Shanice van de Sanden


Shanice Janice van de Sanden is a Dutch footballer who plays for Olympique Lyonnais in the Division 1 Féminine. She is a member of the Netherlands national football team.

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.
In May 2010, she moved to SC Heerenveen, where she played for one season before joining FC Twente in May 2011.
After four and a half seasons at FC Twente, she signed with Liverpool 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, she moved to France and joined Division 1 Féminine club Olympique Lyonnais.

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. She was part of the Dutch squad in the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.
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 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France.

International goals

GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.12 March 2009GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus4–05–02009 Cyprus Cup
2.13 July 2009Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands3–23–2Four Nations Cup
3.20 May 2015Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands5–07–0Friendly
4.22 January 2016Limak Arcadia Atlantis Football Center, Belek, Turkey2–02–0Friendly
5.2 March 2016Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands4–14–32016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
6.7 April 2016Telstar Stadium, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands1–02–0Friendly
7.7 April 2016Telstar Stadium, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands2–02–0Friendly
8.17 September 2016Georgia Dome, Atlanta, United States1–01–3Friendly
9.20 October 2016Tony Macaroni Arena, Livingston, Scotland6–07–0Friendly
10.16 July 2017Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht, Netherlands1–01–0UEFA Women's Euro 2017
11.28 February 2018Bela Vista Municipal Stadium, Parchal, Portugal4–06–22018 Algarve Cup
12.6 April 2018Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands5–07–02019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
13.8 June 2018Shamrock Park, Portadown, Northern Ireland3–05–02019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
14.5 September 2018Rat Verlegh Stadion, Breda, Netherlands2–02–02019 FIFA World Cup qualifier – Play-off SF
15.9 april 2019AFAS Stadion, Alkmaar, Nederland6–07–0Friendly
16.1 juni 2019Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Nederland1–03–0Friendly
17.1 juni 2019Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Nederland3–03–0Friendly
18.8 November 2019Doganlar Stadium, Iktar, Turkey1–08–02021 UEFA Women's Euro qualification

Honours

Club

;FC Utrecht
;FC Twente
*During the BeNe League period, the highest placed Dutch team is considered as national champion by the Royal Dutch Football Association.
;Lyon
;Netherlands
Van de Sanden is one of UEFA's official ambassadors for , 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 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.