Anaëlle Wiard (born 23 March 1991) is a Belgian football,

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and

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player, who has made 16 appearances for the Belgium women's national football team. At club level, she most recently played football for and beach soccer for Playas San Javier.

Club career

Wiard plays as a striker. She made her debut aged 16 for , and played for the club for three years. In 2010, she transferred to

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. She played in the Anderlecht team that lost the 2016 Belgian Women's Cup Final to Lierse SK; she scored Anderlecht's only goal in the final, as they lost 2–1. In 2017, Wiard was injured in a match against

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, and was forced to miss the last few matches of the season. In 2018, she signed for

Oud-Heverlee Leuven Oud-Heverlee Leuven (), also called OH Leuven or OHL, is a Belgian professional football club from the city of Leuven. It was created in 2002 from the merger of three clubs, '' F.C. Zwarte Duivels Oud-Heverlee'', whose registration number it i ...

from Standard Liège; she was one of 20 signings that OH Leuven made, and one of five signings from Standard Liège. That year, she scored a hat-trick for OH Leuven in a match against KSK Heist. In April 2020, Wiard signed for . In July 2020, she signed for Belgian

club FP Halle-Gooik. She continued to play football for Eendracht Aalst alongside her futsal role. In September 2020, she played for

team New Team Brussels in the Beach Soccer Champions League. She had been the team's top scorer in the C1 league. She had taken up the sport in June, and was the tournament's top scorer. Wiard chose to miss Eendracht Aalst football matches to attend the tournament. In November 2020, she sustained a

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injury that sidelined her for six months. It was the third cruciate ligament injury of her career. In May 2021, Wiard signed a one-year contract extension with Eendracht Aalst. Wiard played for in the 2022–23 Belgian Women's Super League. She announced her retirement from football at the end of the season. In beach soccer, she played for Playas San Javier at the 2023 Women's Euro Winners Cup in June 2023. She scored four goals in the quarter final match.

International career

Wiard has made 16 appearances for the Belgium women's national football team, scoring five goals. She was part of the Belgian squad at the 2015 Cyprus Women's Cup.

Personal life

Aside from football, Wiard works as a

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teacher. She is also a coach of an under-9s boys football team in

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References

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Eendracht Aalst

Walfoot

Beach Soccer profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wiard, Anaelle 1991 births Living people Belgian women's footballers Belgium women's international footballers Standard Liège (women) players Oud-Heverlee Leuven (women) players RSC Anderlecht (women) players Belgian women's futsal players Belgian beach soccer players Women's association football forwards 21st-century Belgian sportswomen