Shanice van de Sanden

Shanice Janice van de Sanden (born 2 October 1992)[1] is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women's Super League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team.[2]

In this Dutch name, the surname is van de Sanden, not Sanden.
Shanice van de Sanden
Van de Sanden with Lyon in 2019
Personal information
Full name Shanice Janice van de Sanden
Date of birth (1992-10-02) 2 October 1992
Place of birth Utrecht, Netherlands
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Liverpool
Number 19
Youth career
2006–2008 VVIJ
2008 SV Saestum
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2010 Utrecht 30 (5)
2010–2011 Heerenveen 21 (8)
2011–2016 Twente 103 (32)
2016–2017 Liverpool 23 (3)
2017–2020 Lyon 47 (11)
2020–2022 VfL Wolfsburg 25 (4)
2021–2022 VfL Wolfsburg II 6 (1)
2022– Liverpool 14 (1)
International career‡
2008 Netherlands U17 4 (1)
2008–2011 Netherlands U19 27 (9)
2008– Netherlands 95 (21)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing the  Netherlands
FIFA Women's World Cup
Runner-up2019 France
UEFA Women's Championship
Winner2017 Netherlands
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 May 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 29 November 2021

Club career

Her career started at amateur club VVIJ in IJsselstein, before moving to FC Utrecht in 2008 where she also played for its farm team SV Saestum.[3]

In May 2010, she moved to SC Heerenveen,[4] where she played for one season before joining FC Twente in May 2011.[5]

After four and a half seasons at FC Twente, she signed with Liverpool of the English WSL1 on 4 February 2016.[6][7]

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 Division 1 Féminine club Olympique Lyonnais.[8]

In September 2020 it was announced that Van de Sanden would be moving to Germany to play for Wolfsburg with immediate effect.[9]

On 16 July 2022, Van de Sanden rejoined Liverpool.[10]

International career


Aged 16, she made her debut for the senior Netherlands women's national football team on 14 December 2008 in a friendly match 2–0 win over France.[11] She was part of the Dutch squad in the UEFA Women's Euro 2009[12] and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.[13]

In June 2017, she was in the 23 players squad which won the UEFA Women's Euro 2017.[14] After the tournament, the whole team was honoured by the Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Minister of Sport Edith Schippers and made Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau.[15]

Later that year, she was shortlisted for the UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award.[16]

Van de Sanden was selected in the final squad for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France.[17]

On 31 May 2023, she was named as part of the Netherlands provisional squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.[18]

International goals
Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first.[11]
GDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
112 March 2009GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus South Africa4–05–02009 Cyprus Women's Cup
213 July 2009Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands3–23–2Four Nations Cup
320 May 2015Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands Estonia5–07–0Friendly
422 January 2016Limak Arcadia Atlantis Football Center, Belek, Turkey Denmark2–02–0
52 March 2016Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands  Switzerland4–14–32016 Women's Olympic Qualifier
67 April 2016Telstar Stadium, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands New Zealand1–02–0Friendly
72–0
817 September 2016Georgia Dome, Atlanta, United States United States1–01–3
920 October 2016Tony Macaroni Arena, Livingston, Scotland Scotland6–07–0
1016 July 2017Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht, Netherlands Norway1–01–0UEFA Women's Euro 2017
1128 February 2018Bela Vista Municipal Stadium, Parchal, Portugal Japan4–06–22018 Algarve Cup
126 April 2018Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands Northern Ireland5–07–02019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
138 June 2018Shamrock Park, Portadown, Northern Ireland3–05–0
145 September 2018Rat Verlegh Stadion, Breda, Netherlands Denmark2–02–02019 FIFA World Cup qualifier – Play-off SF
159 April 2019AFAS Stadion, Alkmaar, Nederland Chile6–07–0Friendly
161 juni 2019Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Nederland Australia1–03–0
173–0
188 November 2019Bornova Stadium, Izmir, Turkey Turkey1–08–02021 UEFA Women's Euro qualification
19 15 June 2021 De Grolsch Veste, Enschede, Netherlands Norway Norway 6–0 7–0 Friendly
2021 July 2021Miyagi Stadium, Rifu, Japan Zambia6–110–32020 Olympic Games
2127 July 2021Nissan Stadium, Yokohama, Japan China1–08–2

Honours
FC Utrecht
FC Twente

*During the BeNe League period (2012 to 2015), the highest placed Dutch team is considered as national champion by the Royal Dutch Football Association.[19]

Lyon
Netherlands
Individual

We Play Strong

Van de Sanden is one of UEFA's official ambassadors for #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.”[21] The series, which also originally included professional footballers Sarah Zadrazil, Eunice Beckmann, Laura Feiersinger and Lisa Evans and now also includes Petronella Ekroth and Shanice van de Sanden, follows the daily lives of female professional footballers.[22]

Personal life

Van de Sanden was born in the Netherlands and is of Surinamese descent.[23] As of August 2020, Van de Sanden has a girlfriend.[24]

References
  1. "List of Players – Netherlands" (PDF). FIFA. 30 May 2015. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2016. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  2. "Netherlands - S. van de Sanden - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Women Soccerway". uk.women.soccerway.com. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  3. "Shanice van de Sanden". vrouwenvoetbalnederland.nl (in Dutch). 15 December 2014. Archived from the original on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  4. "Nieuw trio voor Heerenveen". vrouwenvoetbalnederland.nl (in Dutch). 30 May 2010. Archived from the original on 30 May 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  5. "Van de Sanden naar FC Twente Vrouwen". FC Twente (in Dutch). 11 May 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  6. "Shanice van de Sanden naar Liverpool FC". FC Twente (in Dutch). 4 February 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  7. "Shanice van de Sanden: Liverpool Ladies sign Netherlands striker". BBC Sport. 4 February 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  8. "Shanice van de Sanden: Lyon sign forward from Liverpool Ladies". BBC Sport. 29 August 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  9. "Player profile Shanice van de Sanden". Vfl-Wolfsburg. 2021-09-26. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  10. "Breaking: Liverpool Announce Return Of Popular Dutch Winger". 16 July 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  11. "Profile". onsoranje.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  12. Profile in UEFA's Euro 2009 archive
  13. "Profile". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on June 11, 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  14. "Wiegman kiest Oranjeselectie voor WEURO 2017". onsoranje.nl (in Dutch). 14 June 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
  15. "Voetbalsters Oranje geridderd in Den Haag (in Dutch)". NOS.nl.
  16. "Harder, Marozsán and Martens on women's shortlist | Inside UEFA". 15 August 2017.
  17. "Sarina Wiegman names Netherlands Women's World Cup squad". KNVB. 10 April 2019.
  18. Mark White (2023-06-05). "Netherlands Women's World Cup 2023 squad: 30-player preliminary team named". fourfourtwo.com. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  19. "Eredivisie Vrouwen". KNVB (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 December 2017.
  20. "Finale Algarve Cup tussen Oranjevrouwen en Zweden afgelast" (in Dutch). nu.nl. 7 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  21. "ARSEBLOG EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ARSENAL'S LISA EVANS". Arseblog. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  22. "Arsenal's Lisa Evans launches scheme to get more women playing football". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  23. "Shanice van de Sanden mist interlands door familie-omstandigheden". www.rtvutrecht.nl. February 9, 2021.
  24. "Van de Sanden: Marozsan is on another level". FIFA.com. 8 August 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2021. And I had my girlfriend at home, so we both did some Tabata and that was fun as well.
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