Romée Elke Henk Leuchter (born 12 January 2001) is a Dutch professional

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who plays as a striker for

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club

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and the Netherlands national team.

Club career

Youth

Leuchter first played at CTO Zuid, a training center set up by the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport to promote youth sport, including girls' football, in the Netherlands.

PSV

Leuchter made her debut for PSV on 23 August 2019 as a 61st minute substitute for Naomi Pattiwael in a 4–1

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win against

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. It was her only league appearance that season. She made 15 league appearances in the following season. Leuchter scored for the first time with a brace in a 2–1 home win over

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on 17 March 2021, scoring in the 41st and 49th minute. She won her first trophy of her career, the

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, on 5 June 2021 in front of the crowd at the

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by beating

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in the final with a result of 1–0.

Ajax

On 7 June 2021, Ajax announced the signing of Leuchter on a three-year deal. She scored on her league debut against

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on 27 August 2021, scoring in the 27th minute. In September 2022, she scored a double against

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, securing a 2–2 draw for Ajax in the second qualifying round first leg of the Champions League. The following season, at the same stage of the competition, Ajax faced

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. Leuchter took Ajax to qualification by scoring a hat-trick in the first leg and a brace in the second leg. Leuchter scored a hat-trick for Ajax on 14 March 2024 in a 5–1 cup win over Jong Ajax, thus taking her total goal tally for the club to 81. This made her the all-time top scorer of the team, surpassing Marjolijn van den Bighelaar who held the record with 79 goals. With 86 goals from 89 matches, she left the club as their all-time top scorer in June 2024 following the expiry of her contract.

Paris Saint-Germain

On 9 July 2024, Leuchter joined French club

on a three-year contract until June 2027.

International career

Leuchter began to be called up by the Dutch Football Federation in 2015, wearing the shirt of the Under-15 team that year, with which she made her debut in a friendly against Belgium on 29 May, and then continued throughout the following years the youth team from Under-16 onwards. With the Under-17, she initially played in the 2017 European Championship in the Czech Republic, where coach Marleen Wissink used her in all 4 matches played by her national team. Leuchter was fundamental in the passage to the group stage by scoring the second goal in the 2-1 victory over

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, who were then eliminated in the semi-final by

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. She took the field in all three group stage matches and was the best Dutch scorer of the tournament tied with Kirsten van de Westeringh. However with a win, a draw, and a defeat, the Netherlands fail to progress to the next round. Subsequently, again in 2018, she received her first call-up with the Under-19 team. She played a friendly match against the

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, drawing 1-1. Federal coach Jessica Torny included her in the squad for the 2019 European Championship qualification. She contributed 7 goals to reach the final stage, making a total of 10 appearances in the tournament, scoring a goal in the 5-0 victory over

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in the group stage. Her team was eliminated in the semi-finals by

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. She selected for the team of the tournament. After being called up to the Under-23s in 2021, that same year she joined the senior national team, called up by coach

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for the goalless friendly draw with

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on 29 November. To make her debut she had to wait until the following year, replacing

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in the 84th minute in the first match of the 2022 edition of the

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which drew 1-1 with

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. After making 2 more appearances in friendlies and qualifiers for the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, in May 2022 Parsons confirmed his trust in her by including her in the list of 23 players called up for the Euro 2022, scheduled from 6 to 31 July 2022 in England. On 17 July 2022, Snoeijs scored her first two senior team goals in a 4–1 Euro 2022 group stage win against

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. On 31 May 2023, she was named as part of the Netherlands provisional squad for the

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. In June 2025, she was named in the squad for the

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Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Netherlands' goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Leuchter goal.''

Honours

PSV *

: 2020–21 Ajax *

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: 2021–22, 2023–24 Individual *

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team of the tournament:

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