Club career
Bia Zaneratto joined her local team Associação Ferroviária de Esportes (women), Ferroviária at the age of 13. In 2010, she moved to play for reigning Copa Libertadores Femenina champions Santos FC (women), Santos. In February 2013 Bia Zaneratto and her Associação Acadêmica e Desportiva Vitória das Tabocas, Vitória das Tabocas teammate Thaís Duarte Guedes, Thaísinha announced that they had accepted a transfer to South Korean club Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels. With the team, Beatriz has won seven consecutive WK League championships between 2013 and 2019. In the 2015 championship, she scored an equalizing goal in the 123rd minute to force the game to Penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out, where her team prevailed. From 2020 to 2021, she played for Chinese team Wuhan Jianghan University F.C., Wuhan Jianghan University, where she scored seven goals in nine matches to help them win the 2020 Chinese Women's Super League. After the suspension of competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Zaneratto was loaned to Palmeiras. After a long time away from Brazilian football, Bia made her debut for Palmeiras in the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino, Brazilian Women's Championship, scoring one of the five goals in the team's victory over Cruzeiro in Belo Horizonte. Still in 2020, Bia took part in and won the charity Esports tournament *Copa GamHer*, in which female players competed in matches of the football video game ''FIFA 20''. It was Zaneratto's first experience and title in an esports event. Representing the Brazilian women's eNational Team, Bia defeated Spanish player Sheila Garcia—then playing for Rayo Vallecano—by a score of 5–1 in the final. The purpose of the tournament was to raise funds to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. At the end of her loan, Palmeiras managed to extend Bia's stay for another 30 days. After that extension ended, Zaneratto returned to China in July to play for Wuhan Xinjiyuan, which went on to win its second consecutive league title. In 2021, Bia was again loaned to Palmeiras. After competing in the Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which she participated in, her contract with Palmeiras ended and she returned to China. Despite a major fan campaign to keep her, including the use of the hashtag #FicaZaneratto ("StayZaneratto"), she left the club. During this six-month period in the 2021 Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino, 2021 Brasileirão A1, she scored 13 goals and provided 8 assists for Palmeiras. While at Palmeiras in 2021, she became the first player in the history of the Brazilian Women's Championship to be named Player of the Month, which she won for her performances in May. Zaneratto won the "Bola de Prata (Brazil), ESPN Bola de Prata Sportingbet 2021" and the "Prêmio Craque do Brasileirão, Prêmio Brasileirão 2021" awards in the categories of top scorer, best forward, best player of the Brasileirão, and Bola de Ouro, sweeping all the possible honors. In the first edition of the "Troféu Nosso Palestra" awards by the Palmeiras fan news portal *Nosso Palestra*, held on 30 December 2021, Zaneratto was named "Best Player," beating fellow nominees Bruna Calderan and Julia Bianchi. Zaneratto finished 2021 among the top eleven South American players of the year, according to the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, IFFHS. After her contract with Wuhan Xinjiyuan ended in December 2021, Bia became a free agent and was pursued by both Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (women's football), Flamengo and Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (women's football), Palmeiras. In the end, she decided to sign a one-season contract with Palmeiras. This signing was described by the club's management as a "Christmas gift" to the fans. A large part of Zaneratto’s return to Palmeiras was driven by an online campaign from supporters, who used the hashtag #VoltaZaneratto to request her return and build momentum on social media. On December 27, the club officially announced Zaneratto’s return with a special video shared on its social media platforms. In 2021, she was honored by Palmeiras supporter and musician Marlon Góes with the song *Hit da Bia Zaneratto*, which celebrates her style of play and describes her as the “Palmeiras star”. In 2022, Zaneratto was part of the Palmeiras squad that won both the 2022 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Feminino, São Paulo Women's State Championship and the 2022 Copa Libertadores Femenina, Copa Libertadores Femenina. In Palmeiras’ debut match at the 2023 Copa Libertadores Femenina, Zaneratto delivered a standout performance by scoring one goal and providing two assists in a 5–0 victory over Barcelona de Guayaquil. With this game, she also reached the milestone of 50 goals scored for the club. The Kansas City Current signed Bia on January 22, 2024, on a one-year contract with a one-year option. In the season opener on March 16, she scored in the Current's 5–4 win over the Portland Thorns FC, Portland Thorns. She scored a brace to help beat Bay FC 5–2 on April 20. She was named NWSL Player of the Month for March/April 2024, with four goals and three assists in that span.International career
Ahead of the inaugural 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, a 14-year-old Bia Zaneratto was the youngest player in Brazil's squad and was highlighted as a "player to watch" by ''The New Zealand Herald'' newspaper. In May 2011, she made her debut for the senior national team in a 3–0 Exhibition match, friendly win over Chile women's national football team, Chile at Estádio Rei Pelé in Maceió. Bia Zaneratto was named in Brazil's squad for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany and participated in the 3–0 group stage win over Equatorial Guinea women's national football team, Equatorial Guinea. In February 2015, Bia Zaneratto's club commitments in South Korea meant she was left out of Brazil's 18-month residency programme intended to prepare the national team for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and the Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Rio Olympics. At the World Cup in Canada, Bia Zaneratto made substitute appearances in the final group game, a 1–0 win over Costa Rica women's national football team, Costa Rica, and the 1–0 second-round defeat by Australia women's national soccer team, Australia. Bia Zaneratto was named to the Brazil squad for the Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2016 Summer Olympics, her first Olympic Games. She plundered three goals, including one in the Bronze Medal match, in which Brazil lost 2–1 to Canada, as hosts Brazil finished in fourth place. It was reported that her performances "lit up" the Games and made her a target for clubs in the American National Women's Soccer League, albeit her relatively high salary in South Korea made a Transfer (association football), transfer less likely. At the 2019 SheBelieves Cup, Bia Zaneratto suffered a Crus fracture, fractured fibula during Brazil's 1–0 defeat by hosts the United States women's national soccer team, United States in Tampa, Florida. At the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, Bia Zaneratto scored against Panama women's national football team, Panama.Career statistics
International goals
Scores and results list Brazil's goal tally first.Honours
Santos * Copa Libertadores Femenina: 2010 Copa Libertadores Femenina, 2010 *Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Feminino: 2010 Hyundai Steel Red Angels * WK League: 2013 WK League, 2013, 2014 WK League, 2014, 2015 WK League, 2015, 2016 WK League, 2016, 2017 WK League, 2017, 2018 WK League, 2018, 2019 WK League, 2019 Wuhan Jianghan University * Chinese Women's Super League: 2020 Chinese Women's Super League, 2020 Palmeiras * Copa Libertadores Femenina: 2022 Copa Libertadores Femenina, 2022 *Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Feminino: 2022 Kansas City Current *NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup: 2024 NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup, 2024 Brazil * Copa América Femenina: 2018 Copa América Femenina, 2018 Individual * WK League Top scorer: 2017 * WK League Top assists: 2017References
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