Wieke Kaptein

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Wieke Kaptein
Personal information
Full name Wieke Hendrikje Maria Kaptein [1]
Date of birth (2005-08-29) 29 August 2005 (age 18)
Place of birth Hengelo, Netherlands
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Chelsea
Youth career
Achilles '12
Twente
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2021–2023 Twente 40 (3)
2023– Chelsea 0 (0)
2023–2024 → Twente (loan) 22 (3)
International career‡
2019 Netherlands U15 4 (0)
2021 Netherlands U16 3 (0)
2021–2022 Netherlands U17 5 (0)
2022–2023 Netherlands U19 7 (0)
2023– Netherlands 11 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 July 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 July 2024

Wieke Hendrikje Maria Kaptein (born 29 August 2005) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the Netherlands national team. [2]

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Club career

Kaptein started playing football at Achilles '12. Already at the age of 15, she received a professional contract with FC Twente Enschede. [3]  Capping off her first season with the league title, she also featured in 2021/22 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying, scoring the goal in the opening game against FC Nike Tbilisi to make it 9–0. [4]  Twente, however, lost out to Benfica in the Champions Path final. A year later, Benfica was the last stop on the way to the group stage.

In March 2023, Kaptein was voted one of the nine best talents in the world. [5]

International career

Kaptein played some games for the Dutch junior teams from the U-15. With the U-17 team, she took part in the first and second qualifying rounds of the 2022 U-17 European Championship, which was successfully completed in April 2022, where she was captain in the second round. [6] However, she was not part of the squad for the finals in May 2022, because she was wanted for the end of the league season. [7] With the U-19 team, she qualified in October 2022 for the second qualifying round for the 2023 U-19 European Championship. She was not used in the second round in April 2023, as she was nominated for the senior national team games that took place at the same time. [8]

On 11 April 2023, she had her first senior cap. She came on as a substitute in the 81st minute for Lieke Martens in a friendly they won 4–1 against Poland. [9] [10]

On 30 June 2023, she was nominated for the World Cup finals. [11] She was the youngest World Cup debutant ever for the Dutch national team.

Career statistics

International

As of match played 16 July 2024 [2]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Netherlands 202350
202460
Total110

Honours

Twente

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References

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