeroepen bij de Red Flames: "Grote verrassing, maar wel superblij"". HBVL (in Flemish). Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  21. ↑ Van Lindt, Aernout (20 February 2023). "Flames-debutante Ampoorter toont ambitie: "Ik ben jong en wil gewoon spelen"". Vrouwenvoetbalkrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  22. ↑ "ARNOLD CLARK CUP: RED FLAMES BEAT SOUTH KOREA 2-1". Royal Belgian Football Association. 19 February 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  23. ↑ Dumont, Nathalie (16 November 2025). "Marie Detruyer – Valesca Ampoorter, des profils dont les Red Flames avaient besoin". DHnet (in French). Retrieved 16 November 2025.
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