Shanice van de Sanden

Shanice Janice van de Sanden (born 2 October 1992) is a Dutch footballer who plays for Olympique Lyonnais in the Division 1 Féminine. She is a member of the Netherlands national football team.

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 (in all competitions), she moved to France and joined Division 1 Féminine club Olympique Lyonnais.

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

Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first.

Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	12 March 2009	GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus	South Africa	4–0	5–0	2009 Cyprus Cup
2.	13 July 2009	Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands	South Africa	3–2	3–2	Four Nations Cup
3.	20 May 2015	Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Estonia	5–0	7–0	Friendly
4.	22 January 2016	Limak Arcadia Atlantis Football Center, Belek, Turkey	Denmark	2–0	2–0	Friendly
5.	2 March 2016	Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands	Switzerland	4–1	4–3	2016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
6.	7 April 2016	Telstar Stadium, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands	New Zealand	1–0	2–0	Friendly
7.				2–0
8.	17 September 2016	Georgia Dome, Atlanta, United States	United States	1–0	1–3	Friendly
9.	20 October 2016	Tony Macaroni Arena, Livingston, Scotland	Scotland	6–0	7–0	Friendly
10.	16 July 2017	Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht, Netherlands	Norway	1–0	1–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2017
11.	28 February 2018	Bela Vista Municipal Stadium, Parchal, Portugal	Japan	4–0	6–2	2018 Algarve Cup
12.	6 April 2018	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands	Northern Ireland	5–0	7–0	2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
13.	8 June 2018	Shamrock Park, Portadown, Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland	3–0	5–0	2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
14.	5 September 2018	Rat Verlegh Stadion, Breda, Netherlands	Denmark	2–0	2–0	2019 FIFA World Cup qualifier – Play-off SF

Club

FC Utrecht

• KNVB Women's Cup (1): 2009–10

FC Twente

• BeNe League (2): 2012–13, 2013–14
• Eredivisie (4): 2012–13*, 2013–14*, 2014–15*, 2015–16
• KNVB Women's Cup (1): 2014–15

Lyon

• UEFA Women's Champions League (2): 2017-18, 2018-2019

International

Netherlands

• UEFA Women's Euro (1): 2017
• Algarve Cup: 2018

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.”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.