Boitumelo Rabele

Lesotho footballer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroLesotho footballer
A.K.A.Boitumelo Joyce Rabele Boitumelo Rabale
A.K.A.Boitumelo Joyce Rabele Boitumelo Rabale
PlacesLesotho
isAthlete Football player Association football player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Female
Birth5 August 1996
Age28 years
Star signLeo
Sports Teams
Lesotho women's national football team (Lesotho)
Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies FC (South Africa)
The details

Biography

Boitumelo Joyce Rabale (born 5 August 1996) is a Mosotho professional footballer who plays as a forward for SAFA Women's League club Mamelodi Sundowns and captains the Lesotho women's national team.

Rabale was named the 2023 CAF Women's Champions League player of the tournament.

Early life

Rabale was raised in Maseru.

Club career

Likhosatsana

In 2015, Rabale won the inaugural Lesotho Women's Super League with Likhosatsana.

Bloemfontein Celtic Ladies

In 2016 and 2017, Rabale captained Bloemfontein Celtic and led the club to win the league.

In April 2017, she won the Lesotho's Sports Star of the Year award.

Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies

She won the 2023 CAF Women's Champions League with Mamelodi Sundowns scoring in the winning goal in the semi-final in a 1–0 win over defending champions AS FAR. She scored again in the final in a 3–0 win against SC Casablanca and was named player of the tournament.

College career

Rabale left Bloemfontein Celtic was awarded a Kick4Life Student-Athlete Scholarship where she moved to Lewis and Clark Community College. In January 2020, she was named the National Junior College Women's Soccer Player of the Year following her 2019 season with the LCCC Trailblazers, in which she was the league's top goalscorer with 57 goals and placed third with her team in the NJCAA Division National Tournament.

International career

Rabale capped for Lesotho at senior level during the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification.

Honours

  • CAF Women's Champions League: 2023 Runners-Up: 2022
  • SAFA Women's League: 2022, 2023

Individual

  • CAF Women's Champions League Player of the Tournament: 2023
  • CAF Women's Champions League Team of the Tournament: 2023
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