Nomathemba "Lanka" Ntsibande (born 19 April 1986) is a South African soccer player who plays as a defender for SAFA Women's League side

JVW F.C. JVW F.C. is a women's professional soccer club based in Bedfordview, Gauteng. The team competes in the SAFA Women's League, the top tier women's football league in South Africa The First Team competes at the highest level of women's football i ...

and the South Africa women's national team.

Club career

Springs Home Sweepers

Ntsibande joined

Sasol Women's League The Sasol Women's League is the second-tier South African Women's association football league, sponsored by Sasol since 2013. It is semi-professional, and operates as a provincial league, with two "streams" of 8-10 teams in each of South Afri ...

side Springs Home Sweepers as a 12-year old and spent a large part of her career playing for the club.

JVW

In 2018, she joined

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She made her debut on 7 April 2028 in a 1-0 victory over the University of Pretoria's amaTuks. She was part of the 2019 team that won the Gauteng Sasol League and went on to win their maiden National league title.

International career

In March 2012, she competed for the South Africa women's national soccer team in an international friendly against Ghana and was one of the penalty takers in a 5-4 penalty shootout win. The match had ended in a 1-1 draw. She was also part of the

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team for the 2012 CAF Women's Olympic qualifying tournament but did not make it to the 2012 Olympic team due to an injury. She was named in the squad that took on Gabon in the

2015 CAF Women's Olympic qualifying tournament The 2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was the fourth edition of the CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international association football, football competition organised by the Confederation of African Footbal ...

second round qualifier which they won 8-2 on aggregate. She was part of the squad that took part in the 2016 Women's Africa Cup of Nations tournament where they finished in fourth place.

Honours

Club JVW * 2019 Gauteng

* 2019 Sasol League National Championship

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ntsibande, Nomathemba 1986 births Living people South Africa women's international soccer players Women's association football defenders South African women's soccer players 20th-century South African women 21st-century South African women SAFA Women's League players JVW F.C. players