Shanice Janice van de Sanden (born 2 October 1992) is a Dutch professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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and the Netherlands national team.

Club career

Her career started at amateur club VVIJ in IJsselstein, before moving to

FC Utrecht Football Club Utrecht () is a Dutch professional football club based in Utrecht. The club competes in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, and plays its home matches at the Stadion Galgenwaard. The club was formed in 1970 as a merge ...

in 2008 where she also played for its farm team

SV Saestum SV Saestum is a sports club from Zeist, Netherlands. It is most known for its successful women's football team. History The club was founded on 6 January 1926. The women's football section opened in 1981. Since the founding of the Hoofdklasse, ...

. In May 2010, she moved to

SC Heerenveen Sportclub Heerenveen (; West Frisian: Sportklub It Hearrenfean) is a Dutch football club from Heerenveen. They currently play in the Eredivisie, the top level of football in the Netherlands. History Sportclub Heerenveen was founded on 20 July ...

, where she played for one season before joining

FC Twente Football Club Twente () is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Enschede, sometimes known internationally as Twente Enschede. The club was formed in 1965 by the merger of 1926 Dutch champions Sportclub Enschede with Enschedese Bo ...

in May 2011. After four and a half seasons at FC Twente, she signed with

of the English WSL1 on 4 February 2016. 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

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club

Olympique Lyonnais Olympique Lyonnais (), commonly referred to as simply Lyon () or OL, is a men and women's French professional football club based in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The men play in France's highest football division, Ligue 1. Founded in 1950, th ...

. In September 2020 it was announced that Van de Sanden would be moving to Germany to play for Wolfsburg with immediate effect. On 16 July 2022, Van de Sanden rejoined Liverpool.

International career

Aged 16, she made her debut for the senior

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on 14 December 2008 in a

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2–0 win over

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. She was part of the Dutch squad in the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 and the

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. In June 2017, she was in the 23 players squad which won the UEFA Women's Euro 2017. Later that year, she was shortlisted for the UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award. Van de Sanden was selected in the final squad for the

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in France.

International goals

:''Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first.''

Honours

Club

;FC Utrecht *

KNVB Women's Cup The KNVB Women's Cup ( nl, KNVB Beker voor Vrouwen) is the cup competition for women's football in the Netherlands. The competition was established in 1980, along with the KNVB Amateur Cup. From the 2007-08 season onwards, the first round of th ...

(1): 2009–10 ;FC Twente *

BeNe League The BeNe League was the highest women's football league in Belgium and the Netherlands. To increase competitiveness in their national leagues, the BeNe League was a joint cooperation between the Royal Belgian Football Association and the Royal Du ...

(2):

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, 2013–14 *

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(4):

*, 2013–14*, 2014–15*, 2015–16 *

(1): 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 The Royal Dutch Football Association (, ; KNVB ) is the governing body of football in the Netherlands. It organises the main Dutch football leagues (Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie), the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup, and the Dutch men's and women ...

. ;Lyon *

(3): 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20 * Coupe de France Féminine (2): 2018–19, 2019–20 *

UEFA Women's Champions League The UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–2009), is a European women's association football competition. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA. The ...

(3): 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20

International

;Netherlands * UEFA Women's Euro (1):

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* Algarve Cup:

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We Play Strong

Van de Sanden is one of UEFA's official ambassadors fo
#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.” The series, which also originally included professional footballers

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and

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and now also includes

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and Shanice van de Sanden, follows the daily lives of female professional footballers.

Personal life

As of August 2020, Van de Sanden has a girlfriend.