Shanice van de Sanden


Shanice Janice van de Sanden is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Eredivisie club PSV and the Netherlands national team.
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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.
In September 2020 it was announced that Van de Sanden would be moving to Germany to play for Wolfsburg with immediate effect.
On 16 July 2022, Van de Sanden rejoined Liverpool.

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

Career statistics

International

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
112 March 2009GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus4–05–02009 Cyprus Women's Cup
213 July 2009Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands3–23–2Four Nations Cup
320 May 2015Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands5–07–0Friendly
422 January 2016Limak Arcadia Atlantis Football Center, Belek, Turkey2–02–0Friendly
52 March 2016Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands4–14–32016 Women's Olympic Qualifier
67 April 2016Telstar Stadium, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands1–02–0Friendly
77 April 2016Telstar Stadium, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands2–02–0Friendly
817 September 2016Georgia Dome, Atlanta, United States1–01–3Friendly
920 October 2016Tony Macaroni Arena, Livingston, Scotland6–07–0Friendly
1016 July 2017Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht, Netherlands1–01–0UEFA Women's Euro 2017
1128 February 2018Bela Vista Municipal Stadium, Parchal, Portugal4–06–22018 Algarve Cup
126 April 2018Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands5–07–02019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
138 June 2018Shamrock Park, Portadown, Northern Ireland3–05–02019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
145 September 2018Rat Verlegh Stadion, Breda, Netherlands2–02–02019 FIFA World Cup qualifier – Play-off SF
159 April 2019AFAS Stadion, Alkmaar, Netherlands6–07–0Friendly
161 June 2019Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands1–03–0Friendly
171 June 2019Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands3–03–0Friendly
188 November 2019Bornova Stadium, İzmir, Turkey1–08–02021 UEFA Women's Euro qualification
1915 June 2021De Grolsch Veste, Enschede, Netherlandsfbw|ZAMfbw|CHN

Honours

;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
;Individual

We Play Strong

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.

Personal life

Van de Sanden was born in the Netherlands and is of Surinamese descent. As of August 2020, Van de Sanden has a girlfriend.
She welcomed a daughter in November 2023.